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  • James Bond Movies in Order

    Sean Connery as James Bond in Dr. No movie
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    “Bond, James Bond.”

    It’s one of the most iconic lines in movie history. First created by Ian Fleming in his series of novels, the British Secret Service agent known as James Bond has appeared in over 25 movies, and is the fifth highest grossing film series of all time.

    The character has been portrayed by six actors including Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, and Daniel Craig. Last year’s ‘No Time to Die‘ marked Craig’s last performances as 007, and the question remains, who will play the character next?

    The list of actors (and actresses) rumored to potentially be the next James Bond include Idris Elba, Rege-Jean Page, Tom Hardy, Henry Cavill, Tom Hiddleston, Cillian Murphy, Richard Madden, and Lashana Lynch, who portrayed 007 agent Nomi in ‘No Time to Die.’

    With Daniel Craig recently wrapping up his run as James Bond, we thought it would be a perfect time to look back at all of the official James Bond movies in order.

    Let’s Begin!

    Dr. No (1963)

    In the film that launched the James Bond saga, Agent 007 battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go to Jamaica, where he encounters beautiful Honey Ryder, to confront a megalomaniacal villain in his massive island headquarters.

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    From Russia with Love (1964)

    Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy.

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    Goldfinger (1965)

    Special agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a devious scheme to raid Fort Knox — and obliterate the world’s economy.

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    Thunderball (1965)

    A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they will use the weapons. The secret service sends James Bond to the Bahamas to once again save the world.

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    You Only Live Twice (1967)

    A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the case in Japan and comes face to face with his archenemy Blofeld.

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    Casino Royale (1967)

    Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan – that every agent will be named ‘James Bond’. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle.

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    On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)

    James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat where he is training an army of beautiful, lethal women. Along the way, Bond falls for Italian contessa Tracy Draco, and marries her in order to get closer to Blofeld.

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    Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

    Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smuggling mission to find out who’s guilty. The mission takes him to Las Vegas where Bond meets his archenemy Blofeld.

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    Live and Let Die (1973)

    James Bond must investigate a mysterious murder case of a British agent in New Orleans. Soon he finds himself up against a gangster boss named Mr. Big.

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    The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)

    Cool government operative James Bond searches for a stolen invention that can turn the sun’s heat into a destructive weapon. He soon crosses paths with the menacing Francisco Scaramanga, a hitman so skilled he has a seven-figure working fee. Bond then joins forces with the swimsuit-clad Mary Goodnight, and together they track Scaramanga to a tropical isle hideout where the killer-for-hire lures the slick spy into a deadly maze for a final duel.

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    The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

    Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as James Bond tries to solve the riddle of the disappearing ships. But the KGB also has an agent on the case.

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    Moonraker (1979)

    After Drax Industries’ Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned to investigate, traveling to California to meet the company’s owner, the mysterious Hugo Drax. With the help of scientist Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond soon uncovers Drax’s nefarious plans for humanity, all the while fending off an old nemesis, Jaws, and venturing to Venice, Rio, the Amazon…and outer space.

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    For Your Eyes Only (1981)

    A British spy ship has sunk and on board was a hi-tech encryption device. James Bond is sent to find the device that holds British launching instructions before the enemy Soviets get to it first.

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    Octopussy (1983)

    James Bond is sent to investigate after a fellow “00” agent is found dead with a priceless Fabergé egg. Bond follows the mystery and uncovers a smuggling scandal and a Russian General who wants to provoke a new World War.

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    Never Say Never Again (1983)

    James Bond returns as the secret agent 007 to battle the evil organization SPECTRE. Bond must defeat Largo, who has stolen two atomic warheads for nuclear blackmail. But Bond has an ally in Largo’s girlfriend, the willowy Domino, who falls for Bond and seeks revenge.

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    A View to a Kill (1985)

    A newly-developed microchip designed by Zorin Industries for the British Government that can survive the electromagnetic radiation caused by a nuclear explosion has landed in the hands of the KGB. James Bond must find out how and why. His suspicions soon lead him to big industry leader Max Zorin.

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    The Living Daylights (1987)

    After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigned a secret mission to kill the new head of the KGB to prevent an escalation of tensions between the Soviet Union and the West.

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    Licence to Kill (1989)

    After capturing the notorious drug lord Franz Sanchez, Bond’s close friend and former CIA agent Felix Leiter is left for dead and his wife is murdered. Bond goes rogue and seeks vengeance on those responsible, as he infiltrates Sanchez’s organization from the inside.

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    GoldenEye (1995)

    When a powerful Russian satellite weapon is hijacked by a mysterious crime syndicate, it’s up to James Bond, with the help of programmer Natalya Simonova, to find the culprits and save the world from disaster.

