 A
complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, 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
will be directed by Zack Snyder (300)
and produced by Lawrence Gordon (Die Hard), Lloyd Levin (United 93) and
Deborah Snyder (300), with
Herbert W. Gains serving as executive producer.
Playing
the film’s core group of “masks,” the
masked adventurers at the center of the
story, are Malin Akerman as Laurie Juspeczyk, aka Silk Spectre; Billy
Crudup as
Jon Osterman, aka Dr. Manhattan; Matthew Goode as Adrian Veidt, aka
Ozymandias;
Jackie Earle Haley as Walter Kovacs, aka Rorschach; Jeffrey Dean Morgan
as
Edward Blake, aka the Comedian; and Patrick Wilson as Dan Dreiberg, aka
Nite
Owl.
(Watchmen
online)
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