HBO officially picks up Watchmen for a full series order and it'll premiere next year. With the popularity of comic book based properties at an all-time high, every media outlet is trying to get involved. Disney's got the MCU, Warner Bros. is developing multiple DC related projects, and Sony is looking to get a Spider-Verse going. On the small screen, Netflix, Hulu, and more have become involved, but one of television's most popular channels, HBO, has yet to get involved. That is, until they ordered a pilot for a Watchmen TV series from Damon Lindelof.
The series has already filmed the pilot, leaving the future up to whether or not HBO would move forward with an entire series order. Alan Moore's graphic novel is highly regarded as one of the best ever made, but Lindelof looks to be going in a different direction. While Zack Snyder largely adapted the novel for his 2009 big budget movie, the HBO series will dive into new territory - and HBO is officially moving forward with it.
HBO has given a full series order to Lindelof's Watchmen. The announcement comes shortly after the programming chief of HBO heavily teased this announcement was coming, but now its official. The series is going to move ahead quickly as the network already confirmed a 2019 premiere for the DC adaptation. In addition to the series being picked up, they also revealed the first art for the series, using one Dr. Manhattan's famous quotes to tease the continuation of this story.
Here's the official log line: "Set in an alternate history where 'superheroes' are treated as outlaws, WATCHMEN embraces the nostalgia of the original groundbreaking graphic novel while attempting to break new ground of its own."
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Source: HBO
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