“By the way, I love ‘Watchmen.’ I have no regrets. I love that movie 100 percent,” Snyder said. “It’s exactly what I wanted. And in some ways, I think there’s a great college class that someone could teach on the difference between Doctor Manhattan and the squid. And why we would have chosen Doctor Manhattan and how thematically that works as it relates to the climax of that book. But I would also say, that based on doing the movie that I just did, ‘Justice League,’ I might consider it. Only because I feel like it would have required a slightly longer movie to do the squid, than say, Doctor Manhattan.”
Snyder added, “I think that to have the squid in the movie that I made, the movie would be a little bit longer. We had Manhattan already, so we didn’t have to set him up or anything.” Snyder has long maintained that if he were to include the squid attack in his “Watchmen” movie, then he would’ve had to cut out another part of the story he loves, such as the Comedian’s funeral. Snyder had runtime constraints, thus the squid had to be sacrificed. As the filmmaker told press at the time, “It was probably best not to [include the squid] because it would’ve ended up adding another 15 pages to the script. You know, just to kind of make that make sense.” Coming off his four-hour “Justice League” cut for HBO Max and in a world with an abundance of streaming platforms hungry for content, Snyder believes he could probably end up making a longer version of his “Watchmen” film that could support the giant squid attack. The scene is featured in Damon Lindelof’s HBO limited series “Watchmen,” but Snyder has yet to see it. Head over to Uproxx’s website to read more from Snyder. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.
