Apple has just released the teaser trailer for Zack “300” Snyder’s adaptation of Watchmen, which you can check out here!

I really enjoyed his adaptation of 300 to the big screen, and judging by the teaser it appears as if Snyder has done it again with Watchmen. I am really digging the style and the character design and just the teaser gives off the feeling that this is going to be something epic if Snyder has done it right.

If you haven’t read Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s Watchmen, you really should make it a point to check it out. In my experience most people either love it or hate it, I happen to have really, really enjoyed it. It’s a pretty long read, and it’s not really your “typical” superhero graphic novel, but the story is solid and expansive and has some really cool ideas and depictions of what a “superhero” is. Go buy it, or at least find a friend that owns it, and borrow it from them. I would also like to note that it’s the only graphic novel to win a Hugo Award and is the only graphic novel listed on “Time Magazine’s 100 Greatest English Novels from 1923 – Present.” To give you an idea of the plot, below is the synopsis for the movie, the graphic novel itself is 12 chapters long and way to deep and intense to sum up in a paragraph (which is why I will be nervous for the movie until the day I see it):

“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?”

I hope Snyder stays true to the source material and gives us all a Watchmen movie worthy of it’s title. Be sure to check out the official website!