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DCEU director Zack Snyder confirms which of his five comic book movie adaptations is his favorite. Zack Snyder launched the DC Extended Universe in 2013 with the Superman solo movie Man of Steel, which he followed up with the ambitious 2016 crossover Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Zack Snyder had to step away from 2017’s Justice League, but he completed his vision for the team-up movie in 2021 in the form of the highly acclaimed Zack Snyder’s Justice League, also known as the Snyder Cut. Before his work in the DCEU, Snyder directed two popular comic book films: 2006’s 300 and 2009’s Watchmen.
Speaking to Comicbook.com, Zack Snyder revealed that the comic book movie he feels the proudest of is Watchmen. Snyder explains that he sees Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and Justice League as adaptations of “ideas” based on famous comic book characters, whereas Watchmen feels like a more direct adaptation of the comic book medium. For Snyder, Watchmen is “the cleanest, and kind of most satisfying” comic book adaptation he has made. Read Snyder’s full comments below:
“Well, weirdly, I kind of look at it in two ways. Like one I think, of course, Man of Steel, BvS, Justice League, is its own thing…. I don’t know necessarily, whether it’s a comic book movie in the classic sense, for me. But I can understand how people would say that because those are comic book characters and whatever, but, that’s just based on ideas that I had about comic book characters,” Snyder said.
“I would have to say Watchmen, probably for me, just like the process of adaptation from comic book to movie design, all the things as we went from comic books to movie,” Snyder said. “I think Watchmen is like the cleanest, and kind of most satisfying, transition to adapted material.”
Source: Comicbook.com
