Fan Casting Hollis Mason in David Hayter's Watchmen

The gentle, aging original Nite Owl, a retired mechanic who wrote a book about the golden age of heroism and now lives quietly above his auto shop. Hollis is the proof that it was possible to walk away with one's decency intact—a warm, grandfatherly figure whose sparkle-eyed reminiscences anchor the film's moral memory. His brutal, senseless murder by a gang of punks on Halloween night is the story's point of no return, the moment when any lingering nostalgia for heroism dies with him.