Are you a fanboy pissed at 20th Century Fox for suing Warner Brothers over the legal rights to “Watchmen.” Maybe you should be angry with Warner Brothers for not buttoning up their project correctly.
Entertainment Weekly has checked into the matter and according to their source “Fox filed its complaint back in February — just as [director Zach] Snyder was wrapping production on Watchmen.”
Many assume Fox did nothing and and then at the opportune moment (this week) struck with the lawsuit, but according to a Fox source, “Studio lawyers contacted Warner Bros. about the distribution rights issue several times prior to the start of production but were rebuffed.”
Sounds like someone’s been slacking on the job over at WB and it’ll probably cost the fans somehow. There’s only two outcomes to this lawsuit, Warner Bros. wins and it’s all good. Or Warners loses and pays out the ass to Fox to make sure their film doesn’t get completely deep-sixed.
If Fox wins, they’re going to have WB by the balls. If WB pays out the ass, that’s just further money that they’ll have to recoup from production and marketing expenses which means probably even lesser chances of three hour cut. Why? Cause audiences generally don’t want to see three hour movies about heroes they barely know – or at least studio execs think this way and they’ll do anything they can to minimize their losses. Not looking good either way, frankly. Is WB prexy Alan Horn going to take shit for this too?
PS, we forgot to note: the wrath of the fanboys is too hilarious. God forbid you give ‘Watchmen’ trouble Fox you bastards! Apparently fanboy losers so irate over the lawsuit they’re threatening to boycott 20th Century Fox flicks like “The Day The Earth Stood Still” and “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” (i.e. Fox projects that they’d normally be stupid enough to pay money for and enjoy without a sense or irony). Nerds at Comic2Film are even threatening to make “a crappy cam recording of [Wolverine] and post it somewhere on the Internet for illegal download.”
Fox is worried. “Of course we are concerned about the fans; however, any disappointment from the core fans should not be directed toward Fox. What we are doing is seeking to enforce our distribution rights to Watchmen. Legal copyright ownership should not just be swept under the rug and ignored.”
And again, they’re basically right. Fanboys if you’re gonna be pissed at anyone you should be angered with Warner Bros. who failed to dot their I’s and cross their T’s.