Aranofsky to direct Watchmen!

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That works! Though I almost think the guy that plays Peter Krause's brother on _Six Feet Under_ would be perfect, too.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Kyle McLachlan is an expert at cold (fusion) detachment.

― Huck, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Kenneth Branagh would be quite a good Veidt.

― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Or maybe that guy who was the Nuclear Man in Superman IV?

― Huck, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Rutger Hauer!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Rutger Hauer should play all of the roles except for the ones covered by Dolph Lundgren.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

And Cindy Crawford as the Silk Spectre?

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

My friend met Rutger Hauer the other evening and spent ten minutes drunkenly chatting with him. Apparently he was incredibly nice.

Lookswise for S.S., I'd go with Emmanuelle Beart. They could dub her with an American actresses' voice.

Roschach: William H. Macy. Defo.

― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

OTM on Defoe.

― Huck, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Dafoe's too tall.

I'd say get a time machine and get Mickey Rooney at around 35 or so, beat the heck out of him and scuff him up a bit and you'd be onto something.

Watchmen is such a comic book that it's doubtful that it'll survive the translation at all. Maybe take some of the basic plot and run with it, but it'll be barely be more than that unless someone gets brave and writes a movie in the spirit of the original. Nailing that spirit down will be trickier than everyone thinks, too.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't ILX Mandee friends with Dafoe? She could give a friendly nudge...I keep thinking the underused Paul Bettany for Rorschach, but it may just be his colouring.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Y'know who would be perfect for this? M.Night Shaymalan.

― Huck, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't see M. Night as Rorschach.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

But that's the beauty of when he finally takes his mask off. "I can't believe that quasi-fascist isn't white!"

― Huck, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Dave Chapelle to thread!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Chappelle may already be booked to play John Stewart to Jack Black's whichever Green Lantern.

― Huck, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Dave Chappelle should play Cindy Crawford playing Silk Spectre.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

And Ashy Larry as Rorschach!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Louis CK directs!

Wanda Sykes as Ozymandias!

Dave Attell as Owlman!

HELL YEAH!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Mel Brooks presents: Watchmen: Men In Tights
Starring:
Dom DeLuise as Dr. Manhattan
Cloris Leachman as Silk Spectre I
Gene Wilder as Rorshach
etc.

― Huck, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Teri Garr PHWROAR!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Carry Elwes as Ozymandius! That could actually work.

― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, Pal Joey/Taxi Driver era Peter Boyle coulda made a great Rorschach. He's too old now.

― Huck, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://www.empireonline.co.uk/site/news/newsstory.asp?news_id=16087

He'd not be too bad a choice.

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

He does seem a little young and fresh faced though. Veidt, for all his ubermenschdom, seems to also need a weltzsmerch

― Huck, Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this as well as the Joy Division/Tulip Fever/etc. movies that he's rumoured to be in? My pick would have been Ralph Fiennes in Amon Goethe mode, but he's doing Voldemort.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Kudos to Jude for being the tattoo, though.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

(uh, take out being)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Catwoman=Cult Of The Cat from Misty.

― Vic F, Thursday, 12 August 2004 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...

http://www.watchmenmovie.com/

― Huk-L, Thursday, 10 February 2005 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

NO FUCKING WAY

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 11 February 2005 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Jaw, meet floor.

― lock robster (robster), Friday, 11 February 2005 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

IMDB Entry. Not much info yet but Aronofsky's no longer involved by the looks of things.

― lock robster (robster), Friday, 11 February 2005 10:29 (twenty-one years ago)

TEH WATCHMEN

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Screenplay by the voice of CAPTAIN AMERICA and SOLID SNAKE, fresh from his role as MUSEUM COP in X-MEN: TEH MOVIE.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

An Akiva Goldsmith / Joe Ezsterhaus Prodcution

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Screenplay by someone who wrote X-Men and X-Men 2, in fairness.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 11 February 2005 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, that reassures me actually.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 11 February 2005 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't get the IMDB page to open - is the director Philip Greenglass (dir. of The Bourne Supremacy), or am I confusing the Watchmen production w/ the V For Vendetta production?

