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Watchmen movie news

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ONLY NICE THINGS

09:46 / 23.05.07

I would like Mel Gibson as the Comedian, but that's just me.

Christ, let's hope so.

I can't condone his methods - in fact, I find them very troubling - but Hellbunny is at least right in that these imaginary casting sessions are disheartening as all get out. If we could maybe embargo links to aintitcool and comics2film, we will be a quieter but a better place.

10:49 / 23.05.07

If you, Haus, think you can survive in a world without aintitcoolnews, I suppose that's your decision. I mean, good luck, mate - realistically, if you're serious about this, it's going to be hell. You may well find yourself crawling up and down the high street, as if you were a worm, crying out to the sky about your desperate need to hear the words of Knowles.

All I'm saying is that this is a possibilty.

Keith, like a scientist

12:54 / 23.05.07

Alex speaks strong truth, I'm afraid.

13:16 / 28.06.07

Well here's the latest casting rumours from IGN:

Patrick Wilson as Nite Own
Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach
Kate Winslet as Silk Spector
Jeremy Irons as Moloch
Virginia Madsen as Sally Jupiter
Noah Emmerich as Captain Metropolis
Jonah Hill as Seymour
William Fichtner as Detective Fine
Gretchen Mol Janey Slater
Henry Gibson as Mr. Figure
Jason Patric as Dr. Manhattan
Jude Law as Ozymandias
Thomas Jane as The Comedian

13:19 / 28.06.07

pretty great list, esp. Kate W. as Silk Spectre and Tom Jane as The Comedian. Ditto on Irons as Moloch (even though that's a small role)

13:27 / 28.06.07

Patrick Wilson as Nite Owl
Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach
Kate Winslet as Silk Spector

Sounds like it's being cast by the same person who did Little Children.

I wonder if Patrick Wilson would be willing to lose his sculpted body to play Nite Owl?

14:12 / 28.06.07

Henry Gibson from LAUGH-IN?

That's fucking great.

Phex: Dorset Doom

14:14 / 28.06.07

There's really nobody on that list who can 'open' a film as big as Watchmen needs to be, so I'm even more skeptical than I was when Zak Snyder was announced as director.

15:10 / 23.07.07

Don't ask me how this happened, but I was watching the director's commentary of Nick Love's (Football Factory; The Business) new film Outlaw, and on the commentary Danny Dyer (actor in the same films) said that he had been offered a part in "some new comic film by that bloke who done 300"

18:01 / 23.07.07

innnnnteresting.... perhaps a small role? What role do you think this Mr. Danny Dyer would fit in Watchmen...?

19:28 / 23.07.07

he could play the unreconstructed geezer-man. cos he's a geezer innit geezer?

23:25 / 23.07.07

What role do you think this Mr. Danny Dyer would fit in Watchmen...?

I'm sure Dyer (pronounced Die-AH!) could play any of the (male, of course - he couldn't be the Silk Spectre, could he? Imagine him, Danny Dyer, as a cock in a frock? Are you having a laugh? Eh? Ain't gonna fucking happen, mate ...) roles in Watchmen, because he is this generation's Bob Hoskins. He has that kind of range.

However, gifted artiste though Dyer is, I wonder if he mightn't have availed himself of a couple of medicinal wife-beaters before he gave that interview. Certainly, in the preamble to The Business on DVD, we're invited to consider him as someone who gets moody in the boozer on fairly regular basis ... I suppose if Rorschach was a Londoner born and bred, plus a bit of a ladies man who was partial to the odd rail of Rick James there might a role for Dyer to play, but ... all right, I probably would go and see that, but I think it's fair to say that it mighn't be the film that people were expecting.

ONLY NICE THINGS

13:10 / 24.07.07

Jason Statham to play Doctor Manhattan. This is reported fact. Check out his website.

14:37 / 24.07.07

The photo's in my hand.

It's the photo of a bloke and his bird at the fair, in 1959.

I'm goin' to babblin' brook at the stars.

Quantum Physics, it's a mug's game, innit. A mug's game.

15:02 / 24.07.07

Vinnie Jones as the Comedian?

ONLY NICE THINGS

15:39 / 24.07.07

Guest appearance from Warren Clark as Hollis Mason.

17:33 / 24.07.07

I'm leaning more towards Ray Winstone as The Comedian at the moment, as long as he was prepared to make a few trips to the salad bar first.

Guy Ritchie to direct, of course.

Denise Van Outen as the Silk Spectre, and Phil Daniels as Moloch; Jude Law could still play Adrian Veidt, and I'm quite liking the idea of Kris Marshall as Nite Owl.

Would Wendy Richards be any good as Sally Jupiter? Or would Margi Clarke be a better fit for the role?

18:17 / 24.07.07

Phil Daniels as Moloch

Blimey, for a moment there I thought you said Paul Daniels and, I thought, yeah his emaciated goblin like features would fit him. And, frankly, vice-versa.

