Say It Ain't So: 'Watchmen' Headed to Sequelville?

This can't be a joke, because it's just not funny. Patrick Wilson told MTV recently that the powers that be might consider a sequel to Watchmen? Wilson, who plays Nite Owl in the film, is not one of those in charge. Neither, apparently, is director Zack Snyder. Instead, he's referring to the guys with the corporate expense accounts. "It’s all been talked about," he confirms. "Financially, they like to do that. But all of us, Zack included, all go, ‘How on Earth could you do a sequel or prequel?’" Exactly. Sequels are pretty much part of the deal if you make a blockbuster, regardless of what the story dictates, which is why Wilson has a sequel clause in his Watchmen contract. That's just the procedure now. "Even the guys from 300 might have had a sequel," acknowledges Wilson of Snyder's previous movie, which also couldn't have much of a second chapter. "It’s the most ridiculous option. It’s sort of a financial way to protect the studio, and I would do the same thing." Obviously, from a business standpoint, if it works once, it should work twice. If sequels weren't profitable, they'd stop making them. But the fact is, there's more sequels and remakes than ever before, or at least it seems that way. They're certainly big business, which is why talk of a Watchmen follow-up, while distressing, isn't terribly surprising. "Certainly, artistically, I can’t fathom how it would happen," Wilson says. "But hey, if Alan Moore writes it, I’d love to read it." Speaking of Moore, here's the author himself talking about the world of Watchmen as part of the two-disc DVD, The Mindscape of Alan Moore, which will be released on September 30th. The big question right now is not if a sequel will happen or even how it could happen, but rather which studio, Warner Bros. or Fox, would get to make it. That will be determined beginning in January.