In all due respect, I would never have found out about this casting news if it wasn't for the new thread.

I guess I just don't understand why it's frowned upon to create a new thread when a major development like this takes place. The previous thread is about the discussion to make this into a movie. Why bury a major announcement like this there?

Agreed.

Over in the Twilight Zone Series DVD Thread, someone posted the news that the Twilight Zone Movie was coming out on DVD. Everyone started complaining that it should have it's own Thread because it was so easy to miss.

Great news that this movie is finally getting cast.

Is this supposed to be a comdey?
I got a Mystery Men vibe from the cast/character descriptions.

Patrick Wilson would be better suited as Ozymandias in the looks department, as would Brad Pitt or even Josh Lucas.

Night Owl should have been played by someone like Phillip Seymour Hoffman, someone with some paunch to his stature, anyone but Patrick Wilson.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan seems too sympathetic looking to be the Comedian. A grizzled Bruce Campbell would have been cool.

Billy Crudup is a little short to be playing Dr. Manhattan, doesn't possess enough gravitas for the role. I would have gone with someone like Billy Zane or ....

Goode seems out of place in this cast, don't like him casted as Ozymandias.

Don't think I'll like Ackerman as Laurie, I would have preferred a true brunette in the role, maybe that looks more like Robin Tunney or Amanda Peet.

I do like Haley as Rorshach, though.

Zack posed with Watchmen movie poster today at Comic-Con. Sorry, it's a tad blurry. Those of us in attendance gets a copy of the poster. I'll get mine tomorrow.

We spent the entire day with Zack, from breakfast to the "Watchmen" panel to the giant "300" DVD bash at Petco Park with 10,000 screaming fans. Good stuff (and a ton on "Watchmen"); it'll air on MTV, MTV2 and MTVu sometime in the next week or so.

Not sure if the website has been posted yet.

http://watchmenmovie.warnerbros.com/

If you click on the smiley face it takes to you links for synopsis and cast. Other links aren't active yet.

Found this over at Amazon.com:

SAN DIEGO, CA, July 27, 2007 – Filmmaker Zack Snyder (300), who is set to direct Warner Bros. Pictures’ feature film adaptation of the award-winning graphic novel Watchmen, today announced the cast of the highly anticipated epic before 6,500 fans during a presentation at this year’s Comic-Con International convention in San Diego, California. Watchmen will be produced by Lawrence Gordon (Die Hard), Lloyd Levin (United 93) and Deborah Snyder (300), with Herbert W. Gains serving as executive producer. The film is targeted for a March 6, 2009, release.

Playing the film’s core group of "masks," the masked adventurers at the center of the story, are Malin Akerman (upcoming The Heartbreak Kid) as Laurie Juspeczyk, aka Silk Spectre; Billy Crudup (The Good Shepherd) as Jon Osterman, aka Dr. Manhattan; Matthew Goode (Match Point) as Adrian Veidt, aka Ozymandias; Jackie Earle Haley (Little Children) as Walter Kovacs, aka Rorschach; Jeffrey Dean Morgan (TV’s Grey’s Anatomy) as Edward Blake, aka the Comedian; and Patrick Wilson (Little Children) as Dan Dreiberg, aka Nite Owl.

A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, Watchmen is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the "Doomsday Clock" – which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet Union – is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion – a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers – Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity…but who is watching the watchmen?

Watchmen was originally published by DC Comics as a 12-comic book series between 1986 and 1987, before subsequently being collected into a trade paperback. It is the only graphic novel to win the prestigious Hugo Award or to be named among Time magazine’s "100 Best English Language Novels from 1923 to the Present."


http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/post/P...01&pf_rd_i=130

