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'Watchmen' Teaser Trailer #1 - HBO
Posted on 5/8/19 at 1:47 pm
Posted on 5/8/19 at 1:47 pm
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Set in an alternate history where “superheroes” are treated as outlaws, this drama series from executive producer Damon Lindelof embraces the nostalgia of the original groundbreaking graphic novel of the same name while attempting to break new ground of its own. The cast includes: Regina King, Jeremy Irons, Don Johnson, Jean Smart, Tim Blake Nelson, Louis Gossett Jr., Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Andrew Howard, Tom Mison, Frances Fisher, Jacob Ming-Trent, Sara Vickers and Dylan Schombing. Produced for HBO by White Rabbit in association with Warner Bros. Television, based on characters from DC; executive producer/writer Damon Lindelof; executive producer/pilot director, Nicole Kassell; executive producer, Tom Spezialy; executive producer/director, Stephen Williams; executive producer, Joseph Iberti.
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Posted on 5/8/19 at 1:53 pm to RLDSC FAN
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Don Johnson as Chief Judd
Don Johnson in a lead role?
Posted on 5/8/19 at 1:54 pm to GetCocky11
Who the hell is Eduardo Sanchez?
Posted on 5/8/19 at 1:56 pm to RLDSC FAN
Does this pick up where the book universe left off? That would be kinda key for me.
Anything that supports the film version and its inexplicable choice to rewrite the ending can go to hades.
Anything that supports the film version and its inexplicable choice to rewrite the ending can go to hades.
Posted on 5/8/19 at 2:00 pm to Pocket Kingz
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Does this pick up where the book universe left off? That would be kinda key for me.
Anything that supports the film version and its inexplicable choice to rewrite the ending can go to hades.
Good question, though I believe it takes place many years after those events.
Posted on 5/8/19 at 2:08 pm to Pocket Kingz
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Anything that supports the film version and its inexplicable choice to rewrite the ending can go to hades.
I don't know. I feel like what they did in the movie worked better for a film than what the comic ending was.
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Does this pick up where the book universe left off? That would be kinda key for me.
Can't really seem to find an answer for this, but Jeremy Irons is playing Ozymandias, so it's definitely years down the road.
Posted on 5/8/19 at 2:30 pm to Sasquatch Smash
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I don't know. I feel like what they did in the movie worked better for a film than what the comic ending was.
Why do you think this? Budgetary constraints is the only valid reason I can come up with.
It is antithetical to the story in so many ways. It makes zero sense unless you want a dumbed down ending that is more satisfying to the masses (ie, the morons who brought their kids to see it).
It's also a real head scratcher considering you're making an "action" film and you pass on the chance to create a giant sphere shaped organism that is actually a living bomb that will kill millions while simultaneously brainwashing any living survivors that they were attacked by aliens? I MEAN WHAT THE frick?
Posted on 5/8/19 at 2:30 pm to Pocket Kingz
Cant wait for this.
Takes place 40 years later I think.
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Does this pick up where the book universe left off? That would be kinda key for me.
Takes place 40 years later I think.
Posted on 5/8/19 at 2:34 pm to Philzilla2k
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Good question, though I believe it takes place many years after those events.
Doomsday Clock?
Posted on 5/8/19 at 2:38 pm to RLDSC FAN
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executive producer/writer Damon Lindelof
Posted on 5/8/19 at 2:51 pm to Pocket Kingz
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It makes zero sense unless you want a dumbed down ending that is more satisfying to the masses
There's your answer.
But there was no way they could include the build up to the engineered creature in the film. Couldn't include the disappearances of scientists and whatnot. Couldn't include the in story pirate comic about the captain that goes mad or whatever.
Far easier to present a superpowered person and an incredibly intelligent man that learned to mimic his powers with technology in order to bring people together than engineer some alien threat.
Posted on 5/8/19 at 3:02 pm to Sasquatch Smash
I am probably in the minority, but I love the movie.
Posted on 5/8/19 at 3:09 pm to RLDSC FAN
Damn. That looks fricking cool. I didn't have much faith in it, but I'm kind of excited now.
Posted on 5/8/19 at 3:09 pm to McCaigBro69
quote:It's split. Just like all of Snyder's movies.
I am probably in the minority, but I love the movie.
Posted on 5/8/19 at 3:10 pm to abellsujr
How much of a split is there on 300 or Dawn Of The Dead?
Posted on 5/8/19 at 3:14 pm to iwyLSUiwy
quote:That's a cool idea.
Takes place 40 years later I think.
Posted on 5/8/19 at 3:39 pm to McCaigBro69
quote:There's a lot of us.
I am probably in the minority, but I love the movie.
Posted on 5/8/19 at 3:40 pm to 1999
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Damon Lindelof
That's my only real concern. I don't want to love this thing only to watch it meander into nothingness.
Posted on 5/8/19 at 3:46 pm to abellsujr
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Lindelof goes on to say that the series will not be a sequel and will be an original, new story that will “vibrate with the seismic unpredictability of its own tectonic plates” and how it will ask new questions and will, most importantly, be contemporary.
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“We have no desire to ‘adapt’ the twelve issues Mr. Moore and Mr. Gibbons created thirty years ago,” Lindelof said. “Those issues are sacred ground and they will not be retread nor recreated nor reproduced nor rebooted.
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He continued, “They will, however, be remixed. Because the bass lines in those familiar tracks are just too good and we’d be fools not to sample them. Those original twelve issues are our Old Testament. When the New Testament came along it did not erase what came before it. Creation. The Garden of Eden. Abraham and Isaac. The Flood. It all happened. And so it will be with ‘Watchmen.’ The Comedian died. Dan and Laurie fell in love. Ozymandias saved the world and Dr. Manhattan left it just after blowing Rorschach to pieces in the bitter cold of Antarctica.”
ETA: Dave Gibbons reaction to pilot script:
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Co-creator Gibbons recently spoke to Entertainment Weekly about his thoughts after reading the script for the pilot. “I don’t think it’s gonna be what people think it’s going to be,” he said. “It certainly wasn’t what I imagined it to be. I think it’s extremely fresh. I’m really looking forward to seeing it on the screen. I’ve been resistant to the comic book prequels and sequels, but what Damon’s doing is not that at all, it’s very far away from that.
This post was edited on 5/8/19 at 3:49 pm
Posted on 5/8/19 at 3:52 pm to craigbiggio
I watched that trailer and my response was “What the frick was that?”
Based on what I’m seeing, we basically are getting V For Vendetta with Rorschach masks instead of Guy Fawkes masks.
Based on what I’m seeing, we basically are getting V For Vendetta with Rorschach masks instead of Guy Fawkes masks.
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