Heading across the San Diego convention center to the Watchmen panel more than an hour before kick off this editor thought shed get a front-row seat and lots of time to catch up on her Comic-Con literature She was wrongFiling into the massive auditorium which was already almost full Watchmen fever was heating up While expectations for the dark mid-1980s comic movie are already mile-high it became clear that the director cast and illustrator knew what they were up against Here are some of the highlights of how director Zack Snyder and co fared in the face of serious fans149 Snyder was clear from the get-go that he approached the film with care He was so concerned with how the film turned out that he admitted to feeling responsible for it whether he made it or not The movie he said was a labor of love and to the delight of the audience he was trying to get as much of the graphic novel into the movie149 Dave Gibbons the original comics illustrato
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Billy Crudup, Patrick Wilson and Matthew Goode are among those on board as The Watchmen in Zack Snyder's adaptation of the iconic comic book, Variety reports. Crudup will play Dr. Manhattan, Wilson is Night Owl and Goode is Ozymandias, while Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jackie Earle Haley and Malin Akerman round out the cast as Comedian, Rorschach and Silk Spectre. The film will use a green-screen technique similar to what Snyder used for 300, and also reap similar greenbacks.
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Jonathan Rhys Meyers had no idea what he was getting into — literally — when Woody Allen cast him in the romantic thriller Match Point, now in select theaters. "I had never read the script when Woody offered the role to me," the actor tells TVGuide.com. "And I just accepted. For any young actor to be in a Woody Allen film, you're just going to do it regardless of what it is."
Once Rhys Meyers did peruse the script, he was hit with another surprise. "I was like, 'If I get four or five good scenes, I'll be gold.' And then it dawned on me how much work I had to do in this!"
And how. Match Point features Rhys Meyers as Chris, a former tennis champ who latches on to new Brit bud Tom (Matthew Goode
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