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Wednesday, 26 July 2017

HBO's Watchmen Series Won't Be a Straight Adaptation

The Watchmen series that's currently in development at HBO -- to be helmed by Lost/The Leftovers' Damon Lindelof -- isn't going to be a straight adaptation, HBO prez Casey Bloys told IGN.

Which makes sense when you consider that Alan Moore's Watchman is a closed story that could probably serve as the inspiration for, say, a single season of TV and not an ongoing series.

"I don't want to talk too much about it, but Damon is thinking about it in a way exactly as you describe it," Bloys said. "Which is, how do you take the material and derive from it a TV show, without making it a literal translation?"

Would that mean creating material for the show that wasn't in the graphic novel? "I think so, yes," Bloys responded.

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