Damon Lindelof on Watchmen, the Tulsa Race Massacre, Prometheus, Lost, and More - Collider Connected
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- Damon Lindelof, co-creator of Lost, The Leftovers, and creator of HBO's Watchmen, talks about the acclaimed series' societal implications in the era of nationwide protests against racial injustice, the history behind each of his major television projects, his work on Ridley Scott's Prometheus, and much more.
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2:15 - 23:30 “lost” talk , greatest tv show of all time
Neil Brown go watch ur lame show like lame of thrones or walking dead !!!
@Neil Brown if that isn't your idea of a great TV show, you're a leftover.
LOST is one of my favorite of all time. loved hearing details about it
How refreshing to hear all this insight. No denying the mans catalogue is righteous.
Watchmen was the best comic book story I have ever seen on screen. Maybe the best tv series I have seen. Great interview. I love the take about Angela’s last scene in Watchmen and what that signifies in terms of her willingness to try to make a change.
Totally agree, and I would add that the moment when Jon falls in love with Angela speaks to this just as much. He says it’s because she is still going to try and save him, even though he knows she won’t be able to. Which in Manhattan perception is why it’s important that he’s standing on the pool, and to watch the eggs. All to say, he believes in her willingness/ability to create a better life in the present, and that is truly something beautiful. 💙
Watchmen has to be the most underrated show of all time. How it was not nominated for any Emmys is shocking, but deep down we know why. shows with black lead characters are often don't get recognition in Hollywood. it was brilliantly written and if you see what is happening now with race relations and the police in the US, it was well ahead of the curve. A genius show.
I think it qualifies for this years awards, not last years. It'll be nominated and win everything, because the race issues going on, if nothing else. I liked it, didn't think it was great. One too many lazy plot points, for my liking. And this is coming from someone who loved Lost and Prometheus, so take it with a grain of salt if you want.
It did win a Peabody award
The Emmy nominations come out July 28. Watchmen will get a ton. For sure lead actress Regina King, supporting actress Jean Smart and supporting actor for probably 2/3 of Tim Blake Nelson, Irons or Yahya. And the show will be nominated and WIN Best Limited Series
@@lukewilliam3601 i think you just have bad taste and much of the layers went over your head. Watchmen is lazy writing to you and Prometheus is good writing? Where women can't run side ways to avoid a spaceship falling in a straight line and so called highly trained scientists, smoking pot playing with a never before seen alien like it is a pigeon in the park? I just think you don't like smart entertainment
@@Delboy0 lol maybe your right. Just read posts more carefully before you respond so strongly - I did not say Prometheus was better written. I admit it has its problems, some larger than others, I just happen to like the overall themes and characters much more than those in Watchmen. Like I said, take it wit ha grain of salt. I'll take Lost, Prometheus, and especially Leftovers, over Watchmen all day.
Damon Lindelof is my favorite show runner and creator. Once i saw the stuff Cuse came up with after Lost I realized Damon was behind everything i loved with Lost. I think going into Watchmen for 1 season was BRILLIANT. I need Damon and Favreau to have lunch and create something. Or Taika and Damon. I'd piss myself.
what a revealing interview for LOST (TV) fans
LOST is (and will always be) my favorite show of all time.
I can never forget the fresh & imaginative story telling come to life by such an impressive and charismatic cast of actors. I will cherish those memories, Thank you good sir 🙏🏻
Second season of Leftover is the best! That reveal with the van...🤯💙
That good
Damon, here's my pitch for another season of Watchmen: You do another season of Watchmen.
Sounds like Casey Bloys' pitch lol
Mad props for his AT-AT and his Revenge of the Jedi poster! SOMEONE GET THIS GUY ON A STAR WARS PROJECT ASAP.
I feel like not a lot of people have finished The Leftovers. It’s seriously his best work, watchmen is fucking great but there’s still a lot to see with that story. Overall Leftovers is def his best writing so far
I will definitely check out his other projects following this interview.
