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Originally Posted by biznatch
A few obvious things can't be put in the movie, such as the parallel comic book story read within Watchmen, Tales of the Black Freighter. There's simply no practical way to put that in a movie without making it incredibly awkward.
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The very-prevalent buzz is that the extended director's cut re-intersperses the Black Freighter portions where they belong.
Supporting evidence for this is that the newspaper salesman and the kid reading the book are very prominent throughout the film.
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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 you’re 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 – it has a marketed name that I don’t know exactly what it is. That version of the movie, because when we were up there we physically shot the in’s and out’s, scenes at the newsstand that go into the movie. There’s like scenes where our characters pass the newsstand and then we pick up action at the newsstand and it gets us into the Black Freighter….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 director’s 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 in’s and out’s…but the director’s cut includes the Hollis death stuff, that’s just a lot more connective tissue…it’s hard for me to even remember exactly what’s in it. But it’s just a lot more.
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For those bad at math, that's 34 extra minutes in the Extended, and then an additional 15 minutes for the Black Freighter (I believe it's going to be called the Ultimate cut).
I also heard a rumor of one of those two cuts hitting theaters in [s]April.[/s]
Edit: Make that July, and Snyder confirmed limited theatrical release.