It might still be a contentious issue for some (don't tell Alan Moore), but Damon Lindelof and HBO are pushing ahead with their plan to adapt Watchmen for TV. The latest cast addition for the show is Jeremy Irons.
Lindelof's Watchmen is planned as a different beast from Zack Snyder's more faithful version of Moore and Dave Gibbons' iconic graphic novel. It'll treat that story as its history (occasionally dipping into it), and will focus on a more present-day story of superheroes still struggling in a world where they're outlawed.
Full details on Irons' character have yet to be released, but according to Deadline, he'll be playing an aging and imperious lord of a British manor. Sounds about right for him. He joins a cast that already includes Regina King, Don Johnson, Tim Blake Nelson, Louis Gossett Jr., Adelaide Clemens and Andrew Howard.
The show still has to prove itself with HBO bosses, but if the pilot passes muster, it'll head to series and should be on our screens in the next couple of years.
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