The Watchmen

[Umbran]

So, word is out that the first draft of the screenplay based upon the graphic novel "The Watchmen" is finished.

The question is, who do you cast in what role?

Personally, while I know he isn't a freckly redhead, I think Steve Buscemi would do a wonderful job as Rorschach.

 

[Black Omega]

I think Edward Norton for Rorshach, really. An average looking guy who's definitely not average. I would not worry much about matching looks, I'd rather match who can act the role best.

Be interesting to see how close the script is to the series.

 

[qstor]

I can't wait for the movie. I'm hoping it will be done well...The Watchmen was always one of my favorite comics.

Mike

 

[krunchyfrogg]

**BUMP**

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

Hasn't this project been knocking around Hollywood since the 80s? I believe this is referred to as "development hell". But if they've got a script, I guess that's one step closer. Anyone know who wrote it? (Please be Alan Moore, please be Alan Moore, please be Alan Moore.)

Edward Norton could portray that character well, but wasn't Rorshach in his 40s? I guess that's why they have make-up.

Dr. Manhattan should definitely be CGI, but perhaps modeled after a real actor who could portray him pre-accident. The thought of some half-naked guy with blue paint on him just makes me nervous. And to answer the inevitable follow-up question, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos also makes me nervous.

This might sound like a stretch, and he might have to lose a few pounds, but how about Philip Seymour Hoffman as Nite Owl? He does those sad sack roles so well.

In my mind, the hardest role to cast is Ozymandias. His transformation in the last couple issues is so masterfully done; you would need someone who could project heroic qualities for most of the film, and suddenly become very calculating in a seamless transition when the plot falls into place.

I'd love to see Michael Madsen as the Comedian. He does jaded and violent better than anyone.

 

[Usurper]

Don't think Moore wrote it, as I recently read that the screenplay writer had to *change* the ending a bit. Wouldn't work on film or too hard to do or some other lame excuse. Blasphemy.

Watchmen really ought to be a 12 part animated series anyway. No way you can do it any justice in 2 hours.

 

[KenM]

Watchmen really ought to be a 12 part animated series anyway. No way you can do it any justice in 2 hours.

I totally agree, you need at least an 8 hour mini series to make it work. They BETTER get it right.

 

[Michael Tree]

I truly, desperately hope that this movie is never made. Don't get me wrong, I would love to see a well-written well-acted Watchmen movie, but there's a snowball's chance in hell of that actually happening.

If it goes like any of the other quality comics optioned for movies, there will be one or two well-written scripts, which will be trashed almost immediately by the producers, then a sequence of bad scripts, each one worse than the last. If it actually makes it to being a movie, it will be about The Watchmen, a unified group of cool-but-good superheroes in black leather uniforms, who battle against the evil criminal mastermind Rorschach and his army of robot alien shapeshifters.

Oh, and it'll be marketed as "WXM", and star Vin Diesel as Dr. Manhatten, Tom Cruise as Ozymandias, and Sean Connery as the NiteOwl, the larger-than-life heroic leader of the team.

 

[Frostmarrow]

Haha. Right on, Michael Tree.

 

[Kahuna Burger]

Guess I'm the odd one out here... Watchmen had some nice bits, but changing the ending would be only the first thing to be done to make me have an interest in seeing it as a film. I read the graphic novel all at one wack, which might effect my feelings on it, but I was simply annoyed at it, especially the ending.

(and yes, I'm a comic book fan and think Moore is cool like moose. )

Kahuna Burger