Zach Snyder to Direct Watchmen

[Agentsands77]

(my ****** comment was not directed at you, though, but at people who will pass on this because they didn't like the 300 trailer, )

Why, what's the matter with passing judgement because of the 300 trailer? DAWN OF THE DEAD looks like it will suck, and 300 looks only passable - just a lot of CGI dross with poor performances.

I've said it before, WATCHMEN needs an auteur, not another two-bit director who happens to have a sense of style. Snyder seems in the category of a Robert Rodriguez; he'll churn out stuff that people find entertaining, but he's unlikely to come up with the next CITIZEN KANE.

This film needs a director who is a master of his craft.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

This film needs a director who is a master of his craft.

I highly agree with this statement.

 

[블라스]

Why, what's the matter with passing judgement because of the 300 trailer? DAWN OF THE DEAD looks like it will suck, and 300 looks only passable - just a lot of CGI dross with poor performances.

I've said it before, WATCHMEN needs an auteur, not another two-bit director who happens to have a sense of style. Snyder seems in the category of a Robert Rodriguez; he'll churn out stuff that people find entertaining, but he's unlikely to come up with the next CITIZEN KANE.

This film needs a director who is a master of his craft.

Damn it, I wasn't talking about you either, you like Craig!

 

[블라스]

Here's something for both ToddisDead and Agentsands77...

I'm sorry

 

[Antonello Blueberry]

I still would love to see Darren Aronofsky on the movie, but after "The Fountain" I strongly doubt they will let him direct such an expensive movie.

 

[ToddIsDead]

Which interviews?

Here's one that I remember.

QUINT: Are you wanting to go for a more realistic, less stylized vision of the world?
ZACK SNYDER: No, I don't know that the filmmakers in the past who have been attached to this... I just don't know what their take on the actual frames were. I gotta believe that they kind of really... I mean, I don't know Paul (Greengrass). I like his movies, but he doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would take a graphic novel and film it, you know what I'm saying? It's going to be verite-ish. Whereas for me, my style is, like, graphic novel. I want to be able to get as much as the graphic novel in the movie as I can. I want the experience of watching the movie to be similar to the experience of reading the graphic novel, but also be its own thing.

I think that kind of implies that he's going to do the same kind of thing with Watchmen.

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And Blas, it's all cool buddy. No need to apologize and give me roses.

 

[Agentsands77]

I still would love to see Darren Aronofsky on the movie, but after "The Fountain" I strongly doubt they will let him direct such an expensive movie.

He'd be a fantastic choice, I think.

 

[KingOfDreams]

Why doesn't Alan Moore just lobby to write the scripts himself? I mean, he hates the movie adaptations of his works and yet they keep being made.

 

[Agentsands77]

I think that kind of implies that he's going to do the same kind of thing with Watchmen.

It does. And WATCHMEN is a film that shouldn't feel "comic booky," if you get my meaning. At least that's how I feel about it. I mean, it should be about superheroes, but it should feel as real as possible. The film has to be the cinematic equivalent of the graphic novel, not a translation.

 

[ToddIsDead]

It does. And WATCHMEN is a film that shouldn't feel "comic booky," if you get my meaning. At least that's how I feel about it. I mean, it should be about superheroes, but it should feel as real as possible. The film has to be the cinematic equivalent of the graphic novel, not a translation.

I'm in full agreeance with you.

 

[ToddIsDead]

Why doesn't Alan Moore just lobby to write the scripts himself? I mean, he hates the movie adaptations of his works and yet they keep being made.

Because he'd rather they not be made at all.

 

[IKnowSomeJudo]

I still would love to see Darren Aronofsky on the movie, but after "The Fountain" I strongly doubt they will let him direct such an expensive movie.

What exactly do you mean by "after" The Fountain? Have you seen it? Think it'll bomb?

 

[Antonello Blueberry]

What exactly do you mean by "after" The Fountain? Have you seen it? Think it'll bomb?

Yes, I've seen it and I think it will bomb. Not because it's bad (even if some of my friends found it really bad), but because it's not something digestable by the general public. Every studio will be afraid to give a big project to Darren now. And even his Batman: Year One script wasn't exactly a public friendly movie, with its psychotic main character and the excessive violence.

 

[buggs0268]

I think it would be cool if Warner Bros hired Chris Nolan and Bryan Singer on as producers to guide Zack Snyder.

Take Singer out of that hiring to show him thing.

 

[Anita18]

Every studio will be afraid to give a big project to Darren now.

Was The Fountain a big project? I've read that the effects it used were actually pretty cheap due to it being mostly microphotography, not CGI. The budget is actually about $30 million. Not that big in Hollywood standards...

 

[Edward Brock]

Why, what's the matter with passing judgement because of the 300 trailer? DAWN OF THE DEAD looks like it will suck, and 300 looks only passable - just a lot of CGI dross with poor performances.

I've said it before, WATCHMEN needs an auteur, not another two-bit director who happens to have a sense of style. Snyder seems in the category of a Robert Rodriguez; he'll churn out stuff that people find entertaining, but he's unlikely to come up with the next CITIZEN KANE.

This film needs a director who is a master of his craft.

There's a problem with that. "Auteurs" rarely tackle other people's work and when they do, they tend to personalize it. It would probabily be a good movie on it's own but it would also be quite different from the source material.

 

[Antonello Blueberry]

Was The Fountain a big project? I've read that the effects it used were actually pretty cheap due to it being mostly microphotography, not CGI. The budget is actually about $30 million. Not that big in Hollywood standards...

You are right, and I think people at Warners are happy that the 75 million version fell through.

 

[Agentsands77]

There's a problem with that. "Auteurs" rarely tackle other people's work and when they do, they tend to personalize it. It would probabily be a good movie on it's own but it would also be quite different from the source material.

Not necessarily true. Paul Greengrass was going to stay very faithful in his adaptation when he was attached (I mourn his departure from the project).

 

[JBElliott]

They're not going with live action or CGI, they're going with stop motion animation with this as the set and characters:

 

[Edward Brock]

LOL! Cowboy Rorschack! t:

 

[Antonello Blueberry]

Btw, while in Italy to a press screening of 20 minutes of 300, Snyder confirmed his next project is Watchmen.

 

[Max J Power]

To me, the question is not whether or not Snyder is a capable director, but rather, whether or not Watchmen is adaptable to film.

 

[ConcreteBlock15]

 

[ConcreteBlock15]

Breaking news courtesy of the UK's Empire magazine site:

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=19672

Shooting script almost ready... mid Eighties setting... Nixon... not being completely shot on bluescreen...

BRING IT ON!

DOUG HUTCHISON IS RORSCHACH!

 

[Carmine Falcone]

Hmm. Interesting. So it looks like they won't be using the notorious Tse draft...