Nine Inch Nails will score HBO’s Watchmen show

HBO is making a show based on Watchmen, Alan Moore’s seminal graphic novel about how our world would be different if superheroes walked the earth. Now, Entertainment Weekly reports that the network has hired a couple guys to provide the score: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, the only two permanent members of industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails.

Things are gonna get hard.

Or not. While Reznor is best known for influential albums like The Downward Spiral  and The Fragile, he and Ross have branched out before. They won an Oscar for scoring David Fincher’s The Social Network, and also worked with the director on the scores for Gone Girl and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (no, not that one). They even scored Ken Burns’ 16-hour documentary The Vietnam War, so they know how to pull back and get subtle with it.

That said, if they wanted to go full-bore industrial thrash for Watchmen, it would probably be a good fit.

We still don’t know a ton about the Watchmen show, although producer Damon Lindeloff, the guy behind Lost, has said it won’t be a straight adaptation. “We have no desire to ‘adapt’ the twelve issues Mr. Moore and Mr. Gibbons created thirty years ago,” he 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.”

Bass lines, tracks…He was thinking about the score even then, wasn’t he?

Watchmen will debut sometime in 2019.

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