Watchmen fans crushed as show boss admits he has no interest in making second season
BAD news Watchmen fans – Damon Lindelof has confirmed he has no interest in making a second season of the hit HBO drama.
The show’s first season came to an end in December after an acclaimed nine episode run, but the creator of Lost and Alias has now revealed that he has told the story he wanted to tell but has given the network his “blessing” if they want to move forward with another showrunner.
But speaking at the Television Critic’s Association on Thursday, HBO’s programming president Casey Bloys admitted that “it would be hard to imagine doing it without Damon involved in some way”.
“It’s really in Damon’s thinking about what he wants to do,” said Bloys.
“If there’s an idea that excited him about another season, another instalment, maybe like a Fargo, True Detective [anthology-type] take on it, or if he wants to do something different altogether.”
Bloys added: “We’re very proud of Watchmen, but what I’m most interested in [is] what Damon wants to do.”
Based in an alternate version of 2019 without smartphones or the internet, Watchmen takes place over thirty years since the original, legendary graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.
The show is a “remixed” version of the source material, with Damon previously describing the show as using the comics as “our Old Testament”.
“When the New Testament came along it did not erase what came before it. Creation. The Garden of Eden. Abraham and Isaac. The Flood. It all happened,” he said.
“And so it will be with Watchmen. The Comedian died. Dan and Laurie fell in love. Ozymandias saved the world and Dr Manhattan left it just after blowing Rorschach to pieces in the bitter cold of Antarctica.”
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Viewers were then introduced to a masked police detective called Angela Abar (played by Regina King), who finds herself caught up in a plot involving a vast conspiracy centred around mentally unstable caped crusaders.
Only the villains are white supremacist terrorist group the Seventh Cavalry, who wear Rorschach masks as tribute to the character murdered at the end of the graphic novel’s story.