ComingSoon.net/Superhero Hype! talked to Broadway and Film star Patrick Wilson on the Vancouver set of Watchmen about playing Nite Owl II, to read the interview click here.

Adapted by Zack Snyder as the follow-up to the smash CGI-enhanced Persian War epic 300, the film features Wilson as Night Owl, described as “a rich kid interested in birds.” Watchmen will “be set in an alternate 1985 with plenty of Cold War overtones.” It will also feature Matthew Goode as clever vigilante Ozymandias, Jeffrey Dean Morgan as the Comedian, Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach and Malin Akerman as Silk Spectre and Billy Crudup as Dr. Manhattan.

The project the subject of big screen speculation, with such directors Paul Greengrass, Darren Aronofsky and Terry Gilliam once interested in directing a Watchmen film. Larry Gordon, Lloyd Levin and Deborah Snyder will produce.

source: broadwayworld.com