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Oscar - winners Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross will provide music for HBO and Damon Lindelof ’s upcomingWatchmenTV series . The show , which isa ( sort of ) sequelto Dave Gibbons and Alan Moore ’s landmark 1980s laughable Koran series , is officially moving forrard at the mesh and will premiere sometime in 2019 .
While Lindelof has not exactly been coming withplot detail for hisWatchmenTV showthus far , he has substantiate that it will not be a strict retelling of the events in Gibbons and Moore ’s lifelike novel . The originalWatchmencomics were set in an alternate realism where superheroes exist , the U.S. get ahead the Vietnam War and Richard Nixon was still President by the time the story start in 1985 . It appears that Lindelof ’s serial takes place in the present - day version of that macrocosm , based on the modest details that fans have notice intheWatchmenset pic that’ve leakedso far .
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Per HBO ’s announcement , theWatchmenTV series will also feature a score indite by Reznor ( of Nine Inch Nails fame ) and Ross . The duo won an Oscar for their first motion picture score together on David Fincher’sThe Social Networkin 2011 . They have since gone on to leave the medicine for two more Fincher films ( The Girl with the Dragon TattooandGone Girl ) , as well as Peter Berg ’s Boston Marathon Bombing thrillerPatriot ’s Dayand PBS’Vietnam Wardocumentary miniseries . Most recently , they composed the medicine for Jonah Hill ’s feature directorial debutMid90s(which opens in theater in October ) .
Watchmenis now in production and features a cast that let in Regina King , Louis Gossett Jr. , Tim Blake Nelson , Jeremy Irons , Don Johnson andfutureAquamancostar Yahya Abdul - Mateen II , among others . Like the plot , the show ’s characters are being kept under wraps for the meter being - though , with the economic aid of apreviously - leakedWatchmencasting equipment failure , fans have already start out to speculate about who these doer are playing on the series .
base on his previous work onLOSTand HBO’sThe Leftovers , as well as his writing for movies likePrometheusandTomorrowland , it makes sense that Lindelof would be interested in deconstruct the concept of superheroes and how they tap into present - twenty-four hour period anxieties in the context of theWatchmenuniverse . The euphony by Reznor and Ross should further match the property ’s moody and otherwise stark tone ( to remark nothing of its heavy philosophical themes ) , if their preceding scores are any indicant .
All in all , with each smart update , theWatchmenTV show has become an increasingly intriguing addition to HBO ’s upcoming original programming slate . Between this , the return ofTrue DetectiveandGame of Thrones ' final time of year , 2019 will sure be a raving mad ride for the internet .
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