The Watchman Cometh

The Watchman Cometh - [ Radar / Film ] - Nylon Guys Magazine: "Even in high school, Zack Snyder—the director behind the brawny graphic-novel adaptation, 300—was quite the Renaissance man. Back then he played sports, nerded out to comic books, shot film shorts with his Super 8 camera, and literally hung out at, yes, Renaissance fairs. That quad-fecta of hobbies has converged handily with his latest movie, Watchmen, a doomsday thriller based on the seminal superhero miniseries by writer Alan Moore and illustrator Dave Gibbons. And it’d be no sweat off Snyder’s back, were this intricate work not deemed unfilmable, as directors Terry Gilliam, Darren Aronofsky, and Paul Greengrass, who have all tried, may attest. NYLON Guys spoke with the indefatigably enthusiastic Snyder—currently scripting his dark action pic Sucker Punch and prepping his animated owl film Guardians of Ga’hoole—about this Herculean feat."