So what if anyone has yet to see Watchmen — director Zack Snyder wants you to know what fantastic disaster to look forward to in the unfortunate occasion of a sequel.

Not that he'll have anything to do with it, of course. Despite notoriously changing the ending of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' graphic novel, Snyder has long led the vocal charge against any franchising out from the equally devastating conclusion of his adaptation. He's not a total whore, after all; even he discovered limitations to his creative license, as elaborated in a cryptic, if amusing, weekend aside to the NYT:

We never did it, but we were going to do a limited release Bazooka bubble gum. I wanted Dave [Gibbons] to draw a comic book for me, and you had to collect all of them to make it make sense. I think it’s three panels per bubble gum, and you had to get 10 gums to make it all. And I was going to make a thing called Planet Rorschach. So you see this planet, and it’s covered with New York City. It’s like a planet of New York City. There’s no suburbs. There’s one giant Empire State Building, like Mount Olympus, in the middle of it. And hovering above the needle is [Dr.] Manhattan, blue, glowing.

But the planet’s going, “Hurm, hurm, hurm, hurm, hurm, hurm.” You can’t tell, it’s this big, deafening, “Hurm.” And as you get close, you go down into the city and the whole world is populated with Rorschachs. And they’re all bumping into each other, going, “Hurm, hurm, no compromise, hurm, hurm, Armageddon.” That’s basically it. So I was like, “Is that the movie you guys want to make?”

Probably not, though with a couple script polishes and a clever bit of Michael Jackson stunt-casting, a Rorschach spin-off may be just the kind of unlikely counterprogramming to win the Super Bowl 2011 weekend. Don't count it out.