‘Watchmen’ Composers Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross Talk Crafting Playful, Raunchy Sound For “Punk Rock” HBO Drama
Matt Grobar Assistant Editor, AwardslineWhen composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross first met with Damon Lindelof about his HBO superhero drama Watchmen, they had a hard time putting their finger on the tone of the show, and the kind of music that would be right for it.Based on a DC comics series created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons—which was previously adapted into a film by Zack Snyder—the gritty drama is set in an alternate reality, exploring episodes of racial violence erupting in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as the police face off with a white supremacist group known as the Seventh Kavalry.In comparison to the 2009 film, Lindelof’s take on Watchmen would be much more serious in tone, thoughtfully examining systemic racism within America, in a