Watchmen Cast List Confirmed/Announced
The casting for Zack Snyder’s big screen adaptation of Alan Moore’s classic graphic novel Watchmen has been confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter. But honestly most of the names on the list have been rumored to be attached to the project for months. Jeffrey Dean Morgan is the only name not in our report from last week. Morgan will play the Comedian, “a cigar-chomping, gun-toting vigilante-turned-paramilitary agent.” Rumored to play the role were Thomas Jane and Ron Pearlman.
Also confirmed: Jackie Earle Haley will play Walter Kovacs aka Rorschach, Billy Crudup will play Dr. Manhattan, Malin Akerman will play Laurie Juspeczyk/the Silk Spectre, Mathew Goode will play Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias, and Patrick Wilson will play the Nite-Owl.
I’m still skeptical as to whether or not Watchman can be turned into a relevant and entertaining film, since most of the ideas and concepts have since been stolen and used in other comic books and films. But if there is anyone who can make this film seem revolutionary it could be Snyder. He has a good list of names to back him up in front of the camera. Shooting is set to begin in Vancouver this Fall.
Patrick Wilson Almost Confirms Watchmen Casting
Last month it was widely reported that Patrick Wilson, Jude Law and Keanu Reeves were offered roles in Zack Snyder’s upcoming big screen adaptation of Alan Moore’s graphic novel Watchmen. Since then we’ve learned that Keanu Reeves had officially turned down the role of Dr. Manhattan. AICN now reports that Jason Patric (Narc, The Alamo, The Lost Boys) is now “the favorite for the role [of Dr. Manhattan]” after “Keanu priced himself out of the film.”
And now, Patrick Wilson all but confirms being cast iin the film during an interview with SHH. When asked about direct or Zack Snyder connecting him to the role of Nite Owl, Wilson said:
“Umm… you know… what’d he say? I don’t know if I’m allowed to talk about this stuff. It’s been confirmed on a lot of websites, I’ll just say that,” said Wilson. “The material’s phenomenal, let’s put it that way. It’s pretty unbelievable. It’s unbelievable. Just as we were talking about, you know with every huge… and that’s a totally different, when you talk about comic book movies that doesn’t even do an ounce of justice to that script, both the movie script and the original graphic novel is pretty phenomenal writing.”