Here's another character preview for the upcoming Watchmen movie:

Patrick Wilson (Hard Candy, Little Children) takes on the role of Nite Owl in the big screen adaption of this comic book series. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the actor talked about the man formerly known as Dan Dreiberg.

Patrick Wilson is Nite Owl and Malin Akerman (in the background) is Silk Spectre in Watchmen.

As an outlawed super hero, Nite Owl mopes around in a stupor. Wilson described the masked avenger to the aforementioned magazine with the following quote:

"He's a big man who's gotten soft."

Matthew Goode might soon become a household name in the U.S. This British-born actor stars in the upcoming Brideshead Revisited, while also appearing in next year's wildly-hyped Watchmen.

Goode reacently chatted with Collider on a number of topics, but the excerpt below focuses on his portrayal of Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias in Watchmen...

When you went into the audition, had you read the comic?
No, all I knew about it was the fact that the other actors were involved and that was a pressure, but I had one scene at the end where it was like saying I killed millions of people and then one tiny scene at the beginning where I’ve got a big cat. So I’m like this is such an odd character and it was only when I got to Vancouver, and obviously I’d spoken to Zack on the phone.

He was a real part of the convincer because post audition he was like…my fears were and this might sound awful…that it was going to be a kind of Fantastic 4 thing and he was like “let me fucking tell you, if my movie ends up being anything like that then I’ve not done my job properly.”

And I don’t mean that to be totally against that film but as in just for me he really put my mind at rest and he got on and he told me what his vision was going to be for it and I was like, wow. And I don’t want to be doing something that’s going to piss people off because he told me how beloved it was and I was like oh God.

That’s a real pressure. He got what director it deserves.

Famous child actor Jackie Earle Haley is making a second career for himself, beginning with his Oscar-nominated role in Little Children.

Next, the star is appearing in Watchmen as the complicated character of Rorschach.

Haley described playing the character to Entertainment Weekly as "unsettling." The actor added that he can't do Rorschach's trademark grumble without donning the mask you see him wearing below.

This is pretty cool.

With the Watchmen trailer creating a buzz in theaters around the country, the movie's cast has posed for a classic-looking photo.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup and company are all pictured below in a shot that looks like it was taken before color television was even invented. It's a fun teaser for the 2009 movie...

In Watchmen, Billy Crudup is tasked with bringing Dr. Manhattan to life.

A former physicist that underwent a life-altering accident, this layered super hero can see the future. As Crudup told Entertainment Weekly, though, such ominiscience creates a problem for the doctor: he cares less and less for mere mortrals.

"Why bother with human beings when you can peer into a star?" the actor said, adding that the role and situation is "a thrilling thought experiment."

Watchmen fans certainly agree. The movie comes out on March 6, 2009.

Malin Akerman may have gotten a lot of attention for her role in 27 Dresses alongside Katherine Heigl.

But that's nothing compared to the hype she and her co-stars will soon start receiving for their parts in Watchmen, the highly-anticipated movie version of the beloved DC Comic.

Akerman takes on the role of Silk Spectre in the film, a super hero forced into the world of spandex by her parents. She recently talked to Entertainment Weekly about the character:

"She has to go through that journey of finding herself," Akerman said.

As for Silk Spectre's costume?

"[It] was like wearing a wet bathing suit with a cinched corset," Akerman said of the skin-clinching tights, giving guys yet another reason to go see Watchmen.

Watchmen is far from kid-safe comic-book film.

The 2009 thrilled is an R-rated, $100 million adaptation of what many consider to be the smartest, most subversive superhero story ever created.

Published by DC Comics in 1986 and typically hailed by mainstream critics as a literary masterpiece, Watchmen can be described as: a jittery expression of Cold War anxiety, a chilling meditation on human nature and an intricate murder mystery.

If that's not enough to get you excited, listen to what director Zack Snyder said about the movie to Entertainment Weekly:

''In my movie, Superman doesn't care about humanity, Batman can't get it up, and the bad guy wants world peace. Will Watchmen be the end of superhero movies? Probably not. But it sure will kick them in the gut.''

Here are a few photos from the wildly anticipated flick...

"Some of the things this guy does, you can't make excuses for, even as an actor,'' says Jeffrey Dean Morgan of his character, The Comedian. ''Your instinct is to just play the guy as a bastard, but you can't.''

Follow the jump on this article now to see more photos and read another intriguing quote from Snyder...

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It's a big week for movie trailers.

Already, we've posted the first-ever previews for Terminator Salvation and Body of Lies.

Now, we hope comic book fans are excited to check out the trailer for Watchmen. It's due in theaters on Mrch 6, 2009 and this commercial is expected to start airing before performances of The Dark Knight

Carla Gugino recently talked with MTV about her role in Zack Snyder's highly-anticipated Watchmen movie:

"It was really one of the craziest, most fun roles I've ever gotten to play," the actress said. "I start at 25 years old in the 1940s, and I age to 67 years old with full prosthetics in the 1980s. [Sally] is a larger-than-life character. She's a costumed crime fighter, but her idea of a costume is very Bettie Page-meets-[Alberto] Vargas.

The movie doesn't come out until March 2009. But read more of Gugino's take on it now.

Grey's Anatomy fans know Jeffrey Dean Morgan as lovable, late patient Denny.

But comic book followers will soon embrace the actor in the role of The Comedian in Zack Snyder's movie adaptation of the famous Alan Moore graphic novel, Watchmen.

During a press conference for another movie he's starring in, P.S. I Love You, Morgan answered a few questions about Watchmen (due in theaters in March, 2009).

Q: Give us an update as to how the filming has been going and what your experiences have been thus far
Morgan: It's super huge, man. It's just like this kind of mind boggling; every day I go to work on that thing and it's sort of overwhelming and I don't know if I've ever done anything that's quite like that before. We're shooting on the New York set now.

All I can say is it's the most amazing set I've ever seen in my life and we were doing this night exterior - the Keene Riots and seeing the graphic novel come to life like I saw that night… it gives me chills just thinking about it. It's one of those things that I still - I was just telling somebody in another room that it's so much right now to be doing it, just showing up at work everyday and getting into character and going into costume and showing up on the set and then seeing what I'm seeing and how it's all coming together.

I don't know that I have the right words how to describe this experience and tell I'm well done with it because every day it's something else.

Q: Can you talk about your character, The Comedian?
Morgan: Edward Blake is his real name and then the Comedian is the kind of superhero character he is. The character I play is 180 degrees from anything I've ever done before. A far cry from certainly William. A really far cry from Denny Duquette, which is why I wanted to do it. It's a whole other thing. He's an animal.

But I think one of the reasons I got hiredâ€"the things he does, his physical actions are horrendous. Certainly the most horrendous things I've ever seen much less portrayed. But I think my job is toâ€"you don't hate himâ€"so my job is to kind of be able to do these fucking horrible things and yet have the audience not hate his guts.

Because you don't, you read the book and you don't hate the Comedian. There's a reason he does what he does and you know he just takes it maybe to a level that most people wouldn't but for him it's normal.