With HBO having now put in a pilot order for Damon Lindelof’s Watchmen TV series, now comes word on who’ll be directing said pilot.

As per Deadline, Nicole Kassell has been given the nod to helm the first outing for this hotly-anticipated TV adaptation of one of the very best graphic novels of all time. Kassell will likely be best known to genre fans for her work on the likes of Westworld, The Leftovers and The Woodsman. In addition to this, she’ll also serve as executive producer alongside Lindelof.

Watchmen began life back in 1986 as a 12-issue miniseries from Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, soon going on to become a hugely acclaimed classic and a tale regularly cited as one of the greatest comic book/graphic novel stories of all time. A big screen adaptation finally happened in 2009, with Zack Snyder directing a huge blockbuster starring the likes of Billy Crudup, Malin Akerman, Jackie Earle Haley, Matthew Goode, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

Said pilot is set to start shooting this March.