Fan Casting Watchmen (1991)

In 1990 and 1991, studio executives were scrambling to come up with a project to match the unmitigated success of Tim Burton's 1989 Batman movie. Many strange and bizarre comic based movies were released throughout the 90s coming from this scramble: The Rocketeer, Dick Tracy, The Shadow, The Crow, these were the comic book movies that crawled so the genre could later thrive. In another time, this competitive scramble gave us a Watchmen movie more than a decade early. A 3 hour cult masterpiece, brought to us by the twisted, creative genius of Terry Gilliam.