Title: Watchmen cast announced!
Big F'N Swigg - July 27, 2007 02:43 PM (GMT)
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| Watchmen Cast Confirmed! Source: The Hollywood Reporter July 26, 2007 Warner Bros. Pictures has confirmed the cast for Watchmen, the big screen adaptation of the seminal DC Comics limited series. Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Matthew Goode, Billy Crudup, Jeffrey Dean Morgan ("Grey's Anatomy") and Malin Akerman will star in the Warner Bros. movie, which Zack Snyder is directing. Larry Gordon, Lloyd Levin and Deborah Snyder are producing. Set in an alternate America, Watchmen follows costumed hero Rorschach, who is living a vigilante lifestyle because most masked heroes have retired or been outlawed. While investigating a murder, Rorschach learns that a former masked-hero colleague has been killed, prompting him to begin investigating a possible conspiracy. Haley will play Walter Kovacs, aka Rorschach, who ignores the ban on costumed vigilantes. Crudup will play Dr. Manhattan, a superpowered being with godlike powers and temperament. Akerman will play Laurie Juspeczyk/the Silk Spectre, who is involved with Dr. Manhattan -- but that relationship begins to fall apart as he becomes more disconnected from humanity. Goode will play Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias, a costumed adventurer who retired voluntarily, disclosed his identity and built a large fortune. He hatches a plot to avert a global catastrophe he believes will be caused by Dr. Manhattan. Wilson will play the Nite-Owl, a crime-figher who uses technical wizardry and has an owl-shaped flying vehicle. Morgan will play the Comedian, a cigar-chomping, gun-toting vigilante-turned-paramilitary agent. Watchmen was created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. Shooting is set to start in the fall in Vancouver, with Snyder employing many of the filming techniques he used for his boxoffice success 300. |
The Last Free Voice - July 28, 2007 08:50 PM (GMT)
I can't believe Watchmen is actually going to be made into a film. I've got a bad feeling about it, honestly. There's just too much to the original series to get it all into a film.
Big F'N Swigg - July 31, 2007 03:02 PM (GMT)
Here's an article about the Watchmen panel at Comic-Con
Big F'N Swigg - July 31, 2007 03:06 PM (GMT)
They also have a website for the movie, complete with release date of 03.06.09
eStragand - July 31, 2007 06:27 PM (GMT)
The movie website was active about 3-4 years ago, but the project fell apart. Hope they see it through this time.
Big F'N Swigg - March 6, 2008 04:23 PM (GMT)
You can get a look at some of the characters on the website.
SamoaRowe - March 6, 2008 04:33 PM (GMT)
SamoaRowe - March 6, 2008 04:38 PM (GMT)
Erick Von Erich - March 6, 2008 04:54 PM (GMT)
The costumes look pretty darn accurate. Although Silk Spectre and Comedian look a little too much like 1960's Batman TV characters. From that shot, it looks like they retained Comedian's resemblance to "Schneider from One Day at a Time", which is how I sorta' envisioned him.
Nite Owl looks like the current "movie Batman", but that's gotta' be intentional and 100% acceptable.
Nite Owl looks like the current "movie Batman", but that's gotta' be intentional and 100% acceptable.
These Are All Gay! - July 17, 2008 11:48 PM (GMT)
The Last Free Voice - July 18, 2008 03:09 PM (GMT)
Visually, the trailer was stunning, but my doubts about the whole thing aren't gone.
Metrodome - July 19, 2008 04:17 AM (GMT)
Man...when I saw the trailer at Dark Knight for this, it was met with dead silence. It felt like I was the only one pumped for this, in a theater full of comic book nerds.
The Last Free Voice - July 19, 2008 08:27 PM (GMT)
Really? There was pretty loud applause from the crowd I was in.
Jillie - July 23, 2008 04:03 AM (GMT)
I just saw the preview for this at the start of Dark Knight and I must say, although I've never heard of this comic...ahem...graphic novel before (I'm a Marvel kid, was never into DC) I am excited for this movie. It looked great.
The Last Free Voice - July 24, 2008 03:25 AM (GMT)
You've never even heard of it? That's pretty astounding. If you're a fan of comics as an artform, not just superheroes, than it's a must to read. And I highly reccomend checking it out before seeing the movie, because let's face it, odds are the movie will be bad enough to turn you off from it forever, and that'd be a shame.
SamoaRowe - August 4, 2008 09:00 PM (GMT)
I only just read Watchmen over the past year, and it really is a must-read. I flipped out when I saw the preview before Dark Knight, mainly because I wasn't expecting it. When I walked into the theater, it had just started and I saw the DC comics logo and that clued me in pretty quick (not to mention Nite Owl's vehicle, etc).
The movie looks like it's going to be fantastic, and hopefully the stuff they choose to change/cut out due to Hollywood limits won't be too bothersome.
The movie looks like it's going to be fantastic, and hopefully the stuff they choose to change/cut out due to Hollywood limits won't be too bothersome.
Metrodome - August 14, 2008 04:34 AM (GMT)
Just finished the novel. While I don't think the film has a chance to live up to the novel, it will still be interesting to see how this turns out. Great book.
The Last Free Voice - September 29, 2008 04:53 AM (GMT)
I assume everyone knows about the legal ranglings going on between WB and Fox already, right?
Erick Von Erich - September 29, 2008 05:23 AM (GMT)
Assume I have no idea what you're talking about. Enlighten me (or us).
The Last Free Voice - September 29, 2008 08:14 PM (GMT)
The Swigg Lebowski - September 30, 2008 03:44 PM (GMT)
They're trying to hold up the release after Warner has already filmed it, reportedly so they can get the rights to release the 60's Batman on DVD