HBO is gearing up for its first round of post-Game of Thrones genre programming, starting with Watchmen, a reimagining/retelling/sequel to Alan Moore’s classic graphic novel about superheroes making their way in a world shivering under the threat of nuclear war. LOST showrunner Damon Lindelof has aged up several of the characters and introduced a new story about a war between the police and a terrorist group known as the 7th Cavalry, but the dark undertones that made Moore’s original such a thrill to read are still there.
Or at least, that’s what Lindelof and company are hoping. Check out a behind-the-scenes featurette below and decide for yourself:
Will you be watching Watchmen when it kicks off on October 20? I’ll at least be giving it a try, if for no other reason than because I’ll get to listen to Jeremy Irons intone things of great import in his rumbling voice.
As long as we’re previewing upcoming shows, NBC released a first-look video about the fourth and final season of The Good Place, where Kristen Bell, Ted Danson and friends try to work out what it means to live a good life.
And everyone is dead and living in the afterlife. Except Danson; he’s a demon and was already there. It’s a great show and I’m going to miss it:
Let’s keep this trailer party going with the new trailer for Doctor Sleep, the adaptation of Stephen King’s sequel to The Shining:
I can already tell I’m not going to like it as much as Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 original, but points for trying. Doctor Sleep is directed by Mike Flanagan, the guy behind the popular Haunting of Hill House, which is good.
Sticking with horror movies, there’s a new trailer for The Lighthouse, starring Willam Dafoe and future Batman Robert Pattinson as a pair of lighthouse workers going slowly mad — MAD I TELL YOU — while on the job in the 1920s.
The LIghthouse comes courtesy of Robert Eggers, who made the 2015 creeper The Witch. Doctor Sleep who?
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