Watchmen Gets Bourne Supremacy Director

Paul Greengrass will take on the Alan Moore/David Gibbons comic for the big screen.

By mrcomicguy - Nov 20, 2004 12:11 AM EST
Filed Under: Watchmen
Source: Ain't It Cool News

Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy, Bloody Sunday) will replace Darren Aronofsky as the director of the much-anticipated Watchmen movie.

Alan Moore and David Gibbons created the DC maxi-series in 1986 as a means of showing how the real world might react to super-human beings. Characters such as Dr. Manhattan and the Comedian have fascinated directors going back to Terry Gilliam in the early 1990s.

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