First WATCHMEN Teaser Trailer Introduces an Army of Rorschachs

None of you seem to understand.  They are not locked in here with you.  You are locked in here with them.

HBO has released the first teaser trailer for Damon Lindelof's new series Watchmen, based on the classic DC Comics limited series by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, revealing an army of Rorschachs and older versions of some original Watchmen characters.

The one-minute, ten-second trailer opens with a man wearing a homemade mask similar to the one worn by Rorschach.  Looking directly at the camera, he says in a gruff Rorschach-like voice, "We are no one, we are everyone, and we are invisible."  A ticking clock can be heard as the camera pulls back to reveal a small army of men wearing similar masks, standing in a church in front of the faded words "Praise Waiteth for Thee, O God, in Zion" from Psalm 65:1 of the 21st Century King James Version of the Bible.

A man softly repeats the words "Tick tock, tick tock" over and over as Chief Judd (Don Johnson) steps up to a podium before an assembly of police officers wearing yellow masks and we hear him say, "We convinced ourselves that they were gone, but they were just hibernating."

As the first man's ticking continues, we see a member of the Rorschach Army cocking a shotgun as Chief Judd says in a voiceover, "They came for everybody.  All police."

We see a funeral for a fallen officer, with other officers in attendance wearing yellow masks there as well.

Cal Abraham (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) asks in a voiceover, "Are we safe?"

Angela Abraham (Regina King) opens up a cabinet door, revealing a hooded uniform costume inside.  We see her attaching a police badge to her belt, then see her wearing the hooded uniform and a grey half-mask, joining a man wearing a shiny silver mask at a police crime scene.

The ticking chant intensifies as a man says in a voiceover, "I guess we have ourselves a reckoning."

Next, we glimpse Agent Blake (Jean Smart) opening a silver briefcase, followed by dozens of bodies littering a neighborhood fun fair.

As an timer clock sounds, we see Ozymandias (Jeremy Irons) meditating, followed by Chief Judd being blinded by outdoor field lights being turned on.

We then see a scythe adorned with a pirate flag similar to the Tales of the Black Freighter comic within a comic from the limited series.  One of the Rorschach Army fires a machine gun turret as a family looks up into the sky outside their farmhouse.

Ozymandis pushes down a detonatation plunger as we quick-cut to the man in the shiny silver mask, who is seated before a set of large video screens displaying the 1969 moon landing, a cowboy on a horse, United States soldiers, and an atomic bomb explosion.  In the reflection of his mask, we can see Ozymandias facing him.

We cut back to the church, with the camera pulling back again and revealing even more of the army as they all chant "Tick tock, tick tock..."

The chanting abruptly stops, as we hear a woman ask, "What are you two talking about?"

"Oh, nothin'," replies Chief Judd.  "Just the end of the world.  Tick tock, tick tock, tick--"

If you'd like to check out the new teaser, you can view it below thanks to the official HBO account on YouTube...




Watchmen is scheduled to debut on HBO sometime in Fall 2019.