Product Information
After the success of 300, director Zach Snyder turns to another comic adaptation with WATCHMEN. The smart series from Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons centres on a group of masked heroes who find their talents banned in a fictional America. Someone begins to take down the former heroes one by one, and a strange character named Rorschach begins to investigate.Product Identifiers
ProducerLawrence Gordon, Lloyd Levin, Deborah Snyder
EAN5014437108531
eBay Product ID (ePID)72545332
Product Key Features
ActorPatrick Wilson, Malin Akerman, Carla Gugino, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode
Film/TV TitleWatchmen
DirectorZack Snyder
LanguageEnglish
Run Time156 Mins
Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Release Year2009
FormatDVD
FranchiseWatchmen
FeaturesMechanics: Technologies of Fantastic World\Trailers, Widescreen, Closed Caption
GenreGeneral, Action & Adventure
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate18
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
ComposerTyler Bates
Executive ProducerHerb Gains, Thomas Tull
Costume DesignerMichael Wilkinson
Sound sourceDolby Digital
Director of PhotographyLarry Fong
Consumer AdviceContains strong bloody violence
Hearing ImpairedEnglish
Production DesignerAlex McDowell
Additional Information300's Zack Snyder brings Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' critically acclaimed comic book WATCHMEN to the big screen, courtesy of DC Comics and Warner Bros. Pictures. Set in an alternate universe circa 1985, the film's world is a highly unstable one where a nuclear war is imminent between America and Russia. Superheroes have long been made to hang up their tights thanks to the government-sponsored Keene Act, but that all changes with the death of The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), a robust ex-hero commando whose mysterious freefall out a window piques the interest of one of the country's last remaining vigilantes, Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley). His investigation leads him to caution many of his other former costumed colleagues, including Dr. Manhattan, Night Owl (Patrick Wilson), Ozymandias (Matthew Goode), Sally Jupiter (Carla Gugino), and her daughter, The Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman). Heralded for bringing the world of superheroes into the literary world, WATCHMEN gave the super-powered mythos a real-life grounding that had been missing in mainstream comics to that point. The film adaptation had languished in one form of development hell or another for years after the book's release, with various directors on and off the project, including Terry Gilliam, David Hayter, and Darren Aronofsky, as well as Paul Greengrass, whose eventual dismissal stemmed from budget conflicts with the studio.
ReviewsThe Sun - Spectacular, Empire - A smart, stylish, decent adaptation
ScreenwriterDavid Hayter, Alex Tse
AuthorAlan Moore, Dave Gibbons
EditorWilliam Hoy