Comic fanboys must be nearing Defcon Two right about now as more and more information trickles in on the “Watchmen” front. Also, spoilers abound beyond this point, so if you remain one of the seven humans who hasn’t heard about this yet and would like to remain in that shrinking group, read no further.
Possibly hoping to divert blame from the inflamed masses, he claims that “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.” He also goes on to say that all of the comic fans with whom he’s spoken have rated the film “excellent.” So, you know, it wasn’t his idea to change the ending…but if you liked it then it totally was [ed. PS, we too have a few versions of the screenplay and neither has a squid].