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James Bond is a fictional character created by British novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. A British secret agent working for MI6 under the codename 007, Bond has been portrayed on film in twenty-seven productions by actors Sean Connery, David Niven, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, and Daniel Craig.
Spectre is a 2015 spy film and the twenty-fourth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions.Directed by Sam Mendes and written by John Logan, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and Jez Butterworth from a story conceived by Logan, Purvis, and Wade, it stars Daniel Craig as Bond, alongside Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Dave Bautista, Monica Bellucci, and Ralph Fiennes.
Immediately after the film's release, Craig had complained about the rigours of performing the part, saying he would rather "slash [his] wrists" than play Bond again. [76] In May 2016, it was reported that Craig had received a $100 million offer from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to do two more Bond films, but turned it down. [77]
Named after Ian Fleming’s Jamaican estate, GoldenEye features a first-rate villain (thanks to Sean Bean’s British-intelligence turncoat, Alec Trevelyan) and all of the action-film thrills Bond ...
Skyfall, boasting a much-celebrated and powerful opening theme from Adele, premiered in theaters just a few months later and became the highest-selling Bond film of all time.
Skyfall (2012). Craig’s third outing as Bond proved to be wildly popular, crushing box office records. In this story, 007 faces off against a former embittered agent named Raoul Silva (Javier ...
Like Fleming's original character, Bond is the son of Sir Andrew Bond and his wife Monique (née Delacroix), who died in a climbing accident when Bond was 12. He briefly lived in Skyfall Lodge, the Bond family's ancestral home in Scotland, before being adopted by family friend Hannes Oberhauser.
Five decades after the first James Bond movie, the wildly popular British spy film franchise releases its much-anticipated 25th canonical installment next week with “No Time to Die,” marking ...