Watchmen cast reported

[Glyfair]

The cast list has been reported in multiple sources.

Billy Crudup - Doctor Manhatten
Jeffrey Dean Morgan - The Comedian
Matthew Goode - Ozymandias
Milan Ackerman - Silk Spectre
Patrick Wilson - Nite Owl
Jackie Earle Haley - Rorschach.

This link has a pretty nice collection of pictures of the announced actors and the characters they are to portray. Other details in this article.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

The cast list has been reported in multiple sources.

Billy Crudup - Doctor Manhatten
Jeffrey Dean Morgan - The Comedian
Matthew Goode - Ozymandias
Milan Ackerman - Silk Spectre
Patrick Wilson - Nite Owl
Jackie Earle Haley - Rorschach.

This link has a pretty nice collection of pictures of the announced actors and the characters they are to portray. Other details in this article.

I just hope they don't decide to modernize, change the story to fit current events, etc. I will assume it will be a standard sub-par adaption and then if it rocks I'll be pleasantly surprised.

 

[Klaus]

From what I hear, the setting won't change.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

It also seems like they're actually keeping the ending. That's the one thing they can't change without killing the entire movie and yet the most likely thing to get cut. Here's hoping they really do stick with it.

 

[Felon]

I just hope they don't decide to modernize, change the story to fit current events, etc.

They'll have to change events. Keeping it an eighties story with Richard Nixon as the president, and America locked in cold ware with the Russians....that really won't work for a lot of viewers. Particularly the ones who weren't alive in 1986 and have now way to relate.

 

[Felon]

It's pretty simple and straightforward: this will suck. What are they thinking?

There's a reason this movie has had an extended stay in development hell. They can't really do the Watchmen justice as a movie. The enitre idea behind it---the deconstruction of the superhero genre--means nothing the typical moviegoer. There's just nothing for the movie to really contrast itself to right now. Superhero movies may be big in the box office, but they are still in their prime, still ramping up, still developing

Get an Avengers or Justice League movie franchise going first. Let's see superheroes placed in the big storylines we've seen in the comics: alien invasions, giant robots, cosmic quests. A concept has to become a little overblown before there's any point to deconstructing it. Right now, I don't think Joe Moviegoer is going to get what Dan Drierberg is sitting and crying in his basement about--isn't being a superhero fun?

It also seems like they're actually keeping the ending. That's the one thing they can't change without killing the entire movie and yet the most likely thing to get cut. Here's hoping they really do stick with it.

Well, anyone who's watched Heroes won't be too surprised by Watchmen's ending, and humorously enough, many will think the latter is ripping off the former.

 

[rom90125]

It's pretty simple and straightforward: this will suck. What are they thinking?

There's a reason this movie has had an extended stay in development hell. They can't really do the Watchmen justice as a movie. The enitre idea behind it---the deconstruction of the superhero genre--means nothing the typical moviegoer. There's just nothing for the movie to really contrast itself to right now. Superhero movies may be big in the box office, but they are still in their prime, still ramping up, still developing

Get an Avengers or Justice League movie franchise going first. Let's see superheroes placed in the big storylines we've seen in the comics: alien invasions, giant robots, cosmic quests. A concept has to become a little overblown before there's any point to deconstructing it. Right now, I don't think Joe Moviegoer is going to get what Dan Drierberg is sitting and crying in his basement about--isn't being a superhero fun?


Well, anyone who's watched Heroes won't be too surprised by Watchmen's ending, and humorously enough, many will think the latter is ripping off the former.

QFT. I was discussing this with a good friend yesterday, and we both agreed that we'd be off if they didn't make the movie, for fear of chopping the original story to pieces by the hollywood-machine.

 

[Umbran]

They'll have to change events. Keeping it an eighties story with Richard Nixon as the president, and America locked in cold ware with the Russians....that really won't work for a lot of viewers. Particularly the ones who weren't alive in 1986 and have now way to relate.

Basically, if they don't change the background events, they won't be doing just a superhero show, it'll also be a period piece. Either one can be a hard enough sell, both at once would be exceptionally difficult.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

I've been reading a bit and apparently the director is using the Graphic Novel as a storyboard. Personally I'm fine with it being a period piece as well. How can you modernize without totally changing what its about. Sure the modern "war on terror" is one option but that doesn't have nearly the impact or potential of total Armageddon as two nuclear power blocs at the brink of total nuclear war. Does "terror" become the Russians and if it does how does it have nearly the immediate global threat? Its an alternate history anyway, I say just go with it.

It will probably end up as another V for Vendetta though, a sad travesty of the source material.

 

[Umbran]

It will probably end up as another V for Vendetta though, a sad travesty of the source material.

*shrug*. I liked the movie of V for Vendetta better, to be honest. The graphic novel is well written, don't get me wrong. But a lot of the story there wasn't really relevant to the impact of the piece. The movie condensed down the central theme excellently, and made better use of the face, voice, and body language of the main character better than a graphic novel ever could. All, of course, IMHO.