Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter & Under the Hood offers audiences two essential Watchmen background stories on one disc<\/p>\n
Experience the exclusive and dramatic origin stories essential to the Watchmen experience as the
\ncomic-within-the-comic and Night Owl\u2019s autobiography are brought to life as Paramount Home
\nEntertainment Premiere\u2019s Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter & Under the Hood which arrives on
\nBlu-ray and DVD on April 23, 2009.<\/p>\n
Produced in association with Legendary Pictures, both titles are executive produced by
\nWatchmen director Zack Snyder, Lawrence Gordon, Lloyd Levin, Deborah Snyder, Thomas Tull and
\nWesley Coller.<\/p>\n
Tales of the Black Freighter, the story-within-the-story in the acclaimed Watchmen features the
\nvoices of Gerard Butler (300) and Jared Harris (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) and is
\ndirected by Daniel DelPurgatorio and Mike Smith and written by Alex Tse (Watchmen) and Zack
\nSnyder. Tales of the Black Freighter is produced by Brian McNulty and Karen Mayeda-Vranek.<\/p>\n
Tales of the Black Freighter brings to strikingly animated life the graphic novel\u2019s richly layered storywithin-
\na-story. Within the graphic novel, Tales of the Black Freighter, appears as a comic book
\nread by a young man in New York City while the city is being destroyed. This daring pirate saga
\nchronicles a sailor\u2019s journey home from being marooned. During his journey, the young seaman is
\n“forced by the urgency of his mission to shed one inhibition after another” and experience horrible
\nevents along the way. The turbulent events the sailor endures seem to mirror those in the
\nWatchmen\u2019s world.<\/p>\n
Hollis Mason\u2019s tell-all autobiography, Under the Hood, chronicles the events in Hollis Mason\u2019s life
\nthat led to him to become the masked avenger Nite Owl and discusses how the Minutemen were
\nformed. It features the original Sally Spectre, the Comedian, Moloch the Mystic, along with Hollis
\nMason, the original Nite Owl.<\/p>\n
Under the Hood is directed by Eric Matthies, written by Hans Rodionoff and produced by Eric
\nMatthies and Wesley Coller. Stars Carla Gugino, Matt Frewer, Stephen McHattie and Jeffrey Dean
\nMorgan appear as their characters from the theatrical Watchmen film in this live-action
\ndocumentary style special.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter & Under the Hood offers audiences two essential Watchmen background stories on one disc Experience the exclusive and dramatic origin stories essential to the Watchmen experience as the comic-within-the-comic and Night Owl\u2019s autobiography are brought to life as Paramount Home Entertainment Premiere\u2019s Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter &<\/p>\n