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Watchmen
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Watchmen is a 2009 American neo-noir, vigilante, and superhero action film directed by Zack Snyder. The screenplay was written by David Hayter, Alex Tse, Alan Moore, and Dave Gibbons, based on the work Watchmen. The cast includes Billy Crudup, Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, and Malin Akerman. Production was handled by Lawrence Gordon, Deborah Snyder, and Lloyd Levin, with Larry Fong serving as director of photography and Tyler Bates as composer. The film was produced by Legendary Pictures and DC Comics, and distributed by Warner Bros. Entertainment and Netflix.
The narrative is set in New York City, Washington, D.C., Mars, and Antarctica, with the Cold War as its main subject. Filming took place in Vancouver and Coquitlam. The movie has a runtime of 163 minutes and was released on March 4, 2009. It received a budget of 130,000,000 and generated revenue of 185,258,983. The film received a nomination for the Saturn Award for Best Costume. Audience ratings include a 7.6 score from 611,760 votes on IMDb and a 7.354 average from 9,968 votes on TMDb.
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7.4In a gritty and alternate 1985, the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown. But after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered, an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited heroes set out to prevent their own destruction, but in doing so they uncover a sinister plot that puts all of humanity in grave danger.
Cast
- Malin Åkerman as Laurie Jupiter / Silk Spectre II
- Patrick Wilson as Dan Dreiberg / Nite Owl II
- Billy Crudup as Jon Osterman / Dr. Manhattan
- Matthew Goode as Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias
- Jackie Earle Haley as Walter Kovacs / Rorschach
- Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Edward Blake / The Comedian
Themes
- usa president
- nuclear war
- mass murder
- secret identity
- narration
- soviet union
- melancholy
- retirement
- based on comic
- conspiracy
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Watchmen is a 2009 American superhero film based on the comic book series by Dave Gibbons, and published by DC Comics. Directed by Zack Snyder, and written by David Hayter and Alex Tse, the film stars Malin Åkerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Carla Gugino, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Patrick Wilson. 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 investigate the murder of one of their own before uncovering an elaborate and deadly conspiracy with which they are all connected.
For nearly two decades from October 1987 until October 2005, a live-action film adaptation of the Watchmen series became stranded in development hell. Producers Lawrence Gordon and Joel Silver began developing the project at 20th Century Fox, later moving it to Warner Bros. 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". During the 2000s, Gordon and Lloyd Levin collaborated with Universal Pictures, Revolution Studios and Paramount Pictures to produce the film. Directors David Hayter, Darren Aronofsky, and Paul Greengrass were attached to the project before it was canceled over budget disputes. In October 2005, the project returned to Warner Bros., where Snyder was hired to direct. Paramount remained as its international distributor, whereas Warner Bros. would distribute the film in the United States. However, Fox sued Warner Bros. 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. Fox and Warner Bros. settled this before the film's release, with Fox receiving a portion of the gross. Principal photography began in Vancouver, in September 2007. As with his previous film 300 (2006), Snyder closely modeled his storyboards on the comic but chose not to shoot all of Watchmen using green screens and opted for real sets instead.
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