By Ryan Parsons | Image from the graphic novel by Alan Moore.
The Watchmen
Earlier this weekend we had announced that Alan Moore's Watchmen had caught a new breath of life after being picked up by Warner Bros and now we have also been alerted that Paul Greengrass has finally spoken out on why he believes Paramount gave the project the boot.
Watchmen Talk
The good people over at Chud recently caught up with Paul Greengrass and got him to discuss Watchmen, a film he was forced to abandon, and his upcoming project Flight 93. During the interview Greengrass also mentions how stunned he was when Paramount pulled the plug and how he still believes that the script written by
David Hayter was money. So what went wrong?
Q: Last time we had talked, we talked about Watchmen. What happened with that exactly?
Greengrass: It was a slightly surreal experience. I guess you get used to it, I suppose. It was my first experience of it. The film’s going and then all of a sudden it’s cancelled. I didn’t really enjoy it, I must be honest. It was slightly surreal because Watchmen felt very good.
Other projects in the past, where you’re trying to get them into production, you’re trying to get them up, and you get them very close and there’s that horrible times when you think you’re up and you’re actually not quite up – you slip down the greasy pole again. Whenever that’s happened to me I could look back and I’ve gone, ‘I can see why that project didn’t go.’ Either there was something wrong with the idea, or the screenplay wasn’t quite strong enough, it could be a number of reasons. The two or three times it’s happened to me, I could see why. It’s been for the best in a funny kind of way. This was a bit different, because to be honest I never had any doubt about making that film. We were up. When we spoke I wasn’t putting on an act. It felt real to me, and I was excited about it.
But then comes the times when you suddenly realize you’re on shifting corporate sands. It all happened very, very quickly.
Greengrass goes on to mention that he may be able to take another chance with Watchmen once he has released Flight 93, a film that will give us an inside look into one of the flights hijacked on 9-11.
To hear even more on Watchmen and the current developments in Flight 93, head over to Chud.
The Watchmen
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