'Bourne' Director to take on Watchmen

Here's one of those mixed blessing stories: Paul Greengrass, the director of the Bourne Supremacy has been tapped to direct a film based on The Watchmen, one of the greatest comics ever made. No word on if Paul plans to add Tom Sawyer to the cast.

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Watchmen: Study in Ties

[LaCosaNostradamus]

One of Watchmen's great strengths is its interconnections. How is Hollywood NOT going to screw that up? I mean, movies like Memento are a rarity.

Jude Law wants to play Ozymandius

[SamSeaborn]

And Jude Law wants to play Ozymandius.

"Darren Aronofsky? I'm on the phone NOW!" said Law, clearly excited. "Adrian Veidt, King of Kings!" And then, as if to show off his Watchmen fanboy credentials, he whispered conspiratorially. "I'm tattooed with Rorschach, did you know that?"

Rorschach's Journal

[Darth23]

Rorschach's Journal
November 23,2004

This city fears me, because I have seen its true face. The Hollywood people want to tell my story. They think they can tell my story? No one can tell my story. No one except me.

In the past there were men who could tell my story. Men like my father or President Eisenhower. But that was before the lawyers and the pornographers and the bleeding heart teachers took over.

Now the smell of their corruption is in the air, polluting everything with their filth and their pornography and their so-called civil liberties.

But their reign will not last. There will be war soon. A Great War sewwping over everything like a storm. And it will wash away the stench and corruption of Hollywood, Las Vegas, New York and all the other cesspools of this country.

And, in their desperation, the people will look up to me an beg me for their help.

And I will look down and I will say

"No."