watchmen news as it breaks has just released its highly unusual cast for whats supposed to be THE best comic book movie by my all time fav writer alan moore

click here for an overview of what the stories about and whose involved in making this over 10 years colossial achievement

some trivia

The first official image from the director Zack Snyder, a test shot of Rorshach holding The Comedian's button, was actually hidden in the trailer for the film "300". It features one of the director's associates wearing a makeshift mask in front of a composite New York backdrop, and was created during filming on 300 as an experiment by Snyder to establish the mood and look of his proposed WATCHMEN project. Zack Snyder's wife bet $100 against him that no one would discover it, while Zack was convinced that someone would find it almost immediately. Zack won.


Both Tom Cruise and Jude Law expressed interest in the role of Ozymandias.


Simon Pegg met with the producers to discuss the role of Rorschach when Paul Greengrass was attached to direct at Paramount, but nothing was agreed for certain before that project went into turnaround.