>Prefacing his point with his memory of the original graphic novel, Lindelof said, “‘Watchmen’ was dangerous.”
>“The reason I’m doing this is because these are dangerous times and we need dangerous shows,” Lindelof said. “What we think about superheroes is wrong.”
>Lindelof said he “loves” the Marvel movies and “just saw ‘Justice League’ this morning.”
>“I’m all for Wonder Woman and Batman. I grew up on these characters. I love these characters. But we should not trust people who put on masks and say they are looking out for us. If you hide your face you are up to no good,” Lindelof said.
>Lindelof also described himself as a “superhero junkie,” dating back to his father’s obsession with comic books. When Lindelof’s dad was a kid, his mother threw away his comic book collection, and his father vowed to reassemble it. He later took Damon to comic book conventions in search of specific issues, which helped stimulate his son’s love of comic books.
>“In the middle of the ’80s, he gave me the first issue of ‘Watchmen’ and said, ‘This is probably too mature for you, but I think you can handle it,'” Lindelof said. “It crackled with energy.”
>Lindelof admitted the material was “probably too mature for me,” but reading it at the age of 12 lead to a “romantic” memory of the graphic novel that motivates him to this day.
>“For a superhero junkie, I’ve never done a superhero movie or a superhero TV show, and now is the time,” he said.
>Lindelof also speculated that if the series is picked up by HBO, it would air sometime in 2018 or 2019. He provided his last Instagram update on Wednesday with a photo of him (presumably, given the glasses) wearing a Rorschach mask. The caption reads “Day 40,” so things seem to be moving along swiftly with the adaptation.
Prefacing his point with his memory of the original graphic novel, Lindelof said, “‘Watchmen’ was dangerous.”
How does this dumb fuck keep getting work? Everything the works on gets panned.
>graphic novel
>Watchmen
This triggers me
How did this fucking idiot manage to get the exact opposite of Watchmen's point out of it
I'd ask the same about Snyder.
>Damon Lindelof
>Zack Snyder
>Geoff Johns
Why do the worst of hacks get to deface Watchmen?
>you don't live in the world where Lindelof and Ridley Scott did Blade Runner 2049
Thank
Fucking
Christ
>Everything the works on gets panned.
People loved The Leftovers, it's just that nobody watched it.
>you live in the world where Lindelof and Ridley Scott did Prometheus
Leftovers is the only good thing he has to his name though. I have no faith in one of the men behind, Lost, Prometheus, and Star Trek Into Darkness. I doubt it will even be better than the Snyder film.
>. But we should not trust people who put on masks and say they are looking out for us. If you hide your face you are up to no good,” Lindelof said.
Fuck that.
Years of anonymity on Sup Forums have taught me the mask is always about who's underneath. Some will use the ability to hide their identity for evil, sure. But others will still be good. And the logic makes sense for certain heroes because they're doing dangerous stuff and trying to prevent their personal family, friends, associates etc from getting hurt.
I have more hope in that animated film they're working on.
Watchmen isn't about challenging our ideas about Superheroes, though. It's about how radically different people who become Superheroes deal with a chaotic and hateful world that they're incapable of improving, and then cope with that (temporary) improvement and the costs it involved.
It's not about distrusting capes. So, why is he signaling that the show will be about audience skepticism, distrust and capes, then?
Also, The Leftovers kinda sucked. A lot of the character drama was really, really boring. It's a good (if completely unoriginal) concept but, damn, it aimed low, and those characters were often difficult to empathize with or tolerate for how dumb and self-involved they were. They're familiar, I'm sure people sympathized with them but, they were very unoriginal, also.
Not American. What's the Leftovers? A mini series, cancelled show or on going series? Never heard of it.
It's something you can easily google, you massive gay shite.
The fuck is goggle?
I thought the point was that comic book morality doesn't work in the real world.
He sounds like he understands the comic as well as the film did. I bet his favorite character is Rorschach
>no idea who this guy is really
>Or "the Leftovers" everyone is talking about
>Google
>It's a show that's basically ripping off the old Left Behind series
He's the guy behind Lost.
But we don't live in a world where power hides behind anonymity Damon you tool?!
>But we should not trust people who put on masks and say they are looking out for us. If you hide your face you are up to no good,
Antifa btfo'd
Also
>of the graphic novel
They literally JUST SAID "he gave me the first issue of ‘Watchmen’", what the fuck is wrong with people?
>If you hide your face you are up to no good,”
Literally the exact logic of J. Jonah Jameson when he's used as an antagonistic force in Spider-Man stories.
JJ Abrams?