It envisions 2019 without the internet and cell phones, and you think that seems odd Robert Redford is in his seventh term as president, after first being elected in 1992. If anything, the new series is an extrapolation of the original. Meanwhile, Jeremy Irons as Adrian Veidt (Ozymandias) and Jeanne Smart as Laurie Blake (Silk Spectre) play characters that originated in the original comics. wins the war in Vietnam, with that country eventually becoming a U.S. Nixon, in this story, is never forced from office, and in fact, serves more than 20 years after term limits are eliminated. Some of “Watchmen’s” backstory remains in the HBO series, like the creation of the ultra-being Doctor Manhattan. “With Regina’s character, the question is how did what happened in Tulsa in 1921 become the most important thing that happened to her, considering that she wouldn’t be born for another 60 years,” asks the 46-year-old writer. Lindelof sees Tulsa 1921 acting as part of the origin story, sort of like Superman’s home planet Krypton. I’ve been the hero, and I’ve been the goat.“ ”I’m much more interested in something that I can fail at spectacularly. She is one of the few surviving members of a police force who had been slaughtered three years before by the Seventh Kavalry - a local branch of white supremacists.īeing behind two of TV’s trippiest series – the sometimes frustrating hit “Lost” on ABC and the elegant but sadly underwatched “The Leftovers” on HBO – Lindelof says he wasn’t just being provocative with “Watchmen’s” opening sequences and insists that it will pay off in the end. The new “Watchmen” stars Regina King as Detective Angela Abar, aka Sister Night when she wears her mask. “I was sort of ashamed and confused and embarrassed that I had never heard about it before.” “That was the first time that I heard about black Wall Street and what happened in Tulsa in ’21,” he says, referring to the Greenwood Massacre. The writer-producer says the idea evolved from when he read “The Case for Reparations” by Ta-Nehisi Coates a few years ago.

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