A vigilante movement, inspired by the slain superhero Rorschach, embarks on a deadly terror spree in the new teaser for HBO’s upcoming adaptation of the famed graphic novel, Watchmen. An exact premiere date has yet to be announced, though the show is expected to arrive this fall. Damon Lindelof (Lost, The Leftovers) will helm the series, which won’t be a straight remake like Zack Snyder’s divisive 2009 film, but rather a “remixed” story that will “embrace the nostalgia of the original groundbreaking graphic novel while attempting to break new ground of its own.” The new teaser doesn’t offer much in the way of plot points, but it does revolve around a movement of people who have modeled themselves after the vigilante Rorschach. Watchmen creator Alan Moore notably crafted Rorschach in the vein of Steve Ditko’s famously right-wing heroes, Mr. A and the Question, and the way Lindelof presents the new Rorschach disciples is strikingly reminiscent of extreme right-wing and White supremacist groups. As the Rorschach vigilantes mobilize, the trailer offers quick glimpses of the other Watchmen heroes including Nite Owl and Doctor Manhattan, while Jeremy Irons appears to play an aged Ozymandias, who at one point seems to take the fate of the world into his hands again when he plunges the trigger of a detonator. Along with Irons, the cast for HBO’s Watchmen will feature Regina King, Don Johnson, Tim Blake Nelson and more. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross were tapped to compose the score.<doc-sep>HBO has unveiled the first teaser trailer for its upcoming Watchmen TV series, giving a first glimpse of what's to come when the show debuts later this year. The one-minute clip, released on Wednesday, sees a group of masked vigilantes appear to prepare for an uprising as voices chant "Tick tock". “We are no one. We are everyone. And we are invisible,” one of the masked men says, while one character appears to predict "the end of the world" at the end of the video. In DC's Watchmen comic books, costumed vigilantes have been outlawed in an alternate reality beginning in 1938, in which events such as the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal have had different outcomes. The comic books series was made into a movie directed by Zack Snyder in 2009. Are you planning on watching Watchmen? Two of our writers, Jack Shepherd and Jacob Stolworthy, will be podcasting along with the series. Follow along with all the latest from their podcast here. 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The first trailer for Damon Lindelof’s HBO take on The Watchmen universe has arrived, and with it are some callbacks to the original Alan Moore graphic novel. This isn’t a direct adaptation of Moore’s 1986 work, which focuses on vigilantes in an alternate United States operating during the Cold War and is widely regarded as one of the most important comic books of all time. Instead, Lindelof’s take is set within the world Moore created, using central Watchmen character Rorschach as a way to springboard into a new era. Superheroes — or costumed vigilantes — are still around in Lindelof’s tale, and it’s clear they aren’t to be trusted. That helps explain why Lindelof’s design includes references to fictional groups based on modern-day organizations like Anonymous. Unlike Zack Snyder’s divisive 2009 film adaptation of Watchmen, Lindelof isn’t looking to re-create Moore’s world panel by panel. Lindelof is aware of the deep connection fans of Moore’s work have to the comic, and he’s addressed concerns that he may mess up the legacy by playing around with Moore’s world. “We have no desire to ‘adapt’ the twelve issues Mr. Moore and Mr. Gibbons created thirty years ago,” Lindelof wrote on Instagram when the show was in early production. “Those issues are sacred ground and they will not be retread nor recreated nor reproduced nor rebooted.” He says the show isn’t a sequel, but it does seem to take place in the world where the events of Watchmen happened: Those original twelve issues are our Old Testament. When the New Testament came along it did not erase what came before it. Creation. The Garden of Eden. Abraham and Isaac. The Flood. It all happened. And so it will be with Watchmen. The Comedian died. Dan and Laurie fell in love. Ozymandias saved the world and Dr. Manhattan left it just after blowing Rorschach to pieces in the bitter cold of Antarctica. The teaser trailer showcases the differences between what Lindelof wants to do and what Moore achieved. It references characters like The Comedian and Ozymandias, but not necessarily how die-hard fans of the series remember them. Watchmen will premiere on HBO later this year. No premiere date has been set.