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 February 2005 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry - I just G00gl'd. It's PAUL Greengrass.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 February 2005 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Paul Greengrass, but yeah, the Bourne Supremacy guy. I didn't see it.

xpst

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 11 February 2005 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Aronovsky left to do "The Fountain" which looks AWFUL, about a man's 1,000 year quest to find his true love. Sounds like sub-par Angel episodes to me.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 11 February 2005 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

But he wrote it, so it must be IMPORTANT. From what I can judge from the IMDB page, it's probably going to involve Wolverine making sweet love to Ellen Burstyn.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 11 February 2005 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

(deep, gravelly voice) Innatime... when SUPERHEROES... are BANNED... ONE GROUP... of superhumans... must work TOGETHER... to SAVE EARTH... from a MYSTERIOUS force... WHO watches... (WHOOSH) THE WATCHMEN??

Alternately:

THIS SUMMER - WATCH OUT FOR JUSTICE!!!

― Vic Fluro, Friday, 11 February 2005 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

It would be amazing if the posters/trailers just have the smiley face with "Qui custodiet ipsos custodes?" underneath, instead of making it look too flashy or emphasize the actors too much.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 11 February 2005 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, a teaser poster that was, in essence, a copy of the cover of the first issue w/ the tagline (in English, preferably) would be really nice. (That'd be similar to the Batman teaser poster, actually, w/ just the logo & the date of release.) Or maybe the main characters in costume surrounding the button w/ their costume showing in some way, so we'd see the button and some distinguishing characteristics (blue feet, wings, fishnets, etc.), but no faces.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 February 2005 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Or maybe that last idea belongs in the "How to NOT Market The Watchmen Flick" thread.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 February 2005 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Christ Almighty, it's the goddamned Watchmen!

― what fresh hell, Friday, 11 February 2005 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Part One of what should be a very interesting interview with Greengrass.

http://chud.com/interviews/1914

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=22841

Yawn.

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug, yo (chap), Friday, 31 March 2006 13:51 (twenty years ago)

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― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 31 March 2006 15:27 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

Good luck with that:
http://www.newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?t=74731

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 23 June 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

Man lame.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Friday, 23 June 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

> not unwatcheable but totally redundant

Newsarama guy OTM

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Friday, 23 June 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

Like it is - fuck!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 23 June 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

I'm also applying that to whatever Watchmen movie eventually gets made.

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Friday, 23 June 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck like it is!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 23 June 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

Is it fuck-like?

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Friday, 23 June 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

Like fuck it is!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 23 June 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

I fit slick uke!

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Friday, 23 June 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

But 300 and Watchmen could hardly be more different*! It's like hiring Merchant Ivory to adapt a Chuck Palaniuk novel because they did such a great job on EM Forster.

*I'm assuming here, I haven't read 300.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Friday, 23 June 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

300 kinda sux. At least that's what I remember. I haven't looked at it for a while.

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Friday, 23 June 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't this he what did 2004 Dawn of the Dead?

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Friday, 23 June 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

300 was good, but when I saw that FM included a "Selected Reading" or bibliography that had all of TWO titles, and when I think about the 3+ pages of biblio in Age of Bronze...

― c(''c) (Leee), Friday, 23 June 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

eight months pass...

http://www1.filehost.to/files/2007-03-14_03/215211_ro.jpg

― chaki, Friday, 16 March 2007 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

That picture is very, very silly.

― chap, Sunday, 18 March 2007 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117961930.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

Forest Whitaker in Watchmen? Man! He'd make a great Nite-Owl.

Oh, wait. The Night Watchman.

Never mind.

― Oilyrags, Thursday, 29 March 2007 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

Watchmen referenced in, er, Slate advice column:

http://www.slate.com/id/2202383/

― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 16 October 2008 22:01 (seventeen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Dave Gibbons was interviewed on the last third of today's episode of CBC's "Q": podcast here. Also interviewed: Comic Store Guy.

― Oblivious Lad, Tuesday, 4 November 2008 03:58 (seventeen years ago)

NOW WITH VOICES!

― Oh Why, Sports Coat? (Dr. Superman), Friday, 14 November 2008 21:57 (seventeen years ago)

I don't like Rorschach's voice, but then I remembered, oh yeah, he's Batman.

― Oh Why, Sports Coat? (Dr. Superman), Friday, 14 November 2008 21:58 (seventeen years ago)

It still looks way too polished for my liking, and the potential for sadface silliness looks extremely high, but it'll be nice to see a movie with an actual plot for a change.

― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 15 November 2008 01:44 (seventeen years ago)

We can sev this weld.

I've made my thoughts about the shitness of this trailer known on the ILE thread.

― chap, Saturday, 15 November 2008 02:09 (seventeen years ago)

two months pass...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1295071/

― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 11:01 (seventeen years ago)

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