Paul Greengrass discusses his unmade films, including a Joker-style Watchmen and an X-Men crossover

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Director Paul Greengrass has shared some details on two of his major unmade films – a Watchmen movie that would have been like Todd Philipp’s Joker, and an X-Men and Fantastic Four crossover.

Speaking to the podcast, and reported by , Greengrass said of his unmade Watchmen film: “I ꧃loved the book, or the graphic novel, and I liked Zack [Snyder’s] movie, by the way, which was a very faithful rendition of it. My view was, I didn’t want to do the faithful adaptation, and that may have been by the way a disastrous endeavour and that probably was why I didn’t get the movie made. I wanted to believe that these characters lived in the real world and that a lot of what they were thinking and doing was delusions.”

Greengrass then explained that: “There was something in the Joker that had that quality to it. The Joker was in a real-world, and he was filled with delusions, and somewhere the sup🎉erhero identities were within people’s minds and were interior delusions as opposed to actualities and the idea would have been to find where the join was.” 

He added: “I’m not sure it would have worked,” and commented he thought Christopher𓆏 Nolan pulled off a similar approach with his Batman trilogy better than he could have.  

As 💮for the X-Mena and Fantastic Four crossover, the filmmaker revealed his involvement was never really a sure thing. The movie would have seen Fox's Marvel heroes clash on screen for the first time, and Gree✃ngrass had discussions about what would have been involved.

 “They did t🌳alk to me about it," Greengrass said. “I wouldn't say I was attached. They did talk to me about it, and I thought about it.” 

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Molly Edwards
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I'm the Deputy Entertainment Editor here at GamesRadar+, covering all things film and TV for the site's Total Film and SFX sections. I previously worked on the Disney magazines team at Immediatꦰe Media, and also wrote on the CBeebies, MEGA!, and Star Wars Galaxy titles after graduating with a BA in English.