Terry Gilliam Says Zack Snyder’s ‘Watchmen’ Needs a Kick in the Ass
Posted by Monkey 1 in: All News, InterviewsKyle Buchanan from Movieline recently spoke with The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus director Terry Gilliam and asked him about Watchmen, a film that Gilliam failed twice to adapt from Alan Moore's graphic novel .
Here's what Gilliam said:
“I felt a lot of it was so good. It got the look of it brilliantly. But it suffered from some of the things I was having problems with when I was trying to write a script. It’s too short. It’s also too long! It’s a very weird thing and they had to make so many compromises and changes. I was always saying it should be a five-part miniseries. I still believe that. But he got the look right, and the Rorshach stuff is really, really great. I think I felt if there was any fault, it was almost too respectful of the original. It needed a kick in the ass, frankly.”
So let me get this right. Gilliam's problem with Watchmen is that it wasn't exactly the length he would have wanted it to be, and that it was too respectful to Alan Moore's work.










