Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Jackie Earle Haley have the distinction of playing two of the darkest characters in Zack Snyder's film adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen: Walter Kovacs/Rorschach and Edward Blake/The Comedian.
In the alternate-universe 1985 New York of the movie, Rorschach is a near-psychopathic costumed vigilante who investigates the murder of Blake, setting in motion the events of the film.
From his troubled childhood as the son of a single-mother prostitute to his early encounters with child murderers and other criminal scum, Rorschach has evolved as a vigilante with a black-and-white sense of justice, which he brutally administers with his fists.
Blake, by contrast, is a charming and cynical hero with a misogynistic streak and a fluid sense of ethics who revels in violence and is not unwilling to throw in with corrupt government officials.
Both spoke with reporters last week in Beverly Hills, Calif. (more)
How Haley and Morgan found the dark heart of Watchmen
