Who'll watch this Watchmen? (Lindelof / HBO)

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Postby reversemigraine » Tue Jun 20, 2017 7:35 pm

Let's get this out of the Leftovers thread...

https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/damon-lindelof-the-watchmen-hbo-1202473414/

Looks like Damon Lindelof may be going back to work for HBO.

Fresh off the series finale of “The Leftovers,” Lindelof is in talks to develop an adaptation of the comic book series “Watchmen” to the cabler.

This will be HBO’s second attempt at developing a series based on the landmark DC Comics miniseries by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. The premium channel had kicked the tires on a “Watchmen” project in 2014. Lindelof’s take on the series would be starting over from scratch independent of that effort.

Premiering in 1985, “Watchmen” was 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 declined to comment on the project.

“Watchmen” was adapted into a feature film produced by Warner Bros. and directed by Zach Snyder in 2009. No deal is yet in place for the HBO project, which we hear will be unrelated to that movie produced by Warner Bros. Television, where Lindelof is under an overall deal.
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Postby goofjan » Tue Jun 20, 2017 7:36 pm

Hands off, Lindelof!
plz if u get a chanse put some flowrs on algernons grave kthxbye
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Postby saranclaps ultra mode 9000 » Tue Jun 20, 2017 7:37 pm

Is Watchmen that popular with geeks to fill the GOT void? I guess if they can make a hit out of Westworld.
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Postby reversemigraine » Tue Jun 20, 2017 7:39 pm

Maybe this time they'll take the board's advice and make the story a commentary on superhero film franchises.
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Postby manvstrees » Tue Jun 20, 2017 7:39 pm

Pax Americana ep plz
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Postby reversemigraine » Tue Jun 20, 2017 7:41 pm

I'm open to the possibilities but it makes me sad that Scalped is getting a show on fucking WGN America and will probably be total shit.

Or that Lindelof couldn't have done, I dunno, Starman.
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Postby mustlovedongs » Tue Jun 20, 2017 7:49 pm

how gritty is this gonna be
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Postby mellowgold » Tue Jun 20, 2017 7:51 pm

hmmm
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Postby odilon redon » Tue Jun 20, 2017 7:51 pm

i loved the leftovers but there is no chance this ends up being a thing that was worth doing
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Postby vivian darko » Tue Jun 20, 2017 7:59 pm

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Postby Sweet Gregory Pectin » Tue Jun 20, 2017 8:21 pm

ueah but who'll watch the watchmen
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Postby reversemigraine » Tue Jun 20, 2017 8:21 pm

Oh God, what if his pitch was all about drawing parallels to Trump's America and he makes Rorschach an alt-right Pepe guy?
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Postby grammatron » Tue Jun 20, 2017 8:28 pm

saranclaps wrote:Is Watchmen that popular with geeks to fill the GOT void? I guess if they can make a hit out of Westworld.

The movie probably elevated it in terms of popularity a bit. Surely it's as popular as GOT was before the series.
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Postby glock mane » Tue Jun 20, 2017 9:22 pm

reversemigraine wrote:Oh God, what if his pitch was all about drawing parallels to Trump's America and he makes Rorschach an alt-right Pepe guy?


honestly, as someone who owns a bunch of the self-published Ditko zines… while it might be a departure from Moore's intentions with Rorschach, I would have to say this isn't much of a leap from the Mr A and The Question lineage of the character
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Postby becky » Wed Jun 21, 2017 7:43 am

fuck it why not
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Postby mellowgold » Wed Jun 21, 2017 7:56 am

becky wrote:fuck it why not


yeah lol who cares ill watch it if its good and make fun of it if it's not good. the watchmen isnt a sacred text lmao
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Postby baleen » Wed Jun 21, 2017 8:21 am

mellowgold wrote:
becky wrote:fuck it why not


yeah lol who cares ill watch it if its good and make fun of it if it's not good. the watchmen isnt a sacred text lmao


agree.

at the best, we get a solid HBO'd version of this story. at the very worst we get our next True Detective S2
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Postby goofjan » Wed Jun 21, 2017 9:14 am

which network is doing y the last man and y is it taking so goddamn long.

I still fantasize about an 80s Gilliam Watchmen movie.
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Postby reversemigraine » Wed Jun 21, 2017 9:19 am

goofjan grievens wrote:which network is doing y the last man and y is it taking so goddamn long.

I still fantasize about an 80s Gilliam Watchmen movie.


FX. Michael Green jumped on American Gods as co-showrunner, so that took up a lot of his time.
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Postby reversemigraine » Wed Jun 21, 2017 9:20 am

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Postby A-Ok » Wed Jun 21, 2017 9:58 am

imagine an interstellar influenced gateway/beyond the blue event horizon type series

or a dune series starting at heretics and going through chapterhouse
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Postby reversemigraine » Wed Jun 21, 2017 9:59 am

I wonder if Bradley Cooper's Hyperion series for SyFy is still happening.
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Postby bongo » Wed Jun 21, 2017 10:01 am

this is gonna be horrendous
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Postby vivian darko » Wed Jun 21, 2017 10:56 am

mellowgold wrote:
becky wrote:fuck it why not


yeah lol who cares ill watch it if its good and make fun of it if it's not good. the watchmen isnt a sacred text lmao

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Postby spix et chicho » Wed Jun 21, 2017 11:01 am

rejig it so the squid monster is the main character
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Postby saranclaps ultra mode 9000 » Tue May 22, 2018 4:44 pm

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Postby jefe górgory » Tue May 22, 2018 4:48 pm

why did damon lindelof take four instagram slides to rewrite that horrible once i was seven years old song
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Postby deadwolfbones » Tue May 22, 2018 4:51 pm

r m wrote:I wonder if Bradley Cooper's Hyperion series for SyFy is still happening.


I hope the success of The Terror gives that project a better home and a better budget.
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Postby reversemigraine » Tue May 22, 2018 4:53 pm

Damon's dad bought a bootleg script from Mr. Glass?
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