One year and counting til the day Zack Snyder’s “Watchmen” feature-film adaptation hits the big screen and the director has leaked photos of some of the cast in costume on his Watchmen blog.
In costume (and all looking surprisingly good and uncampy) are The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), Ozymandias (Matthew Goode), Rorschach (Jackie Earle Hale), and the Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman).
Snyder understands your geeked out anticipation being a nerd himself. “I know that the time a film is in post can often seem like an eternity with interesting bits of information few and far between. So to help pass the time, here is your first look at some of the Watchmen characters.”
We’re sort of shocked that a) none of the characters look like ass and b) that we’ve become now suddenly mildly interested. The entire cast – or at least who’s playing who – is visually represented here.
Thanks to Vulture for doing the photoshop work for us. Wonder what curmudgeonly creator Alan Moore thinks? (he’s notoriously anti “Watchmen” on the bigscreen).
Those that assume it will be an all CGI/green-screen fest should think again. There’s a lot of real set work in it,”Jackie Earle Haley told MTV. “They’ll stick green screens in here and there to make buildings taller, but I think it’s going to be unique. There was a lot more green screen work in ‘300.’”
We must confess, we saw “300” the other night for the first time and it wasn’t terrible. We were surprised. Snyder definitely knows his effects, though directing story and characters to above-average grade remains to be seen.