Watchmen Director Zack Snyder Wants to Direct "The Dark Knight Returns"

NA IT WOULD CONFLICT WITH THE SERIES U KNOW. I DONT LIKE THIS IDEA AND I DONT THINK ITS GANNA HAPPEN. WELL I HOPE IT DOESNT.

man..I would love to see that made into a film. maybe in a lot of years we will..

Don't let Snyder touch it. He corrupts endings. Removal of the squid is like having Batman without Joker. It's that important. Do you want to see a Batman without his familiar nemeses? No. He will fail and ruin this. Do not let him near it. Let me do it. I'd do a better job.

realfirstavenger, it will probably not happen. WB will not risk showing Superman the way he is portrayed in TDKR, it won't happen.

Although Snyder would probably say he is being "faithful" to the comic and change Superman, the whole death of Batman, and death of the Joker. Does that man know no boundaries to his cynism, he is proud of his storyboarding abilities (hide his tracing paper to see how well he does those), he lies saying Watchmen is extremely faithful to the comic (except they refer to themselves as Watchmen, and he decided to change the ending).

Anyway I do agree he does have a good eye for composition and visual FX but so far, that's just about it, or at least that's what he's shown so far with his "directing" career.

I don't know, I think it would be tight. It wouldn't be done because it would conflict with the series, but me personally, I beleive any Director should have the ability to have a go at the Knight man... Then you could compare, Nolan is cool, but I like Snyder's movie better, and etc... Idk, the more comic book movies the better. Snyder doesn't have to be original, he will never be considered a great director and I'm sure he knows that, comic adaptations is what he does, what he knows, and I'm sure what he'll continuie to do, and thank go for it. If this happens, just be prepared to see Batman throwing a batatrang in slomoooooooo! lol! They should realy be asking Snyder how does he feel about his movie being WAYYYY out of his hands now....Who watches the Watchmen...NOBODY!

Nolan's TDK batman reminded me of "darth vader", armored suit, weird voice....... & the storyline, people near to batman dies & go bad ..... guess dent went to the dark side of the force

I believed Warner Bros. will make TDKR after Nolan and his crew are done with their Batman story, Because WB are going to make another Batman film after Nolan is done with his story but The Dark Knight Returns will be next inline because WB will need a new Batman story that won't be a continue to Nolan's Batman, and The Dark Knight Returns is perfect movie for a new Batman story.

If they made this next, peple would confuse as a sequel. They'd be like "WTF Two-Face is dead!" I would rather see this then another of Nolan's because I don't think that he could top TDK. But I hope he makes one more and then we can see TDKR in 6 or 7 years. THAT'S TOO LONG! But I'll wait because I know that Snyder can pull it off.

The only Robin I want to see in a Batman movie is a hot teenage girl(and I can say that because I'm a teenager). And a I love seeing new versions of the Joker. I'd love to see how Snyder would make an older Joker.

This news makes me happy. Doesn't make up for the Watchmen news though.

neither will 2face will be in it, because of The Dark Knight, and I don't believe WB will allow him to be part of it. The Main villain to me will be the Mutant gang leader, and just him alone.

Nolan's ok, started his batman begins wd Frank Miller's batman year one, now this tdk, it has more of the Brian Bolland batman....

tdkr is a masterpiece..ill wait and see his interpretation of another masterpiece before i comment either way!

well if they take superman and the joker out then its a different story isnt it..what would be the point?

Kingdom Come and Marvels would be awesome movies for fans, but non-fans wouldn't follow as well and i don't think they'd ever get made. Maybe someday. Hopefully.

If Zach Snyder did it then it would definitely have two face and The Joker because he's crazy obsessed with accuracy. Especially with it being his favorite comic. This would usually be a good thing, but not from what he said up top. This is supposed to be futuristic and it was at the time of its release. But he's saying that he would keep Ronald Reagan as President. Things like that are not important to the story and do not need to be kept the same. He'd need to change the president and the war. Make it seem more like the future of today.

I was just thinkin the other day, how awesome a Marvels movie would be. I'm a DC fan, but I always thought Alex Ross's Marvels would be such a deep and interesting movie! I'm glad some one agrees, Marvels was amazing. I'm writing a screnplay similar, but from a villain perspective. You're right though, Marvels wouldn't work for non fans, someone needs to write a story similar but with unknown, fresh new characters in it. Like, not comic book based, but with the same elements and themes of a hero comic, just with a deeper 1st person perspective. That's why I'm writing my screenplay like that. I think it will turn out well...

While I am totally opposed to him doing it, fotc, Snyder is legitimately picking out things in that he believes he is the most legit to do them. Or so he thinks. His reasoning is that he must do it before someone else does so that he can do justice to it. Justice to it like he's doing to a squidless Watchmen. How fail. Either way, I do believe that the guy thinks he is good at what he does, and that the good should do what the crappy shouldn't be allowed to do... like Uwe Boll.

