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Watchmen
Fans are super stoked about 300, and we'll have those stories coming soon, but as soon as Zack Snyder walked into the room to talk about it, the conversation turned to his highly anticipated next project. Happy to go there, Snyder gave us the Watchmen update.
Interview: Zack Snyder on Watchmen
"We're trying to get a budget together now to see," said Snyder. "Look, I feel like the movie's in a pretty cool place. I think the script's starting to become pretty cool. I've been talking to some actors, I'm not going to say who. But it's cool because in some ways, you can get real actors. You don't have to go Hollywood. So that's all going along. I've been drawing away and so I think it's coming along, as they say. They have talked about maybe shooting it in the summer so."
The ultimate success of 300 may determine the fate of Watchmen, because that's how studios make their decisions. "Someone had said to me, 'Dude, what's going on with Watchmen? Gotta make sure you don't f*ck that up. What can I do to help?' I go, 'Go see 300.' Because the truth is, 300 to the studio anyway, it's a graphic novel movie. It is not a movie that they necessarily understand exactly when I pitch it on paper. They feel in some ways the same way about Watchmen. They don't understand why it's not Fantastic Four. I have to remind them, it's much more Strangelove than it is Fantastic Four which they don't like hearing. But I think they believe that I know and so in that way it helps. With the way that this movie, when they finally saw it, I think they felt, 'Wow, we didn't know that was the movie you were making necessarily but we like this movie.' So maybe that will apply to Watchmen."
With the budget still in flux, a big opening for 300 could ensure a much more epic Watchmen. "That's theoretical. I believe that that is probably reflecting reality but I don't know that for sure. It's not set right now so maybe that's a coincidence, maybe not."
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