Zack Snyder Wanted Tom Cruise To Play Ozymandias In WATCHMEN

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"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
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Comments

[malorn]

I have so many mixed feelings about this film. I had read the graphic novel so was pretty excited to see a big screen adaptation. I ended up seeing it in the theater with some family members and all I can think about in retrospect is how uncomfortable to was to watch that wild sex scene sat next to my brother-in-law. We were already prepared for the big blue dick in our faces but nothing could have prepared me for that hallelujah "climax".

[tonicol]

Ooohhh Tom would’ve been amazing, Matthew was kinda bland and cold as Ozzymandias, he, Malin and Billy’s voice as Dr Manhattan were the weakest parts for me, but I still love the movie.

[tetrazzinichikn]

Am I on a different planet where Tom Cruise is suddenly not a psychotic Scientologist and is now universally celebrated by ONTD? wtf?

[beuk]

No? We're just familiar with his acting and imagining how he would be in Watchmen. Get a grip.

[therearewords]

I know we don't reach a lot of comments these days, but nine slightly positive ones aren't "universal support".

[tetrazzinichikn]

Hyperbole is basically ONTD currency, come on.

[chuckisfuckis]

Tom Cruise is a nut head so him as Ozymandias would have been too easy for him. Prob felt too real and familiar for him LOL.

[helliosx]

Snyder is wrong on everything about everything all the time.

And I say this before even watching his star wards ripoff part 2