Watchmen show gets series order from HBO, nifty teaser
“Nothing ever ends,” goes the well-remembered line from Alan Moore’s 1986 graphic novel, Watchmen. HBO is using that as the tagline in the first teaser for its upcoming Watchmen TV series from Lost and The Leftovers producer Damon Lindelof. HBO made the announcement via Twitter, where all things of importance happen:
Nothing ever ends. #WatchmenHBO #DamonLindelof pic.twitter.com/ioJU0dQipw
— HBO (@HBO) August 17, 2018
About a group of superheroes laboring under the threat of nuclear war with the Soviet Union in the ’80s, Watchmen was one of several comics that pushed superhero stories to become darker and more grounded. HBO has never done a show about superheroes, but if there’s one that fits at the network, this is it.
Per Entertainment Weekly, HBO has now officially ordered a full series, where before it was only making a pilot. We know that Oscar-winner Jeremy Irons will play a “leading man.” He’ll be joined by the likes of Don Johnson (Miami Vice, Eastbound and Down), Regina King (The Leftovers), Louis Gossett Jr. (An Officer and a Gentleman), Tim Blake Nelson (O Brother, Where Art Thou?), Adelaide Clemens (Rectify), Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (The Greatest Showman), Andrew Howard (The Outpost) Frances Fisher (Titanic), Tom Mison (Sleepy Hollow) Jacob Ming-Trent (SuperFly), Lily Rose Smith (The Vampire Diaries), Sara Vickers (Sunshine on Leith), Dylan Schombing (Warcraft), and Adelynn Spoon.
Lindelof’s Watchmen won’t be a direct adaptation of the Moore’s graphic novel, which is what Zach Snyder did with his 2009 movie version. “We have no desire to ‘adapt’ the twelve issues Mr. Moore and Mr. Gibbons created thirty years ago,” Lindelof wrote in an open letter to fans. “Those issues are sacred ground and will not be retread nor recreated nor reproduced nor rebooted. They will however be remixed. Because the bass lines in those familiar tracks are just too good and we’d be fools not to sample them.”
Watchmen will debut at some point in 2019, a year that will already include the final season of Game of Thrones, the third season of True Detective and the final season of Veep. Your move, Netflix.
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