As we approach the 15th anniversary in March 2024, I'm immensely excited to release this new version of the 2009 Watchmen movie. At first, it sounded simple. Just add the squid back in. But I decided it was really an opportunity to expand the movie beyond that. Using voice cloning and footage from the 2019 sequel miniseries, I was able to add back in major plot points from the comic. And by inserting nearly the entire Under the Hood feature as an in-world 60 Minutes type interview, I've expanded the world and story significantly.

I’ll go through both broad strokes and in intricate detail in other sections.

I'm calling this The Bass Reeves Cut of HBO's Watchmen. It turns the 9 episode miniseries into a 2 hour and 22 minute movie. My edit primarily concentrates on the mystery of what happened to Judd Crawford and the origin story of Hooded Justice. It centers on Angela Abar and Will Reeves. There's no Adrian Veidt, no Dr. Manhattan and just a bit of Laurie Blake.

I wanted to create a comic book element and pick up the pace a bit. Color and B&W will be available.

I wanted to take this movie and make it a Rorschach movie. His role better fits the plot then the others, plus he's the coolest character. So I decided to make a cut with mainly him.

This edit follows Laurie and touches upon the other characters only insofar as they affect Laurie.

A combination of the Watchmen film with the original graphic novel. Video and sound from the film are used to fill in gaps between each panel of the comic and bring it to life.

WATCHMEN: MIDNIGHT is a fanedit crafted to recapture some of the spirit, story structure, and character depth of the original comic books by reorganizing/trimming scenes, adding new content from the “Under the Hood” documentary, replacing music to change the tone of various scenes, as well as cutting out silly stunts and other material that did not fit the tone of the original comics.

This is a shorter cut of Watchmen edited down from the director’s cut. While the overall story and the key plot points are still there, some of the minor character arcs have been abbreviated and some redundant exposition have been cut. This is a much faster paced cut of this epic movie