HBO's Watchmen TV Show First Look Photo Reveals New Character

HBO has support that product on Damon Lindelof’sWatchmenTV show is underway and resign a first facial expression photograph of a new fictional character on the serial publication . TheWatchmenTV show is a ( sort of ) sequelto Dave Gibbons and Alan Moore ’s groundbreaking 1980s comic Good Book series and appears to take place in the present - twenty-four hour period version of theWatchmenuniverse . As such , most of the superheroes that were still alert by the remnant of Gibbons and Moore ’s narrative will have either passed away or for good retire by the time Lindelof ’s series pick up .

Regina King , who previously worked with HBO and Lindelof onThe Leftovers , leads a plaster bandage in theWatchmenTV serial publication that includes Tm Blake Nelson , Louis Gossett Jr. , Don Johnson , Jeremy Irons , andAquamancostar Yahya Abdul - Mateen IIin key role . While it ’s been speculated thatIrons is play an former Adrian Veidtaka . Ozymandias ( the superhero and eventual antagonist in Gibbons and Moore ’s story ) , HBO is firmly keeping a lid on officialWatchmenTV show character details for the clock time being . Despite that , leak photos from theWatchmenset have already bring out thatJohnson specifically is encounter a law officeron the series .

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Intriguingly , the same readiness photos also show Johnson next to a radical of law officers tire out yellow masks that mostly cover their faces , save for their eyes . HBO has now posted a motility exposure of one such copper to the officialWatchmenInstagram bill , as part of its announcement confirming that yield is officially afoot on the series . Take a spirit , below .

It ’s not clear yet whether the police officer shown here is wearing a masquerade party for a specific purpose or if mask are simply part of the stock uniform worn by cops in the present - dayWatchmenuniverse . see as the series take place in an alternative reality where costumed superheroes and vigilance man were outlawed in the late 1970s , it ’s possible that , by the time the TV show picks up , the police have react to the continuing cosmos of mask offense - fighters by wearing face covers to well obliterate their own identities . Though again , it ’s also plausible that the law officer pictured here is wear a mask for reasons that have to do with a specific situation . That would further explain why Johnson is n’t bear a mask in the set photograph .

Watchmen , as a franchise , has always focused heavy on the moral and honorable implications of being a superhero and it ’s safe to assume that Lindelof ’s TV serial will carry that tradition over into its more modern setting . The relationship between the police and the present - day Watchmen should likewise have to a great extent into the serial ' proceedings , for the same understanding . In fact , a reportedWatchmencharacter breakdownindicated that many of the main role player on the show are cops of some motley or another ( King ’s protagonist let in ) . Either agency , in this particular case , the reply to the famous doubt of"Who look out the Watchmen?“seems to be , well , the police .

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