HBO’s Watchmen series teases new character
Damon Lindelof (Lost, The Leftovers) is making a new show for HBO based on Alan Moore’s classic graphic novel Watchmen, and it’s starting to gain steam.
We’ve already seen a teaser for the show, which is set some time after the end of the original story. A bunch of dudes wearing knockoff brand Rorschach masks chant “tick tock” and it’s kind of weird:
Things are equally odd over on the show’s official Instagram page, where it’s releasing GIFs and images in sets of threes, so they form little murals, like so:
Let’s watch each GIF separately and see what we can see. Here’s a guy pulling the mirror-like mask over his face. It looks not unlike the mask worn by Rorschach, an uncompromising vigilante hero from the comic.
And here he is breathing hard while images of Americana flash behind him. Someone stares back at him. Who is that in the reflection? Is it Jeremy Irons, who’s playing an older version of the hero Ozymandias, or am I squinting too hard?
The caption, “The Abyss Gazes Also,” comes from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche. The full passage reads: “He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.” Lindelof is taking us to philosophy class.
And in the final GIF, this mirror-masked vigilante walks into a crime scene.
So, who is this guy? According to Indie Wire, internet sleuths have been digging and concluded that his name will be Looking Glass and that he’ll be played by actor Tim Blake Nelson (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs; O Brother, Where Art Thou?).
We can hear Blake as Looking Glass in the trailer, speaking to Angela Abraham (Regina King). “I guess we have ourselves a reckoning.”
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So there you go: HBO is revving up the hype machine for Watchmen. Is the whole mysterious viral marketing thing they going working? Watchmen is supposed to debut later this year. Could it be the next Game of Thrones? Only time will tell, but it certainly looks promising.
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