Watchmen Legal Fight Hots Up

Source: SciFi Wire

The legal battle between Warner Brothers and 20th Century Fox over Warner's upcoming superhero movie Watchmen is heating up, according to a report in The New York Times.

Lawyers for Warner and for Fox have laid plans for a fight in a joint report submitted to the federal court in New York last week, the newspaper reported. At issue is Fox's claim that it still holds rights to the film's original graphic novel, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. (more)