Brand New Watchmen Trailer Hits!

The new trailer for Watchmen, which you’ll be able to check out on the big screen this weekend with Quantum of Solace, has just been released online. The highly anticipated adaptation of the Alan Moore graphic novel is directed by Zack Snyder and stars Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Matthew Goode, Billy Crudup, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin Akerman, Stephen McHattie, Matt Frewer and Carla Gugino.

The flick opens March 6, 2009. Watch the trailer below and be sure to check out the latest featurette and new character posters.

Official Synopsis: 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?