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

Via WorstPreviews:
"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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Movies - Keanu Reeves Rejects "Watchmen" Role

"Club-Keanu spoke to Keanu Reeves' manager, who informed the site that Reeves has been offered a role in Zack Snyder's "Watchmen," but turned it down. For more on this, visit the site.

Earlier we reported that Keanu Reeves was being looked at to play Dr. Jon Osterman, a.k.a. the god-like Dr. Manhattan. Reeves is a self-proclaimed comic book fan who wanted to play Wolverine in the "X-Men" movies and was once rumored for the Silver Surfer.

The story is about a 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."

Well, that's some good news in my opinion. I had reported almost a month ago about the casting rumors, and Keanu was the only 'iffy' one that I wasn't sure he would be worthy to be in the "Watchmen" film. The fan site is presumably very reliable, so I'd say it's true, and if anything, it's a good thing.

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Movies - "Watchmen" Casting Surprises

"Wow, the rumour mill has really begun on the Watchmen casting with a story just appeared from one of the pesky sources that tells us the alleged leads for Night Owl, Ozymandias and Doctor Manhattan.

Now if you sit and think about them for a few moments they aren't as strange as at first they might appear, and I'm sure everyone will have their own opinion about each of the roles, but here's mine.

Over at AICN they were given a rumour from one of their long time sources for the Zack Snyder production of Watchmen, and it goes a little something like this. Bear in mind that these are from a source and that according to the sourse they have been offered the roles, so big if across the board.

Night Owl will be Patrick Wilson whose latest film was Little Children. I think he'll do a good job of taking the necessary world weariness to the role and playing an average bloke in his mid life uncertainty.

Ozymandias is looking like Jude Law. Now that's a good choice, although I still think that Tom Cruise was perfect for the role, I think Law is a another good choice.

Now, Doctor Manhattan, prepare yourself. Keanu Reeves. Now hold up a minute before you start shouting and think about this. Think about his performances in films such as the Matrix and films since. Serious, dead pan, often emotionless and sometimes playing a character that lacks any human connection. Now think of him massive and blue with a bog dot on his forehead. Yeh, I think he could do it."

While I think that Jude Law and Patrick Wilson would be great casting choices, Keanu Reeves not so much. I really don't think Keanu deserves to be in something like Watchmen, but based on the character he's portraying, I dunno, he could pull it off I guess.

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Movies - Is "Watchmen" finally shooting in August?

"There’s rumblings around the web today that Zack Snyder’s adaptation of the “Citizen Kane” of graphic novels known as Watchmen, is set to begin shooting this August. Offices are said to be opening next month in Vancouver as preparation really kicks into gear.

More info from IESB…

Word on the street back is also that Warner Brothers may use the same playbook that made 300 such a huge hit by letting the fans in early on in the process by giving them a special glimpse into the direction and early production work on the film at this years Comic-Con.

The only thing we know about Watchmen casting wise, is that Gerard Butler has spoken to Snyder about a potential role in the movie and that Tom Cruise had been approached but for whatever reason, it didn’t come to fruition."

I know I'm looking forward to this movie, it's been said it couldn't be done, but I have faith that Zack Snyder can pull it off.

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