For decades, folks acted as though the graphic novel Watchmen, by Alan Moore, was somehow unadaptable. But clearly that isn’t the case–the book was translated to the screen for the first time with the 2009 Zack Snyder movie, and the Watchmen universe was expanded with the HBO sequel series. And now it’s time for another straight adaptation of the book, this time an R-rated, 2D-animated version split across two films. The first part, Watchmen Chapter 1, is landing on August 27, and you can preorder it on 4K Blu-ray now.
Watchmen Chapter 1 4K Blu-ray
Watchmen Chapter 1 is the first of a two-part adaptation of the Watchmen graphic novel. It’s animated, which should make it easier to include some of the weirder aspects of the story than it was with the live-action film, plus splitting it into two movies theoretically allows for more time to flesh everything out.
And the cast is quite solid, mostly consisting of well known career voice actors like Kari Wahlgren, Yuri Lowenthall, Grey Griffin, Rick Wasserman,and Troy Baker–the last of whom voices Ozymandias. Alongside those folks, we’ve got some stars of the small screen lending their talents to the film as well: Bosch’s Titus Welliver plays Rorschach, Perry Mason’s Matthew Rhys is Nite Owl, and The Mandalorian’s Katee Sackhoff is Silk Spectre.
The film hits both 4K Blu-ray and standard Blu-ray on August 27.
This is a particularly good moment for shopping for Watchmen-related stuff. Thanks to the huge simultaneous sales going on at Amazon, Walmart and Target, there’s discounts on everything right now. So if you need a new copy of the book, or one of the variant editions, or the prequel comic, or whatever, pretty much all of it is on sale in some way or other.
And on top of the standard discounts, Target is offering Target Circle members a buy-two-get-one-free sale on most books, so that’s a whole other rabbit hole to explore if you fall into that category or want to sign up. They’ve got plenty of Watchmen stuff on offer.
