Watchmen

LOST and Leftovers boss Damon Lindelof was a little cagey about confirming his involvement with an HBO Watchmen, but consider the bean juice officially spilled. A new photo teases an early read for the mysterious project, as the doomsday clock finally begins ticking.

LOST and Leftovers boss Damon Lindelof hasn’t formally confirmed his involvement with an HBO Watchmen, but the premium channel is more than happy to clarify a few details. For one, executives confirm any series wouldn’t take the form of a straightforward adaptation, but rather move Watchmen in a new direction.

HBO has been trying to get some form of Watchmen off the ground for years; most recently setting LOST and Leftovers boss Damon Lindelof on the concept. Lindelof hasn’t formally confirmed his involvement, now stating “I haven’t had any meetings with HBO,” though his reverence for the property tells a different story.

Who watches the Watchmen? Everyone with an HBO account, if Damon Lindelof has his way. The former LOST and Leftovers boss is officially in talks to helm a new TV series version of the Alan Moore classic, and Zack Snyder is nowhere near it.

If Zack Snyder if the filmmaking equivalent of a supervillain, and that’s precisely what he is, then his dark origin story came in 2009. He had earned a lot of admirers for his adaptation of Frank Miller’s 300, rendering the account of the Spartan warriors’ doomed last stand with visual panache and lots of sexy slow-mo. In 2009, he tackled an even more dense and beloved graphic novel with Watchmen and began his long, illustrious career in mangling things comic book nerds love. His Watchmen was literal, goofy, dim-witted, and dull, slavishly faithful to the source material without for a moment understanding what makes it work. It is history best overwritten.

Somewhere, Alan Moore’s beard is tingling. Zack Snyder’s cinematic adaptation of the iconic Watchmen comics divided fans, some sticking with assertions of the source material as “unfilmable,” others acknowledging the film’s effort. That conflict may end up sparked anew, now that Snyder has officially met with HBO for a Watchmen TV series.

This is a fun clip. It’s from a recent appearance from actor, comedian, and author Patton Oswalt (whose new book, ‘Silver Screen Fiend,’ all about his obsession with movies, will probably be of great interest to ScreenCrush readers) at the WORD Bookstore in Jersey City, where he did a public conversation with actor Patrick Wilson. Oswalt is a hardcore comic-book nerd in addition to his passion for film, and Wilson starred in one of the most polarizing comic-book adaptations of all time, Zack Snyder’s slavishly faithful version of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ ‘Watchmen.’ When a fan asked a question about the movie, both Oswalt and Wilson shared their honest feelings about the project, which you can watch above.

'Watchmen's' tragic vigilante is easily our favorite character from the comic and the movie, and we bet you'd never guess the cosplayer behind this excellent take on the hero is a lady.

If you were to make a list of the top video games you'd most want to see as movies (which we did), chances are BioShock would be in the mix (which we also included). Some fans will recall that one film adaptation was in the works back in 2008, but ultimately fizzled out and is now officially dead. If you're still not over this heinous crime and need someone or something to put the blame on, set yo