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Tales of The Black Freighter is a comic within a comic; a fictional comic that exists in Watchmen's world that the reader occasionally sees panels from, telling a story that mirrors that of Ozymandias in the main story. More »
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The trailer for the animated DVD that "completes the Watchmen experience," Tales Of The Black Freighter, has been released, letting you see just how zombies and pirates fit into Zack Snyder's vision for the movie. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5153304&view=rss&microfeed=true This is cinema done right. Tales Of The Black Freighter, the pirate comic book featured throughout Alan Moore's Watchmen graphic novel, is going to be released separately on DVD — if and when Watchmen is released. The graphic story about a man sailing home on the corpses of his former shipmates deserves, and received, an R rating from the MPAA. Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince, on the other hand, could have used a little dirtying up but rests soundly on a PG rating. [Rope Of Silicon] More »
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While plenty of you seemed to be ready to spend three hours - or even more - in theaters watching Watchmen, co-creator Dave Gibbons let slip that an even longer version may be waiting for fans on DVD while speaking at an event this weekend. But the changes made to create the even-longer-than-the-Director's-Cut edit of the movie are some that will correct a decision that many fans initially saw as a mistake. More »
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Gerard Butler confirmed that he's voicing the Captain for scenes in the animatedTales of the Black Freighter for director Zack Snyder's Watchmen, in a segment solely being created for the DVD. Last year at Comic-Con Snyder said that the Freighter portion of the book (a comic book-within-a-comic book about pirates) would be in the film. But then Warners later nixed the idea, probably to keep the length down. More »
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The movie version of Alan Moore's classic dysfunctional superhero comic book Watchmen continues to move forward, although one key element might be coming to your DVD player before the film comes out. More »
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