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• Series: Watchmen, 300

Snyder on Watchmen

Wizard Universe goes one-on-one with Zack Snyder, who talks about '300' sequels and his next project: 'Watchmen'.

'Watchmen' is going to be R-rated and when you make an R-rated movie it has the potential for failure, or the potential for failure is higher. It's difficult for them to get a handle on why the movie would be cool when the superheroes are flawed. It's an indictment of American foreign policy and authority in general. [With] all of the crazy themes in Watchmen, [they wonder] why that's even good or something people would want to see. I don't know. I still say ["300" is] like a student film on steroids. We shot that movie in a freaking warehouse in Montreal. It was hard and no one thought the movie was anything. When people talk about "Watchmen" like, "Oh, Snyder has a free hand with 'Watchmen,'" that's just not the case.

And what about that Rorschach image that Snyder snuck into the '300' trailers?

That image is the kind of thing where I said, "Let's just see if people see it. It'll be fun if people find it." I had a $100 bet with my wife that people were going to find it right away, and she said, "No one is going to find it."

So does the success of '300' buy him some freedom to follow his vision with 'Watchmen'?

In some ways I had a free hand with '300.' They didn't really mess with me, but they just didn't give me any money. It's the same thing with 'Watchmen.' I think in the end they'll let me do what I want, but what it's going to come down to how much they'll spend. People think, "Oh, they're just going to let him do whatever he wants." Look, '300' is going to make almost $400 million worldwide and who knows where it'll end up? It hasn't even opened in Japan yet, and there is a chance the Japanese will like the movie. I don't know. I feel the DVD will be successful, too because '300' is a movie people will see repeatedly, and to me that translates into people buying the disc rather than renting it. Maybe I'm crazy though, but I think that's the type of potential it has. Who knows though?