Christopher Nolan has mentioned that he considers Zack Snyder’s Watchmen to be a movie that was “forward of its time”.

Watchmen was launched in 2009, based mostly on the DC Comics restricted sequence of the identical identify by Alan Moore. It was set in an alternate, dystopian model of 1985, following a bunch of retired superheroes as they examine the homicide of one in every of their very own.

Talking to The Hollywood Reporter, Nolan mentioned: “I’ve at all times believed Watchmen was forward of its time. The thought of a superhero group, which it so brilliantly subverts, wasn’t but a factor in motion pictures.”

“It could have been fascinating to see it launched post-Avengers,” he added.

Snyder’s new movie Insurgent Moon – Half One: A Little one of Hearth, starring Sofia Boutella, Charlie Hunnam and Anthony Hopkins, is launched within the UK on December 15, earlier than arriving on Netflix every week later.

Final month, Nolan responded to Martin Scorsese‘s assertion that cinema must be saved from superheroes, sequels, reboots and franchises.

Scorsese had urged that such movies current a “hazard to our tradition… as a result of there are going to be generations now that assume motion pictures are solely these—that’s what motion pictures are”.

In response, Nolan, who himself directed the Darkish Knight trilogy of movies, expressed his view that there’s room for each unique content material and superhero motion pictures.

“There’s at all times a steadiness in Hollywood between established titles that may guarantee a return in viewers and provides individuals extra of what they need, that’s at all times been an enormous a part of the economics of Hollywood,” he mentioned.

“And it pays for many different sorts of movies to be made and distributed.”

“A wholesome ecosystem in Hollywood is a couple of steadiness between the 2 issues and at all times has been.”

Elsewhere, Nolan lately confirmed that he won’t be directing the subsequent James Bond movie and that there is no such thing as a reality within the rumours linking him to the spy franchise.

Nolan additionally lately mentioned the “hazard” of movies solely being obtainable by way of streaming, stressing that he believes within the ongoing significance of bodily media.

Nolan’s Oppenheimer scored a glowing five-star evaluation from NME upon its launch in July. Within the evaluation, NME wrote that the movie was “not simply the definitive account of the person behind the atom bomb”, however a “monumental achievement in grown-up filmmaking”.