Paul Greengrass talks about "The Watchmen"

CHUD recently sat down with Paul Greengrass, the director of "The Watchmen" and had a indepth interview with him about his involvement with "The Watchmen". Here is a short clip of what he had to say.

It’s gearing up now. It’s sort of about two months in now, about six weeks in.

It’s interesting  the kind of issues that first raise their head, really. How do you deliver the Citizen Kane of comic books to screen? That is basically the problem. It’s a bit intimidating to be honest. I believe two things, really: I do believe, obviously because I am here, that you can make a film based on Watchmen the novel that is both truthful to the novel and also works in two hours. I really do believe that, I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t.

The second point is that I believe in an odd kind of way that it’s twenty years since Watchmen, give or take a year or two – certainly twenty years since it was set – and I think in many ways a lot of what Watchmen was about is very, very relevant to today.

The film begins with the paranoid delusions of a half-insane hero called Rorschach. But is Rorschach really insane or has he in fact uncovered a plot to murder super-heroes and, even worse, millions of innocent civilians?