Obviously Zack Snyder is doing the PR trail at the moment for 300, and as such he's doing a lot of interviews, but naturally people can't help but ask a lot of questions about 'Watchmen' as it actually seems like it might get off the ground this time. In an interview over at IESB Snyder dropped a lot of really interesting titbits of information, and it does sound like he has the right idea about how to go about it all:

"It’s really is hard to think about anything else, especially with, we were just talking about, just a second ago, we were talking about Manhattan as just how, you see Dr. Manhattan 100 feet tall walking through the jungles of Vietnam burning the Viet-Con with a couple Hueys off his shoulders, you know. It’s hard to, because it’s political and it’s beautiful and it’s all the things that Fantastic Four could never do, they would never send the Fantastic Four to Iraq, you know, that’s crazy talk. But in the Watchmen world that’s real."

That to me sounds bang-on, that's the thing about Watchmen, it's set in the real world, not Gotham and not Metropolis, it's a politically charged comic, but it's almost like an anti-comicbook in a way.

"My feeling about it is, with Watchmen you can get actors, I believe, that would never make a comic book movie. Because Watchmen is cool, you know what I’m saying? (laughter) You’d never get Brad Pitt in tights in a normal movie, and I’m not saying he’s any of the guys, I’m actually not talking to him, but he’s the kind of guy you could get because those Ocean’s guys think they are pretty cool. But, they’d be embarrassed to be in Fantastic Four, as they should. (laughter) I don’t mean to dig on Fantastic Four, it’s just so…so, bubble gum, I can’t take it."

Hah, Fantastic 4, consider yourself dissed.

More things I learnt from this Interview that I found interesting:

- Zack Snyder had a meeting about directing X-Men 3

- Jude Law has the Rorschach tattoo

- They've done some film tests for Dr Manhattan

Read it for youself over at IESB (found via the excellent filmstalker)