Despite Damon Lindelof’s DC adaptation
Watchmen earning eleven awards at the 2020 Primetime Emmy Awards including Outstanding Limited Series, Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Outstanding Lead Actress (Regina King), and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series (Yahya-Abdul Mateen II), Lindelof has been publicly vocal about not wanting to develop a second season as it would be a “betrayal” following the show’s success.
Now, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, HBO’s chief content officer Casey Bloys has stated that there are still “no active conversations” regarding the future of
Watchmen with Lindelof or any other filmmaker.
“No change there. Never say never,” Bloys shared. “But that adaptation was so from his brain it’s hard to imagine somebody else doing it. But there are no active conversations, or courting anybody, or putting it out there in the way that we’re doing, for example, with