As yet another teaser poster arrived for Watchmen, featuring the ever-perky Rorschach (right), director Zack Snyder confirmed that the new ending for the film (screened in previews for eager fans) is indeed the version headed to theaters (if 20th Century Fox's ongoing copyright lawsuit allows for the premiere).
According to Dark Horizons, the new conclusion controversy deals with Snyder removing the manufactured giant alien squid that attacks New York at the end of the original graphic novel. The resulting destruction and terror of the staged event is intended to bring the world together in the face of a would-be alien invasion.
But, Snyder's version will include a new, potentially more upbeat ending. In fact, Snyder denies the squid's existence: "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."
Hollywood is expecting several rallies by protesting squid later this week.
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