Squid Game Director Dong-hyuk Hwang is set to make "another controversial film" that will be even more violent than Squid Game.

Filmmaker Steph Green has been on a lot of television sets, but rarely is a director given the task of tackling a human story of trauma, an explosive 1980s flashback, a weightless sequence set on a far-off moon, and a giant squid attack all in one episode. That’s the challenge Green was given for her Watchmen episode “Little Fear of Lightning,” but she saw it not as a difficult task but an opportunity to do pretty much everything in the span of one hour of television. Watchmen is one of the most critically acclaimed shows in recent memory, …

Cloning is a major issue in HBO's Watchmen. Could the new grand plan to create world peace involve millions of clones instead of a giant squid?

Spoilers for Watchmen Season 1, Episode 5 follow below. If you haven’t watched the episode yet, turn back now! Ever since HBO’s Watchmen began, fans of the graphic novel have been waiting to see if the show would address the whole squid thing. While Damon Lindelof’s excellent series is set years after the events of the graphic novel Watchmen, those events did still happen in the world of these characters, meaning on November 2, 1985, a giant squid plopped down in the middle of New York and killed a whole lotta people. Those who’ve only seen …

Spoilers ahead for Watchmen (book, movie, and series premiere). At one point in the series premiere of HBO’s Watchmen, Detective Angela Abar (Regina King) and her son Topher (Dylan Schombing) are driving home when it starts raining tiny squids. If you’ve never read Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ graphic novel or have only seen Zack Snyder’s 2009 movie, this may have been a bit confusing, so allow me to explain. In the graphic novel, the world is on the brink of nuclear war. Former superhero turned industrialist Adrien Viedt brings together a bunch of artists and scientists …

HBO's Watchmen brings back the squid iconography from the classic graphic novel. Here's what the "aliens" mean for the series.