"You're thrown into the fire with this one," Jeffrey (who plays The Comedian) explains. "You learn rather fast that this is kind of the top of the pyramid of this genre. One Google search and you know that you're doing the 'Citizen Kane' of graphic novels and it's quite a humbling experience figuring that out and then having that pressure going into the film."
"When you're adapting such a great graphic novel, you want to be as faithful as you can," says Patrick, aka Night Owl. "It became our bible; I studied it frequently."
"I was never a real comic fan, so it's an absolutely amazing book to read as your first graphic novel," says Jackie, who plays Rorschach. "It's kind of started me down that road of realizing, 'Oh wow, this isn't like a little kids' medium; this is thought-provoking stuff."
Malin, aka Silk Spectre II, says, "It's sort of an exploration of humanity at its worst and at its best. It's more a character-driven film than anything else."
"I think the comic book itself is special because it's so expansive -- it tells I don't know how different many stories all at once, but it also tries to explode the whole superhero myth and why we as a culture are interested in telling stories about superheroes again and again," says Billy, who plays Dr. Manhattan, adding, "I'll be digitally altered [for this interview], right? I'm used to that now."
'Watchmen' takes place in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society. The plot of the film is set in motion when one of their own, The Comedian, is murdered. Soon a conspiracy to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes comes to light. Will it have devastating effects on the future of mankind?
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