“There’s a vast and insidious conspiracy at play. If I told you about it, your head would explode,” Louis Gossett Jr.’s character tells Regina King’s Angela Abraham in the official San Diego Comic-Con trailer for HBO’s highly-anticipated Watchmen show.
The trailer showcases a war between the police department and a group of Rorschach copycats — which is why we’ve seen officers in yellow masks. Oh, and Doctor Manhatten seems to have returned to Earth from Mars, so yeah, crank the hype meter all the way up and check it out:
So, it looks like the show’s creator Damon Lindelof is going to tap into the history of Alan Moore’s Watchmen graphic novel, as we see Hooded Justice jumping through a window to stop a robbery in progress.
The scene is from a movie about the Minutemen, the vigilante group formed in the 1940s that predated the Watchmen. It looks like The Comedian is part of this in-universe film that Tim Blake Nelson’s Looking Glass is watching.
Masked vigilantes watching a movie about masked vigilantes in a show about masked vigilantes is super meta and I’m here for it.
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If you read the Watchmen graphic novel or watched Zach Snyder’s 2009 Watchmen movie, you might recognize this:
That’s Nite Owl’s ship, Archie…
…and Archie is being piloted by Don Johnson’s Chief Judd Crawford. I’m not sure how Crawford came into possession of Archie, but if Lindelof’s version of Watchmen has Nite Owl retiring and moving to Tulsa, Oklahoma, then I’d be okay with that.
In fact, this next shot kind of looks like Nite Owl.
Finally, here’s a Doctor Manhattan parade on the streets of Tulsa…
Big Blue on Mars…
…and the last shot: Doctor Manhattan walking down a street in a suit and bending down to pick up a blue mask.
Watchman will make its HBO debut in October. Bring it.
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