Watchmen screenwriter David Hayter urges fans to head out this weekend to re-visit Watchmen.

“If the film made you think. Or argue with your friends. If it inspired a debate about the nature of man, or vigilante justice, or the horror of Nixon abolishing term limits. If you laughed at Bowie hanging with Adrian at Studio 54, or the Silhouette kissing that nurse. Please go see the movie again next weekend. You have to understand, everyone is watching to see how the film will do in its second week.

If you care about movies that have a brain, or balls, (and this film’s got both, literally), or true adaptations — And if you’re thinking of seeing it again anyway, please go back this weekend, Friday or Saturday night. Demonstrate the power of the fans, because it’ll help let the people who pay for these movies know what we’d like to see. Because if it drops off the radar after the first weekend, they will never allow a film like this to be made again.”

I’ve never heard of someone attached to a film urging fans to re-visit a film before.  But, I do agree.  If you want movies like this mass produced, studios only look at numbers.  I’m going to be re-visiting the movie at some point.  Hopefully if they bring the Director’s cut to a screen near me.

Read the full letter at HardcoreNerdity.

[Source:  Slashfilm, HardcoreNerdity]