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3 hour-plus Watchmen DVD and Blu release
February 20, 2009

The movie doesn't bow in theaters until March 6, but Watchmen director Zack Snyder has everything in the can for its release on DVD and Blu-ray.
Thanks to this interview with Collider.com, we know that Snyder will be offering up a 3 hour/10 minute director cut. There's also 3 hour/25 minute director cut that includes further back-story into the Watchmen side-plot Tales of the Black Freighter. 
Snyder explains that most of the Watchmen scenes shot were just too good to just toss, and he felt compelled to work them all back into a director's cut. The Tales of the Black Freigher scenes, which refers to a comic book that is integrated into the Watchmen storyline, will hopefully provide further context to the studio's made-for-DVD/Blu-ray animated project Tales of the Black Frieghter streeting March 24.
Within the longer Watchmen director's cut, Black Freighter scenes revolve around characters interacting around a newstand. And that's not to be confused with the animated Black Freighter, voiced by Gerard Butler and executive produced by Snyder, which will street months before Watchmen lands on retail shelves. This animated Black Freighter is a pirate-styled adventure that should tie into the Watchmen mythology.
The Watchmen DVD and Blu-ray sets should street by July's Comic-Con.
Part of me wonders if all of this is way too much content around Watchmen. And I forgot to mention its Motion Comic (a real literal telling of the graphic novel on which the movie is based) landing on DVD and Blu-ray on March 3. 
If you pack on the material from all sorts of angeles, don't you lose some of the magic of the main movie? It looks like they've come out with Watchmen condoms, for pete's sakes!
Well, let's just hope the movie is good. If that's the case, then it's likely that anything associated with it will be a hit as well.

Posted by Susanne Ault on February 20, 2009 | Comments (0)