Zack Snyder has been talking openly about his directorial chair for the Watchmen big screen adaptation, and despite earlier reports that the script rewrite by Alex Tse are dumbing down the story, Snyder gives us some hope in his comments.

Through Empire he says:

"With 300, the book is incredibly beautiful, and to have it and to try to make those frames real…the difference with Watchmen is that I think Alan’s book is more like a novel that has drawings in it...

...I want to make this movie, it’ll be awesome to make it but I need to be convinced that it will be worth making, that we have respect for the thing. I’m going to wait and see right now – I’m the biggest sceptic...

...Everyone says ‘I respect the source material’ but I think what Hollywood misses and what we need to think about is what is the book about? What does it mean? It’s easy to get caught up in the mechanics of the script and the mechanics of the movie.

I think the screenwriters can forget what it'’s about. You have to deconstruct it and it’s more important to get to the philosophy of the book rather than the A to Bs. But as far as I’m concerned, the Watchmen movie needs to be hard and to challenge everybody. What does it mean for our society? What does it mean for our culture?"

Those are promising words indeed, sounds like he really wants it written just right before he goes ahead with it, and there are plenty of nods to the source material. However he does give us a stark warning, he says that he hasn't seen anything yet that makes him think that they're any closer to getting it made, and that is worrying, hasn't he read David Hayter's supposedly superb script?

Still, perhaps the reportedly poor script from Tse will get turned around by Snyder's influence and desire to make it right.