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PostPosted: Thu Oct 01, 2015 3:20 pm 
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Zack Snyder Meeting With HBO To Develop 'Watchmen' TV Series

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Here's a bit of majorly unexpected and hot piece of news. Director Zack Snyder, the man behind the 2009 film of the same name, has been meeting with HBO to discussing bringing a live-action Watchmen TV series to the network. Collider has learned that meetings have indeed happened regarding a serialized live-action version of the DC Comics classic. Being that there already was a live-action film in 2009, could this series be a sequel? Or perhaps an adaptation of the recent prequels that hit shelves? It's unclear at the moment. Collider did go on to state that while the meetings have definitely occurred, nothing has been greenlit yet but with comic book adaptations being as hot as they are right now, this project makes quite a bit of sense for the network to jump on. However, the network is well known for not committing to projects but with Games Of Thones coming to an end, it's highly likely that HBO is looking for their next adult oriented hit.


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I can't see a Watchmen series being successful without Rorschach.


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 01, 2015 4:28 pm 
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I think they've realized, at a point in history when it is obvious instead of forward-looking, that HBO series was the perfect format for this all along.

I think it would even match the 12 issue format of the original -- twelve episodes, unified by the smiley-face imagery and a different "comic book cover" feel for each episode.

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It's the way Sandman should go also. Some concepts just don't translate well in a 2 hr. movie.

Too bad that Hellblazer wasn't on premium so that we could get the real thing instead of the family hour version. I also can't believe that one of the premium channels hasn't picked up American Vampire. The kids today love their vampires and anything with American as part of a title is almost always guaranteed success.


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And if it's successful, we then get to watch them bring the prequel comics to live.

Then, HBO is showered with Emmys.

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 01, 2015 11:07 pm 
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Hanzo the Razor wrote:
And if it's successful, we then get to watch them bring the prequel comics to live.

Then, HBO is showered with Emmys.

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Your prediction is reasonable.


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They legally have the right to do this.


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If Alan Moore vigorously decries this, then I'm in.

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I just wish Alan Moore would shower.

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If they are going to adapt the original comic book as a TV mini-series, I hope they correct one big mistake in Alan Moore's alternate history, which I assume is a result of Moore not being familiar with how the American political structure works. In his book, not only do we find that the 22nd Ammendment has been repeal and Nixon is still POTUS in 1985, but Gerald Ford is Vice-President and has been re-elected numerous times.

Alan Moore probably doesn't realize that Ford was never a running mate of Nixon's in an election. He only became Vice-President when Spiro Agnew (from my home state) had to resign due to extortion, tax fraud, and bribery charges. An all-powerful Nixon is able to make Watergate go away, but doesn't make this vanish? I think somebody else would be Nixon's VP in 1985, maybe not Spiro Agnew, but a younger GOP officeholder like GHWB, Bob Dole, or Jesse Helms. I think in the Watchman universe, Ford would finally achieve the office that supposedly he REALLY wanted but never got---Speaker of the House of Representatives.

(This won't happen now because he's too busy hosting the Late Show, but it would be great to see a cameo appearance by Stephen Colbert playing THIS guy:

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 02, 2015 11:04 am 
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I'd likely watch it.

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You solved your problem in your first sentence Eddie.
Alternate history.Things happened differently and yet Ford still ended up as VP.
I don't think you give Moore enough credit for doing his research on what was at the time one of his most complex works.


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Ford was the VP suggested to Nixon and approved by Congress, but it was Nixon who chose Ford as Agnew's replacement. Not a stretch to think that Nixon would have keep him as his running mate.

I doubt that Moore was unaware of the identity of Nixon's running mate for his final two runs at the White House.


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'Watchmen' Moving Forward at HBO With Pilot Order

HBO is moving forward with Watchmen.

The premium cable network has officially handed out a pilot order and commissioned additional scripts for Damon Lindelof's take on Alan Moore's beloved graphic novel.

The news comes three months after The Hollywood Reporter broke that the Leftovers showrunner was developing a take on the DC Comics favorite. Lindelof also revealed on Instagram that the writers room for the potential TV series has officially been opened.

Lindelof originally read the comics as a kid in the 1980s and has said that the series continues to influence his work. "From the flashbacks to the nonlinear storytelling to the deeply flawed heroes, these are all elements that I try to put into everything I write," he told Comic Book Resources in 2009 ahead of the feature-film take. Lindelof has read Watchmen multiple times and, at the time, praised director Zack Snyder's film. "It's the most married-to-the-original-text version of Watchmen that could've been made," he told the Observer. "I want to keep it sort of insular," Lindelof said, referring to the multiple translations that have come from trying to translate the source material. "It's OK with me if people don't understand it because they don't deserve to understand it."

Snyder, who directed the feature-film adaptation of Moore's comic series, is no longer attached to the drama project from Warner Bros. Television, where both DC Entertainment and Lindelof are housed.

First published in 1986 and collected in 1987, Watchmen was created by Moore, artist Dave Gibbons and colorist John Higgins. The series was named one of the 100 best novels by Time magazine. Rumors of HBO tackling Watchmen first surfaced in 2015, when the pay cabler noted it was in preliminary discussions for a TV take on the property.

Snyder, who was briefly attached to the HBO project in 2015, adapted the comic and brought the title's "Minutemen" crime fighters to the big screen in 2009 with Jackie Earle Haley, Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Carla Gugino, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Patrick Wilson starring. The film, produced by Warner Bros. with a $130 million production budget, grossed a disappointing $107.5 million domestically and $185.3 million worldwide.

A Watchmen TV series would further expand HBO's place in the comic book business and offer a potential heir apparent to the premium cable network's fantasy drama Game of Thrones, which has one short-order season remaining. AMC has found success with The Walking Dead and Preacher, while FX has Noah Hawley's X-Men take Legion, which is already renewed for a second season. The comic book expansion has also gone far on broadcast after ABC, The CW and Fox found success with DC and Marvel fare including Agents of SHIELD, The Flash, Arrow, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow and Gotham, among others. Hulu recently picked up Marvel's The Runaways, Freeform has New Warriors and ABC next has The Inhumans as well as another season of Agents of SHIELD, while Marvel continues to have multiple series in the works at Netflix.

For Lindelof, Watchmen would arrive after The Leftovers, based on the book of the same name, recently wrapped its three-season run on HBO. The Lost alum is repped by CAA and Myman Greenspan.

Moore, meanwhile, announced his retirement from comic books last September, noting that "I think I have done enough for comics. I've done all that I can." On the big screen, his work has been adapted into the features From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, V for Vendetta and Batman: The Killing Joke. On the TV side, Fox tried in 2013 to adapt Gentlemen for the small screen. The drama did not move beyond the development stage.

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I'd watch this (on DVD, of course).

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Hey look, something else for Moore to get his nose out of joint about and use as the source of a grudge against someone.

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Hey look, something else for Moore to get his nose out of joint about and use as the source of a grudge against someone.

We all have our hobbies. :lol:


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Hey look, something else for Moore to get his nose out of joint about and use as the source of a grudge against someone.

And in turn, he gives something for the fans to whine about.


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Hanzo the Razor wrote:
ted262 wrote:
Hey look, something else for Moore to get his nose out of joint about and use as the source of a grudge against someone.

And in turn, he gives something for the fans to whine about.

We all have our hobbies. :lol:


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