CHUD is reporting that they've got the inside scoop that Billy Crudup will indeed be playing Doctor Manhattan in Zack Snyder's take on Alan Moore's Watchmen. Sayeth CHUD:
Well, this news ought to make the boyfriend very happy - he loves that pregnant-abandoning Crudup chap. Me, meh, I haven't really ever too impressed with him. We'll see.
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"A very reliable source tells me that Snyder has settled on Crudup for the role of Watchmen’s only super-powered character, a scientist who accidentally gets annihilated on an atomic level and reconstructs himself into a big, naked, blue, floating demigod.
There have been a number of names going around for Dr. Manhattan, including Keanu Reeves (who supposedly wanted more money than Snyder et al would offer) and Jason Patric (the guy you get when Keanu turns you down), but I think Crudup is the best name yet associated with the role. Not only is the guy a truly gifted, terrific actor, he has long deserved a potential break-out role like this; Billy Crudup should really be much more famous than he is. And once you think of Crudup in the role, you can easily see how he’ll nail the humanity of Dr. Jon Osterman before the accident and the detached post-humanity of Dr. Manhattan.
Again, I would expect an official announcement at Comic Con, or the days leading up to it..."
Well, this news ought to make the boyfriend very happy - he loves that pregnant-abandoning Crudup chap. Me, meh, I haven't really ever too impressed with him. We'll see.
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He touched Claire Danes without being paid for it...unclean unclean!!
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