And while this might be big news to some… does this really surprise anyone? After all, the film comes out next summer and I think the bigger story would’ve been if they hadn’t shown any footage or a trailer.

And while some might be hoping for a lot, they only started filming a short time ago so I’d expect whatever they bring to be short and wordy.

If you’re going to Comic-Con the Warner Bros. presentation is Friday morning in the big room. Get their early as I’m sure it’ll be packed.

And here is what Warner Bros. sent me which covers what movies they’re focusing on during their presentation. The bottom one is the best! I cannot believe "Watchmen" is actually being made and now that they’re promoting the film at the convention, I’m starting to allow myself to get excited. I cannot wait to see this movie.

THE INVASION                                    

AUGUST 17

Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel

Writer: David Kajganich

Producer: Joel Silver

Executive Producers:  Doug Davison, Roy Lee, Susan Levin Downey, Steve Richards, Ronald G. Smith, Bruce Berman

Cast: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam, Jeffrey Wright, Malin Akerman

The Invasion tells the story of a mysterious epidemic that alters the behavior of human beings.  When a Washington D.C. psychiatrist (Nicole Kidman) discovers the epidemic’s origins are extraterrestrial, she must fight to protect her son, who may hold the key to stopping the escalating invasion.

ONE MISSED CALL

JANUARY 4, 2008

Director:  Eric Valette

Writer:  Andrew Klaven

Producers:  Scott Kroopf, Lauren C. Weissman, Jennie Lew Tugend, Shinya Egawa, Broderick Johnson, Andrew Kosove

Executive Producer: Timothy Bourne

Cast: Edward Burns, Shannyn Sossaman

“What will it sound like when you die?”  In the supernatural thriller “One Missed Call,” a chain of people receive terrifying cell phone messages of their own final fatal moments.  Though the messages can be deleted, their number is up.  Beth Raymond (Shannyn Sossamon) is traumatized when she witnesses the gruesome deaths of two friends just days apart.  Even more disturbing, she knows that both of them had received chilling cell phone messages—actual recordings of their own horrifying last moments.  Impossibly, the calls were received days before they died, but each death occurred precisely when and how the messages foretold.  The police think Beth is delusional—except for Detective Jack Andrews (Edward Burns) whose own sister was killed in a freak accident that bears a strange similarity to the deaths of Beth’s friends.  Together, Jack and Beth work feverishly to unravel the mystery behind the ominous calls. But even as they get closer to the truth, Beth’s cell phone begins to ring with an eerie tune, and the readout says One Missed Call…

WHITEOUT

FALL 2008

Director: Dominic Sena

Writers: Jon & Erich Hoeber, based on Greg Rucka’s 1999 Eisner Award-winning comic book miniseries of the same name.

Producers: Joel Silver, Susan Downey

Executive Producers: Steve Richards, Don Carmody and Greg Rucka

Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Tom Skerritt, Gabriel Mach, Columbus Short, Alex O’Loughlin

“Whiteout” revolves around Carrie Stetko (Beckinsale), the lone U.S. Marshal assigned to Antarctica, whose investigation of the continent’s first murder draws her into a shocking mystery. Now, with only three days until winter, Carrie must solve the crime before Antarctica is plunged into darkness and she is stranded with the killer.  Based on the graphic novel by Greg Rucha.

GET SMART

JUNE 20, 2008

Director:  Peter Segal

Writer: Tom J. Astle, Matt Ember

Producer: Andrew Lazar, Charles Roven, Alex Gartner

Executive Producer: Michael Ewing,  Dana Goldberg, Peter Segal, Jimmy Miller, Steve Carrell, Brent O’Connor, Bruce Berman

Cast: Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Terrence Stamp, Alan Arkin, Ken Davitian, Masi Oka, Nate Torrence, David Koecher, Terry Crews

Bumbling secret agent Max Smart and his sexy partner 99 takes on arch-villain Siegried who is out to brainwash Nobel Prize winners and use them for his criminal activities.

WATCHMEN

2009

Director: Zack Snyder

Writer:  Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons

Cast:  TBD

Complex, Multi-layered Mystery Adventure

Watchmen is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the “Doomsday Clock” – which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet Union – is permanently set at five minutes to midnight.  When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes.  As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion – a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers – Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future.  Their mission is to watch over humanity…but who is watching the watchmen?

Watchmen was originally published by DC comics as a 12-comic book series between 1986 and 1987, before subsequently being collected into a trade paperback.  It is the only graphic novel to win the prestigious Hugo Award or to be named among Time magazine’s “100 Best English Language Novels from 1923 to the Present.”