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Damon Lindelof has confirm that hisWatchmenseries for HBO wo n’t adjust the 12 - progeny iconic comic miniseries . It also , by consequence , wo n’t be an adaptation ofZack Snyder ’s film from 2009.Lindelof - who was behind herald television serial such asLostandThe Leftovers -is aiming to do something whole new with the license .
In a very longInstagrampost - so long in fact that all of it is n’t even visible in the embed below - the author details his almost aliveness - long account withWatchmen . The original story is something the far-famed showrunner feels is very sacred . It ’s for this reason that he feels his TV story " must be original . " Yet Lindelof and crew wo n’t be ignoring what happened in the origin material .
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" We have no desire to to ' adapt ' the twelves go forth Mr. Moore and Mr. Gibbons created thirty years ago , " Lindelof writes , in a part of the post not visible below . " Those military issue are sacred ground and they will not be retread nor recreate nor reproduced nor rebooted . They will however be remixed . Because the bass voice lines in those familiar tracks are just too good and we ’d be fools not to sample them . Those original twelve issues are our Old Testament … To be clear . Watchmen is canon . "
Lindelof hold evident that everything that encounter inWatchmenwill befall ( or has happen ) in the goggle box serial . All the bountiful outcome will be present , including the jaw - dropping ending . At the same time the HBO series is n’t a subsequence . This is n’t just because DC Comics is currently publish an on-going series calledDoomsday Clock , which is a sequel toWatchmen . In fact , Lindelof does n’t seem to be at all concerned withDoomsday Clock . The HBO series will be its own beast , although still set in the same universe as the original graphic novel .
Lindelof even teases that the series might not stay in the same time period . fit in to the writer , there will be " new face . New Masks to cover them . " The series will also explore the past , through " surprising , yet familiar sets of eye . " Though Lindelof does n’t seem to outright say it , it seems like hisWatchmenadaption will be part subsequence , part prequel and in all likelihood even be concurrent with some outcome of the source .
The whole undertaking sounds fantastically challenging , weird and just a tiny moment perplexing . Yet that ’s exactly how aWatchmenadaptation should sound . The only direction the series is really going to make any amount of sense is when it ’s secrete and sports fan have a prospect to pick apart and dissect every material body .
Lindelof has been contract to task by certain buff many times , not only for his work onLostbutthe divisiveAlienprequelPrometheus . That said , he might be the perfect someone to tackle aWatchmenseries . His previous series , The Leftovers - which also took a novel and " remixed " it - hits on a lot of the same dense themes asWatchmen . WhileWatchmenhasn’t been picked up to series yet , with all the buzz surrounding the labor , it would be shocking if Lindelof ’s ambitious take did n’t make it to the little screen .
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