The announcement comes as the masses continue to try and decipher what they can expect to see from the highly-anticipated series based on the 1986 DC comic of the same name.
In a five-page letter to Watchmen fans, Lindelof explained that his version wouldn't be a straight adaptation of the comic books created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. That was already done with the 2009 Zack Snyder-directed film.
"Those issues are sacred ground and they will not be retread nor recreated nor reproduced nor rebooted …they will, however, be remixed," Lindelof wrote. "Because the bass lines in those familiar tracks are just too good and we’d be fools not to sample them."
Lindelof says his Watchmen series will be an original story that picks up several years from where the original comic left off "in the world its creators painstakingly built."
While that summary potentially positions Lindelof's version as a sequel, he rejects that classification, adding that "some of the characters will be unknown."
The concept from the graphic novel appears to remain the same: superheroes have been outlawed and are in danger of being killed while cops have resorted to wearing masks to protect their identities from would-be threats. Meanwhile, the Comic-Con trailer seemed to hint at the threat of an underground terrorist group that has been inspired by the masked vigilante Rorschach.
