Watchmen takes San Diggy

...and the news isn't all good.

From Newsarama: Zack Snyder seems to have confused our expectations and lightened our hearts with the news that he's casting pretty much an entire cast of unknowns for his Watchmen movie. Most of the casting moves seem pretty self-explanatory and satisfactory, but one must wonder if the curse of rubbish female casting in superhero movies isn't at work here. After all - Sally Juspeczyk wasn't a blonde. Nor blue-eyed.

Sure, you can stick a wig on her and contacts in her eyes, but it's one of those moments that you just wonder... why? That's clearly a Germanic/Nordic-looking actress, being cast to play somebody whose unpopular Polish Jewishness is a part of the plot. Hopefully it's because she's a fucking brilliant actress, but I guess that remains to be seen. We can but hope.

However, quibbling over appearances aside, there's more bad news. Apparently Zack Snyder didn't manage to rope in that $150 million budget he was hoping for. The same Newsarama article tells us that Watchmen will use 'many of the filming techniques he used for his adaptation of 300'. Unless that means 'using a camera', I'm not thrilled. What happened to promises that this would be more like Taxi Driver than Dick Tracy?

My faith has been somewhat shaken. You're a decent director, Snyder. Do the greatest source material in history justice, otherwise the whiny, nasal fanboy backlash will be your inevitable fate.

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'Beat' Nick is not above getting nasal and whiny.