Genre: Movies > Thriller

Director Zack Snyder, explaining what the film Watchmen is all about, says, "Watchmen is a graphic novel, and we've made it into a film. It is the story of a group of superheroes, one of whom gets murdered after retirement, and the others come out of retirement to find out who has done that and why. That's the story, and on that skeleton hangs the character and satire and everything else that Watchmen is."

Talking about David Gibbons, the man who created the original graphic novel on which the film is based, Zack says it was really amazing to see his reactions when he came on the sets. "To see a fan say it is awesome is one thing, but for the creator of Watchmen to see it and say, ‘Wow, you guys really loved it, didn't you?' That's what we wanted and that's what happened."

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Movie Story

Watchmen rolls back the years to 1985, where an alternate America is attuned to superheroes saving the day, and the tension between USA and the Soviet Union still threatens to destroy the world.

When masked vigilante Rorschach's former colleague is murdered, he reconnects with his former crime-fighting team of superheroes, and uncovers a disturbing conspiracy which threatens to bring forth a catastrophic future.  

Based on the well known graphic novel, Watchmen is directed by Zack Snyder (of 300 fame). The cast playing the superheroes includes such names as Malin Akerman as Laurie Juspeczyk, Billy Crudup as Jon Osterman, Matthew Goode as Adrian Veidt, Jackie Earle Haley as Walter Kovacs, Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Edward Blake and Patrick Wilson as Dan Dreiberg.

 

Incidentally, Watchmen was originally published by DC comics as a 12-comic book series between 1986 and 1987, before subsequently being collected into a trade paperback. It is the only graphic novel to win the prestigious Hugo Award and to be named among Time magazine's 100 Best English Language Novels from 1923.

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