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Warner Bros. has provided Watchmen fans with four more photos from the Zack Snyder-directed movie. These first appeared in Empire magazine.

Opening March 6, the graphic novel adaptation stars Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Matthew Goode, Billy Crudup, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin Akerman, Carla Gugino, Stephen McHattie and Matt Frewer.

Patrick Wilson stars as Nite Owl.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan is The Comedian.

Nite Owl flirts with Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman).

Jackie Earle Haley portrays Rorschach.

How many comic book movies are bold enough to show a rape scene?

None, so far. But that will change when Watchment comes out in the spring of 2009. The film will keep a violent scene of sexual assault from the comic intact, co-star Carla Gugino - who played Sally Jupiter in the film - told MTV News.

“It was really brutal. It was brutal to shoot,” Gugino said of the scene, in which The Comedian (played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan) attacks an young Sally, who only manages to avoid getting raped by the timely intervention of fellow mask Hooded Justice.

Sally Jupiter is confroned by The Comedian in Watchmen.

“That was one of the things [director] Zack [Snyder] said to me from the start: ‘I really want this to be incredibly brutal. It’s not a turn-on kind of story. It’s bad," Gugina said. "It’s important that we did that. I think hopefully it will be really powerful.”

As Watchmen prides itself on, this is certainly another example of it being anything but an ordinary comic book movie.

Who watches the Watchmen?

That tagline for the highly-anticipated movie should get answered when it comes out on March 6, 2009.

In the meantime, take a look at a slew of new Watchmen promotional posters, each featuring a different characters beloved by fans of the comic book series...

Here's a look at the full Watchmen panel from last week's Comic-Con. Go crazy, movie fans!

At last week's Comic-Con, few men were more popular than Zack Snyder.

The director of next year's Watchmen movie, Snyders talked to the crowd about the incredible maturation of comic-based movies.

"People are interested in comic book movies because they represent mythology and adventure heroes. They allow fantasies to exist in our world," he said. "That worked with a great movie like The Dark Knight, which took it over the top.

You look at Iron Man and you have the same thing, a serious actor like Robert Downey Jr.in a serious portrayal of a guy and then you have this cool fantasy aspect that makes for a great time at the movies."

Zack Snyder has confirmed that Watchmen characters, such as Silk Spectre and Nite Owl, will remain true to their comic book versions.

As for following the Watchmen comic books when outlining the movie, Snyder scoffed at the notion that much would be altered on screen.

"Why would you change it? The film has to exist for a cinema audience the way the comics existed for comic book fans in 1985 and 1986. It's got to be able to comment on how cinematically people relate to superheroes. The cool thing about Silk Spectre is her outfit is overtly sexual.

You can't put that outfit on a Fantastic Four. If I was making a PG 13 movie everybody would be up in arms. This girl is clearly using sexuality as a weapon. That's the point. It's nipply. It's like a dominatrix utfit. That's the fetishistic aspect of it. You have to go all the way."

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.