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2024 · United States

Watchmen: Chapter I

Find it

Tonight at a glance

Runtime
84 min
Age rating
R
Language
English
Country
United States
Violence
Strong

Why tonight?

  • Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
  • It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.

The story

In 1985, the murder of a government-sponsored superhero draws his outlawed colleagues out of retirement and into a mystery that threatens to upend their personal lives and the world itself.

  • nuclear war
  • secret identity
  • retirement
  • conspiracy
  • alternate history
  • based on graphic novel
  • masked vigilante
  • doomsday clock
  • 1980s

The look

A few frames, chosen rather than collected.

The bill

  • Jeffrey Combs — Edgar Jacobi / Moloch / British Newscaster / Photographer #1
  • Grey DeLisle — Female Citizen #2 / Spanish Newscaster (voice)
  • Kelly Hu — Vietnamese Woman / Yvonne (voice)
  • John Marshall Jones — Hooded Justice / General #1 / Criminal #2 (voice)
  • Max Koch — Detective Joe Bourquin / Bernard / President Nixon (voice)
  • Phil LaMarr — Comic Book Narrator / Bernie / Security Guard (voice)
  • Yuri Lowenthal — Wally Weaver / Criminal #1 / Knot Top #2 (voice)
  • Geoff Pierson — Hollis Mason / Nite Owl (voice)
  • Matthew Rhys — Dan Dreiberg / Nite Owl / Photographer #3 (voice)
  • Katee Sackhoff — Laurie Juspeczyk / Silk Spectre (voice)
  • Dwight Schultz — Detective Steve Fine / Happy Harry (voice)
Directed
Brandon Vietti

Production

Rating
7.4 / 10 · 243 ratings
Studio
Warner Bros. Animation, Paramount Pictures, DC

The Collection

The complete story, in order.

If this stayed with you

Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.