BoingBoing’s Xeni Jardin Interviews ‘Watchmen’ Director Zack Snyder and VFX Director Des Jardin

Posted by ralph on February 24, 2009

This BoingBoing Video, director Zack Snyder and visual effects supervisor John “DJ” Des Jardin give us a preview of the forthcoming movie Watchmen. On March 6, the hallowed graphic novel deemed “unfilmable” will hit theaters.

Will the long-awaited adaptation of writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons’ dark eighties comic soar, or stink? The more intense the fandom around a classic, the more intense the fear that a filmmaker will screw it up, and few titles are as revered as this one. From what we saw during this preview with fans at the Apple store in Santa Monica, I am inclined to be very optimistic.

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