A sequel series picking up where the movie left things (a la Fox's Minority Report TV series). The Watchmen faithful can be kind of touchy when it comes to the subject of this iconic comic being adapted into other forms of media; creator Alan Moore refuses to even have his name attached to any film projects based on his work.
Originally pitched as a television series by Ritchie, Netflix had proposed a film that is more suited to the narrative, which suggests that we get a plot similar to the movie, given the original
The Watchmen animated movie is part of the DCU under James Gunn and Peter Safran, though it could be another sequel, a prequel, or an adaptation of the grpahic novel. The limited series was a hit with critics, with the show garnering 26 nominations and 11 wins at that year’s Emmy Awards ceremony.The Watchmen - comprised of the Comedian, Dr. Manhattan, Nite Owl II, Ozymandias, Rorschach and Silk Spectre II - are a disparate band of masked superheroes, modeled after the Minutemen, who were masked superheroes of a generation earlier, most of who are dead or afflicted by the ravages of life. The Comedian belongs to both groups. Gary Frank/DC Comics. Like HBO’s Watchmen, Doomsday Clock shows us what could happen after the ending of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen, but in a very different way. In the TV series v7neAM.