Aronofsky to Direct Watchmen?
That’s ICV2’s link to the scoop by Aintitcoolnews.
I dearly wish Terry Gilliam’s “Watchmen” had seen the light of day, since an early 1990s film could still have worked. But I fear any film version of Watchmen not set during the Cold War is going to be a failure. I’ve caught glimpses of a previous purported script and it seemed so drastically different from the film. I think a cut-down version of the book is possible, if it was done with Peter Jackson-like respect for the source material. According to “Moriarty” back in 2002, before the latest draft, screenwriter David Hayter’s script was just that.
Can Darren Aronofsky pull it off? If given the right script, he’s definitely one of the people on the short list who could do it right. But let’s face it; Hollywood’s blockbuster-factory is far more likely to ruin the whole project.