Unlike the A Song of Ice and Fire series that inspired HBO’s smash hit Game of Thrones, Watchmen is not comprised of thousands of pages of source material.
If Watchmen was limited to what happened in Alan Moore’s comic, it could run out of steam relatively quickly.
As long as that controversial element from the comic is adapted, surely many will be happy!
The confirmation that the HBO project won’t be a direct adaptation of the comic may come as a disappointment to any who were crossing their fingers that the Watchmen’s story as originally printed would be followed to the letter (or as much as possible) for the show, but it could bode very well for Watchmen as an ongoing show.