Zack Snyder's Watchmen is the latest of the director's superhero films to receive the 4K treatment with an improved quality trailer.
Watchmen received its own 4K trailer from Warner Bros., showing an enhanced version of the 2009 superhero film's visuals. While fans can see Snyder's film looking better than ever, there are no additions made to the film. Placing the 4K trailer alongside the official one released in 2009 shows that it is, in fact, the same trailer, allowing fans to easily compare the two.
Watchmen is adapted from the graphic novel of the same name by Alan Moore. It follows a select few retired superheroes in an alternate version of the United States during 1985. The film starts with the death of one of these former heroes, leading to the crime-noir style hero Rorschach uncovering a further conspiracy that could incriminate his fellow heroes.
The film was in fact Snyder's third feature film, following his previous works 300 and a Dawn of the Dead remake. The movie underperformed at the box office yet, in the years that followed, it became somewhat of a cult film. Although HBO Max went on to release a Watchmen TV series in 2019, it is not a sequel to the film, but a sequel to the original graphic novel.
Warner Bros. Entertainment recently provided the original cut of Justice League with its own 4K trailer as well. This garnered quite a bit of controversy and uproar from fans, as the trailer was released not long after the Snyder Cut on HBO Max. Snyder's version of the film resulted in a lot of backlash against Warner Bros.'s changes to the original 2017 film, and so the choice to push a 4K trailer was seen as being in bad taste. Snyder has since referred to the studio as 'aggressively anti-Snyder.'
Zack Snyder's Justice League stars Ben Affleck as Batman, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, Henry Cavill as Superman, Amy Adams as Lois Lane, Jason Momoa as Aquaman, Ezra Miller as The Flash, Ray Fisher as Cyborg, Jeremy Irons as Alfred Pennyworth, Diane Lane as Martha Kent, Ray Porter as Darkseid, Ciarán Hinds as Steppenwolf, Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor and J.K. Simmons as Commissioner Gordon. The film is currently available on HBO Max.
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