Watching “Watchmen” At Home: Blu-ray Info

Another chance to see lots and lots of “Watchmen”! 

Are you one of those people who can’t get enough of Zack Snyder’s “Watchmen?” If so, first, Warner Brothers wants to know why you didn’t see the movie in the theaters 500 times along with your fifty closest friends, thus preventing it from being a disappointment. Aside from that, though, they want to tell you about the Blu-ray release of the film, coming up on July 21st. ComingSoon has an interview with Zack Snyder in which he discusses some of what you’ll find on the disc.

First off, this is a director’s cut, or Snyder’s “preferred” version. If you’re wondering why you didn’t get a chance to see that version in the theaters, don’t wonder, just know that that version will get a brief theatrical run. Snyder says:

The weekend before Comic-Con which, I think we determined, is the 17th. It will be at a theater in L.A., one in New York, one in Dallas and one in Minneapolis. It’s a Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

Tough luck, southeasterners!

In terms of features on the Blu-ray, here’s Snyder describing how they kept the Blu-ray release in mind while shooting the film:

We were constantly having meeting and planning, “Oh, this is going to be on the Blu-ray. Because when we did “300,” we asked, “Can the Blu-ray do this?” and they were like, “Yeesh. Not yet.” Because they were still developing the technology to make the Blu-ray. Like on the “300″ one, they couldn’t go between the different threads. All that craziness. They couldn’t really do that. Now they’re like, “We’ve got this thing where you basically walk into the movie and the movie shrinks back and you start talking about all these aspects of it.” We were like, “Wow, really? That seems kind of impossible.” They said, “No, no. I think we can do it.” Sure enough, they showed us a little animatic they did and we all thought it would be cool. For me it’s really cool because it’s not like there’s any aspect of “Watchmen” that I haven’t gone over. For instance, in the Comedian’s apartment, everything is designed. I talk about the things that are happening, but there’s a whole other level of stuff I could talk about. It’s kind of the perfect movie for saying, “Oh, we built that Kleenex box” or “We built that table” or “The symbol for whatever was based on the original Crimebusters or the original Minutemen.” It’s cool on a movie like this to be given the format and platform to really go, “If you want to come on and come go and get it in there, you can just put in this thing and you won’t hit the bottom.” It’s kind of fun.

And fun is what “Watchmen” is all about. By the way, this isn’t the last you’ll hear of ”Watchmen.” An “ultimate” version is going to come out (surprise) around Christmas, something to keep in mind for you completists. Snyder says that will have additional features. Soon you’ll know more about this movie than Snyder.