Zack Snyder Wanted Tom Cruise To Play Ozymandias In WATCHMEN
"I wanted Tom Cruise for Ozymandias. Tom wanted to play Rorschach," said Zack Snyder on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, talking about 2009's Watchmen adaptation "I certainly would have considered Tom in retrospect if I hadn't had Jackie [Earle Haley]." https://t.co/vevVlzsMo5 pic.twitter.com/MN44Q52vMP
- IGN (@IGN) April 19, 2024
Speaking to Josh Horowitz on the "Happy Sad Confused" podcast Snyder touched on Cruise's potential casting in "Watchmen" all those years ago.
Zack Sneyder explained that he had wanted Cruise to play Ozymandias. Cruise, however, had his eyes on a different role. Here's what Snyder had to say about it:
"I wanted Tom Cruise for Ozymandias. Tom wanted to play Rorschach. He wanted to play Rorschach, which I mean, obviously he could have done. But yeah, we had Jackie [Earle Haley] already, and Jackie is like, unbelievable. But I certainly would have considered Tom, in retrospect if I hadn't had Jackie."
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