Fans worried the legal battle between Fox and Warner over the rights to "Watchmen" may somehow affect the film's release or prevent it from being released at all are fighting back.
ComicBookMovie.com has started a petition urging Fox to not interfere with the movie's release, as well as an interview with Wyatt Barlup, a 20-year-old fan who wants to organize pickets of the Fox lot. Fans at sites like Comics2Film.com are even calling for a boycott of Fox that would affect the studio's holiday-set remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and next summer's "X-Men Origins: Wolverine."
Jeff Trexler (him again!) has the court documents posted for perusal over at Uncivil Society, and they make for some interesting (though confusing for us non-lawyers) reading.
Despite the heated rhetoric, it seems unlikely that the film won't come out on schedule. There's still plenty of time for the studios to work out their differences and figure out who's going to pay what to whom and make it all right again.
Bonus 'Watchmen' tidbit: "Hellboy II: the Golden Army" director Guillermo del Toro tells IGN AU that he was offered and turned down the job of directing "Watchmen" prior to Zack Snyder's taking the helm.
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