Why do we put Snyder on a pedestal??? How about cause you guys don't give us much of a choice! What we are doing is just defending him for not being an "as bad director" as what you guys make him out to be! It's not the same thing as putting him on a pedestal! You guys shit on Singer, Ratner, Miller, Snyder, Norrington, because they're in the game. You guys are just INGRATES, how about we give TDKR to Schumaker or no... better yet how bout we give it to Uwe Boll, would that strike your fancy? Nah you guys are right, let's take Snyder out back and beat the shit out of'em. Yeah... that's the ticket. Let's whip, lapidate, stab and crucify him! Funny how no one bitched at Nolan for just having Joker put on panzy war paint or having a freakin tank for a batmobile! Why? Because these things are details, the purpose they serve can still be displayed differently than what the original had. You guys put Nolan on a pedestal, you revere him to have made a great adaptation when it wasn't as good of an "adaptation" as what Tim Burton did. But they were still GREAT movies and it didn't make Nolan a bad director none the less. The squid is only a detail and it's purpose can still be met by a machine if it does the same thing. You guys are basing your complaints on something you never saw. Now because there is no squid, all of a sudden he's the worse director that ever existed. If only you had seen the movie i could understand better but this is by far the most monumental display of biasism i've ever fell upon.

Snyder is not crazy obsessed with accuracy, if you want that, you have to get Rodriguez to direct it. The biggest problem I have with Snyder is his "I'm being completely faithful to the graphic novel" speech, we all know that it's not true.

Now I have said it many many times, I have an inkling of hope for Snyder's Watchmen, I will see it in a theater (if it ever sees light of day) and I still hope, against all info, that there will be a squid (maybe a squid looking machine? LOL) or a tight explanation surrounding the squidless ending. It's just that I find his fanbase to be extremely......fanboyish, we have seen 2 movies he has made, and to most people they really just associate him with 300, yet he's compared (and considered better) to other directors who have proven their style over and over. You say we judge the movie thinking it's crap because there is no squid, I say you judge the movie thinking it will rule for whatever reasons you have. The truth is that none of us have seen it, we are just speculating on it, and both viewpoints are biased.

I mean if it was up to me I'd rather give some comics to Nolan, Del Toro, Rodriguez, Tarantino, Burton, and many more (at least they don't care what fans think, they just do what they want to do). I prefer my directors to be mature and proven, not to start their careers with stories that I know and love, specially if they say they won't change anything and then go and change the ending. I do believe that since he does his movies, it's his vision and his abilities, but don't start with the faithfulness crap. That is the biggest problem I have with Snyder, and when I have problems with people I start venting at their shortcomings whatever they may be.

I am ashamed to say I would watch TDKR directed by Uwe Boll, I'd laugh my ass of, and would probably be the anoying movie neighbor.

But Noob, all most are saying is that it "looks" good from the trailer, granted some have said that it will be the best adaptation ever made and that is as biased as saying that he's a bad director. You can say that he's a big fat liar, that's true as hell but as for his directing talents, so far, nothing he has done has put him in the same pile of shit directors that Boll or Shumaker are in... yet.

Funny how most of your coments are directed to RealFirst Avenger and ElBeaster and most of my comments (aside from the pedestal) were directed to Hyson and Fotc and yet, we always wind up dealing with it between the two of us... LOL :P

Yeah I was also conflicted with what Kevin Smith said. If this movies going to be so butchered then why does Smith like it? I'm sure it will be an epic to be remembered but if it's not faithful, its just upsetting. I want to see a movie made from the book "Batman: Dead White" awesome book.

I have stated it before!!!!!

I don't care who gave their thumbs up for the movie, I will judge it when I see it. Alan Moore could come in barging through my door, saying he repents for every bad thing he ever said about Hollywood, he could say that that Snyder kid really pulled it of, that it is the best movie ever made, that I have to see it and love it, that the machine that replaces the squid works so much better, that everyone who questioned the movie is wrong. Critics could review it as a 5 star movie and it could beat Titanic at the box office. I don't care, I really don't like to be told what I should think before I have a chance to see it (unless of course it's DB evolution, for which I have no respect or hope whatsoever), and wherever I see a media phenomenon, I always try to look at it with my own eyes, with my own opinions. The bigger the media buzz, the more wary I become.

ElBeaster, faithfulness of Sin City times 100? how does one measure faithfulness? how does one multiply faithfulness by 100? At least in Sin City, they didn't change any ending and they had 3 they could have considered unfilmable.

I don't care, I will only judge it when I see it. I do like Kevin Smith's movies, but just because I like what he does, doesn't mean I will like what he likes. I realized this a long long time ago.

And yes Shaman, you seem to be the voice of reason for one side, I like to think I'm the voice of reason for the other side, just don't get me started on DB Evolution or Cowboy Bebop (Damn you Fox!!).

I will say it again, TDKR as a movie will never happen. Or at least not in 10 years, not because of Nolan's current series, but because it is a very risky move for at least two massive franchises, it's like an AOA movie made for x-men, although cool it's extremely risky. Right now those franchises are "safe" and very few companies like to mess with their star products, specially if they consider it may not cater to the masses of moviegoers.

In the end if it happens, WB would probably make it and when it is in postproduction realize that somehow they lost the rights to the story and there would be another Snyder movie that doesn't see light of day. Stupid WB.

lol, if it doesn't get released in theaters... it will probably be bootleged on comic cons, just like that FF4 movie.

It will definitely see light of day, it will just take patience. I'm sure that someone in the editing department is ilegally copying it right now, either they'll release it on the internet, or sell it on comic cons.