In celebration sure to irk purists everywhere, MGM is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the James Bond franchise. Purist rage may be incited because the anniversary marks 50 years of Bond in film, despite the character's first appearance being in Ian Flemings Casino Royale in 1953.
To "celebrate" (see: make a shit-ton of money) MGM is releasing a Blu Ray box set of all 22 Eon Productions films, which excludes 1967's painfully misguided spoof Casino Royale, and 1983's litigation-inducing Never Say Never Again. Of course, all this leads up to the fall release of the 23rd Bond film, Skyfall, so as soon as you buy the massive box set, it becomes incompete! Yay capitalism!
Hit the jump for some deets (sorry) on the set itself, as well as a stylish, if Lazenby-light, trailer for the collection.
Lazenby Light sounds like an Australian beer. Just mind-flowin' here.
Despite the obvious cash-grabbery of it all, the box set is pretty enticing. From the stylish case design (how is Sir Roger Moore not the centerpiece though!), to several of the films being in HD for the first time, coupled with a purported 130 hours (!) of bonus features; it kind of screams must-have for die hard Bond fans. (Which - as you may have inferred from the presence of a Bond joke in about half of my posts - I am the hardest dying.)
So if you can muster up the $240 price tag... Go for it.
Seriously though. 130 hours of bonus features? I mean, I'm in as long as most of that is Sir Roger outtakes, but still. That's like, too much, ya know?
[Spotted on SlashFilm]
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