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Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut comes November 3

By April MacIntyre Sep 24, 2009, 0:30 GMT

04/02/2009 - Zack Snyder -From Director, Zack Snyder, Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut stars Jackie Earle Haley, Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Patrick Wilson and Carla Gugino. © PRN / PR Photos

The Watchmen are coming back in big style to DVD from Warner Bros.

Warner has announced the release of the five-disc DVD and four-disc Blu-ray of Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut. The sets are going to be available for purchase on November 3, 2009.

From director Zack Snyder, this new and complete version of the action-packed blockbuster weaves Watchmen: Tales from the Black Freighter, the animated story-within-a-story into the Director’s Cut of the film, creating a true ultimate version of the critically acclaimed story.

Available in a limited quantity of 70,000, Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut also features new commentary by Dave Gibbons and Zack Snyder along with almost 3 hours of extras, including Hollis Mason’s animated tell-all, Under the Hood. 

Also included is Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic.  Overseen by "Watchmen" illustrator Dave Gibbons and produced by Snyder, Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic contains all 12 chapters of "Watchmen," the most celebrated graphic novel of all time, adding motion, voice and sound to the book's strikingly drawn panels, spanning everything from the mysterious demise of the Comedian to the crisscrossed destinies of loosely allied superheroes to their fateful impact on the world.

From Director, Zack Snyder, Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut stars Jackie Earle Haley, Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Patrick Wilson and Carla Gugino.

SYNOPSIS

Someone’s killing our super heroes.  The year is 1985 and super heroes have banded together to respond to the murder of one of their own. They soon uncover a sinister plot that puts all of humanity in grave danger. The super heroes fight to stop the impending doom only to find themselves a target for annihilation. But, if our super heroes are gone, who will save us?

BLU_RAY and DVD ELEMENTS

·         Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut film

·         Audio Commentary with Zack Snyder and Dave Gibbons

·         The Phenomenon: The Comic that Changed Comics (RT: 28:50) - Learn how the subversive, thematically complex, award winning comic that changed literature, inspired analytical debate, and won countless fans, was created.

·         Real Super Heroes, Real Vigilantes (RT: 27:28) - Explores the fascination and psychology behind real-world vigilantes and where that behavior crosses over into actually donning the hood and behaving as superheroes.  

·         Mechanics: Technologies of a Fantastic World (RT: 16:46)  - The creators of Watchmen had a great understanding of engineering and science, allowing for plausible mechanics in their characters tools and the world itself.  This featurette will guide the viewer through the filmmakers process of turning these technologies into cinematic reality.

·         Watchmen: Video Journals

·         My Chemical Romance video 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) - Weave through the nuanced layers of detail to see how a comic-within-a comic acts as parallel commentary to the acclaimed work of Literature, Watchmen.

·         Digital Copy of the Theatrical Version

·         Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comics

Standard Street Date: November 3, 2009

Languages: English, Quebec French, Latin Spanish

Subtitles: English, French, Latin Spanish

Running Time: 215 min

Rating: R (for strong graphic violence, sexuality, nudity and language)

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