Snyder recently gave an interview with the New York Times about “Watchmen” in which he outright denies any interest in a sequel. First Snyder completely denies any interest in creating a sequel:

“Listen, they own the rights. If they wanted to go and hire some guy to make them a sequel to “Watchmen,” I don’t know that they would get any of those actors to do it, and I know that I wouldn’t have anything to do with it.”

But then goes on to joke about just how ridiculous a sequel would be:

“…I was going to make a thing called Planet Rorschach. So you see this planet, and it’s covered with New York City. It’s like a planet of New York City. There’s no suburbs. There’s one giant Empire State Building, like Mount Olympus, in the middle of it. And hovering above the needle is Manhattan, blue, glowing. But the planet’s going, “Hurm, hurm, hurm, hurm, hurm, hurm.” You can’t tell, it’s this big, deafening, “Hurm.” And as you get close, you go down into the city and the whole world is populated with Rorschachs. And they’re all bumping into each other, going, “Hurm, hurm, no compromise, hurm, hurm, Armageddon.” That’s basically it. So I was like, “Is that the movie you guys want to make?”"

This is obviously a joke and to me it shows that THIS GUY GETS IT. Snyder has so much respect for the novel that he knows no one can just write a sequel to a stand-alone masterpiece. Snyder also defends his decision to remove the giant squid:

“I think it keeps the movie on point a little more than it would if we had the squid, then I think we would have had to go explain and talk about…. What I was concerned with, if I took that 30-minute left turn to explain the squid, you’d be talking about taking 30 minutes of other stuff out of the movie. And right now, I’m on the edge with just how much Rorschach I have, and how much Nite Owl, and how much Dr. Manhattan, just as far as their character stuff. I wouldn’t want to lose a minute of that stuff.”

Now this one I’m a little more skeptical about. It just wouldn’t take that long to explain the squid. They do it in two cryptic minutes of reading in the novel. It gives the Comedian one of his best moments when he cracks the case and It also helps to prove that Adrian Veidt really is the smartest man in the world. Either way, I trust Snyder to deliver an awesome Watchmen experience next month.

If you want to check out the full interview CLICK HERE.

- Jimbo