I don’t know if this has been posted before… but here it is. From Dark Horizons website:

“Watchmen: Jude Law is reportedly interested in playing Ozymandius. Simon Pegg is also interested in playing Rorscach.”

I heard something about this ages ago and thought it was just a fanciful comment. But who knows.

MX

Not the best idea ever. Pegg isn't even remotely threatening. Not that it matters, they'll never do the thing justice.

So Garth's blurb is up to date then? Eeeeenterestink...

From September:
http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/551/551644p1.html

Oh shit, Aronofsky's directing? It's a fucking failure from the get-go then.

what????? why the problem with Aronofsky? Requiem for a Dream was one of the best adaptations i ever saw.

better him than wes craven or the like. although i was sure that i heard that Aronofsky turned it down, and one of the Harry Potter directors was doing it. can't remember where though.

as for SP doing Rorshach - too young and far too good looking. fascinatingly ugly? not a chance. i'd rather see steve buschemi play the role.

I thought it was tedious. It's relentless and unsuccessful attempts to get in my face infuriated me for the entire running time. The only other film I've ever seen that made me as angry is Bridget Jones' Diary. Pi is overrated wank as well.

Aronofsky is now off. Paul Greengrass is on. (That link is five months old, folkses.)

Baz picked this up a while ago. As I said then, I really can't see Simon as Rorschach. Rorschach's sick and twisted.

Tsk tsk. Doesn't anyone have any faith in Simon? He is an ACT-orr you know...

Thank fuck.

Now that sucks. :/ Sorry about that. Just posting what I saw. I thought it sounded old but wondered if it was a more reliable story. Me wrong. :/

MX

*small voice* I do....

(It'd be a bigger voice, but I'm afraid Bill Whitey might crush me with his giant finger...)

Whoa, there. hang on. That's not what I'm saying. I'd love to see Pegg go mental, beat folks up, kill dogs etc. I just don't know how long I'd be able to buy it before I started laughing. One of the drawbacks of being overly familiar with somebody's back catalogue.

RochKoff (er...isn't that the name of a anti aging cream/pen maker?!): Colin!? Right!!!

I found Requiem For a Dream to be slightly comedic when they had the weird double ended dildo thing. Then it struck up with that very nice music and I felt sad again

there is of course one fatal flaw.

the peggster isnt a ginger

Oh I don't know. Evan in Black Books was positively evil! Alright, it was comedy villiany but there was something sinister in Simon's performance.

He's playing a nasty character in Dr Who so maybe we'll see just how bad he can be. Oh you know what I mean. His portrayal, not acti...oh shut up!

Wife of Rolex

Easily remedied. By accident, even.

If it's any consolation - I attended a Q&A that David Hayter did just shortly after he got this project. Came away endlessly impressed - smart fella, knows his stuff, appreciates the fan input and seemed confident yet appropriately intimidated by the idea of adapting something so revered. (Which IMO is a good thing - if you aren't a little scared, then you don't care about it enough.) The script, at least, is in very good hands methinks...

I think that anything with Sir Pegg in it would immediately be worth watching!

indeed...i love the watchmen and if the peggster was indeed cast, you know he'd take it pretty fucking seriously, given his own nerd-ness.
and whitey - they can make him look the part. as long as his acting is good enough (which i think it is!), he will rock as rorschach.

I couldn't buy really buy Simon Pegg (although, admittedly, I think his VOICE would be perfect).

The worst thing is the thought of Jude Law having anything to do with it. Brrrr.





Will

Well, Jude's succummbed to some rear guard* action form Clive Owen...whom I hope doesn't resor to wearing hats.....

*HAR HAR HAR HAR!

Well, he was ginger on BrassEye a couple of years ago so it is tragically possible (mind you that was only a wig, so that's a blessing).

And before you think I'm picking on gingas I'm one myself. Sigh!

Wife Of Rolex

http://www.empireonline.co.uk/site/news/ne...p?news_id=16645

don't think the flick deserves its own thread just yet (not with the studio getting cold feet) so Ima post this here.
Also CHUD have a spoiler ridden interview with Greengrass over here (although if you haven't read the comic yet you deserve to have it spoiled so go out and buy it immediately):
http://chud.com/interviews/1914

Also, I thought Pegg was naturally yange.

There's a piece in Total Film, with pic (with him starin off into middle distance at a mooning lady) but it's only afew 100 words so not TOO in depth. He basically says he had lunch with a producer for the film but he's not doing anything in it.

The whole project appears to have suddenly bottomed out. Just as they got a reportedly excellent screenplay and a director with the right passion and vision for the film some suit-shuffling at Paramount has put the flick into turnaround (or so the internet rumourmill will have us believe). Whether it's dead or not remains to be seen but it does now appear to be up in the air.

It might not matter now but the second and third parts of the Greengrass interview really had me sold on having him at the helm. (They contain SPOILERS. Be warned).

Simon as Rorschach....interesting choice. He'd need some prosthetics, but I bet he could pull it off quite nicely. (much like Nick Stahl as That Yellow Bastard in Sin City; wasn't expecting that, especially in the middle of the great series Carnivale`)

I think it wouldn't suck. I'd like to see it. Hell, I'd like to see Rorschach's mask done in live action without the use of CGI.

Jude Law as Ozymandias? Yeah, why not?

Chris Rock: Why is Jude Law in every god-damned movie I have seen this year?!!

Y'know, I bet Robert Rodriguez (Spy Kids, Sin City) could direct this quite well. I'd love to see a panel-for-panel shot of the birth of Doctor Manhattan translated onto film, or even Nite-Owl's "Archemedes" rising into the sky for the first time (in ages, really).

....this would be the most impossible flick to ever make, next to a decent Batman movie (Tim Burton rules!!!).

I just hope they don't fuck it up like "Leauge of Extraordinary Gentlemen." (God, I wish I could forget THAT travesty!! Still, a little better than "Batman & Robin," though)

--Cliff

Ignore all that. They have simply decided to move shooting from the UK to a cheaper, as yet undecided location.

Here's the blurb

well at least he reccomended some good like lee evans!

I bring this topic up again since the Watchmen movie is now only a few months away and we already know Simon Pegg won't star in it... But just for the sake of conversation, I think he would have been a very good Rorschach: his voice would have been perfect (and that's crucial for the role since he would have spent more than half of the movie masked), and his face would have fit too, even if maybe a little too good looking (but I don't think Kovacs is that ugly in the comic, he's average).

Plus, I would really have liked to see him playin' a psycho avenger .

By the way I have to admit, the guy who's playing Rorschach, from what I saw and heard in the teaser, has done a good job, at least in delivering the right feeling.