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Zack Snyder Made ‘Watchmen’ To “Save It From The Terry Gilliams Of This World”
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One of the most polarizing movies to be released in the past few years is Zack Snyder‘s Watchmen. While the director achieved the impossible by adapting the virtually unfilmable comic book for the big screen, there are those who say that he didn’t stay true to the source material from creators Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. But producer Joel Silver declared that Snyder’s take on Watchmen was “too much a slave” to the comic, and added that Terry Gilliam‘s version over at 20th Century Fox would have been much better.

But Snyder isn’t just going to take comments like that sitting down. He is going to fight back. Hit the jump to see what he said.

While doing the press rounds for his upcoming 300: Rise of an Empire, the filmmaker talked to the Huffington Post about Silver’s comments on the Watchmen film adaptation being a slave to Alan Moore’s work, and says that Gilliam’s version over at Fox would have been much worse.

“….if you read the Gilliam ending, it’s completely insane…. So, honestly, I made “Watchmen” for myself. It’s probably my favorite movie that I’ve made. And I love the graphic novel and I really love everything about the movie. I love the style. I just love the movie and it was a labor of love. And I made it because I knew that the studio would have made the movie anyway and they would have made it crazy. So, finally I made it to save it from the Terry Gilliams of this world.”

Producing partner Deborah Snyder agrees:

“But it’s interesting because…it’s damned if you do, damned if you don’t. You have people who are mad that the ending was changed and you have other people saying, ‘Oh, it was a slave to the graphic novel.’ You can’t please everybody.”

It seems to be that if Snyder thinks it is his job to “save us from the Terry Gilliams of this world,” then he is practically saying that there is no room in a theater for creativity or originality. And for a film like Watchmen, there needs to be room left for originality and creativity, not gratuitous violence or laughable sex scenes.

While I can understand how vicious some fans of the comic book can be because of a few changes made to the characters, their motivations, and the ending, there really is no need for elitist comments like “I made it because I knew that the studio would have made the movie anyway.”

[Source: Huffington Post via The Playlist]

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10 Comments »

  1. Originality and Creativity??? You’re filming a comic book. Get it right or go home. Snyder did a fine job. Did you read the Watchmen? It’s filled with gratuitous violence and laughable sex. Get over yourself..

    Comment by Douglas Waltz — March 3, 2014 @ 2:14 pm

  2. wish someone would have saved the Watchmen from Zack Snyder. that movie was horrendous.

    Comment by Zack Whitmore — March 3, 2014 @ 3:15 pm

  3. Taking a shot at a visionary like Terry Gilliam only makes Synder look unprofessional and petty.

    Comment by @KurtIsensee — March 3, 2014 @ 3:17 pm

  4. He’s right though. Gilliam’s watchmen is insane and stupid.

    Comment by Day_is_Over — March 3, 2014 @ 3:38 pm

  5. The writer of this article obviously has little respect for source material or even the word Respect.

    Yes there is room for creative geniuses like the Great Terry Gilliam.
    But if you are doing a story because that story is a great story, Then you need to be true to that vision. If not, then come up with something of your own. It’s not like every movie isn’t a plagiarism of another story that’s already been told in a thousand different forms.

    If I did a story about your mother and turned it into a bunch of Hitler Child Molesting Cannibals. I think you would feel differently about creative freedom.

    Creative Freedom is to be Creative(which is not doing other peoples stories)

    Comment by Midas68 — March 3, 2014 @ 4:58 pm

  6. Different art forms require different stories. I have no problem with that change.

    Comment by kevdog — March 3, 2014 @ 6:39 pm

  7. The watchman movie fit the graphic novel. That is like making doc ock in spiderman’s body. Lets make that idiot Rhino take over instead. Dumb. Doc ock was the only one who could make it interesting. Let’s change ultron with the an iron man droid, lol

    Comment by Thomas Sawyer — March 3, 2014 @ 7:25 pm

  8. Talk about a very unprofessional comment. I lost a bit of respect of Synder with that one.

    I’d would like to see Gilliam’s script to be able to decide for myself.

    Comment by nelsonsmith — March 4, 2014 @ 8:19 am

  9. ??? So Snyder did a fine job, but did he get it right? Not totally, and I’m not talking about the ending — that actually was fine. In the translation I think he did forget; however that these weren’t “superheroes” they were costumed crimefighters with no superhuman powers (except for Dr.Manhattan); something you can easily forget with all the slo-mo and punching through walls and gratuitous over the top fight scenes that the book didn’t have.

    Either way you look at it the Watchman film was really made about 15 years too late.

    Comment by nelsonsmith — March 4, 2014 @ 8:25 am

  10. the movie was too long honestly i love the watchmen dont get me wrong but they shouldve broken it up in a few films and on to each one. they went too much by the book

    Comment by Harley Alderson — March 4, 2014 @ 11:09 am

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