Genre: Movies > Thriller

 

Matthew Goode plays the role of Adrian Veidt, aka Ozymandias in Watchmen. The actor says that while there is a huge amount of complicated, and intellectually written stuff about Watchmen, there is very little known about the character Adrian Veidt.

"We know that he came from somewhere in Europe, that he was an immigrant, that he was extraordinarily intelligent, that his parents were very very wealthy, and that he inherited that wealth and just gave it away, so that he could prove that someone can take themselves from nothing to something," says Matthew.

"Then he is in America. The story doesn't say at what time this happened or whether he was just born of immigrant parents in America. He had to hide his intelligence from a very young age because people were sort of suspicious about that," the actor reveals about his character.

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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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