MTV is reporting that Matt Frewer will star in Zack Snyder’s Watchmen. The actor – best known as the stuttering, sarcastic, ’80s icon Max Headroom – will play Moloch the Mystic, a satanic super villain and magician. Frewer is joining a cast that includes Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Matthew Goode, Billy Crudup, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin Akerman, Carla Gugino and Stephen McHattie.
Carla Gugino (Sin City) has joined the cast of Watchmen, the Warner Brothers adaptation of the DC Comics limited series. She joins Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Matthew Goode, Billy Crudup, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Malin Akerman in the Warner Bros. movie, which is set in an alternate America that has passed a law banning costumed crime fighters. When one is murdered, the remaining members set out to solve the mystery.
Gugino will play Sally Jupiter, a burlesque dancer-turned-costumed heroine and sex symbol the Silk Spectre who is part of the Minutemen, a group of heroes who preceded the Watchmen. She also is the mother of the new Silk Spectre (Akerman). Gugino is expected to portray Jupiter in varying eras, playing different ages throughout the movie. Zack Snyder (300) will direct the film, which is set to start shooting in the fall in Vancouver.
Matthew Goode (The Lookout, Match Point) has been cast as Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias, as revealed by IESB.net. This is in addition to Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach, Billy Crudup as Dr. Manhattan, Patrick Wilson as Nite Owl, and Malin Ackerman as Silk Spectre. 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?
Latino Review are kicking ass this weekend and have reports of two people cast in the upcoming Watchmen movie adaptation. Malin Akerman (“Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle,” “The Invasion”) has landed the plum role of Sally Jupiter aka The Silk Spectre. She is the former crimefighter turned scientist who lives with the powerful entity Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup). The site also confirms that Jackie Earle Haley has been cast as the key character of Walter Kovacs aka. Rorschach. Rorschach finds himself the only person who believes there is a plot to kill off all the retired superheroes as he investigates the murder of a former teammate The Comedian.
CHUD is reporting that Billy Crudup, who starred in Almost Famous and Mission: Impossible III, and is the voice of the MasterCard commercials, has been cast as Dr. Manhattan in Zack Snyder’s Watchmen.
A very reliable source tells me that Snyder has settled on Crudup for the role of Watchmen’s only super-powered character, a scientist who accidentally gets annihilated on an atomic level and reconstructs himself into a big, naked, blue, floating demigod.
Based on Alan Moore’s acclaimed graphic novel, the story follows a group of costumed heroes investigating the murder of one of their own. Keanu Reeves and Jason Patric were alreadly linked to the role.
ShockTillYouDrop.com interviewed actor Thomas Jane about his upcoming directorial debut The Dark Country. During their discussion, the subject of Zack Snyder’s anticipated Watchmen came up, particularly the rumors that Snyder is interested in casting Jane as The Comedian.
“Is it on the Internet?” Jane asks. Yessir, Tom. It’s out there. “Yeah,” the actor responds in a slow drawl. “I’m staying quiet about it. I know that Zack’s interested and that’s a great compliment.”
Actor Paddy Considine, who was attached to play masked vigilante Rorschach in Watchmen back when Paul Greengrass was directing, has revealed on his official fan site that Warner Brothers has now gone out to Jackie Earle Haley for the role. Haley received an Oscar nomination for his role in Little Children. He also recently starred in All the King’s Men and played Kelly Leak in the “Bad News Bears” films in the ’70s. Zack Snyder (300) is directing the big screen adaptation, based on the 12-issue comic book created by writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons. The comic is a crime-conspiracy story that provided the first realistic look at the behind-the-heroics lives of superhero archetypes. Larry Gordon and Lloyd Levin are producing.
Despite rumors to the contrary, Club-Keanu received word from Keanu Reeves’ manager, who said that Keanu had been offered a role in Zack Snyder’s Watchmen but turned it down. Watchmen, created by writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons, was released as a 12-issue comic book in 1986 and is one of the most critically acclaimed series in the genre. The comic is a crime-conspiracy story that provided the first realistic look at the behind-the-heroics lives of superhero archetypes.
