source DC Comics HBO ordered to series its “Watchmen” TV show from “Lost” and “The Leftovers” co-creator Damon Lindelof, and announced that it will premiere in 2019. A film adaptation directed by Zack Snyder was released in 2009 to mixed results, and only after Warner Bros. and Fox settled a dispute over the novel’s film rights. Prior to that, several attempts were made to adapt “Watchmen.” Directors such as Darren Aronofsky, Terry Gilliam, and Paul Greengrass were all attached at one point. Moore himself has always been against adaptations of his work. Lindelof has said the HBO version will be an original, contemporary story with new characters, but the events of the novel will be canon. HBO gave a series order to Damon Lindelof’s “Watchmen” TV show last week. The co-creator of “Lost” and “The Leftovers” is taking a chance on adapting the most acclaimed … [Read more...] about We looked back at the long history of failed ‘Watchmen’ adaptations, as HBO officially greenlights its own star-studded TV series
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HBO picks up Watchmen live-action TV series, will debut in 2019
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' groundbreaking comic series Watchmen is set to emerge once more on the pop-culture stage—this time as a live-action series on HBO. The channel's announcement pegs the series' launch for "2019," with no news of a narrower window nor any hint about how many episodes to expect. It rounds up the series' massive cast, as has been teased in various reports over the past year: heavy-hitters Jeremy Irons and Regina King will headline the series, and the likes of Don Johnson (Miami Vice), Frances Fisher (Unforgiven), and Louis Gossett Jr. (Roots) round out the cast. Those actors' characters have not yet been confirmed. Today's news is careful to describe the show as "Damon Lindelof's new series," as the co-creator of Lost and The Leftovers has helmed this HBO version since its pilot episode was officially greenlit by HBO last September. Earlier this year, Lindelof posted a five-page essay on how this series will (and won't) stray from the … [Read more...] about HBO picks up Watchmen live-action TV series, will debut in 2019
Spider-Man for PS4 preview: A love letter to comics and open-world tropes
Spider-Man is headed to the PlayStation 4 (PS4) on September 7, and the game is coming from one of the industry's most accomplished studios for action-adventures. I played the first several hours of Spider-Man, uncovering the roots of its storyline and wandering freely in Manhattan. Ratchet & Clank. The studio's two most recent triple-A games—a 2016 ground-up remake of the original Ratchet & Clank for PS4 and 2014 Xbox One exclusive Sunset Overdrive—were two of the best I've played lately. Given the funny, clever writing of Ratchet & Clank and the crazy, innovative, open-world traversal of Sunset Overdrive, Insomniac seems like the ideal studio to make a Spider-Man game. And I got the impression that the team there is passionate about it. Before my four-hour play session, the game's creative director gave a speech loaded with love, admiration, and knowledge of the many decades of Spider-Man comics. While some superheroes have … [Read more...] about Spider-Man for PS4 preview: A love letter to comics and open-world tropes
The Blockchain: A Love Story—And a Horror Story
One day in the spring of 2010, Kathleen McCaffrey, a sophomore at New York University, received an invitation from a stranger named Arthur Breitman. On the basis of what Breitman had been told about her political persuasion by a mutual acquaintance, he thought she might want to join his monthly luncheon for classical liberals. (Breitman had also seen a photograph of McCaffrey and thought she was pretty.) McCaffrey, the curious type, accepted. Breitman was not typically one to overextend himself socially, but he made a “beeline” for McCaffrey, she recalls, when she walked in the door. The luncheon, it turned out, was actually for anarcho-capitalists—people who believe that an absolutely free, self-regulating market will allow individuals, bound to one another by contract alone, to flourish in radical harmony. But by the time McCaffrey discovered she’d been misled, they’d already hit it off. She told Breitman she admired Milton Friedman. Breitman was … [Read more...] about The Blockchain: A Love Story—And a Horror Story
The story of the internet, as told by Know Your Meme
Brad Kim’s mother recently found Jesus, which is nice but a little bit of a problem for him. “I don’t know how to tell my mom, like, ‘I don’t think I can ever get religious, as long as I’m on the internet. It’s kind of the anti-Bible. You learn everything terrible about human beings.’” Kim has been what the Twitter set calls “terminally online” for almost a decade now, ever since he graduated from NYU with a journalism degree in 2009 — arguably the worst moment in living memory to graduate from NYU with a journalism degree. With few options and a long-nurtured interest in memes, he took an unpaid internship doing research for a new web series called Know Your Meme, produced by the daily vlog channel Rocketboom. Hosted by various combinations of Joanne Colan, Kenyatta Cheese, Jamie Wilkinson, and Elspeth Rountree — “meme experts” in white lab coats — the series explained one meme per … [Read more...] about The story of the internet, as told by Know Your Meme