Next year, Warner Home Entertainment will bring The Town: Ultimate Collector's Edition to Blu-ray. Writer/director Ben Affleck's crime thriller, which opened to great critical and commercial acclaim in September 2010, stars Affleck (State of Play) as Doug MacRay, a world-weary thief whose relationship with a vulnerable young woman (Rebecca Hall, The Prestige) makes him reconsider his larcenous ways.
Co-written by Affleck's Gone Baby Gone collaborator Aaron Stockard, the film has an ensemble cast that includes Blake Lively (Green Lantern), Jon Hamm (Mad Men), Titus Welliver (Deadwood: The Complete Series), Pete Postlethwaite (Inception), Chris Cooper (American Beauty), and Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker), who received a "Best Supporting Actor" nomination for his performance as James "Jem" Coughlin, MacRay's dangerously unstable best friend.
This Ultimate Collector's Edition is a three-disc Blu-ray/DVD/UltraViolet Digital Copy combo pack. It presents three versions of the film - the theatrical cut, the previously available extended cut, and an additional extended cut with a never-before-seen alternate ending - in their original aspect ratio of 2.39:1 with 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio tracks and the following supplements:
The Town: A Director's Journey documentary
Commentary with Ben Affleck on the theatrical version, extended cut, and extended cut with alternate ending
Six behind-the-scenes featurettes:
- Pulling Off the Perfect Heist
- The Town
- Nuns with Guns: Filming in the North End
- The Real People of The Town
- Ben Affleck: Actor and Director
- The Cathedral of Boston
Theatrical trailer
In addition, Warner has encased the Ultimate Collector's Edition inside new packaging alongside accompanying collectible memorabilia:
Personal letter from Ben Affleck
48-page photo book with behind the scenes photos, filmmaking and script notes
Poster-size map of Charlestown with details on crime scenes from the film
Four film prop reproductions:
- Rub-on tattoo sheet with Jem's neck tattoo
- Desmond Elden's Vericom employee file that the FBI obtained after the first robbery
- Four FBI office mug shot cards
- Special Agent Adam Frawley's 15-page FBI report
The Town: Ultimate Collector's Edition streets on March 6th, 2012.