Movies - Jackie Earle Haley is Rorschach and Patrick Wilson is Nite Owl in "Watchmen"?

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"Actor Paddy Considine (Hot Fuzz) has revealed on his official fan site that he is no longer attached to play the antihero Rorsharch in Zack Snydder's adaptation of "Watchmen." Instead, that part has now gone to Jackie Earle Haley.

Haley recently received an Oscar nomination for his role in "Little Children," and has also starred in the "All the King's Men" remake.

The story of the Watchmen takes place during the time when super-heroes are banned, but one group of costumed heroes must resume their old identities and work together to save a doomed Earth from a mysterious force.

Filming is scheduled to begin in September in Vancouver, hoping to release the movie sometime in 2008."

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"SuperHeroHype! spoke to Patrick Wilson (Hard Candy) to find out whether there is any truth to him taking the role of Nite Owl in Zach Snyder's adaptation of Alan Moore's "Watchmen."

While he never actually confirmed his participation, his hints were enough to get the message across. "I don't know if I'm allowed to talk about this stuff," explained Wilson. "It's been confirmed on a lot of websites, I'll just say that."

Judging by most of the interview, Wilson is extremely excited about the project and is very well aware of the material. "Both the movie script and the original graphic novel is pretty phenomenal writing."

And the last hint dropped that confirms that he is on board: "It's just out of respect for them trying to get everybody else on board before I go ahead and blab my mouth."

I think it's pretty clear that we will be seeing Wilson in the film, and it's just a matter of time before more of the cast are announced."

Awesome news all around. Even though it's not 100% confirmed that Wilson will be in "Watchmen", based on his comments one can assume that it's basically confirmed. Another star of the amazing movie "Little Children", who has apparently been offered a role as well, is Jackie Earle Haley. If you haven't seen "Little Children", I strongly recommend you do. It's a fantastic movie that reminds me of one of my favorite movies ever: "American Beauty". Wilson and Haley are both in the movie and Haley's performance is superb; if you're not weirded out by his character and some of the extremely awkward gut-wrenching moments he has, I dunno what to say. All in all, "Watchmen" is shaping up very nicely as far as the cast goes, in my opinion, I can't wait to see this movie.

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