Veja a seguir o que o diretor Zach Snyder tinha a dizer sobre :
“The reason that the squid got taken out of the movie was so there’d be more Rorschach and a little bit more Manhattan. Because we did the math, and we figured it took about 15 minutes to explain [the squid’s appearance] correctly; otherwise, it’s pretty crazy.”
So, with the studio’s requests that Snyder keep his “Watchmen” movie as brief as possible given the novel’s complexity, the squid bit the dust.