Zack Snyder is the man overseeing Warner Bros./DC’s movie universe at the moment, with the Justice League’s fledgling film days in full swing. But back in 2009, he tackled a much more controversial title, adapting Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen graphic novel. And if he has his way, the darker take on DC superheroics could be back – on TV.
Collider has heard that Snyder has apparently pitched some idea for a Watchmen series to HBO. No details were revealed about what form the story might take or where in the characters’ chronology the series could be set, but with Moore’s original tale and the more recent prequel run of comics (that sound you hear is Moore preparing a curse for everyone involved), there’s plenty of source material to draw from.
Beyond a brief statement from HBO ("preliminary discussions regarding Watchmen have occurred but we have no additional information and no deals are in place," as sent to The Hollywood Reporter), there’s no way of knowing whether this will actually go through. In the negative column, you have the fact that the movie didn’t do that well at the box office (despite its noble attempt to tell a complicated story in film form) and HBO is notoriously picky about what it puts on screen – several big projects, including those from directors such as David Fincher and Noah Baumbach have either been shut down during production or didn’t even make it past the pilot stage. Still, if anyone is going to actually make the series, HBO is clearly the best choice, what with relaxed restrictions on what can be seen on screen and that handy corporate synergy thing with Warner Bros.
We wouldn’t bet on seeing anything just yet, even if this does happen, but we can’t deny there is some appeal to letting the likes of Silk Spectre, Nite Owl, The Comedian and Rorschach live again in a medium that suits their longer, layered stories. Still, we can’t shake the image of Snyder looking up at some masked HBO executive and shouting “commission us!” with the suit whispering, “No…”
from Empire News
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