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Watchmen
Zack Snyder

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Sound Bite: Zack Snyder
Oh yeah I read the graphic novel, I knew, I knew about it when it came out uhm but in 86 but uh I was very much uh I was pretty busy at the time, it was my first year in film school and I was you know pretty much into like, although I was still pretty much a comic book fan, I was a comic book fan before that but you know I was turning into Cineafile and all artsy and like you know I’m in film school. And so then I read it in 86 you know the following year when it was novelized no im sorry 88 it was novelized uhm and I thought it was awesome, it blew me away, it made me crazy. I actually, it was one of the few things I considered like finished and maybe probably shouldn’t be a movie. (talks) well cause at the timei was like I can make anything into a movie, you know I’ll make your story into a movie, I’ll make that lamp into a movie you know but I read that book and I went “wow my egos not that big”. You know I cant handle that.
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Sound Bite: Zack Snyder
Well I guess what happened was you know the studio finally called me and was like you know I was on post on 300 and they called me and said hey do you wanna, we have a script for a movie we think its based on a graphic novel its called Watchmen and I’m like yes its definitely based on a graphic novel, I actually have it right here. Uhm so I think that that process for me was about what they wanted to be PG-13 you know normal movie. It wasn’t hard to uhm accept the project as a thing to try and do because I knew if I didn’t they would just go down the street and film it with someone else and it would be that probably.
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Sound Bite: Zack Snyder
Absolutely especially CGI expensive character its like basically naked (talks) yeah no everyone asked me, I mean the studio asked me like if there was anyway like could he just be like a Ken Doll, could he just like a bump, what if he just had a bump there, people would get it. I’m like he’s supposed to be like having sex with his girlfriend so like I don’t know what he’s doing, that makes me more confused. Like I don’t know what, I don’t know like what he’s uh like how he can, like how he changes his body but that’s just really upsetting to think that he has to grow something that doesn’t – but anyway not to get to graphic.
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Sound Bite: Zack Snyder
I tried to stay as true because I’m a fan I guess I tried to stay as true as I could you know. I felt like uh but you know again I feel like the experience, I designed the experience for myself you know like when I first read that graphic novel, that first time, the feelings I got from it not knowing what it was going to be and thinking oh this is a superhero thing and then reading going like “holy shit these guys are crazy like these guys have real problems” you know. I feel like that experience is as valid as any experience with it because it’s the experience that I want, I want people coming to the movie theatre thinking it’s a superhero movie and getting their brains blown out.
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