‘Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut’ Details
Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut Blu-ray and DVD box art (click to enlarge)
Warner Bros. has released the box art (above) and details for their upcoming Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut DVD and Blu-ray release.
Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut offers a brand new cut of the film. This is the one (that I’ve been waiting for) that has the animated film Tales of the Black Freighter woven into the actual film.
If you’re a serious Watchmen fan this is a must have. You should also be aware that The Ultimate Cut will be a Limited Edition collectors item with Warner Bros. only releasing 70,000 units. Given that’s only 0.03% of the total number of DVD and Blu-ray copies of Watchmen previously sold, I’d suggest get ready to pre-order as soon as its available.
Full details after the jump.
Both the DVD and the Blu-ray are exactly the same with two exceptions.
The first is the Blu-ray release will have BD-Live features which the DVD doesn’t have.
The second is Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic will be contained on the fourth Blu-ray disc, whereas it will span two discs (4 & 5) on DVD.
Here are the complete details:
Disc 1
- Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut film (RT: 215 mins)
- Audio Commentaries with Zack Snyder and illustrator Dave Gibbons
Disc 2
3 Hours of Special Features:
- The Phenomenon: The Comic that Changed Comics (RT: 28:50) – Learn how the comic was created
- Real Super Heroes, Real Vigilantes (RT: 27:28) – Explores the fascination and psychology behind real-world vigilantes
- Mechanics: Technologies of a Fantastic World (RT: 16:46) – Takes a look at the filmmakers process of turning the plausible mechanics behind the characters and tools of the Watchmen graphic novel into cinematic reality
- Watchmen: Video Journals
- My Chemical Romance Desolation Row (RT: 3:16)
- Under The Hood (RT: 36:00) – A retrospective look on the biography by Hollis Mason (the original Nite Owl) and the world of those who stood for hooded justice
- Story Within A Story: The Books of Watchmen (RT: 26:00) – See how a comic-within-a-comic acts as parallel commentary to Watchmen.
Disc 3
- Digital Copy of the Theatrical Version
Blu-ray disc 4 / DVD disc 4 & 5
- Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic (RT: 325 mins) – Overseen by Watchmen illustrator Dave Gibbons and produced by Zack Snyder, the motion comic adds motion, voice and sound to all 12 chapters of Watchmen’s drawn panels.
Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut will be released November 3, 2009.
