In concocting your own Watchmen, how did those themes come to the fore for you? I am proud of what we did but I’m also very nervous about it.ĭamon Lindelof’s Goal For HBO’s ‘Watchmen’: “Live Up To The Name” – New York Comic ConĭEADLINE: You have spoken about how this is not a version of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s iconic comic, and the swirling issues of white supremacy and American history that you wanted to tackle. I hope that we made something original, something surprising, something engaging, something worthy of discourse, something dangerous, something interesting, all the adjectives that I affix to the original Watchmen. LINDELOF: (laughs) Well, does this show deserve to stand shoulder to shoulder with the original 12 issues? I’m the least qualified person on the planet to say that. I hope that by the end of these nine episodes that what we’ll see is very opposite poles. I think that hardcore fans of Watchmen, devotees like myself will have a much different experience than people who had no familiarity with Watchmen. I do feel like the show itself is a Rorschach test. I don’t know if the audience is going to have a similar experience. The honest answer is sometimes I feel like, yes, we got very, very close to it and other times I’m banging my head against a wall in frustration. LINDELOF: You know, I honestly don’t know if this is the Watchmen that I wanted to make. ![]() ![]() So, now that it’s going public is this ultimately the Watchmen you wanted to make? ![]() The Lost alum also addresses being the white guy in the room, if there will be more seasons of Watchmen and the fallout from The Hunt, which was suddenly pulled for good by Universal in August after controversy exploded around the politically themed thriller.ĭEADLINE: Watchmen has been kept uncover more than a Presidential call to the Ukraine of late, dribbles here and there, but today you’re previewing the series at New York Comic Con. Robot' Final Season & 'Peaky Blinders'Īt NYCC for a panel and screening Friday, Lindelof sat down with me to talk about the long shrouded in secrecy series and what’s the story behind the story he and HBO are telling in the nine episodes of the Louis Gossett Jr, Don Johnson, Jeremey Irons and Hong Chau co-starring show. The Show To Watch This Week #NYCC Edition: 'Batwoman,' 'Walking Dead,' 'Mr.
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