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Lindelof on the future of Watchmen and more

posted 4 years ago by dmac8 (5050)
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"I think that everyone wants to see how season one plays out."

"It was designed to be a complete story much in the vein of shows like Fargo or True Detective, with an understanding that there are many Watchmen stories to tell, but there's not a big cliffhanger in the final episode."

"I think the majority of the mysteries - at least the ones that are central to the stories that we tell - are resolved by the end of the ninth episode."

"We're all planning on taking a breath over the holidays and seeing where to go from there."

"If the idea is right, and if there is a compelling reason to do it, then I'd consider it. I haven't had that idea yet. The other thing about Watchmen is that it doesn't belong to me. .”

"Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons and John Higgins created this thing, I had the opportunity to be its steward for a couple of years."

https://www.ladbible.com/entertainment/tv-and-film-damon-lindelof-says-there-will-definitely-be-more-watchmen-in-future-20191118

[–] mobocracy (845) 4 years ago

I'm kind of hoping the idea of "not a big cliffhanger in the final episode" and "the majority of mysteries are resolved" is some kind of new HBO creative policy that will catch on generally.

It stands to reason that in an era of streaming content, a catalog of shows that have reasonably self-contained episodes makes more sense. Nobody wants a catalog of streaming content with shows that crap out because the "mystery" never got resolved due to early cancellation, etc.

I think it would also allow HBO or other content producers to take more risks with shows that *could* have long legs -- they can get a big budget for season 1, and even if its kind of a flop, at least season 1 is a self-contained story that doesn't have viewers wondering what the conclusion was supposed to have been because no more seasons got made.

[–] raymondoz2007 (2046) 4 years ago

Lindelof is a sick lefty pervert racist