From Alfred in Batman vs. Superman and Justice League to starring in the new Watchmen TV series, it’s learned Jeremy Irons has been cast as the lead for the new HBO upcoming pilot in an unknown role.
Watchmen series creator and producer Damon Lindelof confirmed the news of Jeremy Irons joining the cast on Instagram.
When I was 14, I got a job as an usher at the Route 4 Cineplex Odeon Tenplex (we had to call it that when we answered the phone) with hopes of watching every movie on every screen over and over again. As there were always ten in rotation, something had to be truly special to stand out. One that did was Cronenberg’s DEAD RINGERS, the tale of two homicidal gynecologists who happened to be identical twin brothers. I was in awe of the raw brilliance of the lead actor… and his brother was just as good as he was! I vowed then and there to one day work with at least one of them. That day is today. Mr. Irons… I am honored. Thanks for taking the watch, man.
The HBO Watchmen series won’t be an adaptation of the previous Zack Snyder film or the Alan Moore comic book, but will be something new.
“We have no desire to adapt the twelve issues Mr. Moore and Mr. Gibbons created thirty years ago,” Lindelof wrote in a letter to fans. “Those issues are sacred ground and they will not be retread nor recreated nor reproduced nor rebooted.”
Lindelof continued: “They will, however, be remixed. Because the bass lines in those familiar tracks are just too good and we’d be fools not to sample them. Those original twelve issues are our Old Testament. When the New Testament came along it did not erase what came before it. Creation. The Garden of Eden. Abraham and Isaac. The Flood. It all happened. And so it will be with Watchmen. The Comedian died. Dan and Laurie fell in love. Ozymandias saved the world and Dr. Manhattan left it just after blowing Rorschach to pieces in the bitter cold of Antarctica.”
The HBO Watchmen series is currently filming as set pics have released a first look at Don Johnson.
New set photos have shown Don Johnson’s character in HBO’s ‘WATCHMEN’. (Source: @HlywdPipeline) pic.twitter.com/oydR3CNebS
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