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    Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

    A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world’s superpowers against each other. Now James Bond must take on this evil mastermind in an adrenaline-charged battle to end his reign of terror and prevent global pandemonium.

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    The World Is Not Enough (1999)

    Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it’s all in a day’s work for Bond, who’s on a mission to protect a beautiful oil heiress from a notorious terrorist. In a race against time that culminates in a dramatic submarine showdown, Bond works to defuse the international power struggle that has the world’s oil supply hanging in the balance.

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    The World Is Not Enough (2002)

    James Bond is sent to investigate the connection between a North Korean terrorist and a diamond mogul, who is funding the development of an international space weapon.

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    Casino Royale (2006)

    Le Chiffre, a banker to the world’s terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond—on his maiden mission as a 00 Agent—to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. With the help of Vesper Lynd and Felix Leiter, Bond enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career.

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    Quantum of Solace (2008)

    Quantum of Solace continues the adventures of James Bond after Casino Royale. Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond and M interrogate Mr. White, who reveals that the organization that blackmailed Vesper is far more complex and dangerous than anyone had imagined.

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    Skyfall (2012)

    When Bond’s latest assignment goes gravely wrong and agents around the world are exposed, MI6 is attacked forcing M to relocate the agency. These events cause her authority and position to be challenged by Gareth Mallory, the new Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee. With MI6 now compromised from both inside and out, M is left with one ally she can trust: Bond. 007 takes to the shadows – aided only by field agent, Eve – following a trail to the mysterious Silva, whose lethal and hidden motives have yet to reveal themselves.

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    Spectre (2015)

    A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.

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    No Time to Die (2021)

    Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns up asking for help. The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.

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  • Every James Bond Movie, Ranked From ‘Dr. No’ to ‘Spectre’

    Every James Bond Movie, Ranked From ‘Dr. No’ to ‘Spectre’

  • The Best James Bond Actors, Ranked

    The Best James Bond Actors, Ranked

  • 26 Things You Never Knew About the James Bond Classic ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’

    “Nobody does it better,” sang Carly Simon during the opening credits of “The Spy Who Loved Me.”

    Indeed, you could make a case that the 007 adventure, released 40 years ago this week in the U.S. (on July 13, 1977), was the best of the late Roger Moore‘s James Bond movies, with perhaps the best pre-credit sequence (that ski jump!), one of the best cars (that Lotus Esprit that converts into a submarine), a great henchman (Richard Kiel‘s Jaws), and an even better Bond girl — Barbara Bach‘s Agent XXX, a.k.a. Anya Amasova, who’s every bit as skilled, smart, and lethal a spy as 007.

    As beloved as the movie is, there’s plenty you may not know about its behind-the-scenes intrigue. Here’s the secret dossier on “The Spy Who Loved Me.”
    1. The film has almost nothing in common with Ian Fleming‘s novel, due to the author’s contract stipulating that none of the book’s plot could be used. It’s a departure for Fleming, told largely from a female spy’s point of view; James Bond doesn’t even show up until two-thirds of the way through. Fleming wasn’t happy with the way it turned out, and when he sold the film rights to Eon, the producers of the other titles in the 007 movie franchise, he allowed only the use of the title. Nonetheless, the characters of henchmen Jaws and Sandor are loosely inspired by similar characters in the novel, with the former inspired by the character called Horror.

    2. As it turned out, Eon was also legally barred from using the villain it wanted. Kevin McClory, who owned the rights to “Thunderball” (the lone Fleming 007 novel that had been a screenplay first), had licensed those rights to Eon for 10 years, beginning with the production of that Bond adventure in 1965. Now those rights had lapsed, and when McClory learned that Eon’s “Spy Who Loved Me” script idea included Blofeld and SPECTRE (both mentioned in “Thunderball”), he filed an injunction, as he was trying to develop his own Bond movie series. (Eventually, his “Thunderball” reboot became “Never Say Never Again” and brought Sean Connery back for one last turn as 007.) So Eon went back to the drawing board and came up with the Blofeld-like Stromberg, whose scheme to start a nuclear war between the Soviets and the West echoes the plot of the 1967 Bond movie “You Only Live Twice.”
    3. How similar is “Spy” to “Twice”? Not only is it directed by the person, Lewis Gilbert, it uses a tanker to swallow nuclear submarines, similar to how “Twice” featured a space capsule that could swallow other space capsules. (Gilbert acknowledges this similarity on the film’s first special edition DVD release.)

    4. Eon sought a number of different directors, including Steven Spielberg — then newly-hot after the success of his own movie about a character nicknamed Jaws — before finally returning to “You Only Live Twice” director Lewis Gilbert.
    5. Frequent 007 screenwriter and script doctor Tom Mankiewicz claimed in his memoir that iconic French star Catherine Deneuve was interested in starring in the film, but her quote at the time was $400,000. Mankiewicz said she offered to cut her fee to $250,000, but the producers were unwilling to spend more than $80,000.

