- Title: FJ-HRN-3168
- Summary: Watchmen / Zack Snyder: HRN-3168 Watchmen Zack Snyder
- Description:15:53:41 - 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 Im 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 shouldnt be a movie. (talks) well cause at the timei was like I can make anything into a movie, you know Ill make your story into a movie, Ill 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. 15:54:48 - 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 Im 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 wasnt hard to uhm accept the project as a thing to try and do because I knew if I didnt they would just go down the street and film it with someone else and it would be that probably. 15:55:43 - 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. Im like hes supposed to be like having sex with his girlfriend so like I dont know what hes doing, that makes me more confused. Like I dont know what, I dont know like what hes uh like how he can, like how he changes his body but thats just really upsetting to think that he has to grow something that doesnt but anyway not to get to graphic. 15:56:32 - Sound Bite: Zack Snyder I tried to stay as true because Im 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 its the experience that I want, I want people coming to the movie theatre thinking its a superhero movie and getting their brains blown out.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/2009
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 2000s
- File Name: FJ-HRN-3168