Look-Alikes Being Cast for Watchmen

[Walter J.K.]

The LA Daily News reports that the Watchmen production is facing a challenge when it comes to casting look-alikes of famous names for the big screen adaptation:

A challenging casting task involving look-alikes is under way for Warner Bros.' "Watchmen" adaptation of Alan Moore's 1980s graphic novel set in an alternative universe's United States. Names include Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, H.R. Haldeman, Ted Koppel, John McLaughlin, Annie Liebowitz, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Fidel Castro, Albert Einstein, Norman Rockwell, JFK and Jackie Kennedy, Andy Warhol, Mao Tze Tung and Larry King. That's going to be quite a movie.

I thought maybe this news deserved its own thread, so let the discussion ensue...

 

[Captain Carnage]

The latest script I've got hold of is set in Cold War 1985, so we get plenty of Nixon, Kissinger and the rest o' the crazy gang just like in the book.

John McLaughlin's show The McLaughlin Group is playing on the TV in Blake's apartment when Veidt bursts in to kill him.

Ted Koppel interviews Dr Manhattan on TV later on when the cancer scare comes to light.

Annie Liebowitz is taking photos of Veidt in his office posing with his shirt off when Dan goes to visit him near the start. Not Rorschach - Dan. Ends up with Veidt spouting a load of guff about latest intelligence reports, statistics, and the Soviet stockpiling of nukes. Y'know... spoonfeed the audience who don't remember the Cold War to pad out the story kinda stuff.

Larry King plays on a TV as well somewhere in the background at some point I can't be bothered to remember.

And as for the rest? Sounds to me like we can look forward to that cliched opening montage over the credits after all, set to the dulcet tones of Mr Robert Zimmerman and The Times They Are A Changin'... just as scripted.

 

[Johnichi Chiba]

I'm getting really concerned for this movie, because no matter how amazing Snyder can get this movie to look, no matter how much every image in the movie looks like its straight out of the Graphic Novel, if they don't get the little things of the story or the message and themes right it won't be the Watchmen we all know and love.

 

[KangConquers]

I'm getting really concerned for this movie, because no matter how amazing Snyder can get this movie to look, no matter how much every image in the movie looks like its straight out of the Graphic Novel, if they don't get the little things of the story or the message and themes right it won't be the Watchmen we all know and love.

I think the best way to hold upto both financial needs and artistic needs is to do two cuts; one more geared towards making money (a shorter more concise cut) and a dvd with literally everything from the graphic novel (If it has to go 4 hours, so be it.)

 

[Jack Rabbit]

****, I don't remember half of the plot, or characters. I need to run out and buy it to read repeatedly before the film.

 

[imaperson2]

andy warhol eh? *checks avatar*

 

[Steelsheen]

isnt there an agency out there that keeps tabs on lookalikes or something? saw them several times on TV.

 

[odiin]

isnt there an agency out there that keeps tabs on lookalikes or something? saw them several times on TV.

Lookalikes aren't the same as actalikes

 

[Mr. Socko]

Just get good actors that look somewhat like the parts, makeup will do the rest.

 

[Spidey]

It's too bad Walter Matthau isn't still alive, he looked perfect as Einstein in I.Q.

 

[Rorshach]

The latest script I've got hold of is set in Cold War 1985, so we get plenty of Nixon, Kissinger and the rest o' the crazy gang just like in the book.

John McLaughlin's show The McLaughlin Group is playing on the TV in Blake's apartment when Veidt bursts in to kill him.

Ted Koppel interviews Dr Manhattan on TV later on when the cancer scare comes to light.

Annie Liebowitz is taking photos of Veidt in his office posing with his shirt off when Dan goes to visit him near the start. Not Rorschach - Dan. Ends up with Veidt spouting a load of guff about latest intelligence reports, statistics, and the Soviet stockpiling of nukes. Y'know... spoonfeed the audience who don't remember the Cold War to pad out the story kinda stuff.

Larry King plays on a TV as well somewhere in the background at some point I can't be bothered to remember.

And as for the rest? Sounds to me like we can look forward to that cliched opening montage over the credits after all, set to the dulcet tones of Mr Robert Zimmerman and The Times They Are A Changin'... just as scripted.

mclaullin group?blake was watching a porno for christ sakes.and it made since.i cant see blake sitting at home watching the news at gun point.

 

[Captain Carnage]

The McLaughlin Group is necessary to awkwardly shoehorn in a lot of dumbed-down exposition for the attention deficit intended audience, spoonfeeding us the low-down on the Cold War, Nixon, and the nuclear Doomsday Clock... just for those of us that haven't got a clue what any of that all means!


And hey, he was knockin' back bourbon in the original, too.

Tse and Snyder have got him brewing up a nice hot steaming cup o' tea, "Asian leaves" straight from the can!

 

[Johnichi Chiba]

I'm on my knees praying that Snyder has made some MAJOR changes to Tse's draft. There's just no ****ing way he could even think about making Tse's script into a movie. I just got done reading and re-reading the first 10 or so pages of Watchmen and the first page of the book HAS to be the opening of the movie. Don't change one thing keep Rorschach's monologue word-for-word. Keep the slow zoom up to the broken window. I don't want the Watchmen movie opening on a shot of The Comedian sipping tea and watching the news.

 

[Compi716]

Goddamn Tse and his stupid ideas...