In an alternate world history set in 1985, the murder of a government-sponsored superhero draws his outlawed colleagues out of retirement and into a mystery that threatens to upend their personal lives and the world itself.
The exceptionally well crafted and groundbreaking graphic novel by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons and John Higgins, often considered impossible to translate to film, is faithfully adapted in two movies utilizing the unique storytelling qualities of animated filmmaking.
This 10 minute video gives you an inside look at the filmmaking process and reasoning that went into adapting the famous Watchmen graphic novel.
Producer • Director • Writer
Available on digital August 13.
Available on Bluray and 4K August 27.
Producer • Director • Writer
Warner Bros. Animation's first interactive story that you can navigate with your remote control. Only on BluRay.
Executive Producer • Writer
Now streaming on MAX and available to buy via digital download.
Brandon Vietti is an American animation producer, director and writer of 2D and CG movies and TV shows ranging broadly in style and tone for kids and adults. He is best known for pushing the boundaries of grounded realism and drama in mature-audience superhero fiction like the movies Watchmen: Chapters I & II (2024), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010) and the series Young Justice (2010-2023).
Born in 1974 in Fresno, California, Brandon took an early interest in drawing. His artistic sensibilities were shaped by the vibrant pop culture of 1980’s music, movies, video games, comic books and animation. But his interests quickly gravitated toward titles favoring realism in world-building stories with grounded characters that counterbalanced against so much of the totally awesome escapist fantasies in 80’s media. While exploring these combined interests in storytelling through writing and drawing in high school, he decided to pursue a career as a comic book artist.
In 1994, upon acceptance to the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art in New Jersey, Brandon was awarded the first Marvel Comics full scholarship. This award included a dream-come-true internship working as an editorial revision artist in the legendary Marvel Comics Bullpen in New York City. But DC Comics titles would ultimately become the cornerstone of his career which began in 1997 when he applied for a job, on a whim, at his favorite animation studio, Warner Bros. Animation. He was hired as a storyboard artist and designer for The New Batman Adventures and, through seeing his artwork animated to life, he found his true calling to the ultimate storytelling medium, the perfect fusion of illustration and filmmaking.
Brandon would go on to work in nearly every animation art department at several studios, learning every facet of production, while graduating from storyboard artist to director and eventually to executive producer and writer. With each new project, he continues honing his craft of animation filmmaking with a long-term goal of shattering the common American perception that animation is just for kids. He is always searching for the right story and collaborators to craft entertaining projects of culturally significant, mass-market appeal that demand attention for the unique, high-art qualities of the animation medium.
Warner Bros. Animation
•Watchmen: Chapter I & II
•Young Justice
Season Four: Phantoms
Season Three: Outsiders
Season Two: Invasion
Season One
•Batman: Death in the Family
•Lego DC Comics Super Heroes:
Aquaman: Rage of Atlantis
The Flash
Gotham City Breakout
Cosmic Clash
Attack of the Legion of Doom
Justice League vs. Bizarro League
Batman Be-Leaguered
•The Jetsons & WWE: Robo-WrestleMania
•Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown
•Scooby-Doo! & WWE:
Curse of the Speed Demon
WrestleMania Mystery
Warner Bros. Animation
•Watchmen: Chapter I & II
•Batman: Death in the Family
•Lego Justice League: Justice League vs. Bizarro League
•Scooby-Doo! & WWE: WrestleMania Mystery
•Batman: Under the Red Hood
•Batman: The Brave and the Bold
•Legion of Super Heroes
•Superman: Doomsday
•The Batman vs. Dracula
•The Batman
Sony Television Animation
•Spider-Man: The New Animated Series
•Jackie Chan Adventures
•Max Steel
Warner Bros. Animation
•Watchmen: Chapter I & II
•Young Justice
Season Four: Phantoms
Season Three: Outsiders
Season Two: Invasion
Season One (uncredited)
•Batman: Death in the Family
•Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: The Flash (uncredited)
•The Jetsons & WWE: Robo-WrestleMania (uncredited)
•Scooby-Doo! & WWE: Curse of the Speed Demon (uncredited)
•Scooby-Doo! & WWE: WrestleMania Mystery (uncredited)
Warner Bros. Animation
•Watchmen: Chapter I & II
•Young Justice: Phantoms
•Batman: Death in the Family
•The Jetsons & WWE: Robo-WrestleMania
•Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
•Green Lantern: First Flight
•Wonder Woman
•The New Batman/Superman Adventures
Sony Television Animation
•Jackie Chan Adventures
•Harold and the Purple Crayon
•Heavy Gear: The Animated Series
•Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles
•Dragon Tales
•Godzilla: The Series
Other Studios
•Thor: Tales of Asgard
•Planet Hulk
•The Invincible Iron Man
•Masters of the Universe
Following the famous 1988 Batman comic where fans voted by 1-900 phone calls to kill Robin (Jason Todd), this interactive Blu-ray movie puts Robin's fate in the hands of fans once again with multiple options accessed by the push of a remote control button.
Written, directed and produced by Brandon, this innovative branched story subverts expectations with each choice resulting in unforeseeable consequences, enhancing the psychological impact integral to this dark, superhero-horror story.
In an alternate DC Comics timeline, sometime after Batman dies while protecting Robin (Jason Todd) from an explosion triggered by The Joker, Jason walks into a Gotham City diner...
The teenage sidekicks of legendary superheroes band together as a covert ops unit in a uniquely grounded coming-of-age story set against shadowy spy craft and fantastical DC Universe action.
Showrunners Brandon Vietti and Greg Weisman crafted a fresh take on traditional superhero fiction with stories focused on real-world teenage issues of mental health, abuse, identity, religion and more, all presented with care and guidance from many professional consultants and organizations.
All 26 episodes of Season 1 are summarized in 19 minutes.