Will the real Watchmen please stand up?

Ever wonder why so many films get remade, get held up in development, go through numerous rewrites, change directors, change actors, change directors again, and sometimes completely disappear only to be revived years later as a new project.

Michael Cieply exposes the dirty dealings and redtape miasma behind some of Hollywood's biggest productions in "The Murky Side of Movie Rights" from this week's Sunday New York Times.