I am pretty excited about this movie and so I keep following the updates. 

 

 

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

 

Warner Bros. Pictures has confirmed the cast for Watchmen, the big screen adaptation of the seminal DC Comics limited series.

 

Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Matthew Goode, Billy Crudup, Jeffrey Dean Morgan ("Grey's Anatomy") and Malin Akerman will star in the Warner Bros. movie, which Zack Snyder is directing. Larry Gordon, Lloyd Levin and Deborah Snyder are producing.

 

Set in an alternate America, Watchmen follows costumed hero Rorschach, who is living a vigilante lifestyle because most masked heroes have retired or been outlawed. While investigating a murder, Rorschach learns that a former masked-hero colleague has been killed, prompting him to begin investigating a possible conspiracy.

 

Haley will play Walter Kovacs, aka Rorschach, who ignores the ban on costumed vigilantes.

 

Crudup will play Dr. Manhattan, a superpowered being with godlike powers and temperament.

 

Akerman will play Laurie Juspeczyk/the Silk Spectre, who is involved with Dr. Manhattan -- but that relationship begins to fall apart as he becomes more disconnected from humanity.

 

Goode will play Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias, a costumed adventurer who retired voluntarily, disclosed his identity and built a large fortune. He hatches a plot to avert a global catastrophe he believes will be caused by Dr. Manhattan.

 

Wilson will play the Nite-Owl, a crime-figher who uses technical wizardry and has an owl-shaped flying vehicle.

 

Morgan will play the Comedian, a cigar-chomping, gun-toting vigilante-turned-paramilitary agent.

 

Watchmen was created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.

 

Shooting is set to start in the fall in Vancouver, with Snyder employing many of the filming techniques he used for his boxoffice success 300.

Interesting stuff. Probably the best graphic novel ever written (I prefer it to The Dark Knight Returns, good as that is), but very difficult to get onto the screen.

Looking interesting, I can't wait to see what they do with Dr. Manhattan.

 

 

Comic Con updates:

 

-Sets are being built in Vancouver right now, including a New York City backlot. Not going to be 300 style, very little digital work except on Mars and in Antarctica.

 

-Think more SE7EN than SIN CITY in terms of production design.

 

-Warner Bros is behind an R-rated film.

 

-It is period. 1985. There was talk of updating it, but Snyder said it never felt right making it about the War On Terror instead of the Cold War, so he insisted it be set in 1985. Warners agreed.

 

-While it's not a hard rule, he is going to be using the original comic as storyboards. He'll use them to set the framing for most of the movie.

 

-The casting was not an exercise in marketing, big names avoided.

 

-Alan Moore is not involved. He asked for his name to be taken off the project way back when it was first being developed and Snyder is honoring that... but he does hope that this will be the first film made from one of his properties that Moore will eventually think "wasn't f-ed up too badly."

 

-Release date is 03-06-09.

 

-David Gibbons has gotten behind the movie and has frequently given his thoughts on the script and art.