Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter DVD and Blu-ray Details

Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on January 30, 2009

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As expected, the folks at Warner Bros. Home Video have announced the details for the DVD and Blu-ray release of Tales of the Black Freighter, the companion film to Zack Snyder’s Watchmen. This supplemental release, which follows the major substory within the book by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, will be released on March 24, a few weeks after the Watchmen movie hits theaters on March 6. Included in the press release was this official 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 Watchmen’s 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.

There is also a small assortment of special features, including a first look at The Green Lantern:

DVD (MSRP $19.95)

  • Under The Hood (Hollis Mason’s Tell-All)
  • Story Within A Story: The Books of Watchmen
  • A First Look at Green Lantern

Blu-ray (MSRP $29.95)

  • Under The Hood (Hollis Mason’s Tell-All)
  • Story Within A Story: The Books of Watchmen
  • A First Look at Green Lantern
  • Digital Copy

WHV’s release did not include any official runtime, though this is expected to run around 30 minutes. Also, interestingly enough, WHV’s official website lists the Tales of the Black Freighter DVD with a rating of PG-13 and the Blu-ray as Not Rated. We had previously been told that it was going to be an R, so we are currently working to find out what the real story is. Of course, this is not the only DVD companion piece for the March 6 release of Watchmen. WHV is also releasing a Watchmen Motion Comic on March 3 in advance of the theatrical release. You can check it out on Blu-ray and DVD over at Amazon.com.


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  • Whoa, whoa, whoa. A first look at The Green Lantern? As in, the upcoming live-action film? Or the upcoming animated film (that I'm just now hearing about for the first time)?
  • They did not specify. You must ask yourself, though: would it really make a difference? You know you're going to buy it anyway. :P
  • Ok, I've asked myself, and it turns out I'll probably rent the DVD to (1) see the GL preview and (2) keep up my geek cred, even though I have nil interest in the Black Freighter movie. I ended up skimming those sections of the book. The allegories--if any--weren't obvious enough for my simple little brain.
  • A good man beaten, robbed, and abandoned by bad men is driven mad, and has to become a bad man in order to do what he believes is necessary to keep his family and township safe. He's virtuous to a fault, even when he's delusionally murdering his neighbors. Evil creates evil out of good men. You may believe you're doing right when doing wrong.
  • Well put.

    So they want us to shell out an extra 19.95, huh? I don't know about that. Is it our fault that they couldn't find a way to put a a part of the graphic novel that essentially holds the story together on a second disc once the film's DVD is released? I say no. So why do I feel like this is an attempt to take some more of my money? Ahh, hell, I will probably end up seeing it. Haha. I love Watchmen.
  • Oh. That makes sense, then.

    So it's not about how shipwrecks suck?
  • @Cole: Oh. That makes sense, then. So it's not about how shipwrecks suck?
  • So if I were to buy each Watchmen related DVD, I'd buy this one on March 24th, the motion comic on the 6th and then the actual movie in September-ish? Didn't Snyder say there was going to be a Watchmen DVD that had ALL of the included? Like a collector's edition?
  • As good as it looks, ill probably wont buy it when release. i dont want to regret myself later when
    a special edition package were the motion comics, the black freightener, and the movie are together.
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