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
Another day, another confirmation that HBO has no current plans to bring back Watchmen. Damon Lindelof has said he doesn t want to make another season, and after the show s Emmy wins, he thinks continuing the story would be a huge betrayal. The show s star, Regina King, has said she d be open to [.]
Israeli actress Shira Haas received a Golden Globes nomination for best performance by an actress in a limited series for her leading role in Netflix series “Unorthodox,” the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced on Wednesday.
“Unorthodox” was also nominated for Best Television Limited Series, Anthology Series, or Motion Picture Made For Television.
The German-American show debuted on Netflix in March 2020 and was inspired by the 2012 memoir “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots” by Deborah Feldman. It was the first Netflix series to be primarily in Yiddish.
Haas plays Esty Shapiro, a 19-year-old Jewish woman unhappy in her arranged marriage among the ultra-Orthodox community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. She eventually flees to Berlin, the home of her estranged mother, and abandons her former religious lifestyle.
Watchmen Star Regina King Tries To Identify Which Superheroes Are Real
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Regina King may have played a superhero herself, but that doesn t necessarily make her an expert in identifying which are the real deal, and which are just created for comedic effect. She proved this a bit, during a Superhero ro Superzero? segment on
The Late Late Show With James Corden. Flanked by a trio of fake superheroes,
Late Late Show staffers dressed up as the DC heroes Arm Fall Off Boy and Polka Dot Man (set to make his big-screen debut in
The Suicide Squad later this year), and the British comics and TV hero Bananaman. King got one of her three guesses right.