"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 - is permanently set at five minutes to midnight.
When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed up but
no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach 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 ragtag 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?"
Watchmen is an upcoming 2009 American superhero
film that adapts Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons'
1986 comic book limited series of the same name.
Directed by Zack Snyder, the film adaptation
stars Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Malin
Akerman, Billy Crudup, Jeffrey Dean Morgan,
Matthew Goode, Stephen McHattie and Carla
Gugino. The film began shooting in
Vancouver in September 2007 for release on March
6, 2009. As with his previous film 300, Snyder
closely modeled his storyboards on the comic,
but he chose not to shoot all of Watchmen using
chroma key and opted for more sets.
