Premiere Date For Damon Lindelof’s ‘Watchmen’ HBO Series Potentially Revealed

HBO’s Watchmen premiere date may have been revealed ahead of an interview with executive producer Damon Lindelof..

There’s still a few months before HBO’s Watchmen makes its way on screen, but the premiere date might’ve been revealed by a fan account with a copy of an interview with Damon Lindelof, the executive producer of HBO’s Watchmen. Watchmen is based on Alan Moore’s graphic novel and is set in an alternate timeline where superheroes are branded as criminals. The series will take place after the Watchmen have disbanded (again). However, HBO’s Watchmen serves as a spiritual successor rather than a direct sequel.

The show was always set to arrive in October, but now a premiere date has seemingly been confirmed within a TV Guide that this fan account on Instagram got hold of. At the start of an interview with Damon Lindelof, the publication mentions the airdate — it seems like HBO will air Watchmen on October 20 at 9PM. Damon Lindelof and HBO’s take on Watchmen already seems like a refreshing take on the incredibly source material if the intial footage is anything to go by.

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HBO's Watchmen To Premiere on October 20th?! . It seems that Watchmen might be coming on October 20! The TV Guide's Fall Preview includes an interview with @damonlindelof, who talks about the show and its world and how he was first introduced to the comics. But the biggest thing might be at the beginning of the interview, where it says: "Premieres Sunday, Oct. 20"! HBO still hasn't confirmed the date, but so far it seems to be the date! Also, some interesting things that Lindelof Revealed: 1. The world of Watchmen will include Strict Gun Controls, in a way that even the police have limited access to firearms. 2. Lindelof still doesn't want to confirm that Jeremy Irons is playing Ozymandias! But he says that their take on the character is what will surprise the comic fans the most! 3. He says that the show's pilot is going to be weird both for viewers who never read the original comics and for people who are big fans, and that is their goal: "I want Watchmen to be accessible for people who didn't have an intimate familiarity with the comic. I figured I'm probably doing my job right if everybody is equally confused by the pilot!" Lindelof says with a laugh. 4. He says that the show will continue to be weird just like the comics: "On a scale of 1 to 10, if giant alien squid is a 10, I'm going all the way for the 10.". #WatchmenHBO

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Here is the official synopsis for HBO’s Watchmen series from Damon Lindelof:

Set in an alternate history where “superheroes” are treated as outlaws, WATCHMEN embraces the nostalgia of the original groundbreaking graphic novel while attempting to break new ground of its own.

Watchmen stars Regina King, Jeremy Irons, Don Johnson, Jean Smart, Tim Blake Nelson, Louis Gossett Jr., Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Hong Chau, Andrew Howard, Tom Mison, Frances Fisher, Jacob Ming-Trent, Sara Vickers, Dylan Schombing, and James Wolk. The series is produced for HBO by White Rabbit in association with Warner Bros. Television, based on Moore’s graphic novel co-created and illustrated by Dave Gibbons and published by DC.

Damon Lindelof’s Watchmen debuts in October 2019 on HBO.

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