abalindi kungukuqanjwa kwefilimu kochungechunge lwamahlaya olunqoba umklomelo weHugo Watchmen Award, obhalwe futhi wadwetshwa ngu-Alan Moore noDave Gibbons ngokulandelana. Indaba yayo yenzeka ngo-1985 futhi ilandela iqembu lababeqaphile ngesikhathi belungiselela impi phakathi kwe-United States neSoviet Union.
Ifilimu, eqondiswe nguZack Snyder futhi elingisa uPatrick Wilson, uJackie Earle Haley, Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Matthew Goode, Stephen McHattie noCarla Gugino, baqala ukuqopha eVancouver ngoSepthemba 2007 no ukukhonjiswa kwayo kuhlelelwe uMashi 6, 2009. Njengakwi-movie yakhe yangaphambilini, 300, USnyder wayeqondiswa ngukhomikhi ukudala amabhodi wezindaba; kodwa-ke, kulokhu unqume ukungasebenzisi i-chroma ukushutha yonke i-movie.
El Abalindi trailer ungikholisile ukuthi ngihambe ngiyombona kumamuvi.