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“I’m Absolutely Keeping the Graphic Novel’s Ending”

Zack Snyder talks Watchmen in this month’s Starlog magazine
Hardcore Watchmen fans have been waiting to hear this for a long time: Zack’s keeping the ending.

Yes, he said it. At least he was quoted as saying that in the latest issue of Starlog magazine.

He actually had quite a bit to say in the four page article - most of which will have all of the die hard Watchmen fans screaming “Amen!”

I’m sticking to the hard edge and all of the bickering that’s in Watchmen. If you don’t do that, you shouldn’t do the film at all. The reason why is that the movie works as an answer to what’s out there. It did that as a graphic novel, and it needs to do that as a film. If you want to take out the edgy bits, then don’t bother making it. Never mind!

“But the ending!” That's what all the fans are saying right now. “He’s really keeping it? He’s going to be faithful to Alan Moore’s ending? But every leaked script we’ve seen has butchered it! Seriously, is he really going to keep it?”

What happened [when previous filmmakers tried to put the graphic novel into] script form was that everyone tried to figure out, ‘How do I get this guy over here and that guy over there?’ They were only trying to get the mystery, the story, to work, where as my concern is the other stuff, the philosophy of it.

Other interesting tidbits from the article include the revelation that Dr. Manhattan would be “a full 3-D CG character” with actor Billy Cruddup’s face and performance scan, á la, Davy Jones form Pirates of the Caribbean, and that Snyder himself will have a cameo as an army grunt or a SWAT cop. What about the Black Freighter subplot? “We’re working on that,” Snyder said. “We’re trying to get the money to keep that in.”

I'm going to make a movie that I want to see. I honestly believe people are tired of Hollywood’s watered-down films. It’s refreshing to see a hard movie.

For a ton of more insights from Zack Snyder on his upcoming movie adaptation of Watchmen, pick up the November 2007 issue of Starlog magazine.

10.24.2007
Source: Starlog, November 2007

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Bon le tournage vient de se terminer tout roule et...






Ouéééé premier aperçu de Rorschach!

Je vois mal ce qu'il fait, il balance un molotov sur un flic du SWAT?

ben alors on a pas lu le comic?

Un peu dans les rayons de la Fnac, mais entre ça, les Dingodossiers et quelques DVD ma liste de choses à acheter est bien garnie, plus garnie que mon portefeuille en tout cas...

TU VAS ALLER M'ACHETER WATCHMEN ET PLUS VITE QUE CA! C'EST PLUS IMPORTANT QUE LA BOUFFE, LE LOYER OU LA BAGNOLE ET SI TU DOIS NE LIRE QU'UNE CHOSE DANS TA VIE CA NE DOIT ETRE QUE CA T'ENTENDS!

Who will watch the Watchmen?
(purée, je parie qu'on aura ça comme accroche pour les affiches du film!)