While the James Bond franchise will be celebrating its 60th anniversary next October, the official 007 Instagram account made it known that another special anniversary was being celebrated today – the 60th anniversary of the founding of EON Productions, the company who brought the Bond franchise to the screen a year after their formation.
The celebration of EON Productions is mostly only possible thanks to James Bond, just as, in a strange paradoxical way, James Bond is only going to be celebrating his own Diamond Anniversary on screen thanks to EON Productions being set up all those years ago.
For now though, we raise a glass to sixty years of EON Productions, without who none of this would have been possible.
It was only when he created EON Productions with Saltzman, that the new partnership took a risk and acquired the rights to make Dr No.