TVLine Items: HBO Eyeing Watchmen Series, Fishburne as Mandela and More
Sometime in the not-too-distant future, you just might see Rorschach, Nite Owl, Dr. Manhattan, Silk Spectre II and Ozymandias on HBO.
The premium cabler has confirmed it is in talks to develop Watchmen — the DC Comics series adapted into a 2009 film — for television.
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Not many details of the project are available, but HBO is reportedly teaming with Zack Snyder, who directed the movie, to adapt Watchmen as a TV series.
In a statement to Collider, which first broke the news, HBO revealed that “preliminary discussions regarding Watchmen have occurred but we have no additional information and no deals are in place.”
Ready for more of today’s newsy nuggets? Well…
* black-ish star Laurence Fishburne will play the late revolutionary Nelson Mandela in Madiba, a six-hour BET miniseries centering on Mandela in the 1960s as he deals with political unrest in South Africa.
* Kelly LeBrock (Weird Science) will recur on Shameless‘ sixth season as Sammi’s mother, Queenie — an earthy, sensual, flamboyant and joyous woman, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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