Zack Snyder’s Watchmen: Remastering the Controversial Adaptation

Dark and dystopian superhero films have come and gone over the years – some with more edge, eh loganand some with a little more humor, like great. Still, they all owe a little to the famous graphic novel that so effectively deconstructed the superhero genre. The story has been interpreted in so many different ways that you can send completely opposite messages depending on your point of view. And the ones that their original creator, Alan Moore, flatly refuses to look at. That’s right, today we’re delving into the dystopian world of Zack Snyder Guardian.

Few comic book adaptations have had as much trouble getting off the ground as Alan Moore’s Watchmen. The film was developed in many different studios for many decades until the cameras finally rolled. In many ways, it’s a miracle it happened at all. So why did they have such trouble with such a revolutionary and popular property?

In this episode of DC revisited, we examine how Terry Gilliam, Paul Greengrass and others tried to bring the graphic novel to the big screen, and how it took Zack Snyder’s runaway success of 300 to take the reins. While the film was a hit, it also drew criticism from fans of the comic for the few deviations, while the HBO sequel series appeared to be more of a sequel to the comic than the film. Why was the film so controversial and how does it hold up today? We delve into this new episode of DC Revisited, written, narrated and edited by Tyler Nichols.