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Director of Watchmen, Zack Snyder, is offering you the opportunity to create "Veidt Enterprises" TV commercials that could end up in the feature film scheduled to be released in cinemas early 2009.

If you've not heard of the Watchmen, then you are no longer permitted to call yourself a comic boob geek. Watchmen is the ultimate post modern superhero graphic novel, and will be made into a ginormous film for release early next year.

To get started, download the standard definition and/or high definition assets from the competition site, and then shoot your own original TV commercial that advertises one of the products! Remember, the movie is set in 1985, so TV commercials should be in 4:3 aspect ratio (so it looks like standard TV, not widescreen) and they should be either 15, 30 or 60 seconds in length. The products are all made by "Veidt Enterprises," and you can download the product logos for your use as well.

Also, big hair, day-glo t-shirts and possibly a Wham-like soundtrack may be helpful. Phil Collins, even.

The contest ends on at 5pm GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) on July 18th, 2008.The 3 finalists from each country involved will win signed stills from Zack Snyder and have a chance to be included in the Watchmen feature film itself. The 3 finalists and top 20 runners-up will also receive a Watchmen countdown clock and a keyring. Which is nice.


To join in, or just have a stickybeak, check out the contest website. here.