A Visual Guide To The Watchmen Cast

film ick reader Antonello - who often uses a Watchmen-related handle - sent me the image below, which I thought some of you might get a kick out of. It's a comparison chart putting up the announced cast of Zack Snyder's version of Watchmen with Paul Greengrass and Terry Gilliam's supposed selections. Click on it for the full-size, full-effect version.

There are, I believe, some unfounded assumptions at work on this diagram, or at least allegations that I certainly can't substantiate. All the same, for their respective periods, both Greengrass and Gilliam apparently managed to line up a better list of names than the current cast.

I'm rooting for Snyder, I really am (if only because of the first ten minutes of Dawn of the Dead which I absolutely love) but I think that this film appears to be in trouble - and has been since before it was even officially announced, in fact.