Balindi lubhanyabhanya olulungelelanisiweyo lweHugo Watchmen Award-winning comic book limited series, ebhalwe yaza izotywa nguAlan Moore noDave Gibbons ngokulandelelanayo. Ibali layo lenzeka ngo-1985 kwaye lilandela iqela labo babefudula belindile njengoko babelungiselela imfazwe phakathi kwe-United States kunye neSoviet Union.
Ifilimu, ilawulwa nguZack Snyder kunye noPatrick Wilson, uJackie Earle Haley, uMalin Akerman, uBilly Crudup, uJeffrey Dean Morgan, uMatthew Goode, uStephen McHattie kunye noCarla Gugino, baqala ukwenza ifilimu eVancouver ngoSeptemba 2007 kwaye. Ipremiere yayo icwangciselwe umhla wesi-6 kuMatshi, ngo-2009. Njengakwimuvi yakhe yangaphambili, 300, uSnyder wayekhokelwa yi-comic ukudala iibhodi zamabali; nangona kunjalo, ngeli xesha wagqiba ekubeni angasebenzisi ichroma ukudubula yonke imuvi.
El Iinqwelo ezirhuqwayo zabalindi uye wandeyisela ukuba ndiye kumjonga kwiimuvi.