Iâm at the press junket for âWatchmenâ and I just spoke to director Zack Snyder. Iâll have exact quotes posted in the next few hours, but I wanted to get this up asap.
There will be a directorâs cut on the DVD that will be 3 hours 10 minutes and another cut with âTales of the Black Freighterâ that will be 3 hours 25 minutes!
Collider: What is the final running time on the DVD and what can fans look forward to?
Zack: The final running time without the Black Freighter is 3 hours and 10 minutes. Collider: When you say the Black Freighter, so youâre going to put in some of the animated bits? Zack: No. The Black Freighter version of the movie, which we call the final cut or the ultimate cut â it has a marketed name that I donât know exactly what it is. That version of the movie, because when we were up there we physically shot the inâs and outâs, scenes at the newsstand that go into the movie. Thereâs like scenes where our characters pass the newsstand and then we pick up action at the newsstand and it gets us into the Black Freighterâ¦.with shots that go into it and it comes to life and you follow the Black Freighter story and then come back into the movie. That version of the movie is the directorâs cut with the Black Freighter intercut. That version sort of traces the structure of the Black Freighter that's integrated into the comic book⦠So that version is the 3 hour and 25 minute version. So you have all those inâs and outâsâ¦but the directorâs cut includes the Hollis death stuff, thatâs just a lot more connective tissueâ¦itâs hard for me to even remember exactly whatâs in it. But itâs just a lot more. Collider: So let me ask you, is there footage that isnât going in this directorâs cut thatâs sitting on the sidelinesâ¦or is this really everything? Zack: Itâs really pretty much everything. The 3 hour version is pretty much everything. There was very little that we shot that I didnât like or use.
Collider: What is coming on the DVD? Is there a directorâs cut? A separate theatrical cut? Debbie Snyder: Theyâre all done because we had to finish them all at the same time. We have the 3 hour directorâs cut which will be released at the first release of the DVDâ¦which will probably be around Comic-Con of this year. Collider: Can I ask you, is there going to be a theatrical cut and a directorâs cut on the same DVD or are these separate DVDs?