The Watchmen series that's currently in development at HBO -- to be helmed by Lost/The Leftovers' Damon Lindelof -- isn't going to be a straight adaptation, HBO prez Casey Bloys told IGN.

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Which makes sense when you consider that Alan Moore's Watchman is a closed story that could probably serve as the inspiration for, say, a single season of TV and not an ongoing series."I don't want to talk too much about it, but Damon is thinking about it in a way exactly as you describe it," Bloys said. "Which is, how do you take the material and derive from it a TV show, without making it a literal translation?"Would that mean creating material for the show that wasn't in the graphic novel? "I think so, yes," Bloys responded."Damon is one of the smartest, most passionate, most thorough writers I've ever worked with," Bloys continued, "so he's really thinking about this in amazing ways. Again, I don't want to talk about the details of it, but when you sit with him and you see the way his mind works it's really kind of amazing."

Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association (TCA). Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler