What did Zack Snyder seek advice about when he started making it?
“He basically wanted me to look at the screenplay to make sure there was nothing in it that particularly offended me. I’m realistic enough to know that things have to be adapted and changed and compressed. I gave him comment on that. I did do some visualisations of scenes that hadn’t been in the original graphic novel. I gave advice to the actors on set on how to deliver the lines. They didn’t have to do that at all, and I kind of suspect on some of the previous productions they wouldn’t have bothered.” Are you happy that the film uses a Cold War backdrop and doesn’t update the story to involve the War on Terror? “Yeah, I think that’s the absolute key to it because it makes it classic. It sets it in a historical timeframe and we can compare what’s happening nowadays without it trying to be ‘what’s happening at the moment’. There’s always a terrible thing with films that deal with pop culture that if it deals with the pop culture of today it gets really old, really quickly and I don’t t
