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About This Movie: Watchmen

By Leroy Douresseaux
March 5, 2009 - 17:00

WARNER BROS. PICTURES & PARAMOUNT PICTURES Present
In Association with Legendary Pictures
A Lawrence Gordon/Lloyd Levin Production
Watchmen (2009)
DIRECTOR: Zack Snyder
WRITERS: David Hayter and Alex Tse (based upon the graphic novel by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons)
PRODUCERS: Lawrence Gordon, Lloyd Levin, and Deborah Snyder
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Larry Fong (D.o.P.)
PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Alex McDowell
EDITOR: William Hoy
COSTUME DESIGNER:  Michael Wilkinson
COMPOSER: Tyler Bates

Starring:  Malin Ackerman, Billy Crudup, Jon Osterman, Matthew Goode, Carla Gugino, Jackie Earle haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Patrick Wilson, Matt Frewer, and Stephen McHattie

Opening date:  March 6, 2009
Running time:  163 minutes
Rating:  MPAA – R for strong graphic violence, sexuality, nudity and language

A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure from Zack Snyder (the director the hit 2007 film, 300), Watchmen is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the Doomsday Clock, which charts the USA's tension with the Soviet Union, moves closer to midnight.

When one of his former colleagues, The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), is murdered, the outlawed but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley) sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion – a disbanded group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers – Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future.

Their mission is to watch over humanity...but who is watching the Watchmen?

Playing the film's core group of "Masks," the adventurers at the center of the story, are Malin Akerman ( 27 Dresses) as Laurie Jupiter, aka Silk Spectre II; Billy Crudup ( The Good Shepherd) as Jon Osterman, aka Dr. Manhattan; Matthew Goode ( Match Point) as Adrian Veidt, aka Ozymandias; Carla Gugino ( Night at the Museum) as Sally Jupiter, aka Silk Spectre; Oscar® nominee Jackie Earle Haley ( Little Children) as Walter Kovacs, aka Rorschach; Jeffrey Dean Morgan (TV's "Grey's Anatomy") as Edward Blake, aka The Comedian; and Patrick Wilson ( Little Children) as Dan Dreiberg, aka Nite Owl II.

Watchmen will be distributed domestically by Warner Bros. Pictures and internationally by Paramount Pictures. Watchmen: The IMAX Experience--digitally re-mastered to the unparalleled image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience® with proprietary IMAX DMR® (digital re-mastering) technology--will debut concurrently with the nationwide 35mm release in traditional theatres.

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