It’s hard to believe that we’re nearly a year to the first time I brought up The Book of Eli. At the time, the project had just cast Denzel Washington in the lead as a survivor in a post-apocalyptic world, charged with protecting a book which will save humanity. The really exciting news about that announcement was the fact that The Hughes Brothers (Menace II Society, Dead Presidents and From Hell) would be directing the project. That was the true bit of excitement.

Nearly six months away from the film’s release, we now get a look at the first teaser and though it doesn’t tell you much about the story, it’s enough to show the film’s great looking visuals and, as a teaser is supposed to do, generate buzz for what is shaping up like a promising production.

The Book of Eli opens January 15, 2010.