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New Watchmen Trailer Online!

Source:Warner Bros. Pictures

November 14, 2008

Warner Bros. Pictures has provided us with the new trailer for director Zack Snyder's Watchmen, opening in conventional theaters and IMAX. Warner Bros. Pictures' big screen adaptation of the graphic novel stars Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Matthew Goode, Billy Crudup, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin Akerman, Carla Gugino, Stephen McHattie and Matt Frewer.

A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, Watchmen is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the "Doomsday Clock" - which charts the USA's tension with the Soviet Union - is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion - a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers - Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity...but who is watching the watchmen?

You can watch the trailer in various formats here!

COMMENTS (106)

Posted by:

Richard Parker

November 13, 2008

To answer dead guy willie, the song is "Take A Bow" by Muse. Good song and great opening to the "Black Holes & Revelations" album. The lyrics and music are VERY fitting for the themes of "Watchmen."

I've gone back and forth with this movie, especially after I read the comic. I went from being interested, to being only kinda excited, to pretty excited...to now just merely being interested again after seeing this trailer and finding out that Snyder changed the ending. I won't say it so that those who haven't read it can (get up off their asses and) go read it, but...that's pretty much taking away the point!

Not to mention that it's pretty clear from the trailer that the characters are supposed to be part of some sort of "Watchmen" team, which contradicts the point of the comic as well. I get kinda annoyed when people say "THE Watchmen." There is NO the. They are NOT a team of some kind. They're not the f**kin' X-Men. There's a reason not a single character ever even uses the term "watchmen" in the entire book; I see that Snyder has disregarded that and has Rorschach (possibly the most important character next to Dr. Manhattan) say it not once, but at least twice.

I don't mean to be a purist. But there are reasons Moore wrote the story the way he did. I'll definitely see this movie, but I'm not really looking forward to it anymore.

But damn, it looks amazing. :)

Posted by:

RETRIBUTION

November 13, 2008

They sure know how to pick good music! I mean, HOL CRAP!

Posted by:

RETRIBUTION

November 13, 2008

THIS SONG BETTER BE IN THE SOUNDTRACK (or an "inspired by" CD)! Along with "The Beginning is The End is The Beginning".

Posted by:

nonentity

November 13, 2008

Looks phenomenal.

Moviegoer: With every post of yours (on multiple boards over the past week or so) I am further convinced that you don't go to the movies at all, because you don't seem to enjoy watching anything.

Posted by:

livefonos

November 13, 2008

Okay now that looked...Good?

Posted by:

Matt T

November 13, 2008

Somebody please tell me that the orb of blue fire tearing through the city about half way through the preview is not the new ending. Like "everyone" else i am very disappointed there is no squid but if they turn around and change it so much that Dr. Manhattan becomes the cause of the destruction and then a possible villain character for the world to unify together to defend against it will be absolutely miserable.

I do give 'internet props' whatever they are worth to Zack for standing up for alot of what he has for this movie, and i can see that they might have wanted to alter the ending "however", there is always a however, if they change it from the setup story wise as well as theme wise it will be a disaster. The setup of the ending and how it comes about is just as important if not more important then the actual final few epic pages.

The last chapter of this graphic novel contains some of the most amazing full page illustrations I have ever seen in a GN, irregardless of their content, I was surely hoping to see them brought to life in the same vein as Sin City

Posted by:

stoneman

November 13, 2008

great trailer...im going to see this movie no doubt. i just worry it might not be too good because its released in march.. it would seem to me that a movie with this potential would get released in summer not spring. especially since there is a lack of comic films this upcoming summer

Posted by:

sirgilesofham

November 13, 2008

Quis custodes
Ipsos custodiet.

Who watches the watchmen?

It is in the graphic novel, but not actually within the story. It is quoted in the back of the novel.

Posted by:

boyalien

November 13, 2008

"The last chapter of this graphic novel contains some of the most amazing full page illustrations I have ever seen in a GN, irregardless of their content, I was surely hoping to see them brought to life in the same vein as Sin City"

Matt T, you are correct sir. ZACK SNYDER KILLED THE ENDING OF THIS FILM. ADRIAN VEIDT SETS OFF NUCLEAR BLASTS AROUND THE WORLD AND PINS IT IN DR. MANHATTAN WHICH IS TOTAL ****ING BULL****.

Posted by:

The Newest Comedian

November 13, 2008

Looks horrible. No wonder Moore doesn't want to have anything to do with this garbage. Although this does look better than TDK. That's not saying much though considering how awful that was. Who watches the Watchmen? Nobody if this trailer is any indication!