Recently, Regina King attended the San Francisco “Watchmen” premiere, organized by HBO, presenting Damon Lindelof‘s (“The Leftovers“) bold, highly-acclaimed adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons‘ iconic, comic book series.
A thorough departure from the majority of the graphic novels, Lindelof’s envisions a new alternate universe in which white supremacy has seemingly risen to power since the Tulsa Race Riot (Black Wall Street Massacre) in 1921, using the Rorschach mask as a symbol of hatred, many of the heroes readers are used to seeing are mere, revisionist propagandistic stories of an era long gone, the police force now the modern-day Watchmen.Continue reading Regina King Talks The Mixing Of Genres In ‘Watchmen’ & The Series’ Social Commentary [Interview] at The Playlist.
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