Comments on: Watchmen Lawsuit: An Open Letter from a Fox Employee to the Internet

By: Stuff Daddy

Stuff Daddy — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:26:50 +0000

The truth is, this guy is right. WB and Larry Gordon were legally vulnerable. But FOX is making a bigg PR mistake. If Watchmen is delayed or shelved or tinkered with, I will boycott FOX, Wolverine and all. I’m a huge supporter of Comic movies and Fox has ruined X-men enough. Killing Watchmen means I will vote with my money. Too bad many will give in. But I know a lot of folks who will. I wish the fanboys would get a spine, band together and really boycott the shit out of FOX if this happens, I just don’t think they got the nuts to stick with it.

Sometimes being “legally” correct doesn’t mean you aren’t the bad guy.

By: rus

rus — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:44:59 +0000

from my limited understanding of the way Hollywood works everything is contested, everything… It seems to be a business were people will cast about looking for fees for infringement rights, stolen ideas and verbal approvals everywhere. Look how New Line went all the way to court over the Lord of the Rings payouts to Peter Jackson. I’m sure in Bob Shaye’s mind he felt Jackson should be rewarded, but took the chance he would settle for less – its all “the way the game is played”. The ironic thing is a lot of the legal documents in the film business are very unprofessional versus other areas of business. I’m sure there was some justifiable clause, verbal agreement, questionable deal memo, that gave WB reason to believe they could move forward. They probably already have a settlement limit in their budget.

By: Daemon

Daemon — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:49:13 +0000

This letter lost any credibility right around the time the employee referred to the WB as, “retarded” then followed it up by telling fans to get made at, “the real bad guys”. For someone who understands the complexities of entertainment law he sure is coming off the like smartest 12 year old I have ever had the displeasure to hear from.

I really don’t care about this situation one bit. I want to see the film but I will see it when I see ya know? I just don’t care for an “inside source” opinion that clearly doesn’t come from anyone involved in the film, rather an immature mail room employee with a sense of self importance.

Cheers…

By: Henrik

Henrik — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:29:05 +0000

Man, this guy really loves Fox and doesn’t like it if people say bad things about them!

Anonymous letters are pretty weak though, I mean come on.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:04:50 +0000

I’d be more on their side if he wasn’t being such a dick in his letter.

By: Drew

Drew — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:57:31 +0000

I could give a shit anymore, I’ll only get mad if the movie is just never released which won’t happen. I just think it’s cool that a real Fox employee sent this to you!

By: Cartographer

Cartographer — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:21:11 +0000

As true as this may be, the mechanics of distribution rights aren’t going to help Fox out of this situation. I can understand wanting their rightful cut of the profits, hitting Warner Brothers where it hurts for not doing their due diligence. But if Fox actually attempts to bury what appears to be a successful attempt to film the “unfilmable”, it will look petulant and financially irresponsible to anyone who cares, including their stockholders.

This is the 21st century, Fox. Things rarely stay buried for long in the internet age, so cash in if you can. Last time I checked, you could use the money.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:24:13 +0000

Haha, yeah I don’t care enough either.

By: Ryan M.

Ryan M. — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:09:18 +0000

Lol, I didn’t mean to sound like an ass. That rant fueled me.

I really don’t care enough to scroll through court docs…I’ll just wait for Film Junk to fill me in.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:41:20 +0000

The person who wrote this is someone I have corresponded with before and not “some random guy”

But aside from that, I’m pretty sure all this info is in the court documents.

By: Ryan M.

Ryan M. — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:21:01 +0000

So we are supposed to believe some random guy? Sean…what tells you this isn’t just some jerk off w/ time to kill?

Lets assume all of this is true and Fox did warn Warners prior to filming…why not file suit on day one of principal photography rather than wait until after the CG-filled full length trailers have hit the public? It can’t take six months to get a slew of lawyers together! (Ok…I don’t know a lot about entertainment law but common sense says this is highly unlikely.)