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Damon Laurence Lindelof (born April 24, 1973) is an American screenwriter, comic book writer, and producer. Among his accolades, he received three Primetime Emmy Awards , from twelve nominations. In 2010, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world .
- Updating The Original “Watchmen” Characters Got Really Complicated
- Making Hooded Justice A Black Man Was The Scariest Risk of The Show
- Making “This Extraordinary Being” Required Some Extraordinary Filmmaking
- Good Luck Getting Anyone to Reveal If The Show Will Return
In Episode 3, “She Was Killed By Space Junk,” we learn that the original “Watchmen” character known as Laurie Juspeczyk, aka Laurie Jupiter, is now an FBI agent hired to hunt costume vigilantes. When the writers were working on the episode, Jean Smart had not yet been cast in the role. Instead, they were thinking about a different actor — or, at le...
Lindelof read “Watchmen” as a young teenager when it first debuted as a series of individual issues over the course of 1986. Moore’s story also launches with the death of a major character, the Comedian, and for the first few issues, it seemed to Lindelof like a prime suspect was the mysterious Hooded Justice, who never removed his hood nor reveale...
Hooded Justice’s identity was ultimately revealed in Episode 6, written by Cord Jefferson and Lindelof, after Angela takes an entire bottle of Nostalgia pills containing all of her grandfather’s memories at the end of Episode 5. To best capture the subjective nature of living another person’s memories, Williams decided he needed to shoot just about...
With the finale looming, the question of whether this season of “Watchmen” is one-and-done, or the first chapter of a larger story, has yet to be resolved. And asking the people who worked on it if they want it to return brings no more clarity. “[It’s] a question so above my pay grade that I would not even know how to begin to venture an answer,” s...
- Adam B. Vary
Dec 15, 2019 · Photo: HBO. Damon Lindelof is a showrunner who needs no introduction. He has shepherded Lost, The Leftovers, and, now, Watchmen to glorious life. Over the course of its brief first season ...
- Angelica Jade Bastién
- Critic
It’s hard to overstate how risky, how primed for disaster, was the challenge that the creator, Damon Lindelof, signed up for. First, to adapt a notoriously hard-to-adapt subversive superhero comic.
Oct 20, 2019 · Oklahoma! Damon Lindelof’s reimagined spin on the Watchmen universe examines how characters new and old grapple with present-day life after the graphic novel’s concluding events ...
- Benjamin Lindsay
- Contributor
Oct 20, 2019 · Damon Lindelof, who created the nine-episode series, was determined to explore the long history of — and current furor over — racial tensions in America in “Watchmen,” a direction he ...
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Oct 16, 2019 · Oct 16 2019 • 11:08 AM. Damon Lindelof is one of the most ambitious storytellers in Hollywood, and Watchmen is one of the most ambitious graphic novels in terms of content and legacy. So it ...
