Yes, the punny blog titles continue! One of these days I might actually bother to get a wit of my own instead of borrowing from the collective gestalt that is modern society. Anyway, thanks to Jon’s knowledge of things man was not meant to know, I have delved into the depths of the Needcoffee site and unearthed their Dream cast for Watchmen.
While I still haven’t formulated my own ideas of a dream cast, here is theirs for your enjoyment. Anyone have any ideas or suggestions of their own. Obviously John Ritter is out due to his untimely death a couple of years ago. Who else does that leave us with?
Dream Cast:
The Comedian – Stacy Keach
Rorschach – William H. Macy
Hollis Mason (Nite Owl I) – Jack Lemmon
Nite Owl II – John Ritter
Ozymandias – Cary Elwes
Dr. Manhattan – Jeff Goldblum
Silk Spectre II – Cathy Moriarty
Sally Jupiter (Silk Spectre I) – Ann-Margret
Moloch – Martin Landau
Dr. Malcolm Long – Ernie Hudson
Dream Crew:
Directed by – Terry Gilliam
(taken from the NeedCoffee.com Archives
And if you haven’t read the Watchmen yet… I call you PHILISTINE and shall now go get the old hag from The Princess Bride to scream ephitets at you until you do.
Well, I hate to sound like a bandwagoner (is that a word?), but I think that at this stage I’d replace Elwes (whose work I enjoy) with Christian Bale. He seems a little more physically the part, and he’s proven he can play the emotionless and the psychotic.
Lemmon is out, as he too has passed on.
Keach is a little… rotund these days, though if he hit the gym I still think he could be the Comedian.
I haven’t seen 300 yet, so I don’t know what Snyder is like as a director. I have heard that the characters aren’t remotely the most important part of 300’s success, however, and that worries me.
I would be more tempted to go with Rodriguez as the director, as he proved with Sin City that he can do a character driven comics movie.