watchmen trailer and news
Writing by Jana on Tuesday, 22 of July , 2008 at 12:04 pm
Watchmen was a twelve-issue comic book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons. DC Comics originally published it as a montly limited series from 1986 to 1987 and it was later republished as a trade paperback, which popularized the graphic novel format. To date, Watchmen remains the only graphic novel to win a Hugo Award, and is also the only graphic novel to appear on Time Magazine’s 2005 list of “the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present.”
Watchmen is set in 1985, in an alternate history United States where costumed adventurers are real and the country is edging closer to a nuclear war with the Soviet Union (the Doomsday Clock is at five minutes to midnight). It tells the story of a group of past and present superheroes and the events surrounding the mysterious murder of one of their own. Watchmen depicts superheroes as real people who must confront ethical and personal issues, who struggle with neuroses and failings, and who—with one notable exception—lack anything recognizable as super powers. Watchmen’s deconstruction of the conventional superhero archetype, combined with its innovative adaptation of cinematic techniques and heavy use of symbolism, multi-layered dialogue, and metafiction, has influenced both comics and film.
The film:
The Watchmen film adaption, set for release sometime in March of 2009, is directed by Zack Snyder of 300 fame – so we already know that even if it does suck story-wise, it’s going to look really, really cool.
The film stars Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Matthew Goode, Stephen McHattie and Carla Gugino.
Set in 1985, Nixon is still president, and we’re on the verge of war between the U.S.A and the Soviet Union.
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