SUBMITTED BY pimpjoe_esb

March 25, 2006 —

AICN is reporting that Dawn of the Dead director, Zack Snyder, is in talks to direct the big screen adaptation of Watchmen:

While I was there, I noticed a copy of the WATCHMEN graphic novel sitting on the desk of his office, and in our conversations about Frank Miller and his newfound luck in film translations of his work, the subject of Alan Moore came up. Snyder mentioned that he was about to meet with the producers of WATCHMEN to discuss whether or not he would come aboard to direct the long-in-development film.

Read on for more details!