Zack Snyder: Watchmen gives me the most pride

Zack Snyder thinks ‘Watchmen’ is his best comic book film.

The 58-year-old director has helmed several blockbusters in the genre such as ‘Man of Steel’ and ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’, though has now revealed he is most proud of his 2009 picture - which starred Patrick Wilson and Jeffrey Dean Morgan - because he felt it was "the cleanest, and kind of most satisfying, transition to adapted material".

Speaking to ComicBook.com. he said: "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.

"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. I think ‘Watchmen’ is like the cleanest, and kind of most satisfying, transition to adapted material."

Since finishing his time at DC Studios, Snyder moved over to Netflix to work on his own sci-fi franchise ‘Rebel Moon’, and released ‘Part One: A Child of Fire’ in December 2023 and its follow-up ‘Part Two: The Scargiver’ four months later.

Both flicks were met with heavy criticism upon their release, and the filmmaker admitted he was baffled by the "overreactions" to his work.

He told the Metro newspaper: "The reactions to my movies tend to really be these big... overreactions.

"Even just (with) ‘Rebel Moon – Part One’, I'm like, ‘It's not that controversial of a movie.’ A lot of people have this crazy reaction to it. And I'm just like, ‘I don't get it!’

"I’m not mad about it, but it just is what it is."