The latest teasers for HBO’s Watchmen showing Regina King under a mask create even more questions than answers.
Following the release of a trailer for the show a month back, HBO posted online this week the newest set of teasers for Watchmen. The three short clips place a focus on Regina King and her character Angela Abraham. Together, the clips clock in at a total of 15 seconds and reveal the look of Abraham suiting up into her unnamed disguise plus two mementos she carries on her belt — a badge and a rosary.
Although small details, they are cryptic enough to keep the Internet guessing. Theories abound. Vigilant fans and analysts suggesting she is a cop in the Tulsa police department run by Chief Judd Crawford (Don Johnson), who we got a good look at in the trailer. That could mean Abraham is among the last line of defense for law and order in a world descended into chaos.
Based on her character breakdown, the conclusion Abraham is a police officer is a sound one:
"“African-American female cop. Independent and intelligent, she’s also a realist. She’s married to Cal, with whom she has a daughter and is fiercely protective of them both.”"
Others speculate she is the vigilante Hooded Justice, a name who had a small part in the source material and is one of the costumed figures whose existence is confirmed in the show’s world.
Also on the scene are Red Scare (Andrew Howard), Pirate Jenny, and Looking Glass (Tim Blake Nelson) — who may be the wearer of the reflective, metallic mask we already received a full glimpse of in previous teasers. HBO has used Instagram these last few months to offer up cryptic peeks at what they have in store, posted in threes.
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Watchmen is adapted by Lost’s Damon Lindelof as a sequel to the comics. Lindelof stated earlier this year he has no intention of lifting directly from or reproducing the graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, which are considered sacred by the showrunner. He will, however, follow the same continuity and, in his words, “remix” it or “sample” its “bass lines.”
Illustrator Gibbons admits he knows a little bit about what is in store, having read the pilot before production, but he is not spoiling anything except to say he is impressed and likes where Lindelof is going with things:
"“I do know a little about it. I’ve had conversations with Damon, and I’ve read the screenplay for the pilot. I don’t think it’s my place to say too much about it, other than I found Damon’s approach to be really refreshing and exciting and unexpected. I don’t think it’s gonna be what people think it’s going to be. It certainly wasn’t what I imagined it to be. I think it’s extremely fresh. I’m really looking forward to seeing it on the screen.”"
Gibbons went on to say he is normally “resistant to…prequels and sequels” but was assuaged by Lindelof’s take. Alan Moore, meanwhile, who has a history of refusing screen credit from Hollywood, has not opened up about the HBO series. Distancing himself from it would not come as a shock.
Starring Regina King, Don Johnson, Tim Blake Nelson, Aquaman star Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Jeremy Irons as the present-day Adrian Veidt, aka Ozymandias, Watchmen has by all accounts wrapped shooting and is ready for its fall debut on HBO.