Damon Lindelof to Develop `Watchmen' for HBO

[Ubiquitous]

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

Fresh off the critically acclaimed 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. Sources say 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 Zack Snyder in 2009. No deal is yet in place for the
HBO project, which will be unrelated to that movie produced by
Warner Bros. Television, where Lindelof is under an overall deal.

[OH NOOOO!!!]

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[Jim G.]

Ubiquitous sent the following on 06/21/2017 at 12:09 PM:

> Looks like Damon Lindelof may be going back to work for HBO.
>
> Fresh off the critically acclaimed series finale of “The Leftovers,”
> Lindelof is in talks to develop an adaptation of the comic book
> series “Watchmen” to the cabler.

Well, that's unfortunate.

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[Ubiquitous]

jimg...@geemail.com.invalid wrote:
>Ubiquitous sent the following on 06/21/2017 at 12:09 PM:

>> Looks like Damon Lindelof may be going back to work for HBO.
>>
>> Fresh off the critically acclaimed series finale of “The Leftovers,”
>> Lindelof is in talks to develop an adaptation of the comic book
>> series “Watchmen” to the cabler.
>
>Well, that's unfortunate.

Easily the biggest understatement of the year!