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Matthew Rhys, Katee Sackhoff Voice Roles

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The Doomsday Clock is ticking within the trailer for the animated function Watchmen Chapter 1.

Hailing from Warner Bros. Animation and Paramount, the title is the primary in a two-part movie primarily based on the basic DC Comics collection Watchmen, a satirical venture specializing in an alternate actuality wherein superheroes — often called costumed vigilantes — have been outlawed. Warner Bros. Discovery House Leisure releases director Brandon Vietti’s function by way of digital platforms on Aug. 13 earlier than it hits Blu-ray on Aug. 27.

The voice solid contains Matthew Rhys as Dan Dreiberg and Nite Owl, Katee Sackhoff as Laurie Juspeczyk and Silk Spectre, Titus Welliver as Rorschach and Walter Kovacs, and Michael Cerveris as Jonathan Osterman and Dr. Manhattan. Additionally voicing characters are Troy Baker, Adrienne Barbeau, Corey Burton, Jeffrey Combs, Kelly Hu and Phil LaMarr.

“There may be good, and there may be evil, and evil have to be punished, even within the face of armageddon,” Welliver says as Rorschach within the trailer. “I shall not compromise on this.”

Watchmen Chapter 1 | Redband Trailer 4K | Warner Bros. Entertainment

Vietti directed the movie from a script by J. Michael Straczynski. It’s primarily based on the comedian ebook collection from author Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons that was launched in 1986 and 1987. Vietti, James Krieg and Cindy Rago are producers on the film.

In 2009, Warner Bros. launched director Zack Snyder’s live-action function adaptation Watchmen in theaters after a prolonged improvement course of. Starring Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Patrick Wilson, the movie holds a 65 p.c approval ranking on Rotten Tomatoes and picked up $185 million on the international field workplace.

A decade later, an HBO collection of the identical identify from creator Damon Lindelof was set 34 years after the occasions of the comics. The present was extensively acclaimed, incomes 11 Emmys from 26 nominations.

Watchmen Chapter 2 is ready to be launched later this 12 months.

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Green Lanterns TV Series in the Works With Damon Lindelof, Chris Mundy

Damon Lindelof is returning to tv and to superheroes.

The author-producer, one of many co-creators of seminal journey collection Misplaced who later introduced seminal comedian Watchmen to the display as an acclaimed, Emmy-winning HBO restricted collection, is a part of the inventive crew behind Lanterns, the DC based-show from DC Studios.

Lanterns, based mostly on the heroes seen within the Inexperienced Lantern comics, shall be bringing status storytelling power behind the scenes. Chris Mundy, the showrunner behind Netflix’s crime collection Ozark, in addition to Eisner-winning and long-time DC comedian writer Tom King spherical out the inventive crew, DC Studios co-head James Gunn introduced on Instagram Saturday.

Gunn welcome Lindelof and Mundy into the DC household and stated the trio had written a “fantastic” pilot script and bible, asserting that the collection is now “placing collectively a crack crew of writers.”

Lanterns is performing as one of many foundational reveals for Gunn and Peter Safran’s DC Studios slate. “This performs a extremely massive function in main into the primary story we’re telling throughout movie and TV,” Safran stated in January 2023 when he and Gunn unveiled their preliminary DC plans.

On the time, Safran additionally described the collection as being True Detective-like in tone, “extra of a terrestrial-based investigation story.”

It’s unclear if that also holds although the social media publish accompanied by drawings of heroes Hal Jordan and John Stewart, implying will probably be a two-hander. The True Detective vibe might additionally come from Mundy, who served as an exec producer and author on the most recent Detective season, True Detective: Night time Nation.

After establishing his bona fides with Misplaced, Lindelof co-created The Leftovers, the HBO supernatural drama that explored the ramifications of dropping individuals in a sudden and nice disappearance. The present ran from 2014 to 2017.

He returned to TV in 2019 with Watchmen, which didn’t adapt the long-lasting comedian by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons as a lot because it used it as a backdrop to discover heroism and race relations whereas additionally shining a lightweight on the 1921 Tulsa race bloodbath. The present gained 11 Emmys.