    6. A young John Landis worked on an early story treatment for the film, alongside then-potential director Guy Hamilton (“Goldfinger“).
    7. Lois Chiles (pictured) turned down the chance to be Bond’s love interest, though she would sign on to play Holly Goodhead in the next 007 adventure, “Moonraker.”

    8. Bach landed the lead role just four days before shooting began. She thought she was auditioning for another, smaller part. According to People, Moore was disappointed; he’d been hoping for Brigitte Bardot.
    9. Bach seemed similarly unimpressed with her leading man, describing James Bond to People as “a chauvinist pig who uses girls to shield him against bullets.”

    10. Geoffrey Keen and Walter Gotell made their Bond movie debuts, as British defense minister Frederick Gray and KGB chief General Gogol, respectively. Each would reprise his role for the next five sequels.
    11. Curt Jurgens (above) was cast as Stromberg because Gilbert had enjoyed working with the Austrian actor when he starred in Gilbert’s 1959 adventure “Ferry to Hong Kong.”

    12. Production designer Ken Adam had famously built an enormous, temporary set at England’s Pinewood Studios to house Blofeld’s volcano lair in “You Only Live Twice.” This time, he built an even bigger soundstage there, a permanent one, to house the interior of Stromberg’s submarine-swallowing supertanker. Dubbed the 007 Stage, it covered 45,000 square feet and contained a 300-foot-long water tank that held 1.2 million gallons. The set cost $1.8 million to construct.
    13. Lighting the massive soundstage proved too difficult for cinematographer Claude Renoir, who was then losing his eyesight. So the producers smuggled onto the set a secret lighting consultant: no less than Stanley Kubrick, who’d recently pulled off the feat of lighting much of his “Barry Lyndon” with nothing but candles and natural light — sources appropriate to the film’s 18th-century setting. (Adam had won an Oscar for “Barry Lyndon’s” production design.)

    14. “Spy Who Loved Me” was a typically globetrotting 007 production, with filming locations as far-flung as Sardinia, Spain, and the Bahamas. There was also Egypt, where the producers realized they couldn’t properly light the Pyramids at night; they ended up using miniatures instead.
    15. The production used six versions of the Lotus Esprit S1, each showing the supposedly amphibious car in various stages of its transformation. Only one actually operated underwater. It was nicknamed “Wet Nellie,” a reference to the “Little Nellie” autogyro Bond used in “You Only Live Twice.” It was a $100,000 mini-sub in an Esprit shell. There were also some scenes that used miniatures, with air bubbles generated by Alka-Seltzer tablets.

    16. While shooting in Egypt, the production briefly ran out of food. So franchise producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli found himself cooking a spaghetti dinner for 100 members of the cast and crew.
    17. Those scary metal chompers Jaws wore were actually made of acrylic. Though a dentist molded them to fit Kiel’s teeth, Kiel told the Guardian that they were so painful to wear that he could only keep them in his mouth for a minute or two before he would start to gag.

    18. A dispute with British tax authorities kept longtime 007 composer John Barry from working on the movie, so scoring duties fell to EGOT winner Marvin Hamlisch.
    19. With lyricist Carole Bayer Sager, Hamlisch co-wrote the theme song, “Nobody Does It Better,” the first Bond theme not titled after its movie (though the lyrics do contain the phrase “the spy who loved me”). Carly Simon’s performance of the tune reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and stayed on the chart for nearly three months, making it her longest-charting hit ever.

    20. The filmmakers hired Hollywood stuntman Rick Sylvester to do the pre-credit ski jump after seeing his amateur Super 16 footage of his own illegal parachute jump of 3,000 feet from El Capitan at Yosemite. Sylvester was paid $30,000 to make a similar vault off the summit of Canada’s Mt. Asgard. There was no rehearsal, and there would only be opportunity for one take.
    21. Sylvester was too slow in his take-off, tangled his legs during the flip, and took so long to recover that, by the time he opened that now-famous Union Jack chute, he’d fallen out of range of the helicopter filming the scene. Fortunately, another cameraman who was roped into place just below the summit caught the whole jump

    22. “Spy” cost $14 million to make, still a lofty sum for a movie in 1977. It earned back $185 million worldwide.
    23. The Academy nominated the movie for three Oscars. Two nominations went to Hamlisch, for his score and for Best Original Song. The third was for art direction, marking the third career nomination for Adam and his only one for a Bond film.

