'Watchmen' Exclusive: My Chemical Romance To Cover Bob Dylan For Film

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Link Time! 7/24
Published 7/24/2008 by BuzzSugar at BuzzSugar -- Entertainment hourly.
... 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
Published 7/24/2008 by Jason Tate at AbsolutePunk.net - News
... My Chemical Romance will be covering Bob Dylan for the upcoming Watchmen movie. ...

Comic-Con Kicks Off On Splash Page
Published 7/24/2008 by Josh Horowitz at 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!
Published 7/24/2008 at OH NO!!
... 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]
Published 7/24/2008 by Maura Johnston at Idolator
... 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
Published 7/24/2008 by Daniel Kreps at 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
Published 7/29/2008 at 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 ...