FIRST WATCHMEN MOVIE IMAGE Director Zack Snyder gives the world an early look at his next film
Posted March 9, 2007 10:45 AM
Aintitcoolnews.com first reported this morning that a teaser trailer for “300” contained a “hidden” image of Rorscach from Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ classic 12-issue mini-series Watchmen.
Wizard can confirm that the image is indeed legit and is, in fact, the same early image that Snyder showed to Wizard when we first spoke to him about Watchmen.
“Rorschach is awesome,” said Snyder. “He's the man. He's too violent and so therefore people will see him and be like, 'Gosh, that's not the answer. That way is wrong.' But he's so cool that it's like ‘Apocalypse Now.’ You look at that movie now and you think, ‘Wow, this is a poem about anti-war and all of that.’ But then you watch the movie and you're like, ‘Wow, that's awesome.’ It's that fine line.
“I'm just saying, 'What does that mean? What's the implication of that? How is that different from the way the other filmmakers were approaching "Watchmen?"' Snyder asked rhetorically as he showed off the image of his assistant dressed as Rorschach, which he shot as an early test for the flick. “I can tell you right now, and I don't know [what other directors planned to do with ‘Watchmen’], but I don't think his intentions were to take the frames from the book and kind of try and figure out the cinematic version of them. I find that kind of interesting and exciting.”
Snyder reportedly wants to begin filming this spring on the highly anticipated comic project, and rumors persist that he’ll once again team with his “300” star Gerard Butler, possibly in the role of the doomed Comedian.
