Fans were shown the first episode during a panel at New York Comic Con.
So I asked myself, what happened 30 years later?
What happened to Adrian Veidt after he saved the world?
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What was the world like after this giant squid on it?
Robert Redford was running for president, so what if he won and was president for almost 30 years?
I started to get captivated by those ideas.
It was amazing to have the book of images as a source of inspiration, Kassell said.
We would just study that book.
Most of the actors are playing new characters on the show.
She has some issues.
A special guest joined the panel partway through: None other than Dave Gibbons, the original artist ofWatchmen.
What Alan and I did withWatchmenwas we initially said, what if superheroes really existed?
What would they be like, and what would the world be like?
Which is quite a big question.
There isnt anything in this that contradicts the graphic novel.
So to me it is an amplification of it, rather than a dilution.
The original Rorschach is an extreme figure, but has sometimes been hailed by fans as a favorite.
Rorschach is a very interesting character, Gibbons said.
Other people had created it and we were taking it.
The Seventh Cavalry is appropriating Rorschach.
Hes been dead for 30 years so he doesnt get to say, you misunderstood me.
I wasnt a white supremacist!
Theyve decided what he was.
We thought that was an interesting idea to embed in the show since we were doing it ourselves.
Lindelof also creditedWatchmenstaff writer and former EW writer Jeff Jensen with introducing him and Gibbons.
Gibbons said, I think Jeff knows even do.Read Jensens 2005 oral history ofWatchmenfor EW.
The first episode ofWatchmenpremieres on HBO on Oct. 20.
