Mr. Chimp wrote:Ratner's not been attached to this for some time, as far as I knew.

Back in June 2006, some wag on the Ain't It Cool News film site wrote:[url=http://www.aintitcool.com/node/23685]Well, we called it back in March, but now it's official. Zack Snyder's the man for WATCHMEN. In that article, I hinted at the identity of a writer who was brought in to go through every single one of Hayter's drafts as well as the book to try and really streamline this thing. As this film has bounced from studio to studio, the script picked up a little bit of scar tissue, residual material left over from notes that were executed to try to get that ever-elusive greenlight. Alex Tse has been brought in to try and strip all of that away and just get back to the cleanest version of Alan Moore's WATCHMEN possible.

That 300 editing room visit is finally cleared for publication, so expect to see that in the days ahead. It's great stuff, and as soon as I walked out of that room, I was sold on Snyder as the guy who can bring this epic story to the screen. We'll see.[/url]

Here is what Wikipedia has to say about Zach Snyder.


Dawn of the Dead was a well made, if not particularly memorable movie.

But I just saw the trailer for 300, and I have to say I was pretty darn near blown away by it visually - a step away from traditional cinematography a la Sin City (but not a rip of Sin City).


So, anyway. No Ratner.