Though we did geta prolonged , very challenging trailerfor HBO ’s Watchmen at San Diego Comic - Con , the upcoming Damon Lindelof serial did n’t have a panel there to offer more sixth sense . However , the Television Critics Association did get a Watchmen panel yesterday , and we now have a clearer estimation of the show ’s cardinal conflict . Turns out , it ’s more familiar than you might have realized .
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons ’ original comic , which derive out in 1986 and 1987 , famously drew from dawdle Cold War fear over nuclear tensions between America and Russia . Lindelof wanted his newfangled series , which is set a decade after the events of the books , to canvas the 2019 equivalent weight . accord toa composition on the TCA dialog box by Deadline , it was n’t hard for him to know what that might be : “ backwash and the police force . ”
He elaborated , in this quotereported by Slashfilm :
Regina King plays a cop in Watchmen.Image: HBO
“ That musical theme started to engraft itself into the Watchmen universe and needed to be presented in a responsible way , ” Lindelof said . “ My hope is over the track of the entire time of year , the nine sequence we ’ve completed , you ’ll have a much better sentience of that . I think those contradiction in terms were thing we were very cognisant of in storytelling and try out to square up to the estimable of our power . There are no easy answer . There are no la-di-da solutions . In a traditional superhero moving-picture show , the speculative guy are fighting aliens . When they beat the aliens , the alien go back to their major planet and everybody wins . There ’s no defeating white domination . It matte up like a jolly formidable opposition . ”
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However , both sources also noted that while HBO ’s Watchmen will explore themes that resonate with America ’s world in 2019 , there will be some famous differences between what ’s on the screen and what ’s really encounter . One is that the president on the show will be Robert Redford , who transitioned from play into political science to become “ the longest - serving POTUS ever , ” and whose “ very bountiful ” political science , per Deadline , have n’t necessarily made the world a good position . Neither has the fact that the world of the show is one without the internet .
“ It is not say to be a world that you recognize to Trojan horse composition that are in a real - macrocosm in a fictitious one , ” Lindelof sound out , per Deadline . “ What is literal history and what is alt - history and thing part to get blended in the centre . ”
Watchmen , starringRegina King , Jeremy Irons , Jean Smart , Tim Blake Nelson , Louis Gossett Jr. , and many others , collide with HBO in October .
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