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John Powell Doesn't Actually Do Myspace
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If you read yesterday's announcement about John Powell signing on for the upcoming Watchmen movie ... oops. I fully apologize. I, like most of the internet, got snookered by that wily MySpace beast. With so many legitimate people using MySpace for actual newsing these days, it is sometimes easy to forget the site is very open, and very easily manipulated. Like IMDB, Wikipedia, and various other open-to-the-public sites, just about anyone can log on and fool people ... at least for a few hours. As it turns out, the story posted yesterday on John Powell's MySpace about Powell taking a composing job for Watchmen is utterly false. The page doesn't even belong to Powell, as confirmed by his publicist. This news really doesn't bother me in any particular way -- as I said yesterday, Powell is a talented man but certainly not the only one capable of doing the work. Currently the much greater concern is the integrity of the script; Watchmen is such a seminal work I fear for it being mishandled.Watchmen Nabs a Composer
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Despite Alan Moore's general discontent with the efforts to turn his comic works into movies, I find myself excited for the translation of Watchmen to the big screen. Watchmen is of course a seminal work in the geek world of comic books, and plans to bring it to cinema have taken a very long time to develop into an actual project. It is finally on the move, however, and deals are being struck as we speak. Composer John Powell, most recently of X- Men: The Last Stand, has just shared a note on his MySpace (does everyone have MySpace these days?) informing the world in general he has been contracted to score Watchmen. While development hasn't really started, Powell says he has started thinking about the film and has already "scribbled a few things down."Powell is a well established composer, and has done a TON of work over the past decade or so, really breaking it big with his work on Shrek, as I recall. He's been a regular animated feature man, but has also done a fair amount of work on solid action flicks. I can't say his name really jumps off the page, but he's as good a choice as any, and certainly better than a good portion of the field. It'll be interesting to hear what he does for Watchmen.
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