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'Watchmen' Exclusive: My Chemical Romance To Cover Bob Dylan For Film
'Watchmen' Exclusive: My Chemical Romance To Cover Bob Dylan For Film
My Chemical Romance will cover Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower" for "Watchmen," director Zack Snyder reveals exclusively to MTV News.
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BuzzSugar — ... news. In addition to The Rocky Horror Picture Show remake, Cinematical has news that a Hairspray sequel might also be in the works. Stereogum has two videos from the very intense Amanda Palmer, who both intrigues me and scares me. Want to see Neil Patrick Harris's Sesame Street guest spot? lilsugar hooks you up and wonders if Sesame Street is the new Oprah. MTV News reports that My Chemical Romance will be recording a cover of a classic Bob Dylan song for the movie Watchmen. ...

My Chemical Romance to Cover Bob Dylan
AbsolutePunk.net - News — ... My Chemical Romance will be covering Bob Dylan for the upcoming Watchmen movie. ...

Comic-Con Kicks Off On Splash Page
MTV Movies Blog — ... Zack Snyder already tipped us off that My Chemical Romance is recording a track for “Watchmen.” We snagged a sneak peak of ...

I trusted you, Zack Snyder!
Oh No They Didn't! — ... and Way will continue working on the Dylan cover for the film’s end titles; in the meantime, however, the director said he’s still being surprised every day as celebrities come out of the woodwork revealing themselves to be fans of the 20-year-old Alan Moore-Dave Gibbons classic. “You find out there’s a Watchmen geek in there somewhere, like in any organization,” he grinned. “It’s like a secret government group. You can sneak in by going, “Come on, I’m a ‘Watchmen’ fan.” Source. Not cool, man.

XTC Wind A Wire Around The Watchtower [Videodrone]
Idolator: Music News, Reviews, And Gossip — ... So My Chemical Romance is going to perform a cover of a Bob Dylan track for the movie adaptation of The Watchmen, and initial reports that the cover would be "All Along The Watchtower" sent me to YouTube in search of other covers of the song. (There are many of them, as you probably know.) The story's since been changed to say that Gerard Way and his pals will in fact cover an unidentified Dylan track, but before I realized that I found the above cover of "Watchtower" from a 1979 performance by XTC. It's pretty incredible, and it's definitely a ...

My Chemical Romance to Cover Bob Dylan for “Watchmen” End Credits
Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily — ... . Luckily for Way, the director of Watchmen — the movie based on the Holy Grail of graphic novels — is a fan of My Chemical Romance. And everyone likes Bob Dylan. Thus, director Zack Snyder has recruited MCR to cover a Bob Dylan song for next year’s Watchmen. The song will likely play over the end credits, with Snyder telling MTV “[MCR will perform] like a cover of ‘Desolation Row,’ or something like that.” Earlier reports had MCR covering Dylan’s “All Along the ...

My Chemical Romance On Watchmen Soundtrack
Cinema Blend News — My Chemical Romance On Watchmen Soundtrack After Zack Snyder came to Comic Con and gave fans even more reason to be excited about his take on Watchmen , the buzz has built up to the point that even the soundtrack is news at this point. MTV Movies broke the story that Zack Snyder will be breaking his ban on pre-1985 music—kinda—by teaming up with My Chemical Romance to record a song for the soundtrack. You may remember that during Comic Con, Snyder said The Smashing Pumpkins song heard in the Watchmen trailer, “The Beginning is the End is the Beginning,” would not be used ...

My Chemical Romance Song ‘Integral’ To ‘Watchmen’ Ending, Says Frontman Gerard Way
MTV Movies Blog — ... “I don’t want to say too much but as far as the placement right now, it’s integral to the ending of the film,” said Way, revealing that things have changed since our earlier report that MCR’s cover of “Desolation Row” would be confined to playing over the end credits. “And that gave me goose bumps, and not because we did the song, but because it works that well I feel. I’ve seen the part that we’re integral to — we’re talking about the very end.” ...

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