* Watchmen: Film rights to the 1986 – 1987 comic book series were first acquired in 1986 ; numerous versions were attempted, with a film adaptation finally released in 2009.

The 2009 video game Watchmen: The End is Nigh and Watchmen: The End Is Nigh Part 2 features Rorschach and Nite Owl as partners.

In the 2009 movie Watchmen, he is portrayed by Gary Houston in an early scene interviewing Pat Buchanan ( played by James M. Connor ) and Eleanor Clift ( played by Mary Ann Burger ) about the possibility of nuclear war with the Soviet Union.

The Narmer Palette is featured in the 2009 film Watchmen.

** Watchmen ( film ), the 2009 film adaptation of the comic book

Gibbons returned to Watchmen in 2008, producing the behind-the-scenes book Watching the Watchmen to tie into the release of the 2009 film.

In 2007, he served as a consultant on the film Watchmen, which was adapted from the book, and released in March 2009.

* Dave Gibbons On The Origins Of The Watchmen, The Quietus, January 6, 2009

In 2009, he appeared as Doctor Manhattan in the film Watchmen and as J. Edgar Hoover in the film Public Enemies.

Part of that work resulted in " Watchmen Portraits " published in February 2009 by Titan Books.

With high ticket and DVD sales, several new superhero films were released every year in the 2000s ( decade ), including Daredevil ( 2003 ), The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ( 2003 ), Hulk ( 2003 ), Catwoman ( 2004 ), Hellboy ( 2004 ), The Punisher ( 2004 ), Batman Begins ( 2005 ), Fantastic Four ( 2005 ), Ghost Rider ( 2007 ), Iron Man ( 2008 ), The Incredible Hulk ( 2008 ), and Watchmen ( 2009 ).

The Watchmen have continued their reunion tour into 2009.

The Watchmen reunited in September 2009 for select shows and are working on new material.

Crowe's single / first take recording of Hallelujah was slated to be the soundtrack to a quirky scene in the 2009 Hollywood blockbuster, Watchmen, before being replaced by a Cohen recording.

" The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning " was used in a trailer for the 2009 film adaptation of Watchmen.

In 2009, he played the character of Adrian Veidt in Zack Snyder's Watchmen, and also appeared in the drama A Single Man ( 2009 ) ( based on the Christopher Isherwood novel ).

" During the first three months of 2009, three feature films premiered featuring Gugino: the thriller The Unborn, the film Watchmen, in which she played Sally Jupiter, and the adventure remake Race to Witch Mountain, in which she starred opposite Dwayne Johnson.

For example, men who have appeared nude have included Richard Gere ( American Gigolo, 1980 ), Arnold Schwarzenegger ( The Terminator, 1984 ), William Petersen ( To Live and Die in L. A., 1985 ), Harvey Keitel ( Bad Lieutenant, 1992, and The Piano, 1993 ), Sylvester Stallone ( Demolition Man, 1993 ), Bruce Willis ( Color of Night, 1994 ), Ewan McGregor ( Trainspotting, 1996 ), Edward Norton ( American History X, 1998 ), Kevin Bacon ( Wild Things, 1998 ), Jude Law ( The Talented Mr. Ripley, 1999 ), Geoffrey Rush ( Quills, 2000 ), Christian Bale ( American Psycho, 2000 ), Ralph Fiennes ( Red Dragon, 2002 ), Viggo Mortensen ( Eastern Promises, 2007 ), Willem Dafoe ( Antichrist, 2009 ), Billy Crudup ( Watchmen, 2009 ), among others.

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The 1986 comic Watchmen, set in an alternative present, mentioned a " British Prime Minister Healey ".

The graphic novel Watchmen is set in an alternate history in 1985 where superheroes exist, the Vietnam War was won by the United States, and Richard Nixon is in his fifth term as President of the United States.

A comic book miniseries ( also referred to as a limited series ), is a commonly used format of comic book distribution, as it allows creators to tell a single specific story focusing on a character or set of characters, whether that story stands alone ( Watchmen ), or is heavily interlinked with other events in the same fictional universe ( Civil War ).