* Malin Akerman as Laurie Juspeczyk, aka Silk Spectre (as much as I liked her in The Comeback, she seems way too young (and short) to be Silk Spectre.)
* Billy Crudup as Jon Osterman, aka Dr. Manhattan (interesting choice, but to be honest, I'm interested in how they're going to put Dr. Manhattan onscreen and not have the audience break out into laughter)
* Matthew Goode as Adrian Veidt, aka Ozymandias (, as he was a basic non-entity in Match Point and I can't remember anything else he's been in)
* Jackie Earle Haley as Walter Kovacs, aka Rorschach (that casting is a stroke of genius)
* Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Edward Blake, aka the Comedian (haven't seen Grey's Anatomy since S1, have no idea who he is. As mediocre as I thought he was in 300, I figured Gerard Butler would be a lock for this part)
* Patrick Wilson (Little Children) as Dan Dreiberg, aka Nite Owl (I really admire Wilson, even when he's in shit like Hard Candy, but unless I'm mistaken Nite Owl was a bit chunky in the comic; curious to see how this choice plays out)

My biggest concern is Snyder; the guy has no style of his own, not to mention that character development and strong writing was not a chief concern of either DotD or 300, and qualities which Watchmen will be dependent on to be good. I'm hoping for the best, but I fear he's really going to fuck this up.

I dunno... with the cast released, I'm really starting to get a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vibe off of this.

Aside from Jackie Earle Haley, nobody really seems to stand out at all. And everyone seems too young, too. Are they dropping the multigenerational aspect of the graphic novel?

It seems like they're filling up the cast with a bunch of TV actors and pretty faces instead of investing the parts (aside from Rorschach) with actors who will give the characters distinct personalities.

If Snyder botches this, he'll be the most reviled director in the history of film. Watchmen has the most devoted and rabid following of any comic in history and arguably of any fan property of all time. If I were a director, I wouldn't touch it for that very reason. It's one thing to adapt a relatively obscure title like 300. It's quite another to adapt the most beloved comic of all time.

Poor Alan Moore...why doth he get no respeckt?

V for Vendetta wasn't so bad.

Nah...probably amongst comic book fans, though.

It might be the most acclaimed comic of all time, but not the most beloved; Superman, X-Men, Batman, etc. can claim that title. I'm totally with you in that Snyder has insane expectations to meet (which he probably won't), but if he screws this up, I doubt most viewers will care; if you grabbed 10 people at random and asked them if they heard of Watchmen, 9 out of 10 of them would just shrug.

And V For Vendetta was slightly better than LXG and Constantine, but that's very, very, very faint praise.

Just saw this at Hollywood Reporter.com --

'Watchmen' adds Gugino as do-gooder
By Borys Kit

Aug 9, 2007
Carla Gugino has joined the cast of "Watchmen," Warner Bros. Pictures' adaptation of the DC Comics limited series being directed by Zack Snyder.

Gugino joins Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Matthew Goode, Billy Crudup, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Malin Akerman in the movie, which is set in an alternate America that has passed a law banning costumed crimefighters. When one is murdered, the remaining members set out to solve the mystery.

Gugino will play Sally Jupiter, a burlesque dancer-turned-costumed heroine and sex symbol the Silk Spectre who is part of the Minutemen, a group of heroes who preceded the Watchmen. She also is the mother of the new Silk Spectre (Akerman).

Sources said Gugino will portray Jupiter in varying eras, playing different ages throughout the movie.

Larry Gordon, Lloyd Levin and Deborah Snyder are producing the film, which is set to start shooting in the fall in Vancouver.

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Dang, I really think Gugino would've been good as the young Spectre - she's not THAT old and Sin City proved how hawt she is. Still, she's a good actress.

Yeah, she is closer to the age the younger Spectre was in the book. Still, I think she is also well cast as the older Spectre, since she's hot enough to pull off young, but will be believable as an older woman with the right make-up.

I liked V for Vendetta very much as a film myself, but Alan Moore himself hated it.

Alan Moore is probably going to hate any film based on his work. (Especially so after his experiences with LXG.)

He was also John Winchester in supernatural

Moore is an egomaniac. He will not like anything that HE didn't do. It's sad because he actually is brilliant. He can never work with others,

From what I hear, he enjoyed the JLU adaptation of "For the Man Who Has Everything."

Also Mary Louise Parker's dead husband in Weeds. Everyone's favorite corpse!

I don't know, he already remade one of the most sacred and adored horror films of all time and he seemed to come out OK.

Yeah but he never watched the movie according to what he said on amazon wire podcast. He was screwed pretty hard and now he will never be the same again.

The lost girls movie should be good.