The Watchmen movie finally has a confirmed cast and thank god for that cause we weren’t going to bother following each and every rumor that was milling about (hello, Kate Winslet). A ton of other sites probably knew this days and weeks ago, but Warner Bros. finally announced what the world’s nerds had already known. Patrick Wilson is the Nite Owl, Billy Crudup is Dr. Manhattan, Malin Akerman will play the Silk Spectre, Jackie Earle Haley will be Rorschach, Matthew Goode as Ozymandias, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan as the Comedian.
The cantankerous writer/artist and part-time magician and occultist, Alan Moore has naturally disavowed the project and once called the “Watchmen” comic completely un-cinematic. The man behind the oily beefcake-fest “300,” Zack Snyder will helm the flick with all his bag of cinematic comic-book tricks in tow.
Moore told MTV in a 2006 interview. “I met [former attached director] Terry Gilliam, and he asked me, “How would you make a film of ‘Watchmen’?” And I said, ‘Don’t.’ ”
Moore detests most adaptations of his comics, so why sell those right? Apparently D.C./Warner comics are out of his control. “When you’re talking about things like “V for Vendetta” or “Watchmen,” I don’t have a choice. Those were works which DC Comics kind of tricked me out of, so they own all that stuff and it’s up to them whether the film gets made or not.”
Unbeknownst to Warner Bros. at the time, Snyder inserted a single frame test shot of Rorschach visible in a at 1:52 in the R-rated 300 trailer.
