Warner Bros. Studios to Release DC Comics 'The Watchmen' to the Big Screen
Here's what we know:
1) The film for sure is being directed by Zach Snyder, and is promising that the visual effects that we will see in the film will be the same as the critically acclaimed hit '300'.
2) The script revolves around an alternate reality in the year 1985, where superheroes are a common thing amongst the human race. Then, we also have the 'Doomsday Clock', an apparatus that measures the USA's tension with the Soviet Union, and is permanently set to five minutes to midnight! Who will end up pushing the red button first and starting World War III? But, in the background, we also have the mysterious murder of a colleague of one of the superheroes, one by the name of Rorschach, who must enlist the aide of his former crime-fighting group to solve the murder and uncovers a conspiracy that reaches to unknown levels that connects to their own pasts and what may happen afterward!
3) The cast has also already been set. While there had been rumors that John Cusack, Daniel Craig, and Sigourney Weaver would be joining the cast on this film, the real cast has now been officially released and they are as follows:
Jackie Earl Haley- Walter Kovacs (*Rorschach)
Malin Akerman- Laurie Juspeczyk (*Silk Spectre)
Billy Crudup- Jon Osterman (*Dr. Manhattan)
Matthew Good- Adrian Veidt (*Ozymandias)
Jeffrey Dean Morgan- Edward Blake (*The Comedian)
Patrick Wilson- Dan Dreiberg (*Nite Owl)
From the production blogs that are available on the official website, Snyder has been making appearanxces at ComicCon, the world famous comic book convention talking about the project and getting everyone stoked about the film's release. A movie poster that was presented at ComicCon has also been posted to the site, but there are no photgraphs as of late as to waht the costumes are like or when the trailer will be available.
One thing can be certain, though. For those of us that enjoy this style of film, I can guarantee that Warner Bros. may have another blockbuster hit on their hands!
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1 Comments
Post a CommentI feel that the cast is just about perfect for Watchmen. Its kinda sad that Alan Moore has divorced himself from this project after being screwed over for royalties from DC, as well as the bastardized adaptations of V For Vendetta, From hell, and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen! Dave Gibbons has been saying that he feels the film will be good, and that maybe Moore might change his mind if it is faithful and follows the book.
Again, the cast is good, but I would have done this:
Rorschach/Walter Kovacs- Jude Law. He loves the comic (even has a Rorschach tattoo). Sure, he could be Ozymandias, but his role in Road to Perdition seemed vaguely psychotic-vigilante style. His son Rafferty could even play Young Kovacs, because he is a minature version of Jude.
Nite Owl/Dan Dreiburg- John Cusack would have been good as Dan Dreiburg. He's in his early forties, same as Dan. Just dye his hair brown, slick it back, and give him a potbelly, and he would be the character cut out of the book