The Continuing Adventures of Watchmen’s Giant Squid

I’m not going to lie to you people?the giant squid suffered a massive blow this weekend, when?and this is all the spoiler warning you’re going to get, by the way?Watchmen director Zack Snyder said it doesn’t exist.

?The squid was not in the movie when I got the script, the squid was never in any draft that I saw. My point is only that there was this elegant solution to the squid problem that I kind of embraced. I?m a fan of the thing as much as anyone, I was saying what are we going to do about this before I even read the script,? said Snyder. ?The fans, god love ?em, they?re all up in arms about the squid. What they should be up in arms about are things like shooting the pregnant woman, ?God is real and he?s American?, whether THAT?s in the movie. That?s my point of view, maybe I?m crazy.?

That was Snyder talking to Dark Horizons, where he confirms he only filmed one ending, which would necessarily be the squid-less one. Snyder also says the ending tested well with people who had read the graphic novel, so either he’s lying or there’s something more to the Dr. Manhattan-esque atomic reactor meltdown-a-palooza ending that was reported by some nerds. I’m learning towards the latter, because everything else about Watchmen seems reasonably keen.

Squid or no squid, I can can’t muster up any indignant rage either way. But I do have an enormous craving for sushi. (Via /Film)