"This was like a week before he died. I guess it was his last performance"

18:24 / 24.07.07

The plot: All the old faces have left the manor except for Rorschach ("It's from a psychology book - you wouldn't understand") who's waging a one-man war against moody slags and nonces when he's not down his local, having a laugh. After some tosser chucks the Comedian out the window of his Docklands penthouse flat though, our boy realises that something's up. So he goes to see Ozymandias ("a poof, like sodding Richard Branson") Dr Manhattan (Dr Sizewell B? Dr Windscale?) and a faded Nite Owl, who's now running a cab company out in the suburbs, miles from his roots, while his Owl-mobile rusts away out back in a lock-up. Rorschach's warnings fall on deaf ears ...

The Falklands war would take the place of Vietnam in the narrative (I particularly like the idea of a gigantic, Speedo-clad Jason Statham dealing out death to the Argentinian army while Winstone looks on from the bar, prior to offing a sheep - "if we win this war, it might drive us bonkers as a country" etc) and the ultimate plot by Ozymandias, now living in deepest Provence ("which may as well be the South bleeding Pole", Rorschach could say - similarly the north of Scotland could take the place of the moon in the Silk Spectre/Dr Manhattan arc) would be to do with driving down property prices in central London. Which would lead to more affordable housing, but at what cost?

19:31 / 24.07.07

You can stop at any time, you know.

At any time.

03:59 / 25.07.07

The only way imaginable to translate this in another medium that would work for me would be a cliffhanger trilogy or a miniseries. It would give ample time for everything to be included. I like Zach's Dawn of the Dead and 300 I would look forward to his interpretation of Watchmen.....

04:12 / 25.07.07

I'd rather this be a full movie with things cut out in order to make Watchmen structurally sound (i.e. a lot of continuity and tons of in-references to other parts). I'd love to see Watchmen done in a Rashomon or Pulp Fiction sort of way...where we get their weird little morality tales and asides by the main characters as we reach armageddon.

04:14 / 25.07.07

I would like to see it more complete with everything included. It would work as one movie but it would do the original work a great disservice

13:57 / 26.07.07

Apparently the official cast list has been announced:

Jackie Earle Haley ("Little Children") will play Walter Kovacs, aka Rorschach.

Billy Crudup ("Almost Famous") will play Dr. Manhattan.

Malin Akerman ("Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle") will play Laurie Juspeczyk/the Silk Spectre.

Matthew Goode ("Match Point") will play Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias.

Patrick Wilson ("Little Children") will play the Nite-Owl.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan ("Grey's Anatomy" and "Supernatural") will play the Comedian

Carla Gugino (Sin City) will play Sally Jupiter (source).

10:24 / 13.08.07

Its gonna be shit isn't it.

I smell something as bad as the Black Dahlia which was one of the worst films i've ever seen.

Is it just me or are they all far too young?

10:38 / 13.08.07

I suppose that depends on the exact nature of the story they're telling, but I know what you mean. Hollywood's inability to trust that audiences are prepared to watch films starring actors who look like they might just have crossed the threshold of 30 drives me nuts.

11:54 / 13.08.07

You'll get that Emmy one day Boboss !

To be fair the guys playing Raw Shark and the Comedian do look suitably up and over the hill. At least Google Images thinks so.

12:04 / 13.08.07

Hey, Triplets, I'm from the Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp school of good looks. I don't look my age.

(That's true actually. People are often very surprised when I tell 'em that I'm 31. Most put me at around 25)

13:58 / 13.08.07

>>>Is it just me or are they all far too young?<<<

The claim is that they cast young because it's easier to age them with makeup for the scenes in the present, and use their natural appearance for the flashbacks, than it would be to cast older actors and try to make them look younger.

14:28 / 13.08.07

Oh, you and your claims...

16:13 / 13.08.07

But still, a weird choice since (IIRC) there's a lot more scenes in the present. Might be easier to old up some young ones for the make-up department, but it must be a headache in production terms to old 'em up for the (considerably) larger duration of the shooting (and wasting a lot of time and money they probably didn't want to use on more famous-ish people so they could use on other portions).

But I'm probably speaking through my ass entirely.

16:24 / 13.08.07

it's easier to age them with makeup

22:21 / 13.08.07

>>>But still, a weird choice since (IIRC) there's a lot more scenes in the present<<<

There's a fair number of flashbacks in the comic, but even if it's primarily set in the present, that's the comic, and this is the film adaptation. There may very well be an even balance of past/present in the script they shoot.

06:54 / 14.08.07

True, Cam.

And sorry, Brick. You lost me there with the Fast Show pic (I mean, yeah, I know they're in old make-up but...?)

08:27 / 14.08.07

I mean, yeah, I know they're in old make-up but...

it looks shit was my point.

why not just have different actors playing younger selves?

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