    24. The closing credits promised that Bond would return in “For Your Eyes Only,” but the successes of such 1977 sci-fi movies as “Star Wars” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” inspired Eon to film space adventure “Moonraker” next instead.
    25. Kiel’s Jaws was an instant fan favorite. He was initially supposed to die in Stromberg’s shark tank, but test audiences disapproved, so the film was recut to let him live. He’s perhaps the only henchman to appear in more than one 007 film, and in “Moonraker,” he even got a character arc and a love interest. We almost got to see him marry Dolly in “For Your Eyes Only,” but the filmmakers decided the franchise had become too cartoonish, dialed it back a bit, and nixed a third Jaws appearance.

    26. In 2013, Wet Nellie was sold at auction for $989,000 to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who pledged to turn it into a vehicle that would actually transform from a car into a submarine and back like it did for 007.

  • James Bond Star Roger Moore Dies At 89

    Roger MooreWe’re sad to report that Roger Moore, who was the second actor to play James Bond, has died at age 89.

    Variety reports that the actor died in Switzerland after a short battle with cancer.

    His children announced the news on Twitter, saying, “It is with the heaviest of hearts, we must share the awful news that our father, Sir Roger Moore, passed away today. We are all devastated.”

    Moore took over the iconic role from original James Bond star, Sean Connery. He played Bond seven times: in the voodoo-themed “Live and Let Die” (1973), opposite Christopher Lee in “The Man With the Golden Gun” (1974), followed by “The Spy Who Loved Me” (1977), and “Moonraker” (1978), which sent Bond into outer space.

    He headlined the franchise into the ’80s with “For Your Eyes Only” (1981), “Octopussy” (1983), and his final turn as Bond in “A View to a Kill” (1985).

    Moore made his film debut in the 1954 Elizabeth Taylor film “The Last Time I saw Paris” as a tennis pro.

    Prior to landing the role of James Bond, he played Simon Templar, another dashing man of action in the British series “The Saint.”

    He sent up his image as Bond in the Cuba Gooding Jr. comedy “Boat Trip” (2002) and the 2004 animated short “The Fly Who Loved Me.”

    You may also remember him in “Alias.”

    The actor was knighted in 1999. He penned the memoirs “My Word Is My Bond” (2008), “Bond on Bond” (2012), and “One Lucky Bastard” (2014). He toured recently with the one-man show “An Evening With Roger Moore.”

  • Daniel Craig Passes Pierce Brosnan to Be Second-Longest Serving Bond

    'Spectre' German Premiere In BerlinHe’s Bond. Still Bond. Daniel Craig‘s future as 007 may be up in the air, but just being the current guy with the title as of February 20 makes him, officially, the second-longest serving James Bond. Shaken (not stirred) martinis all around!

    Sky News posted the update because … maybe they had a countdown going? They noted that Craig is now No. 2, behind Roger Moore. (Personal favorite Bond, Sean Connery, is only the fourth-longest serving Bond out of six.) If Craig wants to dethrone Moore, he’ll have to continue in the role for another 2.5 years. Do you think that will happen?

    Here’s the current ranking of how long each Bond actor has played the role in the franchise, as of Feb. 20 (per Sky News):

    • Roger Moore – 5,118 days

    • Daniel Craig – 4,147 days

    • Pierce Brosnan – 4,146 days

    • Sean Connery – 3,049 days

    • Timothy Dalton – 2,863 days

    • George Lazenby – 875 days

    Pierce Brosnan At Special Screening Of Die Another Day(They didn’t include David Niven, who was in the 1967 comedy “Casino Royale,” since that film is not in the official Eon series.)

    Roger Moore was in seven Bond films from 1973-1985. Both Daniel Craig and Pierce Brosnan have been in four Bond films. The most recent was Craig’s “Spectre,” which came out in 2015. After he filmed that, Craig said he’d rather slash his wrists than play Bond again, but after that he clarified that the statement just came from a place of exhaustion at the end of a marathon shoot. (And he may have anticipated that “Spectre” would not be among the franchise’s best. Even Pierce Brosnan said he didn’t like it.)

    ENTERTAINMENT-FILM-BRITAIN-BOND-FILESThere were rumors in Spring 2016 that Daniel Craig turned down $99 million to return as Bond for two more films, but sources shot down those reports to BBC News, saying Craig hadn’t made any decisions about his future as 007, and “no decision is likely to be made for a while” since the next film wouldn’t be expected in theaters until late 2018 at the earliest.

    In Fall 2016, Craig eventually clarified, “I love this job, I get a massive kick out of it. And if I can keep getting a kick out of it, I will. […] The things I get to do on a Bond movie, and the type of work it is — there is no other job like it. And were I to stop doing it, I would miss it terribly.”

    So it’s possible he will take a crack at Roger Moore’s record.

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