Zack Snyder Talks ‘Sucker Punch,’ Taking Green-Screen Action Too Far?

Whilst on press for the Bluray release of the director’s cut of “Watchmen,” Zack Snyder has discussed his upcoming project “Sucker Punch” in greater detail. And it really sounds like he hasn’t learned a thing. At least not where his critics are concerned.

“I think ‘Sucker Punch’ is a smart movie,” the director revealed to CHUD. “It absolutely is challenging, and it’s fucking hardcore. [At] the end she gets… it’s dark! But it’s fucking actiony like nobody’s business. We hope the action we’re creating is off the charts, and it’s not stupid.”

Okay, so we gathered from the film’s premise that the project is ultimately Snyder just flexing his muscles and pushing the boundaries but this just sounds ridiculous.

“I like fight choreography and I like being able to see what’s happening in action. When the girls are fighting, [like] they’re on their way to kill a baby dragon, they’ve killed all of these Orc-like creatures and they’re entering a door [and] it’s this classic, real Navy SEAL style room clearing. They have machine guns but they’re fighting mythic creatures, impossible creatures. The hand to hand stuff is all brutal, because Damon [Caro] did all the [fights] in Bourne and it has that vibe to it.” As good as these girls look, the bunch of them fighting dragons and Orc-like creatures!? Can this project sounds any more moronic?

Further, Snyder noted with Collider that the film will be “straight-up, in your face craziness,” “absolutely balls out, no holds barred, crazy action,” that would “probably be over an hour and a half but not two hours” and confirmed the cast of: Emily Browning as Baby Doll, Abbie Cornish as Sweet Pea, Jamie Chung as Amber, Jena Malone as Rocket, Vanessa Hudgens as Blondie and Scott Glenn who has just joined in an unnamed “wise man” role (please never let this man touch a Batman film ever).

The director also revealed the film would be shooting for a PG-13 rating, despite previous remarks. “If you can make ‘Taken’ PG-13, you can make this movie PG-13. That’s what I believe. Because it’s more fantastic. No one really dies in the movie.”

“Sucker Punch” has a tentative release date of October 10th, 2010.