Watchmen
Watchmen Cast Confirmed
Who's watching the Watchmen? I don't want to get my hopes up, but it does seem that, after two years of speed bumps, Watchmen will finally enter production. The film was ready to go over at Paramount with Paul Greengrass at the helm, but suddenly fell through due to a few issues including budget. It turns out that making comicbook adaptations is pricey.
Now that we have a cast, however, things are looking green.
Those who have joined Watchmen include Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Matthew Goode, Billy Crudup, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Malin Akerman. Just in case you have been out of the loop, Zack Snyder, who impressed the shit out of audiences with 300, will direct for Warner Bros.
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. Expect to see copies of Crudup running around, as he 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. In short, he makes a copy of himself to handle having sex with her. Romantic, I know.
Goode will play Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias, a costume 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. An event with this character is what sets the story to Watchmen in motion.
Like many big budget adaptations, Warner Bros. and Legendary will co-finance the project.
For more info on the project, go to the Watchmen
Movie Page.
Expect more on Watchmen this week from Comic-Con.
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