Poor Zack Snyder. Yeah, he's a millionaire director who gets to take on all kinds of cool projects, and yeah, Watchmen is finally getting released. But he's been through hell with the project from the very beginning, and now, just before the movie finally comes out, people won't stop asking him whether he'll bastardize the whole thing and make a sequel.

It's happened at every panel, every press conference, everything, and it happened again in a New York Times interview recently. Snyder told them what he's said before: Warner Bros. owns the rights, and they may decide to do something, but he won't be involved. "They can do whatever they want. They can make a movie." But he also seems confident that he's burned enough bridges in the story to make a sequel unlikely. " I’ve spoiled it, I think, a little bit. Do you leave that film going, “Man, I wonder what the next chapter is?”

Snyder's a smart guy, and the whole interview is worth a read, including his ever-diplomatic attempts to discuss Alan Moore's open hatred of the movie. Hopefully the movie will come out, be a hit, and Snyder can move on to making something that actually might have sequel potential.