When “Watchmen” underwhelmed at the box office recently, many were wondering what this meant for director Zach Snyder and his hard R-rated films with Warner Brothers. Snyder has responded to such criticism recently in an interview with EW.
“All the studio has ever said to me is, ‘We are proud of Watchmen, we think it’s awesome and we stand behind it,” Snyder admitted. “They’ve never said, ‘Ahh, it could have been shorter,’ or, ‘Too bad it’s so R-ish.’ And that’s really cool. I’m challenging them again with “Sucker Punch.”
His next film, which sounds like a Quentin Tarantino on acid — a group of gun-toting hot female mental patients escape an insane asylum, by fleeing to an Alice & Wonderland-like dreamscape — recently completed its casting with the addition of Emily Browning in the lead role after Amanda Seyfried was forced to pull out. Browning joins Evan Rachel Wood, Vanessa Hudgens, Abbie Cornish and Emma Stone. Of his all girls cast, Snyder said “they are all super excited because they get to play these juicy, mentally difficult roles, plus they get to fight. We need to get the deals done because they’ve got a lot of fight training to do.”
Does that mean others could drop out? Hmmm.. anyhow, as of right now, “Sucker Punch” is due out October 8th, 2010.
And anyone with sense still hates him.
Even as someone who had nice things to say about “Watchmen,” “Suckerpunch” sounds like it will be the worst movie ever.
suckerpunch sounds like quentin tarantino on stupid.
Watchmen was an incredible piece of work, as was 300 and Dawn of the Dead. I’ll follow Snyder anywhere. Sucker Punch should be very cool.