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movies.ign.com - 8/19/2008

Del Toro Offered Watchmen

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Australia, August 19, 2008 - While also spilling some details on The Hobbit in an interview with IGN AU earlier this evening, acclaimed Mexican director Guillermo del Toro delivered his musings on Zack Snyder's filmic adaptation of Watchmen - an anticipated adaptation of Alan Moore's graphic novel opus of the same name. Interestingly, it turns out that del Toro was originally offered the job ...

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Screen Rant — ... But the truth of the matter is that studios have been trying to make Watchmen happen since the 80’s. Even in recent years, industry heavyweights like Paul Greengrass and Guillermo Del Toro were courted to get a Watchmen film up and going, and nothing ever came of it. What Fox is doing to Warner Bros. and Zack Snyder is like the old man who has popped a handful of Viagra with no success, getting angry with the young guy who walks by and knocks off the hot-chick, no problem. No one respects that old coot. ...

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Oh No They Didn't! — ... build-up." del Toro did go on to praise the trailer's faithful recreation of the work, however. "I think Zack Snyder is a brilliant visual creator and everything in the trailer seems right - if not completely dead-on. To be absolutely honest, I even got a little bit of a geekgasm." There you have it - del Toro dropped two bombs there; one, he was green-lit to helm Watchmen at one time, and two, he actually used the term 'geekgasm' in a sentence. Source.