8 Things Watchmen TV Show Must Do Differently To Zack Snyder's Film

7. ...Or Just Make It A Prequel

DC's Before Watchmen event was immediately controversial upon being announced. As we all know, Alan Moore isn't a fan of seeing the license chopped up and shipped off to different creators, as to him, it exemplifies (partially) what's wrong with the modern day industry.

And while there were indeed some spin-offs that failed in a whole manner of different ways upon release, one series - written and drawn by the late, great Darwyn Cooke - seemed to justify the event and then some. Set during the golden and silver ages of Moore's universe, Before Watchmen: Minutemen followed the original Nite Owl, Silk Spectre, Captain Metropolis, Comedian and Hooded Justice as they moved into the Cold War era, with a narration provided by an older Hollis Mason.

The book was a critical hit when it released, with reviewers praising Cooke's feel for the world along with his art-style, which again, seemed to lend itself remarkably well to the original comic's aesthetic.

Following this route would at once differentiate the series from the film and the OGN and afford Lindelof and co. a great deal of space to manoeuvre. With the showrunner's Instagram photo highlighting the statue used to bludgeon Mason to death, it could be a more likely path for the show than once thought.