Over the weekend 20th Century Fox released a red band trailer for The Watch, a sci-fi comedy starring Ben Stiller, Jonah Hill, Vince Vaughn, and Richard Ayoade (director of Submarine). Now you might think, wait a minute, wasn’t there another sci-fi comedy starring those three scheduled for this summer? Well this is that movie, but they changed the title from Neighborhood Watch to simply The Watch.

Watch the trailer below:

The Watch follows a group of neighborhood watch members that take it on themselves to protect earth from an alien invasion that just so happens to take place, you guessed it, in their neighborhood.

The idea behind the film could produce a lot of comedic moments, at least one of which is shown in the trailer (the weapon thing). Although I have to say, the premise sounds awfully similar to the one from last year’s Attack the Block. So if this film looks interesting to you, definitely give that one a watch (if you haven’t already).

Director Akiva Schaffer, mostly known for doing Saturday Night Live episodes, seems like the right guy for a film like this and the trailer looks ok. Unfortunately ok isn’t enough when you open a week after The Dark Knight Rises, so Fox really have to step up their game if they don’t want another flop on their hands.

As mentioned in the intro, The Watch stars Ben Stiller, Jonah Hill, Vince Vaughn, Richard Ayoade, and some others including Billy Crudup and Doug Jones.

The Watch opens July 27th in North America and August 29th in the UK.

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It is common for directors to cast their actor friends in their movies. Peter Jackson has Andy Serkis, Tim Burton has Johnny Depp and Guillermo del Toro has Doug Jones, so it is no surprise to here that del Toro is looking for a role Doug would be well suited for in The Hobbit.

“There’s been lots of speculation. I wouldn’t want to ruin anything. Guillermo creates things with me in mind and he’s got a better image of what I can do than I do,” the man otherwise known as the Silver Surfer and Abe Sapien told MTV News, a wicked and knowing smile across his face. “However, there might be an elf king, father of Legolas kind of character that I would love.”

That would be King Thranduil, king of the Silvan elves in the northern part of Mirkwood, where Bilbo and his company of dwarves spent a large portion of their time towards the end of the novel. Known simply as the ElvenKing throughout “The Hobbit,” Thranduil gets into it pretty fiercely with Thorin over the Arkenstone, a fight that isn’t resolved until, well, until his son Legolas and Gloin’s son Gimli become friends during the events of “Lord of the Rings.”

I’m pretty sure everyone knows that the script for The Hobbit hasn’t even been written yet, so nothing is certain. However, the doesn’t stop people from talking about things.

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