Watchmen Trailer Easter Egg

According to the MPAA, there are certain things you can't do in movie trailers -- the green ones anyway -- and while many are obvious (like show two frontally nude people get shot in the face and say "fuck!") others are not. Watchmen director Zack Snyder ran into a problem with a few frames from the trailer that showed the assassination attempt on Ozymandias in which the would-be-killer is (sort of) pointing a gun at the camera. You can show the weapon, but it cannot be pointed at the audience (maybe people would shoot back?), so Snyder had the gun replaced with a walkie-talkie -- the same maneuver Spielberg pulled in E.T., which infuriated fans.

Shots of the cleverly satirical homage are below -- note the radio in the first shot and gun in second.



[MTV]