Damon Lindelof Hasn’t Had Meetings With HBO About Watchmen TV Series

Damon Lindelof is bring coy about his possible involvement with HBO ’s upcomingWatchmenseries . TheLostandThe Leftoverswriter / producer has beenwidely reported to be developingan adaptation of Alan Moore ’s graphic novel for the transmission line channel , but has indicate nothing is official yet .

A longtime television receiver veteran , Lindelof broke through in 2004 as the atomic number 27 - showrunner – along with Carlton Cuse – of ABC ’s secret epicLost . Lostrevolutionized meshwork television storytelling , embracing new narrative dick that involved flashback , prison term travel , and some truly forward-looking skill fable thaumaturgy . Lindelof followed upLostwith work on blockbuster likeStar Trek Into DarknessandPrometheusbefore returning to telly with HBO ’s critically adore supernatural dramaThe Leftovers .

But Lindelof is pump the breaks on the premiss he ’s definitely diving intoWatchmennext . In an interview withTVLine , Lindelof clarify the project ’s current position .

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" As of correctly now , I have n’t had any meetings with HBO aboutWatchmen . "

While Lindelof is attempting to tamp down down his supposed involvement , he acknowledges he ’s been go about in some mental ability to consider developing the series , and is mulling it over , as he ’s long loved Alan Moore ’s Greco-Roman superhero deconstructionism .

" I ’ve been very vocal about my love for those twelve issues … that they were entirely and totally inspiring for all the storytelling that I did later , and that I owe a debt to it . I do feel like I have to matter the balance of ' should it be ' before I decide to take it on , and I ’m sort of in that process now . I hold the source material in such high gaze , it would literally be the risky tone in the worldly concern to screw it up … all I can say is I ’m thinking aboutWatchmena lot right now . "

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Lindelof ’s apprehension about adaptingWatchmenis probably saucy . For one thing , it was already recently adapted with Zack Snyder ’s 2009 film , which was a mostly close representation of the graphical novel that was met with a jolly quiet response . Lindelof is also no stranger to enfranchisement backlashes . Lost’sseries finale was famously polarizing , and his work on bothPrometheusandStar Trek Into Darknesswas meet with scorn from the outspoken corners of those franchise ’s fan bases .

All that said , Watchmenand Lindelof seems like a compeer made in heaven . WhileLostshares more than a little DNA withWatchmen , it ’s reallyThe Leftoversthat should wait on as substantiation of Lindelof ’s storytelling art . The weird , somber , darkly hilarious serial about grapple with grief in the font of unexplained disaster is one of the most striking shows of the twenty-first century , and proved that Lindelof has all the originative peter necessary to adaptWatchmen , a account many believe is unadaptable . If anyone can pull out it off , it ’s Lindelof .