Cheryl Hines Credit: Photo by Jana Birchum

“I pitched my story for Watchmen before September 11, when the world was at peace, and so my original pitch set the [film’s time frame] in 1985. I wanted to remind kids that when I was 15, in 1985, we thought the world could end at any moment and we would have only 30 minutes’ notice when the missiles started flying and then that was it.” – David Hayter on his screenplay for Watchmen


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