Its a hallowed cult-pop artifact that many had deemed unfilmable, but Snyder may have proven them wrong.
I went to boarding school.
You werent allowed too many posters up, and everything I set up was slightly inappropriate.
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Frazettas naked girls, ripped up guys the kids were like, What the hell?!
They had their Boy George posters up, I had crazy Frazetta.
My mother saw I was into this comic calledHeavy Metalmagazine, so she got me a subscription.
You could call it high-brow comics, but to me, that comic book was just pretty sexy!
This isnt really doing it for me.
I was a little broken, that way.
So whenWatchmencame along, I was, This is more my scene.
Your mom sounds pretty cool.Shes just a little bit on the edge.
She was a gifted painter and amazing photographer.
Just a free spirit.
I bought a movie camera and started making movies when I was 11.
I had it forever.
My mom always encouraged me, it was never weird.
Shed look atHeavy Metaland go Woo-hoo!
Thats the genius of this book.
Thats my song, no one else gets that but me.
Thats why the fan base is so rabid, because they feel personal about it.
Thats the genius of this book.
Thats what we try and do in the movie.
That was a revolution for a lot of people.
Several filmmakers have tried to turnWatchmeninto a movie and failed.
Were on our second Hulk movie.
AndIron Man $300 million domestic box office on a second tier superhero!
And not to demean Iron Man my point is that we all know about superheroes now.
I can ask my mother, Mom, when the Hulk isnt the Hulk, who is he?
What a weird question.
I could ask her, What happened to Bruce Waynes parents?
They were killed at an opera.
Im like, okay, No, Batmans cool.
He gets to go to a Tibetan monastery and be trained by ninjas.
I want to do that.
But he doesnt, like, get raped in prison.
That could happen in my movie.
If you want to talk about dark, thats how that would go.
I believe that pop culture is just, like, so ready forWatchmen.
The guy has a fricking cave under his house!
No doubt a fanboy will look at the movie and not get it.
He looks just like Batman!
And Im like, Yeah, but thats the point!
With their comic, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons were saying, Superheroes are kinda funky, arent they?
We build upon that with a movie that acknowledges that superhero movies have affected pop culture.
NEXT PAGE: Everyone wants it shorter…. You cant make it into something else, you really cant.
Its notFantastic Four, its got to be hard R, its got to challenge everyones ideas.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Your current cut of the film is about three hours long.
You cant make it into something else, you really cant.
Its notFantastic Four, its got to be hard R, its got to challenge everyones ideas.
When they say, You should be less sexy and less violent, I say, But thatsWatchmen.
Thats pretty intense for a superhero movie.Thats Superman gone bad.
If Superman grabbed your arm and pulled really hard, hed pull your arm out of your socket.
Thats the thing you dont see in a Superman movie.
People call me a superhero, but I dont even know what that means.
I just blew this guy to bits!
I feel like there has never been a movie more custom-made for that crowd.
Not at this scale.
Comic-Con fans have become the gatekeepers of pop culture.
You test these movies there.
So Im going to go down there and say, Hey, what do you guys think?
If theyre going to go, What the f is this?
Thats part of the process.
A genre fan, a comic-book movie fan, is worth 20 normal fans.
They blog, talk, buy.
For them, a movie is a life experience.
