Watchmen Have A Cast

Written by GL

Fans of the very successful graphic novel, Watchmen, rejoice because filming is happening because Warner Bros. Pictures already have a cast, and it's confirmed.

Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Matthew Goode, Billy Crudup, Jeffrey Dean Morgan ("Grey's Anatomy") and Malin Akerman will star in the Warner Bros. movie, which Zack Snyder is directing. Larry Gordon, Lloyd Levin and Deborah Snyder are producing.

I won't tell you the lay out of the storyline (because that's been done before) but I will let you in the casting for characters.

[Jackie Earle Haley: as the totally stubborn and unfriendly Rorschach]

Haley will play Rorschach, a tough-guy anti-superhero who ignores the ban on costumed vigilantes. Crudup will play Dr. Manhattan, a being with godlike powers. Akerman will play the Silk Spectre, who is the love interest of Dr. Manhattan

Goode will play Ozymandias, a rich former superhero and one of the smartest men in the world.

[Jeffrey Dean Morgan: as the Comedian as well as the guy who played the father in Supernatural]

Wilson will play the Nite-Owl, a crime-figher who uses technical wizardry and has an owl-shaped flying vehicle. And Morgan will play the Comedian, a cigar-chomping, gun-toting vigilante-turned-paramilitary agent.

Shooting is set to start in the fall in Vancouver, with Snyder using many of the filming techniques he used for his other movie-success, 300.