Since 2017, Warner Bros. Pictures has been developing an animated movie based on the DC Comics title, “Watchmen” by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. Very little was known about the project until an announcement at San Diego Comic-Con in 2023, giving it a 2024 release window and an R-rating.
Then in June of this year, DC and WB released a surprise trailer for the two-part film. But even with the trailer, there was still no confirmed voice cast… until today.
The “Watchmen” Voice Cast
The upcoming “Watchmen Chapter 1” cast will include:
- Matthew Rhys as Dan Dreiberg (Nite Owl)
- Katee Sackhoff as Laurie Juspeczyk (Silk Spectre)
- Titus Welliver as Walter Kovacs (Rorschach)
- Michael Cerveris as Jonathan Osterman (Dr. Manhattan)
- Troy Baker Adrian Veidt (Ozymandias)
- Rick D. Wasserman as Edward Blake (The Comedian)
- Adrienne Barbeau as Sally Jupiter (the first Silk Spectre)
- Jeffrey Combs as Edgar Jacobi (Moloch)
- Geoff Pierson as Hollis Mason (the first Nite Owl)
- Corey Burton as Captain Metropolis
- John Marshall Jones as Hooded Justice
- Yuri Lowenthal as Wally Weaver
- Kari Wahlgren as Janey Slater.
The cast also includes Grey DeLisle, Kelly Hu, Max Koch, Phil LaMarr, Dwight Schultz, and Jason Spisak in unspecified roles.
“Watchmen Chapter 1” is directed by Brandon Vietti (“Batman: Death in the Family”) and adapted by J. Michael Straczynski (“Sense8”). Producers include Vietti, Jim Krieg, and Cindy Rago. Sam Register, Larry Gordon, and Lloyd Levin will executive produce.
Like Gibbons and Moore’s work, the movie will be set in an alternative world where costume vigilantes are real. And like the 2009 live-action adaptation by Zack Snyder, it will stick to the source material. Gibbons is even working as a consulting producer on the project.
Straczynski has said his adaptation is “strictly configuring the structure to work in a movie. I saw no need to write more material or change what works in the book. It’s pure Moore.”
“Watchmen Chapter 1” will debut August 13th, and be available for digital purchase August 27th. “Chapter II” will be released later this year. You can check out the red band trailer below:
