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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.