Warner Home Entertainment will bring the 40th Anniversary Edition of Deliverance to Blu-ray this June. Director John Boorman's visceral adaptation of the James Dickey novel stars Jon Voight (Midnight Cowboy), Burt Reynolds (Boogie Nights), Ned Beatty (Superman: The Movie), and Ronny Cox (RoboCop) as four best friends whose idyllic canoeing vacation turns into a nightmare after the group attracts the unwelcome advances of two psychotic woodsmen.
This thriller received three Oscar nominations at the 1973 Academy Awards Ceremony, including:
Best Picture
Best Director: John Boorman
Best Film Editing: Tom Priestley
While the technical specifications are still unknown for this 40th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray, the disc contains a number of bonus supplements, such as:
Commentary by John Boorman
All-new Deliverance: The Cast Remembers retrospective
Four-part behind-the-scenes documentary:
- Deliverance: Betraying The River
- Deliverance: The Journey
- Deliverance: The Beginning
- Deliverance: Delivered
The Dangerous World of Deliverance vintage featurette
Theatrical trailer
The disc also comes packaged in a collectible 42-page digibook with "behind-the-scenes photos and rare insights."