Emmys 2020: “Watchmen,” “Succession,” & “Schitt’s Creek” Win Big
The 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards, which aired on Sunday night on ABC, was the most unusual ceremony in the telecast’s history. Yet, this virtual version of the awards ceremony managed to offer a lot of charming and satisfying moments, despite needing to take place remotely thanks to COVID-19. The evening’s big winners were HBO’s Watchmen and Succession, as ...
Emmy-Nominated “Watchmen” Production Designer on The Show’s Eclectic Inspirations
Not only did Watchmen top all TV rivals by earning 26 Emmy nominations; the sprawling HBO series also tackled racism in America en route to becoming arguably the most topical drama of the year. Rooted in the horrific 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre of more than 300 Black citizens, Watchmen pits fictional superhero Sister Night (Regina ...
Watch Regina King & Damon Lindelof’s Peabody Award Acceptance Speech for Watchmen
HBO received four Peabody Awards this year, which tied it for the most of any cable network or streaming platform. The awards went to three of their very best series—Chernobyl, Succession, and Watchmen—and the documentary True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality. For Watchmen, one of 2019’s best shows, period (remember 2019?), creator Damon Lindelof and his star Regina King accepted ...
Join Creatives from Watchmen, Game of Thrones, & More for Our Film School Friday Virtual Event
Today we’re hosting our first-ever virtual event, called Film School Friday, in what we hope will become an ongoing series. For film and TV lovers who enjoy knowing how their favorite movies and shows are made, Film School Friday will function a bit like The Credits does. We’ll be interviewing the folks who make the ...
Best of 2019: Watchmen’s Costume Designer Meghan Kasperlik on This Extraordinary Series
*We’re reposting some of our favorite interviews of 2019. Happy Holidays! Now that Watchmen has made its glorious debut on HBO and confounded just about every expectation, we can say with confidence that Damon Lindelof’s adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons iconic graphic novel is a remarkable testament to the original and a bold, powerful piece ...
Watchmen Buried a Major Easter Egg Right in the Original Poster
Watchmen had a just about perfect 9-episode run. Creator Damon Lindelof and his incredible cast and crew took Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ iconic graphic novel and made something entirely new out of it. Building from where Moore and Gibbons left off, Lindelof and his team hatched a completely gripping new story centered on Angela Abar ...
How Watchmen Cinematographer Gregory Middleton Captured Hooded Justice’s Harrowing Origin
Vancouver-based DP Gregory Middleton has lensed his share of prestigious series before Watchmen, having scored Emmy and ASC nominations for his work on different Game of Thrones episodes, and finding himself behind the viewfinder for shows like The Killing, cult hit movies like James Gunn’s Slither and many more. But it was working with director Nicole ...
Let’s Discuss That Epic Twist in Watchmen‘s Brilliant Episode “An Almost Religious Awe”
Last week we interviewed Watchmen costume designer Megan Kasperlik about her brilliant work on one of TV’s most thrilling new shows. In the world of Watchmen, what a character wears tells you a lot. Does their mask have an inkblot on it? Then they’re a part of the white supremacist group the 7th Calvary. Does her mask come ...
Watchmen’s Costume Designer Meghan Kasperlik on This Extraordinary Series
Now that Watchmen has made its glorious debut on HBO and confounded just about every expectation, we can say with confidence that Damon Lindelof’s adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons iconic graphic novel is a remarkable testament to the original and a bold, powerful piece of original storytelling itself. The reason is Lindelof and his incredible ...
Watch Original “Watchmen” Artist Dave Gibbons Draw Regina King’s Character From HBO’s new Series
This is cool. One of the two original co-creators of “Watchmen,” artist Dave Gibbons, appears in a new video from HBO. Gibbons draws Regina King’s character from the premium cable channel’s hotly-anticipated upcoming adaptation—of sorts—of his and Alan Moore’s seminal 1986 graphic novel. (Not only is Watchmen hotly-anticipated, but it’s already earning rave reviews from ...
HBO’s Watchmen Premiere Date Announced in Very Watchmen Way
There could be no other way to finally, officially announce the premiere date for HBO’s Watchmen. The adaptation of the iconic graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons has taken one of the most memorable motifs in Watchmen’s world—the Doomsday Clock—and used it to reveal when the series would finally appear on HBO: 10/20. Tick ...
The Buzziest Non-Marvel Projects From San Diego Comic-Con
San Diego Comic-Con, now in its 50th year, draws an estimated 135,000 fans of comic books, movies, and pop culture. This year, the major studios dropped a slew of highly-anticipated movie trailers (like Top Gun: Maverick), TV productions teased scenes from new shows (like Netflix’s The Witcher), and fans geeked out over behind-the-scenes tidbits about ...
Regina King’s Masked Vigilante Revealed in new Watchmen Images
HBO has finally released some images from their upcoming, highly secretive new series Watchmen, all of them focused on Oscar-winner Regina King’s character Angela Abar. King’s character is one of the new faces that series creator Damon Lindelof is introducing in his adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons iconic graphic novel. The little we know about ...
The First Teaser for HBO’s Watchmen is Extremely Satisfying
“We are no one. We are everyone. And we are invisible.” So begins the absolutely ripping teaser for HBO’s upcoming Watchmen, created by The Leftovers‘ Damon Lindelof and based on one of the most iconic graphic novels of all time. Lovers of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ game-changing comic (of which I am one) might find themselves ...
Welcome to a Terrifying Alternate America in Watchmen
For those of you already in mourning over the rapidly approaching end of Game of Thrones, there are a lot of intriguing projects debuting on HBO. One of the series we’re most excited about is The Leftovers co-creator Damon Lindelof’s adaptation of Watchmen. Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ iconic graphic novel is incredibly fertile ground on which to launch ...
HBO Reveals First Footage From Game of Thrones Final Season
What better time for HBO to drop the first official footage from Game of Thrones 8th and final season than during the Golden Globes? With a TV and film-loving audience planted on their couches as a captive audience, it’s a great opportunity for studios and networks to tease their upcoming projects (as Marvel did for Captain Marvel). Not only ...
Jeremy Irons’ Intriguing Role in HBO’s Watchmen Revealed
HBO’s Watchmen is one of the more interesting TV series currently in development. Based on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons iconic graphic novel, Watchmen offers a ton of potential for the canny creator (including the brilliant conceit and all those wonderfully weird characters), but just as many pitfalls. For one, there are few other comic-book narratives that are called ...
Mysterious Masked Figure Featured in First Look of HBO’s Watchmen
Who watches the watchmen? This is one of the most deathless lines from one of the most iconic graphic novels of all time, “Watchmen,” created in the late 80s by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. The phrase is likely based on the Latin “quis custodiet ipsos custodes,” found in the work of a Roman poet named Juvenal, which ...
The Leftovers Director Will Helm the Watchmen Pilot
Good news for Rorshach and the gang. Damon Lindelof has recruited The Leftovers director Nicole Kassell to his new show, HBO’s Watchmen. Kassell, who drove the meaty storyline of priest Matt Jamison (Christopher Eccleston) in The Leftovers, will direct the pilot. It’s always a good sign when creative teams stick together on new projects, and ...
It’s Happening: Damon Lindelof Teases Image From his Watchmen HBO Series
For those of us (and there are a lot of us) who adore “Watchmen,” the groundbreaking graphic novel by Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons, we’ve long thought the best medium for the material would be a TV series. Zack Snyder gave the material his best shot with his 2009 feature film, but there’s just too ...
