WATCHMEN - Official Trailer (HBO TV-Series) - Comic Con 2019
Channel: CINETRAILER
Date: 2019-07-22

WATCHMEN - Official Trailer (HBO TV-Series). HBO's Watchmen TV series: Comic-Con trailer, release date, cast and plot. The new Comic-Con trailer brings the vigilantes one step closer to our doorsteps.

Adapting Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen graphic novel hasn't exactly been all smiles.

But with the long-awaited teaser trailer as well as a full Comic-Con trailer arriving for HBO's series, we know that the latest adaptation brings masks aplenty, retains the aesthetically pleasing black and yellow color scheme and assures us the end of the world is nigh.

Here's everything you need to know about HBO's upcoming series. HBO has been a standout at San Diego Comic-Con this year, with Westworld, His Dark Materials and Watchmen all around to fill the Game of Thrones TV slot void. (Meanwhile, the Game of Thrones SDCC panel continued to offer premium drama.)

The latest Watchmen trailer offered a deeper look into plot details, including an explanation of why the police of this world wear yellow masks -- to protect their identities from vigilante attacks. One of the most exciting clips is a shot of a blue hand picking up a blue mask. Is the space-travelling Dr. Manhattan ready to set up life back from Mars? Here, we have it. Our first look at HBO's eight-episode adaptation reveals there's not just one Rorschach mask-wearing vigilante out there, there's a whole underground community. Their speaker, featured at the very beginning of the trailer, says, "We are no one, we are everyone and we are invisible."

That doesn't bode well for the fate of this alternative universe, where the "hibernating" vigilantes, or superheroes depending on how you look at it, appear to be enacting an uprising that may lead to a "reckoning" and war with the yellow-masked police force (you can't miss them). The ominous chanting of "ticktock, ticktock" certainly sends a chill straight from this darkly-toned world. 

HBO has confirmed Lindelof's "revamp" is coming in October, 2019, and according to IMDb, the first series will be eight episodes, one-hour each, so there's hefty screen time for the large cast of characters. The teaser trailer didn't pinpoint with a date when it will premiere on HBO, but it will be in the "fall".

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Soundtrack fans, note that composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross of The Social Network are on board, hopefully bringing that dark, electronic sound that inspired the soundtracks of Mr. Robot and Ex Machina. The duo won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for their work on The Social Network, so ready your Spotify playlists, everyone. Lindelof will be on writing and producing duties, helped out by fellow producers Nicole Kassell and Tom Spezialy. Kassell, who's directed for HBO before on Westworld and on Lindelof's The Leftovers, directed the new series' pilot.

On June 27, Lindelof used Instagram to announce that filming of the pilot was done, praising Kassell: "Yesterday, she called wrap on the pilot of Watchmen... and let there be no doubt -- she WAS the pilot, navigating our owlship flawlessly from takeoff to landing." Then on Oct. 16, Lindelof announced on Instagram that "production starts TODAY" after the August announcement that the series was picked up by HBO.