Greengrass on WATCHMEN movie

Greengrass said he'll be involved on the movie for the next 18 months or so, and showed that he's keenly aware of the source material's rep. "WATCHMEN is the holy grail of comic book movies," he said, while professing that he's not nervous. "I'm excited.

By ComicBookMovie - Jan 31, 2005 12:01 AM EST
Filed Under: Watchmen
Source: The Beat

He went on to say that casting will probably be announced in a couple of months, but since it's an ensemble film with "eight people in it" the entire cast has to be put together. As for Dr. Manhattan, Greengrass observed that with a 100 foot high naked blue man, "that's a lot of blue testicles. What a load of blue b--!"

Right now the production design is being nailed down, which he called "massive. There's 6 months of construction underway."

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