@@ryanpatrickwhite97 Leftovers is definitely worth finishing, I even would say it's one of the few shows which knows when it should end and actually has a great ending. I feel like most shows running more than one season have a disappointing last seaon/finale/conclusion. Leftovers isn't one of them.
I watched Prometheus, Watchmen, and I'm on episode 2 of Leftovers.
Lindelhof is straight up trash. Always trying instead of executing. Its always an attempt, a reach, and it never truly gets there. Like your kid brother or friend with a half assed idea.
He got rid of his Twitter because he got shredded so bad.
@@DaleGribble1 Yet here you are on a Damon Lindelof video instead of being on a video with a writer you like
I finished The Leftovers. It's one of my favorite shows. But, Lost is definitely his best work. I really dislike when tv shows don't make any effort to answer questions. Lost made every effort in the book to answer questions for the audience (who were very snarky and unappreciative in my opinion). Leftovers is like Lindelof giving the audience the middle finger on mysteries-saying "you guys figure it out".
Watchmen is one of the best tv series in 5 years
Hell yeah, truly an instant classic
what I think helps make it all especially impressive is how strong (& frequently) Lindelof resisted the idea of telling the original story in a longer format, which they were VERY willing to have him do. Even if Zach Snyder never made his film, I could see him still feeling that way. It was only upon him coming up with his own way of telling a story after that that he was ready and would bother, which considering the source was a pretty risky thing to do. I've heard from plenty who wound up loving the HBO series who were extremely apprehensive of a "sequel" being attempted.
Man, I liked Leftovers soooo much better. Not sure if that was in the past 5 years or not.
I sincerely hope that someone does a show about greenwood. Not the massacre, but greenwood the community. Not only would it be timely and thought provoking, but it would be entertaining as well.
Lost is my favorite show of all time. It ended perfectly for me. Leftovers and watchmen where also amazing
I love Damon’s body of work so much! This interview was great! Thanks!
Yesssss I’ve been dying for this full interview thank you!!
The Watchmen segment, with Damon sharing so much on how Tulsa was the foundation, and how Regina King and the army of writers somehow threaded the needle to make this a perfect series is a wonderful recap to watching the Watchmen. I would love to hear the other writers at some point. Maybe you can interview them as well. Thank you.
I've loved Damon's writing since Prometheus but Watchmen showed the extent of his talent and brilliance and the show that came out is such a gift to fans of the comic. Alan Moore even should be proud because instead of british eyes looking into America's Vietnam it took a smart and harrowing look at America's true racist history from inside while weaving a fantastical web of storytelling. I was blown away and I want to see more of Regina King as Angela Abar or whatever they can do for season 2.
I couldn't believe how much I loved the watchmen miniseries. I'm not even the biggest fan of the comic or movie. They're good. But I'm obsessed with the show. Hit me so hard.
Leftovers is amazing. Best show ever next to Twin Peaks. Watchmen is great too, thanks Damon. Keep um coming!!
I love Lindelof. He is a great writer.
this is one of the most insightful interviews I've ever seen!
💙 love your work Damon!
"...ascend, transcend, before you get sent somewhere..." Damon, I caught that, and you're a genius.
Damon definitely could’ve been a lawyer
So nobody’s going to mention David’s “Revenge of the Jedi” poster!?!? Holy hell, that thing is f’n incredible.
55:46 is when the conversation moves on to the topic of Watchmen.
I was looking for this so bad lol
Thank You!
But then you'd miss out on 55 other minutes of good conversations...
