ZACK SNYDER - ZACK SNYDER LAUGHS OFF TALK OF WATCHMEN SEQUEL

ZACK SNYDER LAUGHS OFF TALK OF WATCHMEN SEQUEL

Director Zack Snyder has dismissed unfounded speculation about a possible sequel to Watchmen.

The dark superhero film, based on Alan Moore's classic graphic novel, is released later this week but 300 helmer Snyder said anyone mooting a sequel had missed "the entire point" of the film.

"There's no way I would be involved in a sequel or prequel," he declared. "I have no idea how you would. The work is the work. This movie is about ideas."

Named by Time magazine as one of the 100 greatest novels of the 21st century, Watchmen tells us of a group of masked vigilantes who tentatively reunite after one of their number is killed amid the backdrop of the Cold War in 1985.

"To continue is to either rehash the same idea again or you're going to try to fix the characters, which goes against everything the book stands for," Snyder explained.

"Or you could pick up new characters - or I don't know what. To me, philosophically, it just doesn't make sense."

Moore may have disassociated himself from the film but the conviction of Snyder - and star Jeffrey Dean Morgan - will be positively received by devoted fans of the classic mid-80s graphic novel.

"[They] would kill us if we tried to go and do something else," Dean Morgan, who plays The Comedian, commented.

"If we tried to do a prequel that wasn't written by Alan Moore, we'd get crucified. We couldn't walk down the street.

"Unless Warner Brothers wants all of their actors to get killed, I think it's a bad idea."

Watchmen is released on March 6th.