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'Alcatraz' trailer: The most dangerous men from the '60s invade the present

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May 16, 2011 6:40 PM ET

alcatraz-jorge.jpg"On March 21, 1963, Alcatraz officially closed. All the prisoners were transferred off the island. Only that's not what happened. Not at all."

So says the first official trailer for FOX's new drama "Alcatraz" from J.J. Abrams about the country's most infamous prison. The project stars "Lost" alum Jorge Garcia, Sam Neill and Sarah Jones. The good? The show looks amazing and has an extremely interesting concept. The bad? It's for midseason, so we're going to have to wait and we're extremely impatient. Luckily, "Alcatraz" scored a pretty good time slot -- Mondays at 9 p.m. following "House."

The crime drama set at the country's most infamous prison and follows an investigative team looking into the disappearance of its '60s inhabitants. All of the prisoners (203 men) who vanished are now popping up in 2011 -- "the worst criminals this country has ever known are coming back and no one's going to be able to find them because they don't exist," says Sam Neill's character Emerson Hauser in the trailer.

Jones plays Detective Rebecca Madsen whose homicide case takes an interesting twist when a fingerprint at the crime scene belongs to Jack Sylvane, an Alcatraz inmate who supposedly died decades ago. Garcia plays Dr. Diego "Doc" Soto, an Alcatraz expert and comic book junkie who helps Madsen with her investigation.

Will you be watching "Alcatraz" on FOX come midseason, Zappers?


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Looks solid, but Fox still should have kept Lie To Me, Chicago Code and Human Target for crying out loud.

Teddy | May 16, 2011 7:41 PM

YES! Jorge Garcia is so awesome! He can do know wrong.... Although it is a bummer we won't see this until Jan-Feb 2012....

Christopher | May 16, 2011 8:08 PM

Looks INSANE!!!!

Ryan | May 16, 2011 8:14 PM

No. Won't watch any new show from Fox unless they bring back Chicago Code. Hope many others feel the same way. (I know at least some do.)

Op/Con | May 16, 2011 11:25 PM

FOX will let it run for three weeks and then cancel it...

Andy | May 17, 2011 12:57 AM

Hmmm people who disappear from the past but reappear in the present mysteriously....hope it's not a retread of The 4400

Al | May 17, 2011 4:25 AM

My guess is the show will venture into Kennedy conspiracy material by season's end.

Anonymous | May 17, 2011 12:04 PM

@Andy: Good shows can live on FOX much longer. It's only bad stuff like Chicago Code and Human Target or stuff like Lie To Me which went only down hill this season my trying to establish Tim Roth as a House-Copy minus an interesting cast.
I really don't get it. There are always people who like a show. So some people here might think it would have been better to continue every show forever once it started and never to any new show ever again.
Series end or get axed. Get over it and pick a new one. And stop behaving like babies by boycotting Fox for their decisions. If you would boycott FOX for creating bad series, the shows would have been axed a lot quicker.

Kevin | May 17, 2011 9:33 PM
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