Now, we are watching the Watchmen’s long-gestating HBO series adaptation gain head into preliminary discussions once more, though with former Lost scribe Damon Lindelof replacing Snyder as the creative guide.
A shocking turn of events, certainly, but not at all a negative one.
When Zack Snyder took on the cinematic adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ seminal graphic novel Watchmen, logic itself seemed to be defied, but while everyone’s mileage may vary, it’s hard to deny Snyder’s passion for staying implausibly faithful to the completely ungrounded source material.