Right now, if you mention Gerard Butler and Zack Snyder together, your mouth start drooling at the anticipation for 300 (coming out this week). But it looks like the pair could be reunited again for another highly anticipated project. Watchmen.
Watchmen has been an interesting story to watch over the last year or so. It’s been on again/off again for a while and just recently finally seemed to get settled. But the other interesting aspect is the reaction of the fans of Watchmen. Obviously lots of them are excited as hell to see this thing brought to the big screen. But at the same time, I’ve heard from a LOT of Watchmen fans that they don’t want to see it. They don’t feel a contemporary film can do the story justice. They’re afraid that the nuances of the story won’t appeal enough to a broad audience and thus the studios will change it too much in oder to get that bigger audience.
Well, all I can say is that if 300 knocks it out of the park like many are expecting it will… all those fears could be laid to rest with Zach Snyder at the helm… and now word is Zack is going to be brining along his 300 lead performer, Gerard Butler with him for the ride. The good folks over at MovieHole give us this:
Snyder has already slotted in Butler to the movie – based on the graphic novel about some ragtag former crime-fighters who are drawn back into action by the murder of a former teammate, The Comedian, which turns out to be the leading edge of a much wider, more disturbing conspiracy – but is tight lipped on what role he’d be playing.
There is already a lot of speculation that he might play Ozymandias. Personally I don’t see it myself, but you never know.
So what do you think? Do you think Watchmen can really and properly be adapted to a big screen version?