* The famous line from Watchmen wherein the character Ozymandias takes his time and explains in detail how he will set his plan irrevocably in motion and then, in a deliberate skewering of the monologuing tendencies of supervillains, explains that " Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain.

In the 1986 series Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, published by DC Comics, though not set in the DC Universe, many of the characters were based on old Charlton heroes ; the character of Ozymandias drew inspiration from the original Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt character.

Enos was the set still photographer on the film adaption of Watchmen.

A film version had been in development at Spyglass Entertainment with Zack Snyder set to direct, but the rights were subsequently picked up by Watchmen and Hellboy producer Lloyd Levin.

He was a member of The Watchmen, a Canadian alternative rock bands active in the 1990s.

The condensed version was used in the 2011 role-playing video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, as well as being used extensively throughout the Watchmen graphic novel as well as the movie based on it.

Connare had already created a number of child-oriented fonts for various applications, so when he saw a beta version of Microsoft Bob that used Times New Roman in the word balloons of cartoon characters, he decided to create a new face based on the lettering style of comic books he had in his office, specifically The Dark Knight Returns ( lettered by John Costanza ) and Watchmen ( lettered by Dave Gibbons ).

Focuses on Watchmen as alternate history.

Modern fiction has also used Glastonbury as a setting including The Age of Misrule series of books by Mark Chadbourn in which the Watchmen appear, a group selected from Anglican priests in and around Glastonbury to safeguard knowledge of a gate to the Otherworld on top of Glastonbury Tor.

Moore's long-standing outspoken criticism of DC Comics ( stemming in large part from his perceived mistreatment at their hands over the rights to Watchmen ) made his position with DC-owned subsidiary Wildstorm Comics ( of which LoEG publisher America's Best Comics is an imprint ) tenuous from the start.

The popular graphic novel Watchmen features a story within a story called Tales of the Black Freighter, which details that man's insanity comes from fear of losing something.

At this appearance Ball was shown copies of the graphic novel Watchmen issue # 1, which featured a notorious image of a smiley face with a splatter of blood across it.

Examples of other media which take part in metafictiveness are Al Capp's Fearless Fosdick in Li ' l Abner, the Tales of the Black Freighter in Watchmen, or the Itchy and Scratchy Show within The Simpsons, as well as the computer game Myst in which the player represents a person who has found a book named Myst and been transported inside it.

In general, DC Comics has lead a parody of its own teams and organizations after the Watchmen storyline and Batman run from a dark humor style which began during the 1980s and ended in the early 90s.

This situation with the " 7th-sealers " mirrored an earlier historical event concerning Earl Slacum and the " Watchmen Movement ", which had created a schism.

The story is a parody of the grim and gritty trend most often identified with late 1980s to early 1990s superhero comics, and it includes references to several of DC's own series ( such as Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen, including the cover of the Captain Carrot comic, which bears a resemblance to the cover of Watchmen # 1 ).

He is best known for his collaborations with writer Alan Moore, which include the miniseries Watchmen and the Superman story " For the Man Who Has Everything ".

Initially pitched by Moore to utilize the Charlton Comics characters which had been purchased by DC Comics, Watchmen was re-tooled to feature new-analog-characters when it became clear that the story would have significant and lasting ramifications on its main players.

He also wrote a screenplay for Watchmen from the comic book series of the same name, which received an enthusiastic reception from the director and original illustrator.

And the whole height of this pyramid exceeded seven miles, by near a mile, and above it was a tower from which the Watchmen looked ( these being called the Monstruwacans ).

He had no interest in superheroes at that time, until he read Watchmen, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, and Daredevil: Guardian Devil .< ref name =" early ">< sup > 1 </ sup ></ ref > He is now an avid fan of DC Comics characters, which he references frequently in his blog and in his autobiographical comic, My Stupid Life.

This time frame also includes the company's release of the highly acclaimed works, Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller, which redefined the superhero genre and inspired years of " grim and gritty " comic books.