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Opening $55,214,334. 3,611 theaters. Budget $130,000,000. Release Date Mar 6, 2009 - May 28, 2009. MPAA R. Running Time 2 hr 42 min. Genres Action Drama Mystery Sci-Fi. In Release 301 days/43 ...
15 years ago, Zack Snyder's Watchmen landed in theaters. Here's why it became the blueprint for the DCEU, despite disappointing at the box office.
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Jackie Earle Haley as Walter Kovacs/RorschachBilly Crudup as Jon Osterman/Dr. ManhattanJeffrey Dean Morgan as Eddie Blake/The ComedianPatrick Wilson as Dan Dreiberg/Nite Owl IIIn August 1986, producer Lawrence Gordon acquired film rights to Watchmen for 20th Century Fox, with fellow producer Joel Silver. Fox asked author Alan Moore to write a screenplay based on his story, though Moore declined, and the studio enlisted screenwriter Sam Hamm to pen the script. Hamm turned in his first draft on September 9, 1988. Hamm foun...
Impressed with Zack Snyder's work on 300, an adaptation of Frank Miller's comic book of the same name, Warner Bros. approached him to direct an adaptation of Watchmen. On June 23, 2006, Warner Bros. announced that Zack Snyder would direct Watchmen with Alex Tse attached to write the script. For the new script, Tse drew "the best elements" from two ...
Many actors were in the running for roles in the film. For the role of Rorschach, John Hurt, Robin Williams, Doug Hutchinson, Daniel Craig and Simon Pegg were considered for the part. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dolph Lundgren and Keanu Reeves were considered for the role of Dr. Manhattan. Tommy Lee Jones, Thomas Jane and Gary Busey were considered for ...
Previous developments
In an interview with Variety's Danny Graydon during Warner Bros.' first possession of feature film rights for Watchmen, the comic book's writer Alan Moore adamantly opposed a film adaptation of his comic book, arguing, "You get people saying, 'Oh, yes, Watchmen is very cinematic,' when actually it's not. It's almost the exact opposite of cinematic." Moore said that Terry Gilliam, preparing to direct Watchmenfor Warner Bros. at the time, had asked Moore how the writer would film it. Moore told...
Production
In November 2006, director Zack Snyder said that he hoped to speak to Alan Moore before filming, though the writer had sworn off involvement with film or television productions after his disagreement with the V for Vendetta film adaptation. In a July 2007 interview, Moore said of Snyder's project, "If they go for some other novelty option like they did with V For Vendetta then I'm in for another year of excoriating them in every interview I do until they remove my name from it." Before shooti...
Marketing
DC Direct released action figures based on the film in January 2009. Director Zack Snyder also set up a YouTube contest petitioning Watchmen fans to create faux commercials of products made by the fictional Veidt Enterprise. The film's first trailer was attached with The Dark Knight, and used The Smashing Pumpkins' song "The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning", an alternate version of their song "The End Is the Beginning Is the End". Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment published two dow...
DVD releases
Tales of the Black Freighter, a comic within the Watchmen comic, was adapted as a direct-to-video animated feature, which was released on March 11, 2009. It was originally included in the script, but was cut due to budget restrictions, because the segment would have added $20 million to the budget, as Zack Snyder wanted to film it in a stylized manner reminiscent of 300. Snyder considered including the animated film in the final cut, but the film was already approaching a three-hour running t...
Awards
Watchmen won 3 Saturn Awards; Best Fantasy Films, Best Costume and Best Special Edition/DVD Release out of 4 nominations.
There are several references to Zack Snyder's prior film 300. The door number of the Comedian's apartment is changed from 3001 to 300 by flying debris, the combination of the psychiatrist's briefca...The film's introduction features many cultural references from history, slightly altered: Silhouette kisses the nurse in the V-J Day celebration in Times Square, taking the place of the sailor in A...During the opening credits, Nite Owl is shown stopping a mugging of a family outside a theatre showing "Batman", a reference to Bruce Wayne's parents being killed by a mugger after going to see "Th...As Dr. Manhattan is taking Neil Armstrong's picture on the Moon, Armstrong says, "Good luck, Mr. Gorsky." This is a reference to a famous urban legend in which Armstrong makes that comment while wa...May 3, 2019 · He had a good reputation for turning small budgets into big payoffs. And he and his wife had become power producers after 300's insane box office take. Snyder wanted to make a superhero film and set his eyes on the graphic novel people called "unfilmable."
Watchmen earned $26.6 million in 45 territories overseas; of these, Britain and France had the highest box office with an estimated $4.6 million and $2.5 million, respectively. Watchmen also took in approximately $2.3 million in Russia, $2.3 million in Australia, $1.6 million in Italy, and $1.4 million in South Korea. [115]
Watchmen: Directed by Zack Snyder. With Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley. In a version of 1985 where superheroes exist, the murder of a colleague sends active vigilante Rorschach on the trail of a conspiracy that will change the course of history.
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Watchmen opened with the biggest weekend box office of the year so far, but it was below the record-breaking levels some predicted. That said, the overall box office was still up 4% from last weekend, and more importantly, up 8% from the same weekend last year .
