As a piece of literature, Watchmen contains myriad layers and references and a lot more have come to life through the imagination of its legion fans. When writer Hans Rodionoff came on board, we were able to take that conceit and craft it into a program that was both believable to the world and the time period of Watchmen's parallel reality, while still conveying the information integral to Under the Hood's role in the Watchmen narrative. The author would appear on talk shows and the book would be discussed in the mainstream media. I discussed the idea with Wes Coller and Debbie and Zack Snyder that we should consider treating it as a popular book's author would be treated in the media. The trick was to come up with a vehicle that could carry the information in a dynamic way. To realize it cinematically in a direct translation would amount to a book on tape. It's essentially presented as pages of prose that close out each of the original comics. How did you overcome this problem, and how do you think it turned out? Do you think it does justice to the comic, and its fanboy legion?Įric Matthies: In it's original form, Under the Hood is a first-person memoir written by an original masked adventurer.

: Watchmen's narrative presented cinematic problems, in that much of its back story is transmitted through text.

Carla Gugino's Silk Spectre grabs face time on the talk-show circuit in Under the Hood.

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