The 'Sleepy Hollow' actor joins Frances Fisher and Jacob Ming-Trent on Damon Lindelof's superhero series.
- June 29, 2018
AceShowbiz - HBO's upcoming series "Watchmen" is getting bigger with recently-added cast members. "Lost" alum Tom Mison has been cast in a lead role for the series' pilot. The actor previously starred on FOX's supernatural drama "Sleepy Hollow" from 2013 until 2017 and now he's back on TV with Damon Lindelof's drama.
On the new adaptation of "Watchmen", Mison will be joined by two other newly-added cast members including Frances Fisher from "Titanic" and Jacob Ming-Trent from "SuperFly". The three will get in action with Jeremy Irons, Tim Blake Nelson, Don Johnson, Regina King, Andrew Howard, Adelaide Clemens and Louis Gossett Jr. However, HBO and producers still keep the character's descriptions under wraps.
The pilot episode, meanwhile, just finished shooting. Lindelof took to Instagram on Thursday, June 29 to post a picture of director Nicole Kassell. "This is @nicolekassell, our magnificent director. Yesterday, she called wrap on the pilot of Watchmen...and let there be no doubt, she WAS the pilot, navigating our owlship flawlessly from takeoff to landing," he wrote on the caption.
"It was an absolute honor watching her work as she led our phenomenal crew (I love you, ATL!) each and every day... and should we get picked up, all of you will get to see her extraordinary talent for yourselves. Her shirt says it all. Thank you, Nicky... for EVERYTHING," the screenwriter thanked the pilot's director.
Lindelof stated a month ago that his "Watchmen" series would not be a strict adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' iconic limited comic series nor a sequel to Zack Snyder's "Watchmen". He called Moore and Gibbons' comic version the old testament. "We have no desire to 'adapt' the twelve issues Mr. Moore and Mr. Gibbons created thirty years ago," he said via a five-page open letter on his Instagram account.
