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Faker:
Again another story ripped from the web pages of Empire

It's been the worst kept secret on the interwebs for over a week now, but Warner Bros has finally confirmed the cast for Watchmen, or 'The Citizen Kane of Comic Books', as contractual obligation requires we call it.

For those not in the graphic novel know, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen is set in an America where superheroes have been outlawed. The plot centres on Rorschach, a vigilante superhero who is investigating the murder of fellow super The Comedian. His investigations lead him into government conspiracies, which at the time the book was created echoed Reagan-era distrust and will now, presumably, echo...well, you do the maths.

The cast are not massive names, but are, certainly of those with whose work we're familiar, very fine actors. The cast is as follows:

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

Patrick Wilson (also Little Children) will play Nite-Owl, a technical wizard who flies an owl shaped flying vehicle.

Billy Crudup (Almost Famous) is Dr Manhattan, a man with godlike powers who in the book is blue and nekkid.

Malin Akerman (upcoming Farelly brothers movie The Heartbreak Kid) is The Silk Spectre aka Laurie Juspeczyk, token female superhero of the band who resents being the token female and was once involved with Dr Manhattan.

Matthew Goode (Matchpoint) will play Ozymandias aka Adrian Veidt, a hero who voluntarily retired and revealed his identity and then made a fortune. He believes Manhattan is going to cause a global catastrophe.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Grey's Anatomy) is The Comedian, murderous gun-toting vigilante-turned-paramilitary.

Zack Snyder, who's set to direct the movie in Vancouver this autumn using similar methods to 300, will be in Comic-Con over the weekend, so check back for more details on Monday.

So what do you think of the cast? Awesome? Too young?

Photos of the cast members - here

0bsessions:
I'm indifferent to most aside from Patrick Wilson. Him, I find too young. One of the biggest aspects of Nite-Owl's character is that he's middle-aged, retired and long since out of shape. Him being within about five years of Silk Spectre's age kind of defeats the purpose of his conflicted feeling towards her.

Faker:
I think the cast over all seem to be on the young side, but I'm assuming because the book was so flash-back heavy they have to decided to cast actors based on the younger versions of the character and then age them up for later scenes as opposed to trying to age them down for the flash-backs

0bsessions:
That doesn't really make much sense. Flashback heavy as it was, few of the people appearing in flashbacks ran concurently with the main storyline. The vast majority of the flashbacks dealt with the Golden Age set, who were mostly dead by the point of the modern storyline. Dr. Midnight appeared in a lot of flashbacks, but he hadn't aged since he was created. Silk Spectre was in flashbacks, but as a sixteen year old (Making her actress dead in the middle of either instance). The Comedian was dead by the time the modern line started.

The only flashbacks any of the modern characters appeared in, the characters were mostly in full costume with masks and deaging would be unnecessary.

TheFuriousWombat:
Not sure how I feel about Snyder directing. He doesn't have much experience and he hasn't proven he can direct serious material. Grand, stylized action flicks aren't the same as the dystopian drama of Watchmen. I'm not familiar with all the actors but I am glad they didn't cast a bunch of big names who can't really act. Too often this happens and the film generally suffers as a result. This cast seems pretty decent to me and has me more excited for the film than I was, albeit still cautiously optimistic.

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