Warner Home Entertainment will finally bring Malcolm X to Blu-ray next year. In an Academy Award-nominated performance, Denzel Washington (Glory) stars as the famed activist; director Spike Lee (Inside Man) charts Malcolm’s journey from his early years as a Harlem gangster through his emergence as one of the Civil Rights Movement’s most influential figures.
Supporting Washington is a powerhouse cast including Lee (Do the Right Thing), Angela Bassett (The Score), Delroy Lindo (Get Shorty), Theresa Randle (Bad Boys), Al Freeman, Jr. (Black Like Me), Christopher Plummer (Beginners), Peter Boyle (Young Frankenstein), Karen Allen (Starman), Wendell Pierce (Treme), Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad), David Patrick Kelly (The Warriors), Richard Schiff (The West Wing), and Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos).
This two-disc Digibook edition will commemorate Malcolm X‘s twentieth anniversary. Warner has not yet released a full listing of the Blu-ray’s technical and supplementary specifications, though the studio’s deluxe DVD release contains the following special features:
- Commentary with Spike Lee, cinematographer Ernest Dickerson, editor Barry Alexander Brown, and costume designer Ruth Carter
- By Any Means Necessary: The Making of Malcolm X documentary
- 1972’s Academy Award-nominated documentary Malcolm X
- Deleted scenes
- Trailer
Malcolm X is expected to street on January 31st, 2012.
