Watchmen: Chapter I 2024

Watchmen is a 2024 American adult animated two-part superhero film directed by Brandon Vietti and written by J. Michael Straczynski. It stars an ensemble cast including Matthew Rhys, Katee Sackhoff, Titus Welliver, Troy Baker, Adrienne Barbeau, and Michael Cerveris. Chapter I is the 57th film, and Chapter II is the 58th film of the DC Universe Animated Original Movies, and produced by Warner Bros. Animation, Paramount Pictures, and DC Entertainment, and distributed by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment in North America and Paramount Home Entertainment elsewhere. The film is based on the DC Comics limited series of the same name co-created and illustrated by Dave Gibbons, with co-creator and author Alan Moore choosing to remain uncredited here for his work on the source material. Set in an alternate 1985, the film follows a group of outlawed and retired superheroes who investigate a conspiracy following the murder of one of their own. Gibbons served as a consulting producer on the film.