Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has officially announced that Martin Scorsese‘s Oscar-winning crime thriller The Departed will be available to own for the first time on 4K UHD Blu-Ray and Digital on April 23, 2024. The 4K remaster was completed at Warner Bros. Discovery’s Motion Picture Imaging (MPI) with the participation of the film’s Academy Award-winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker (Raging Bull, The Aviator).
The film’s prestigious ensemble cast stars Academy Award winner Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant), Academy Award winner Matt Damon (The Martian), three-time Academy Award Winner Jack Nicholson (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest), and Academy Award nominee Mark Wahlberg (The Fighter), with Emmy Award winner Martin Sheen (television’s “The West Wing”), BAFTA nominee Ray Winstone (Nil by Mouth), Academy Award nominee Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air), Academy Award nominee Alec Baldwin (The Cooler), Emmy nominee Anthony Anderson (television’s “Black-ish”), and James Badge Dale in supporting roles. Get more details below!
Synopsis: Martin Scorsese directs an all-star cast in this action-packed thriller set in Boston, where a long-simmering hostility between the police department and an Irish American gang led by Frank Costello is primed to explode. The fuse is lit when a gangster is chosen to infiltrate the police force – a young cop goes undercover within the gang. Now, when the two moles uncover each other’s identity, the battle begins.
The Departed Ultra HD Blu-ray disc and Digital contains the following new and previously released special features:
- Guilt and Betrayal: Looking into The Departed (new)
- Stranger than Fiction: The True Story of Whitey Bulger, Southie, and The Departed
- Crossing Criminal Cultures
- 9 Deleted Scenes with introductions by Martin Scorsese
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