Watchmen - Official Trailer (HD)

Watchmen is a twelve-issue comic book limited series created by writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colorist John Higgins. The series was published by DC Comics in single issues during 1986 and 1987, and has been subsequently reprinted in collected form. Watchmen originated from a story proposal Moore submitted to DC featuring superhero characters that the company had acquired from Charlton Comics. As Moore's proposed story would have left many of the characters unusable for future stories, managing editor Dick Giordano convinced the writer to create original characters instead.

Moore used the story as a means to reflect contemporary anxieties and to deconstruct the superhero concept. Watchmen takes place in an alternate history United States where the country is edging closer to a nuclear war with the Soviet Union, freelance costumed vigilantes have been outlawed and most costumed super-heroes are in retirement or working for the government. The story focuses on the personal development and struggles of the protagonists as an investigation into the murder of a government sponsored super-hero pulls them out of retirement and eventually leads them to confront a plot by one of their own to stave off nuclear war by killing millions of innocent people.

Creatively, the focus of Watchmen is on its structure. Gibbons used a nine-panel grid layout throughout the series and added recurring symbols such as a blood-stained smiley face. All but the last issue feature supplemental fictional documents that add to the series' backstory, and the narrative is intertwined with that of another story, a fictional pirate comic titled Tales of the Black Freighter, which one of the characters is reading.

Watchmen has received critical acclaim both in the comics and mainstream press, and is regarded as a seminal text of the comic book medium. After a number of attempts to adapt the series into a feature film, director Zack Snyder's Watchmen is scheduled for release in March 2009.

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helal olsun

[YoungUniversalMusic]

Saol Gardas

[ShaftInAfrica920]

AND NOW THE KINGDOM COMES

[Bodom15490]

Rorschach was the best then the comidian

[KancunStatus35]

you advertise this trailer as HD but you only have it in 480p, what the fuck yo?

[mummyjohn]

@white4feet The Beginning is the End is The Beginning, by the Smashing Pumpkins.

and brilliantly at it, I might add.

[cyrus138]

@christherocker89 exactly because Alan Moore wrote so it can't be made into a movie.

[cyrus138]

Great trailer bad movie.

[CoraxEquitis]

@white4feet Smashing Pumpkins - The End Is the Beginning Is the End

[white4feet]

Which song is used on this trailer ?

tx,d

[mackroh]

@IronKingify

Watchmen = DC comics

[IronKingify]

nvm

[IronKingify]

is this marvel or DC?

[flavorysoup]

I didn't know that 480p was HD.