The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log

On the Times’ Blockbuster Buzz Owen Vaughan talks to Dave Gibbons about the Watchmen comics and his involvement with the film version: “My involvement with Zach Snyder – I actually approached him. I’d been invited along to the London premiere of 300, which was based on the graphic novel by my friend Frank Miller. I thought it was a fantastic, a wonderful, true adaptation of Frank’s work. I think it had been announced then that Zach was in the frame to direct Watchmen, so I thought, I’ll have to go and shake him by the hand. I grabbed him on his way to the VIP enclosure at the premiere party and shook him by the hand and introduced myself. I just really wanted to say hello but we ended up talking for half an hour. I realised then that he did understand Watchmen. I got such a gut feeling that he could do it justice.” (thanks to Michael Moran for the link)

(cleaning up the streets in Watchmen, written by Alan Moore, art by Dave Gibbons, published DC)