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Watchmen: Ultimate Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Details Revealed
You see what happens when I disappear for a couple of days? You see the kind of thing that crops up while I’m busy fighting a cold, sleeping and working on comics? Yeah, that’s right. More Watchmen news…
But this is the news you need. News that will help you purchase wisely. News that we knew was on our doorstep, just waiting to break. Warner has sort-of inadvertently confirmed via a flier in early review copies of the Director’s Cut Blu-ray, the coming of their Watchmen: Ultimate Collector’s Edition 5-disc boxed set. We all knew this was a possibility. Director Zack Snyder pretty much told us so. This is not a surprise.
The surprise comes in the details. I don’t know what to make of this, to be honest. The Watchmen: Ultimate Collector’s Edition is going to hit shops around the holidays at the end of this year and only be available until June 2010!?! A limited time only release. Urgh…That’s kind of aggravating. Assuming it’s available in large enough quantities, you’ve got a whole six months to save up and track a copy down, if your loved ones don’t see fit to grace you with one under the Christmas tree (or like holiday celebratory apparatus).
The Blu-ray set will feature the rumoured super-long full cut of the film, incorporating The Black Freighter animated short into the excessive runtime with very little carry-over of extras from previous available editions. Instead we’ll find the Under the Hood mock-umentary (previously available on the Black Freighter Blu-ray), the Watchmen Motion Comic and a new commentary track with Snyder and Watchmen illustrator, Dave Gibbons.
Uhhh…Now apparently this is a five-disc set. Your guess is as good as mine as to what we’ll see spread across the 250gb of storage space, outside of what’s revealed on the flier. Another cut of the film? The extras from the UK Blu-ray disc release?
What are your Watchmen plans, now that the Ultimate cat is out of the bag?
Via: The HD Room
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[...] You might want to hold off on buying the Watchmen Director’s cut, as a 5-disc Ultimate Edition is hitting store shelfs in December. [blurayblog] [...]
[...] termino con algo que quiero comprar en este momento (aunque salga a la venta en diciembre): Watchmen: Ultimate Collector’s edition, edición limitada. Sé que la película no fue del todo buena, pero los fanáticos del comic [...]
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Renting the DC and waiting for the UC, that’s what’s up.
[...] include it on one of their Blu-ray sets. I mean, I guess it’s not too late to fit it on the upcoming Watchmen: Ultimate Collector’s Edition Blu-ray but I wouldn’t count on seeing it. I imagine that even if Warner could clear the rights with [...]
While I understand the business side of this type of re-dip release practice it still doesn’t mean I have to like it. 5 discs in the DVD package is really hinting that the SR price will be painful to a huge amount of wallets. I am sure the ultimate cut will be spread across 2 DVDs, as well as the motion comic. Which leaves some “making of” Documentaries , and “Under the Hood” on the fifth, and final disc.
When New Line re-released the extended editions of the LOTR films they managed to fit the complete films and commentaries on single DVDs. So I feel safe thinking WB will do a similar thing. It’s disgusting how greedy so many film companies are.
[...] We found out about this bad boy ages ago but now Warner has unleashed the official details of the Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut 4 Blu-ray disc set. Hitting shops on November 3rd, this set features the long awaited cut of the film that includes everything but the kitchen sink. You get all the footage missing from the theatrical cut, the extended and deleted scenes and the animated Tales of the Black Freighter woven into one 3 hour and 58 minute “Ultimate” cut of the film. I’m not sure if I can sit through all of that but I’m willing to give it a shot, at least once! Details and images below: [...]