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Warner Announces 'Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter' DVD and Blu-ray Release

Get ready for animated bloody pirate stories

BY: Brad Brevet | January 30th 2009 at 4:46 AM

Photo: Warner Home Video

Warner Home Video has officially announced a March 24 release of Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter on DVD and Blu-ray, the companion story featured in the Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons "Watchmen" novel which serves as the inspiration of the March 6 release, Watchmen. The announcement comes with the following synopsis:

They're in the book. And on this disc. From the director of Watchmen and 300 come two tales from the celebrated graphic novel that do not appear in the extraordinary Watchmen Theatrical Feature. Tales of the Black Freighter (featuring the voice of 300s Gerard Butler) brings to strikingly animated life the novels richly layered story-within-a-story, a daring pirate saga whose turbulent events may mirror those in the Watchmens world. Stars from the Watchmen movie team in the amazing live-action/CGI Under the Hood, based on Nite Owls powerful first-hand account of how the hooded adventurers came into existence. Two fan-essential stories. One place to watch the excitement. Watching the Watchmen begins here.

In terms of special features you get the following…

DVD

  • Under The Hood
  • Story Within A Story: The Books of Watchmen
  • A First Look at Green Lantern

Blu-ray

  • Under The Hood
  • Story Within A Story: The Books of Watchmen
  • A First Look at Green Lantern
  • Digital Copy

Tales of the Black Freighter is rated R for violent and grisly images and runs 26 minutes while Under the Hood is rated PG for mild thematic elements, brief violent and suggestive images and smoking, and it has a running time of 38 minutes.

Should you be interested they are also releasing the "Complete Watchmen Motion Comic" on DVD and Blu-ray, click here for those details.


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Awesome, can't wait…except that they made too many allusions to the whole "Super Ultra Director's Cut" version where "Tales" and "Hood" is going to be spliced into the main film, and that makes me want to buy that version instead.

But I'm such a Watchmen diehard that I'll jump on this regardless.

- Vince
( January 30th, 2009 | 4:54 am )
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Yeah, I was thinking about waiting for the extreme edition of the director's cut too but now the fanboy in me is distracted by this "First Look at Green Lantern". I bet it really isn't anything all that special and I'm not even that big a GL fan but right now I'm all, "Ooh, SHINY!".

- Vik
( January 30th, 2009 | 8:48 am )
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I agree with Vik! A first look at GL? Sign me up!

- Roger
( January 30th, 2009 | 9:28 am )
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I'm also torn, because I definitely want to see the super-ultra version that has all of this material, but I also want to have the option of watching them separately. I'll see if I can hold off, or if I'll cave and buy them. There's always Netflix…

- aerinpegadrak
( January 30th, 2009 | 11:28 pm )
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I'm glad they didn't try to include this in the movie. I found it jarring and distracting in the novel and eventually ended up skipping anything having to do with both to focus on the actual story.

- Mark
( January 31st, 2009 | 12:30 pm )
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