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Splash Page welcomes Ed Tadem to our cover artist family (our custom-designed theme up top). Currently working on the forthcoming "Avengers" animated series, Tadem's work can also be seen in the "Jackie Karma" issues of Image's "'76," and in "Pop Gun, Volume 1." Ed Tadem can be found online at EdTadem.com.
Even before she joined the Minutemen, the original group of crimefighters in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' groundbreaking graphic novel "Watchmen," Sally Jupiter enjoyed being a costumed hero. Actress Carla Gugino, who plays Sally Jupiter in Zack Snyder's big-screen adaptation of "Watchmen," told MTV that she's pretty fond of playing the superhero, too -- even if her character's best days are behind her.
"We have a couple of flashbacks where we see her in her heyday as a costumed crime fighter, but they're more like photographs," said Gugino. "But it's cool to be in a movie about superheroes where this character kind of isn't one anymore. She really adds a totally different dimension to the piece, which I loved in the graphic novel." Read more...
There's been no shortage of "Watchmen" clips and making-of featurettes hitting the 'Net over the last few months, and this time around, MySpace plays host to a behind-the-scenes "Watchmen" mini-documentary focusing on the female members of the superteam, mother/daughter crimefighters Silk Spectre I and II, played by Carla Gugino and Malin Ackerman, respectively. (For more on these characters' relationship, check out our exclusive "Watchmen" video interview with Ackerman and Gugino.)
What do you think about the hard-hitting ladies of "Watchmen"? And how about that fight scene in the prison, eh? Let us know your thoughts about the latest "Watchmen" featurette in the comment section!
There are a lot of dysfunctional relationships in "Watchmen": between Dr. Manhattan and his wife, between Ozymandias and his staff, between Rorschach and, well... everyone.
But the relationship that, for many, is the saddest in the entire graphic novel is between Sally Jupiter and Laurie Juspeczyk, both mother and daughter and the first and second Silk Spectres, respectively.
Just how much can a daughter hate her mother? Read more...
As with most things “Watchmen,” when a brand new trailer and "Watchmen" poster debuted yesterday from 2009’s most anticipated film, fans once again exalted director Zack Snyder for his fidelity to the source material.
Wait’ll they get a load of how far that fidelity actually extends, Carla Gugino told MTV News.
An inter-chapter filler in the graphic novel, the memoirs of the first Nite Owl, “Under the Hood,” will be a bonus feature on the DVD -- bringing together all the old Minute Men for a mockumentary-style biography. The idea, Gugino insisted, was to try not to lose anything from the source material. Read more...
Sure, lots of comic book movies have people dying, people killing, people even setting fire to other living people (we’re looking at you Chris Nolan. Don’t think we’re fooled cause you cut away). But how many comic movies are bold enough to show a rape?
None, of course -- at least not until “Watchmen,” which will keep a violent scene of sexual assault from the comic intact, co-star Carla Gugino told MTV News.
“It was really brutal. It was brutal to shoot,” Gugino said of the scene, in which the Comedian (played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan) attacks an young Sally Jupiter, who only manages to avoid getting raped by the timely intervention of fellow mask Hooded Justice. “That was one of the things [director] Zack [Snyder] said to me from the start: ‘I really want this to be incredibly brutal. It's not a turn-on kind of story. It's bad.’ It's important that we did that. I think hopefully it will be really powerful.” Read more...
Even before she joined the Minutemen, the original group of crimefighters in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' groundbreaking graphic novel "Watchmen," Sally Jupiter enjoyed being a costumed hero. Actress Carla Gugino, who plays Sally Jupiter in Zack Snyder's big-screen adaptation of "Watchmen," told MTV that she's pretty fond of playing the superhero, too -- even if her character's best days are behind her.
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Sure, lots of comic book movies have people dying, people killing, people even setting fire to other living people (we’re looking at you Chris Nolan. Don’t think we’re fooled cause you cut away). But how many comic movies are bold enough to show a rape?