For years now, I've wanted HBO or showtime to do it as a 13 part series. Not sure it'll ever happen, but it's fun to try and imagine it, right? my dream cast:

Nite Owl II/Dan Dreiberg: past his prime superhero with a bit of a gut? Put some glasses on alec baldwin, and he's perfect.

The Comedian: dennis farina. No question.

Rorschach: a bit of an odd choice- Kevin Spacey. Who has a better creepy monotone?

Ozymandias: A decade ago, i would have said paul newman. now, i'm not sure. has to be about 20 years older than the rest of the cast, while still in good shape. Any suggestions?

Doctor Manhattan: Probably would be CGI, so voice is the key here. This guy is practically a god, who can pull that off?

Silk Spectre II: another tough one. Diane Lane maybe?

i'm pretty sure he's really against his work being adapted... i heard v for vendetta was rough terrain in that area

It's only because he got burned so bady by the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen adaptation. And he doesn't own the rights to Watchmen anyways, so his participation isn't really needed. Not to say it wouldn't be good to have.

ther guy working on Frank Miller's 300 is also working on a Watchmen adaptation and Alan Moore doesn't want to hear about any film adaptations of his work anymore, so don't expect any input from him...

and just between us, if there is an unadaptable graphic novel, it is Watchmen...

i truely think it could work with a 24 hour weekly series. With each episode ending with an interet link to suplimental materials like those at the end of each chapter. The mars sequences would be fantastic.

now that could work

an interview with Zack Snyder about 300 and Watchmen

http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=23955

I really really really really hope this movie doesn't happen. V For Vendetta was one thing but I couldn't take them butchering this.

I tend to lean this way. The book is perfect as is. We don't need to see it on film, watered down and the story and characters chopped to hell to fit into a studio's definition of "appropriate running time." Honestly, when Paul Greengrass left the project, so did my interest, tempered as it was.

merge if necessary

Potential cast list:

Kate Winslet as Silk Spectre
Patrick Wilson as Night Owl
Jason Patric as Dr. Manhattan
Jude Law as Ozymandias
Thomas Jane as The Comedian
Jeremy Irons as Moloch
Virginia Madsen as Sally Jupiter
Jonah Hill as Seymour
Henry Gibson as Mr. Figure
William Fichtner as Detective Fine
Noah Emmerich as Captain Metropolis
Gretchen Mol as Janey Slater
Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach

all fine choices

i hope this is cool

it should at least be stylish

We know what’s his name can do style after 300. Watchmen though, is more about substance. So I’m a bit concerned.

I read somewhere that this was going to be set in the 80's, to have the communist scare as part of the plot.

exactly

I got concerned when Paul Greengrass left the project. Snyder will churn out a great looking film, no doubt, I just hope he gets Watchmen.

well, yeah

I should re-visit Watchmen soon...

For new people:



A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, Watchmen is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the “Doomsday Clock” – which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet Union – is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion – a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers – Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity…but who is watching the watchmen?

The film based on the graphic novel is being directed by Zack Snyder (300) and produced by Lawrence Gordon (Die Hard), Lloyd Levin (United 93) and Deborah Snyder (300), with Herbert W. Gains serving as executive producer.

Playing the film’s core group of “masks,” the masked adventurers at the center of the story, are Malin Akerman (upcoming The Heartbreak Kid) as Laurie Juspeczyk, aka Silk Spectre; Billy Crudup (The Good Shepherd) as Jon Osterman, aka Dr. Manhattan; Matthew Goode (Match Point) as Adrian Veidt, aka Ozymandias; Jackie Earle Haley (Little Children) as Walter Kovacs, aka Rorschach; Jeffrey Dean Morgan (TV’s Grey’s Anatomy) as Edward Blake, aka the Comedian; and Patrick Wilson (Little Children) as Dan Dreiberg, aka Nite Owl.

Watchmen was originally published by DC comics as a 12-comic book series between 1986 and 1987, before subsequently being collected into a trade paperback. It is the only graphic novel to win the prestigious Hugo Award or to be named among Time magazine’s “100 Best English Language Novels from 1923 to the Present.”