These plays get very involved we see pyrotechnics engulf one of the actors in real flames.

In the second episode, we see Veidt stage a play recreating the creation of Watchmen’s omnipotent blue superhero Doctor Manhattan’s creation starring his army of robot clones. Wherever he may be, Veidt lives in slightly sadistic seclusion. It’s unclear where any of this takes place could it be on a different planet entirely? The credits refer to Irons’s character as “Lord of the Country Manor,” but where that manor exists is anyone’s guess. And while the show doesn’t name him, Irons has been shown riding a pale horse, a symbol of Death and one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, and coddled with a staff of robots - a feat that would require a genius. The smartest man on Earth going into hiding and fooling people isn’t that difficult to image. Veidt faked an alien attack that changed the entire world. What the show has yet to establish is what Veidt is up to these days, or where he is.Īccording to a newspaper seen in episode 1, authorities believe Veidt to be dead after a years-long, worldwide search: A newspaper clipping asserting Veidt’s death from Watchmen’s first episode HBOīut the keenest of viewers - and comic book readers - know that this isn’t completely true. But despite these imperfections, the world was saved from nuclear destruction. In 2019, squids fall from the sky periodically. Now we get to see what life is like in that world, some 33 years after the attack.

Regardless of how one feels about what Veidt did, his giant alien squid attack and the coverup happened in HBO’s Watchmen universe. Is saving billions of people from inevitable war worth sacrificing millions of New Yorkers? Is it heroic to go along with the cover-up? Is it selfish to not go along with the cover-up, as Rorschach chooses? Readers, like the ex-heroes in the book, are left wrestling with the morality of Veidt’s attack. At the end of the comic series, though, it’s revealed that Veidt has concocted and enacted a seemingly nefarious plan: Veidt fakes an alien cephalopod attack that kills millions of real people, and in doing so, unites the United States, Russia, and other superpowers together (against said alien) and avoids an inevitable WWIII nuclear showdown. He’s a retired hero who observes the entire world from afar. Veidt is considered the smartest man on Earth who, at first, appears to be the rich, fancy, level-headed foil to the vigilante Rorschach’s impulsiveness in the book. Ozymandias, the central villain from the Watchmen graphic novel.

But based on showrunner Damon Lindelof saying Irons is “ probably who you think he is” in an interview, a few comic book clues laced into the show, and IMDB, Irons plays Adrian Veidt, a.k.a. Jeremy Irons’s character’s identity hasn’t officially been confirmed on the show yet. Jeremy Irons is Adrian Veidt who is also known as Ozymandias And while those who read Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s comic (or anyone who’s skimmed the series’ IMDB page) might know who Irons is, his identity creates a whole new set of questions. While the chaos in Tulsa swirls and as squids fall from the sky, Irons’s character is living in a lavish mansion roleplaying an affluent period piece - an Upstairs Downstairs fantasy with a. Among the unexplained: What kind of powers, if any, does Will (Louis Gossett, Jr.) possess to hang, as he says he did, Police Chief Judd Crawford (Don Johnson? Is Will even telling the truth? What other skeletons are in Judd’s closet beyond that Ku Klux Klan outfit? And what else will Angela (Regina King) find out about him and her family? Is Angela ever going to get a day off?Īnd there’s an even more stupefying one: Is Jeremy Irons even on the same show? Two episodes into HBO’s Watchmen, the show is already brimming with mysteries.

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