George Miller has long stated that his preferred version of his Oscar winning, full-throttle “Mad Max: Fury Road” was a black-and-white cut that he put together during the editing process. Obviously, that version didn’t hit the big screen, but Miller has been promising it would arrive someday, and earlier this year, teased that a forthcoming home video release would include his monochrome vision, and it looks like it’s arriving this fall.
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Amazon Germany now has a pre-order link up for the “Mad Max: High Octane Collection,” a six-disc set which includes all four “Mad Max” movies, lots of new extra material about all the films, a new one-hour documentary about ‘Fury Road,’ and oh yeah, the “Black and Chrome” version, which is described as “the surreal black and white film version of ‘Fury Road.'”
There’s no official word yet on a U.S. release date, though I would hazard a safe guess it’ll be available around the same time. And while double-dip home video releases continue to be one of Hollywood’s worst continued practices, at least this set is coming with a boatload of new material that will hopefully justify the cost to those who already own the quartet of “Mad Max” movies.
Will be you be shelling out your hard earned summer job money for this box set? Hit up the comments section and let us know. [Refocused Media]