Oh man, this could really be something special!
Damon Lindelof, co-creator and showrunner on Lost, is moving back to HBO to bring the definitive comic book, Watchmen, to the small screen.
Just let that settle in.
Creators of the comic Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons created something truly special and timeless in Watchmen:
A serious-minded deconstruction of superhero comics loosely inspired by characters from the Charlton Comics library, which were owned by DC. Set in a universe in which the appearance of costumed heroes in the mid-20th Century had altered the course of history — leading to U.S. victory in Vietnam and a Nixon presidency that stretched into the mid-1980s — “Watchmen” followed a group of crimefighters investigating the murder of one of their own. In the process, those characters — including Doctor Manhattan, Nite Owl, Silk Spectre, and Rorschach — uncover a conspiracy with enormous implications.
HBO feels like it could be the right home for this show and even though we love Zack Snyder’s take on the story, we reckon the episodic nature, with the right team behind it, could really delve into the universe of The Watchmen.
More and and when we get it folks…
Source: Variety
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