David Hayter to direct Watchmen movie

[Endur]

Politically Incorrect ... because of 9/11 and the destroyed city in Watchmen is NYC.

Likely to flop. I disagree. If the movie was true to the comic book, I do not think it would flop.

The name of the series is "The Watchmen." The whole idea, from beginning to end, is to talk about "Who Watches the Watchmen" and the effect on the global balance of power of the USA having superheroes. People above the law.

The ending is appropriate. The clear implication is that the newspaper is going to publish Rorschach's journal, and that someday, Ozymandias will be implicated.

I agree that this movie is not a vehicle most major actors would want to be associated with. All of the "characters" are failures in one way or another. Major actors, the type that want to play heroes, do not want to be failures.

Also, the movie suffers from the problem that its really hard to have a sequel.

 

[Macbeth]

"you want to make a film where the people we think are the good guys are completely ineffectual, the real hero kills thousands of innocents including all his henchmen, and the spunky little tough guy gets shot in the back and everyone's ok with that?"

Well, while alot of what you say is true, I'd have to disagree that Ozymandias is the hero of the piece. When we come to the end, we have Rorshach dead (and obviouslly mostly insane, even moreso then at the begining), Dr. Manhattan being a spectator, trying to learn about humanity, Ozymandias trying to figure out if he really did help humanity, and Night Owl II with Mrs. Jupiter (sorry, forgot her real name), comforting her. Now, the moral of this story, the theme, the statement I believe Moore is trying to make, comes not in any of the "real" heros, the ones who (try) to correct universal wrongs, who weild unlimited power, who prevent wars, but in the connection between Nighte Owl and Jupiter, not as heros, but as people. At the end of the work, who can you really call a hero? Rorshach? He truns out to be an obsesive madman who would rather comply with his abstract childish notion of 'good' then save humanity from war. Dr. Manhattan? He has prove to be little more then an all powerful observer, he could have saved all of these people, he could have solved almost all of humanitie's problems, but he didn't. Ozymandias? He just killed several thousand, possibly miilion people in a demented plot to 'save' the world from war. And that leads up to Night Owl, the only chracter who, when the curtain closes, has made a positive impact on the world. Night Owl hsa deeply improved the life of one person, but he is the only that Moore allows to seem heroic.

These are just my thoughts, but I do think that Ozymandias is not a hero as Moore portrayed him in the original. Now the movie may be a different story...

 

[Liminal Syzygy]

I could see Arnold as Ozymandias... Obviously he has the politician schtick down which can be easily extended to do a multinational businessman.

I could particularly picture him do the smirk when he says he would have caught the bullet and they act incredulous.