We recently found out that HBO's small-screen take on
Watchmen will premiere on October 20, and now a new featurette has been released which provides our best look at the show yet.
Accompanied by commentary from showrunner Damon Lindelof and star Regina King, the footage makes it very clear that this "adaptation" will actually be a follow-up to Alan Moore's seminal comic series, as a Rorschach mask-sporting terrorist organization known as the Seventh Calvary rises up to wage war against the police force.
We also get a few more hints of Doctor Manhattan's presence in the story, and a glimpse or two of Nite Owl's ship, Archie!
Check out the featurette down below, and let us know if you plan on tuning in for
Watchmen next month.
From Damon Lindelof and set in an alternate history where masked vigilantes are treated as outlaws, this drama series embraces the nostalgia of the original groundbreaking graphic novel of the same name while attempting to break new ground of its own. The cast includes Regina King, Jeremy Irons, Don Johnson, Jean Smart, Tim Blake Nelson, Louis Gossett Jr., Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Hong Chau, Andrew Howard, Tom Mison, Frances Fisher, Jacob Ming-Trent, Sara Vickers, Dylan Schombing, and James Wolk. Watchmen is based on the graphic novel co-created and illustrated by Dave Gibbons and published by DC.