From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.

Alan Moore, co-creator of the 1980s Watchman comic series, has been very clear.

No Watchmen movie or TV show will ever have his blessing.

That includes the new series on HBO.

Keenly aware of that, Watchman showrunner Damon Lindeloff believes more may have put a curse on him.

There were times where I solicited the writers to engage in ceremonial burnings of things in order to vanquish the curse and they all looked at me like I was a crazy person.

And then you have that moment where you're like, oh, I am a crazy person right now. Lindelof thought he really shouldn't do the series,

but still he did create an updated version of Watchmen. Critics love it, the alt-right hates it,

and it's delivering solid ratings for HBO. Lindelof, a passionate lifelong Watchman fan, tells us why he said yes when Warner's asked him

for the third time to tackle this project.

But first on the news banter, Star Wars Wars, stay tuned.

It's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my colleague in banter, Matt Bellany, of the Hollywood reporter.

Hello, Matt.

Hi there.

So, Beniof and Weiss, this is the team that brought you Game of Thrones.

They were going to bring you three Star Wars movies.

They bailed this past week or jumped, were pushed.

I think a little bit of both is what my takeaway from all of this is. You have Star Wars, you have Lucasfilm, which has had a number,

a striking number of filmmakers come and go or have tough experiences, notably Lord and Miller,

who were fired from Solo. But there have been other problems that we've

discussed along the way. So I think as whatever was going on with Beniof and Weiss was developing,

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