(Thoughts and prayers toPhantom of the Opera.)

“I knew Zack was ahead of the curve.

It’s weird to say that audiences weren’t ready for it.

Patrick Wilson as Dan Dreiberg

Patrick Wilson as Dan Dreiberg in ‘Watchmen’.Warner Bros./Everett

But you need a movie like that.

You need movies to go so dark that thenAvengerscan go so light.

I do believe in that.”

Almost as dark as theirfutures at the box office.

Which should be the point of adapting a piece of art from one medium to another.

“I’d love to do that movie now,” Wilson said.

“It would be so awesome to just do it now.”

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