Regissören Zack Snyder ligger bakom en rad superhjältefilmer så som Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice och Justice League: Snyder Cut. Under en intervju fick han frågan om vilken av alla serietidningsrullar han är mest stolt över och svaret landade snabbt på Watchmen. Han säger så här:
"Well, weirdly, I kind of look at it in two ways. Like one I think, of course, Man of Steel, BvS, Justice League, is its own thing.... I don't know necessarily, whether it's a comic book movie in the classic sense, for me. But I can understand how people would say that because those are comic book characters and whatever, but, that's just based on ideas that I had about comic book characters,"
"I would have to say Watchmen, probably for me, just like the process of adaptation from comic book to movie design, all the things as we went from comic books to movie, I think Watchmen is like the cleanest, and kind of most satisfying, transition to adapted material."
Watchmen släpptes 2009 och var andra gången han gjorde film av DC:s serietidningar. Första filmen han gjorde var 300 vilken blev en stor hit.