. . . . . . . . "49173"^^ . . "23976623"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Production of Watchmen (film)"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "David Hayter, in October 2001, on the project's timing"@en . . . . . . . . "\"I didn't update [the 1985 setting] for a couple of reasons. I thought Nixon was important to the movie. He's not in the movie a lot, but [his presence] says a lot, [especially about] what a villain is. In the graphic novel, he's written with a lot of ambiguity of whether he's a bad guy or not. [Also] if you update this and make it about the war on terror, you're now asking me to make a comment of how I feel about the war on terror. This way, it's up to you how you decide to feel about it.\""@en . . . . . . . . . "Watchmen is a 2009 film based on the twelve-issue graphic novel series of the same name created by writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colorist John Higgins, published by DC Comics between 1986 and 1987. The graphic novel's film rights were acquired by producer Lawrence Gordon in 1986. Many problems halted the adaptation's development, with four different studios and various directors and screenwriters being attached to the project through twenty years. In 2006, Zack Snyder, who at the time was filming another comic book adaptation, was hired by Warner Bros. to helm Watchmen. Filming started in 2007, and following deals with two of the previous companies involved in the development\u2014Paramount Pictures was responsible for international distribution rights after budgetary issues in 20"@en . . . . . . . . . "40.0"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "1073205878"^^ . . . . . . . "Watchmen is a 2009 film based on the twelve-issue graphic novel series of the same name created by writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colorist John Higgins, published by DC Comics between 1986 and 1987. The graphic novel's film rights were acquired by producer Lawrence Gordon in 1986. Many problems halted the adaptation's development, with four different studios and various directors and screenwriters being attached to the project through twenty years. In 2006, Zack Snyder, who at the time was filming another comic book adaptation, was hired by Warner Bros. to helm Watchmen. Filming started in 2007, and following deals with two of the previous companies involved in the development\u2014Paramount Pictures was responsible for international distribution rights after budgetary issues in 2004, resulting in a lawsuit by 20th Century Fox. Fox, which was already contacted by Gordon in 1987, received $1 million of the gross\u2014the Watchmen adaptation was finally released in March 2009."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Zack Snyder"@en . . . . "--09-11"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "right"@en . .