Feb 28 2008So, Gerard Butler WILL be in 'Watchmen'!
Gerard Butler, long-rumored for a part in Zack Snyder's Watchmen adaptation, has admitted that he is providing the voiceover for the Tales of the Black Freighter section of the film--the pirate part of the comic that you mostly skipped over but pretended to enjoy as a brilliant post-modern parallel. Additionally, the actor noted that the section will be done in the style of Japanese anime. In fitting with that aesthetic, instead of using the bloated corpses of his crew to form a makeshift raft, the castaway will use cat-girls to build a really sweet mech.
Gerard Butler Talks Black Freighter [Empire]
Reader Comments
1. emily - February 28, 2008 6:45 PM
Hot.
2. wendy - February 28, 2008 7:04 PM
That is hilarious.
3. toby - February 28, 2008 8:38 PM
hey that was a really sweet part of the book!
4. Meg - February 28, 2008 8:44 PM
Just finished reading Watchmen today...I agree with Toby, it was one of my favorite bits of the book.
But...WHY anime? WHY?
5. Pat - February 28, 2008 8:58 PM
I love that part of the book. Brilliant. Very funny joke. Hilarious, actually.
6. blah - February 28, 2008 10:44 PM
There's no way they can keep that in the movie with a 2 hour run time and do it justice.
7. Andy M. - February 29, 2008 3:03 AM
Yeah. I assumed they'd cut this bit - because, no matter how entertaining it was, it was exactly plot centric.
8. Bobeyo - February 29, 2008 7:49 PM
Anime, huh? Well, there goes all of my hope for this movie. It's officially a lost cause now.
9. Sam - March 1, 2008 4:57 AM
pfff. Watchmen + Anime= vomit
Alan Moore would not approve. Then again, Alan Moore doesn't approve of almost anything that he or Neil Gaiman didn't think of.
10. lmjabreu - March 1, 2008 12:09 PM
Great, he ruined the movie.