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While most heroes like Daniel Dreiberg (Nite Owl II) and Laurie Jupiter (Silk Spectre II) retire, Doctor Manhattan and the Comedian become government agents, and Rorschach continues to operate outside the law. As a result, President Richard Nixon wins a third term, apparently after the repeal of the 22nd Amendment.Īs anti-vigilante sentiment sweeps the nation, coupled with a nationwide police strike, the Keene Act is passed in 1977, declaring all "costumed adventuring" and "vigilantism" illegal.
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Kennedy and the cover up of the Watergate scandal by killing Woodward and Bernstein. The Comedian is responsible for the assassination of John F. government utilizes his powers to win the Vietnam War and gain a strategic advantage over the Soviet Union which, by 1985, threatens thermonuclear war. Jon Osterman remakes his body as a god-like being dubbed " Doctor Manhattan." The U.S.
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In 1959, after his apparent death in an Intrinsic Field Generator accident, Dr. The 1960s Vietnam War era through the mid-1980s Cold War sees the rise of the "Watchmen", a team of heroes, whose existence dramatically affects world events. In an alternative United States, beginning in 1939 during the fading Interwar period, a team of costumed crime-fighters is formed – the "Minutemen". The director's cut was better received than the theatrical release. The "Ultimate Cut" edition incorporated the animated comic Tales of the Black Freighter into the narrative as it was in the original graphic novel, lengthening the runtime to 3 hours and 35 minutes, and was released on November 3, 2009. A director's cut with 24 minutes of additional footage was released in July 2009. A DVD based on elements of the Watchmen universe was released, including an animated adaptation of the comic Tales of the Black Freighter within the story voiced by Gerard Butler, and a fictional documentary titled Under the Hood, detailing the older generation of superheroes from the film's back-story.
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The film polarized fans and critics the style was praised, but Snyder was accused of making an action film that lacked the subtlety and wit of the comic. As with his previous film 300, Snyder closely modelled his storyboards on the comic, but chose not to shoot all of Watchmen using green screens and opted for real sets instead.įollowing its world premiere at Odeon Leicester Square on February 23, 2009, the film was released in both conventional and IMAX theaters on March 6, 2009, and grossed $55 million on its opening weekend and over $185 million at the worldwide box office. Principal photography began in Vancouver, September 2007. settled this before the film's release, with Fox receiving a portion of the gross. for copyright violation arising from Gordon's failure to pay a buy-out in 1991, which enabled him to develop the film at the other studios. would distribute the film in the United States. Paramount remained as its international distributor, whereas Warner Bros. In October 2005, the project returned to Warner Bros., where Snyder was hired to direct. Directors David Hayter, Darren Aronofsky and Paul Greengrass were attached to the project before it was cancelled over budget disputes. During the 2000s, Gordon and Lloyd Levin collaborated with Universal Pictures, Revolution Studios and Paramount Pictures to produce the film. Pictures, the sister company of Watchmen publisher DC Comics, and hiring director Terry Gilliam, who eventually left the production and deemed the complex comic " unfilmable". Producers Lawrence Gordon and Joel Silver began developing the project at 20th Century Fox, later moving it to Warner Bros.
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A dark and dystopian deconstruction of the superhero genre, the film is set in an alternate history in the year 1985 at the height of the Cold War, as a group of mostly retired American superheroes investigates the murder of one of their own before uncovering an elaborate and deadly conspiracy, while their moral limitations are challenged by the complex nature of the circumstances.įrom October 1987 until October 2005, a live-action film adaptation of the Watchmen series became stranded in development hell.
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Directed by Zack Snyder from a screenplay by David Hayter and Alex Tse, the film features an ensemble cast including Malin Åkerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Carla Gugino, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Patrick Wilson. Watchmen is a 2009 American superhero film based on the 1986–1987 DC Comics limited series of the same name co-created by illustrator Dave Gibbons and writer Alan Moore.