Seems like only yesterday we were reliving the events of May 1, 2011, better known as the night that a team of Navy SEALs entered a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan and killed al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden.

Well, OK, that’s because the bin Laden raid was the subject of last night’s especially horrible episode of HBO’s generally odious series The Newsroom.

But today we have our first look at what will surely be a better piece of entertainment about the Abbottabad mission than anything that Aaron Sorkin can cook up with a teaser trailer for director Kathryn Bigelow’s upcoming thriller Zero Dark Thirty.

The teaser doesn’t give away too much beside shadowy glimpses of the most talked-about covert mission in U.S. history. There are night-vision flashes of commandos in action, shots of government spooks poring over computer screens and satellite images, but that’s about it.

Zero Dark Thirty re-teams Bigelow with Mark Boal, a former Vanity Fair correspondent who wrote The Hurt Locker and shared in its 2009 Academy Award bounty. Earlier this year, it was revealed that in researching their new project, Bigelow and Boal, who specialize in non-fantastical action stories, were granted access by the Obama administration to some of the CIA documents and facilities used in planning the bin Laden raid. The information sharing upset White House opponents and even some allies like former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who according to Confront and Conceal, a new book about President Obama’s national security approach by New York Times reporter David Sanger, told White House officials to “shut the fuck up” about the plotting of bin Laden’s death.

Anyway, that noise aside, here’s the trailer for Zero Dark Thirty, due in theaters on December 19: