To complete your WATCHMEN experience, Warner Bros. is releasing a companion home movie to the film entitled WATCHMEN: Tales of the Black Freighter, coming to Blu-Ray/DVD on March 24, 2009.

Tales of the Black Freighter is an amazing animated short film that brings WATCHMEN’s comic-within-the-comic to life! Narrated by 300’s Gerard Butler, Tales of the Black Freighter is a gut-wrenching tale full of pirates, sharks, and doom & gloom that foreshadow the coming events of WATCHMEN. It definitely puts the “GORY” in allegory. Needless to say, it is a must-have for all WATCHMEN fan boys (and girls). The disc also features another short, Beneath the Hood, which provides a back-story of Hollis Mason – the original Nite Owl superhero in the WATCHMEN universe.

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