movie alert

I just found out that The Watchmen will be adapted into a movie, released March 6, 2009.
Here's the trailer on Apple.com:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/watchmen/high.html

I'm not into graphic novels as a rule, but I picked this one up after a newspaper article and some friends recommendations. It's a really interesting story, and I hope they make it well. The visuals look pretty faithful to the novel. If you don't know what it is, it's an alternate history that supposes there was a band of superheroes (without supernatural powers) in the 40s, and another group who took over from them in the 60s. Then a freak nuclear accident produced a truly supernatural hero who kind of put the others out of business. This guy won Vietnam (which gets Nixon re-elected multiple times) and is part of the US's Cold War plan against the Soviet Union, but then the public turned against crime-fighting superheroes, and they were outlawed. A few still remained practicing, but a lot more jaded. And then some stuff happens that brings some of them out of hiding again in the mid-80s. The backstories of the characters probably won't get a lot of attention, but it's really worth reading. It's also a pretty dark view of humanity and the world, but I'm not one to complain about that too much.
Anyway, I thought that was kind of exciting.