@@moviereedviews it was great but I haven't seen lost or finished the leftovers so if I ever do see them I'll come back for that. I have def witnessed watchmen and it is fantastic and poignant.
he started like 10 minutes before... 🙄
What blows my mind about the idiocy and complacency of network TV execs (even what seems as far back now as the mid-2000s) it should've been significantly more clear even by the end of season 1 of Lost that the key reason it caught on as it did was it was a newer breed of storytelling. Diving in, not being afraid of heavy serialization. This wasn't something like E.R. (which managed that mildly at times), nevermind Law & Order. It isn't to say they just take what Lindelof & Cuse propose right off the bat, but how are you not more inclined to realize this thing needs a more closed ending. 10 seasons, christ how many even popular straight procedurals don't even make it 10 seasons (especially at 20+ eps per). It just seems ridiculous it had to be as much of a struggle with the network as it was.
also kills me the amount of people still bitched so long about "no payoff". Dislike the series, that's completely fair, but if it's mostly (if not entirely) because "they barely answered anything", well that's kinda odd because you seem to not bother to engage much with a series you would've had to buy into the fact won't spoon feed you everything. Whether very explicitly, or just with a fair amount of deductive reasoning, pretty much every significant mystery was dealt with. If you had something you don't know the answer to, I can almost guarantee you, like 85% I could answer it to a reasonable degree, and I'm a friggin dope. Which means you could too.
I see your 85% and raise you 95%. They explained far more than they even needed to. So much care went into the show and while it absolutely had its flaws, it was still better than much of TV today and deserves so much more appreciation.
that's the problem with fans of great shows and franchises. they get arrogant and picky
Great interviewer
Lost is the best show ever made and Tommorowland is too smart for the masses...
I stopped watching collider after the whole debacle at the end of last year. It really shows how much of their fan base was lost. They used to get 100,000s of views on vids. This is just sad now.
What happened?
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@@brentandrew2419 many of the main hosts/entertainers on the show were either fired, or left late last year. That's why all of their content is more celebrity based now, they knew collider wanted to change for some reason. It used to be more fan based opinions, and discussions about movies, and movie topics. Collider didn't realize that it was those people that the subscribers wanted to watch. If those vids still exist just look up old collider videos they were highly entertaining.
@@lydellpoag4010 ^^^
Prometheus is still one of my biggest disappointments of the last years. It was terrible. How do you write that an Archaeologist, who is just about to find his maker, that money is all he cares about? Also the casting was just completely shit. Except for Fassbinder.
Damon can do no wrong!
1. Lost
2. The Leftovers
3. Watchmen
Lindelof is the epitome of reservation 💯
The man is a genius and the haters can go hatch themselves.
I like the line - I might not have stolen it but I'm spending it.
40:52
Videos like this need chapter times...
Prometheus is so criminally underrated
i hate how it's clowned on so much. it's such a good movie.
It would have been nice to have actual Star Wars fan make the Star Wars sequels.
Hilarious seeing ppl get so offended that we were never taught this., yet I knew about this beforehand
Yes I also knew about it before, but that doesn’t change it the fact that many people were unaware of it.
Prometheus was so badly written I left the theater pissed off at Ridley Scott for letting it be so fucked up. Dumbest character decisions since Gilligan's Island.
Tried watching it. Couldn't get into the TV style acting trying to be bigger.
So Lindelof used a Watchmen sequel series to tell a story he already wanted to tell that had nothing to do with Watchmen. Wow. That's some bullshit. Lindelof has always been a hack, and still is.
So glad there wont be a second season. so cringe. Please watch THE BOYS. Much better series and far better acting, vision and storyline. Do a series about the actual event, dont hijack a seminal graphic novel to push it. PLEASE.
Dude ruined Prometheus, Jon Spaights script was way better.
To be fair, Damon does say this in the interview.
He didn't ruin it. Prometheus was good, but not what everyone wanted. The next movie pissed everyone off.
Doomsday Clock is the better Watchmen sequel.
Unlike Damon Lindelof, Geoff Johns managed to introduce the readers to two original black AND hispanic characters without turning the story into preachy, anti-white BLM propaganda.
he's a lefty liberal what do you expect lol
Yeah ok. The guy that ruined dc movies.
Ok racist
Was interesting until he started spewing white guilt nonsense