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Will you watch these Watchmen?
Kosh:
I agree with cartilage head, and I'm trying to keep my hopes up. I don't know how faithful it will be to the original comic. Being completely honest, it'd be difficult to convey Watchmen properly in any other medium except, perhaps, as a high budget mini-series, animated or live-action. There are a myriad layers to the plot, subtleties, implications as well as the explicit text of the story, which would be very difficult to fit in a feature film.
If they manage to stay true to the spirit of it, unlike the bowdlerisation of V for Vendetta, I will be happy.
the-artful-dodger-rodger:
here is another IGN article about the actors and characters of Watchmen http://movies.ign.com/articles/810/810207p1.html
Kaktion:
I'm trying to not be disappointed, but some of these actors don't really look like the characters, echoing an earlier statement, "they're too young and happy". Jude Law, I think, would have been a perfect choice for Veidt, but alas, t'was not so. Malin Akerman looks nothing like the Silk Spectre II, but, as I said, I'm trying to look past that. I really am. Which is why I'm giving Rorschach's actor a chance because he looks like he might be able to pull off Rorschach, while masked, but I'm not familiar with his work. He just looks like he might be able to pull it off.
The Comedian's actor, while young, look really similar to him. Weird.
thehoopiestfrood:
I found this today:
--- Quote ---Was offered the lead role of Rorschach in the doomed movie adaptation of the comic book mini-series, The Watchmen. He turned it down because it would become too "Simon Pegg IS Rorschach."
--- End quote ---
but that sounds like it's not from this incarnation of the film.
Faker:
More News....
The cast of Zach Snyder's Watchmen is continuing to swell, with the latest addition of Carla Gugino. Gugino will play Sally Jupiter, first Silk Spectre and mother to superhero of the same name, played by Malin Akerman. If you haven't read the book, you're probably confused right about now, but sit down, maybe have a cup of tea, while we try to clear things up. If you're already clued up, maybe take yourself outside for a while and enjoy the sun.
The titular Watchmen were preceded by a group called The Minutemen, one of whom was Jupiter, a burlesque dancer, who took the hero name Silk Spectre. When she reaches an age where tights are better suited to holding in your varicose veins than keeping you unrestrained for crime-fighting, she retires and her moniker is later taken by her daughter. Gugino will play the role through various time periods, ageing as necessary.
The cast for the movie, which is due for release in March 2009, already includes Billy Crudup (Dr. Manhattan), Matthew Goode (Ozymandias), Jackie Earle Haley (Rorschach), Jeffrey Dean Morgan (The Comedian), Patrick Wilson (Nite Owl).
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