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James Bond

I'd like to see my theory proven with the next incarnation of Bond. A Black Ops mission going on somewhere at night, one by one the squad (played by five or six actors who have been in the rumour mill for the as yet undeclared role of new Bond) are taken out until there are just two left. Rather than teaming up they then get into a brawl and eventually one of them overpowers the other and makes a break for a door. Once through the door the lone spy discovers he is in a drawing room of a stately home, a chair swivels round and Ralph Fiennes M says: "Ah, Mr Bond, I presume..." to which the last Black Op standing replies "Yes, sir, James Bond..."

Cue the classic black screen/white circle, focus on a gunman, blood dripping down opening...

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On a Bond related theme as well, I just discovered Alice Cooper's "The Man With The Golden Gun". What a track. Read something somewhere about Muse having a track that seems like it was meant for a Bond film as well.
 
McAvennie_ said:
On a Bond related theme as well, I just discovered Alice Cooper's "The Man With The Golden Gun". What a track. Read something somewhere about Muse having a track that seems like it was meant for a Bond film as well.
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The great Johnny Cash also submitted a song for a Bond movie! And here it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3rqS98seNA
 
James Bond’s Lotus submarine car for sale
One of the most famous film cars ever, the Lotus Esprit submarine car from “The Spy Who Loved Me”, is for sale for the first time.
By Andrew Hopper
6:30AM BST 03 Jul 2013

The Lotus Esprit submarine car famously driven by Sir Roger Moore in the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me has, for the first time ever, come up for sale.

Known on set as “Wet Nellie”, the Lotus Esprit Series 1 will be auctioned in September, in what is being described by the auction house in charge of the sale as a “once in a lifetime opportunity”. With no reserve on the car, it is sure to attract a lot of attention, not least when you learn that the last Bond car to be sold, the Aston Martin DB5 from Goldfinger, reached £2.9 million in 2010.

Although six Esprit bodyshells were used in filming, only one was converted to a fully operational submarine car. The work was carried out by Perry Oceanographic, a company based in Riviera Beach, Florida, and was reported to have cost more than $100,000 dollars (the equivalent of about $500,000 today).

In one of the most well-known scenes from the film, Bond drives the white Esprit off a jetty and underwater. Thanks to the work of Perry Oceanographic (or perhaps Q...), it could be operated using its motorised propellers and a lever steering system, with Don Griffin, a retired U.S. Navy Seal taking over from Moore for the filming.

Following its role in the film, the Esprit was shipped from the Bahamas to Long Island, New York, where it was put into a storage container on a 10-year pre-paid rental. When the lease on the storage unit was up the contents were sold in a blind auction for what RM Auctions, which is handling the lastest sale, describes as a “modest” price. When the couple who won the bid discovered what they had bought, they had the Lotus positively authenticated. Although occasionally displayed, the car spent most of its time out of the public eye.

However, now the only fully functioning submarine car has resurfaced and is for sale, sure to tempt James Bond fans.

Max Girardo, managing director of RM Auctions Europe, says: “We have a great track record in selling incredible and iconic movie cars, and this particular Lotus is certainly up there amongst the most famous cars of all time. Over the years, millions of moviegoers have stared in awe as the Lotus transformed itself into a submarine, and now, perhaps one of them will have an opportunity to own it. Her Majesty’s Secret Service aside, it surely is the ultimate beach accessory!”

The Lotus Esprit submarine car features in RM Auctions London sale on 8-9 of September. For More information visit rmauctions.com.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/new ... -sale.html

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William Boyd: Solo's James Bond keeps his 'bad habits'
By Tim Masters, Entertainment and arts correspondent, BBC News

James Bond retains his "bad habits" in his latest literary outing, according to its author William Boyd.
"He drinks, he smokes, he does everything you'd expect of the classic Bond," said Boyd, the latest writer to take on the 007 legacy.

Set in 1969, Boyd's novel Solo sees Ian Fleming's spy sent on a mission to halt a civil war in West Africa.
The book, launched earlier at London's Dorchester hotel, is published in the UK on Thursday and the US on 8 October.

Jeffery Deaver, Sebastian Faulks and John Gardner are among the other authors to have written officially-sanctioned Bond novels since Fleming's death in 1964.

Boyd sets the opening scene of his novel at the Dorchester, where Bond is found celebrating his 45th birthday.
Outside the hotel on Wednesday morning, a line of vintage Jensen cars waited to transport the first seven copies of the book to Heathrow Airport.
From there they will be flown to Bond-related locations around the world, including Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Sydney and Zurich.
In Solo, Bond takes a Jensen FF for a spin from a car showroom on Park Lane.

Speaking to the BBC at Wednesday's launch, Boyd said he had not toned down Bond for a modern audience.
"He has all the bad habits that Fleming gave him - he's a huge drinker," the author explained.
"I was counting his drinks as I read the Fleming novels like an anxious wife married to an alcoholic." 8)

Boyd, who re-read all of Fleming's books in chronological order before writing Solo, said he had taken the commission "extremely seriously".
"I've now achieved Mastermind status in Bond studies," he joked.

The writer, whose novels include A Good Man in Africa (1981) and Brazzaville Beach (1990), used Fleming as a character in his 2002 novel Any Human Heart.

Admitting he'd be "a fool" to ignore the most popular aspects of the Bond novels, Boyd said Solo featured appearances from Bond's boss M, his CIA colleague Felix Leiter and "a frosty exchange" with Miss Moneypenny, M's secretary.

Boyd said he first encountered Bond in the novel From Russia With Love while at prep school in the north of Scotland.
"We used to read it to each other after lights out as a kind of illicit thrill," he recalled.

The first writer to follow Fleming was Kingsley Amis, who published Colonel Sun in 1968 under the pseudonym Robert Markham.
Boyd, whose novel follows Faulks' Devil May Care (2008) and Deaver's Carte Blanche (2011), said he thought Bond had a long literary life ahead.
"I think he can go on and on because there are so many nuances and aspects of him that you can explore," he told the BBC.
"In this novel I've investigated his World War II history in some detail for the first time, so I think there's no end in sight in my opinion.
"I've aged him up to 45, but Daniel Craig is 45, and he's in great shape, so Bond's got a another 20 years in him, I reckon."

Boyd directed Bond actor Craig in 1999 film The Trench. But were Solo to be made into a film, he said, he would cast triple Oscar-winner Daniel Day-Lewis.
"He actually resembles the Bond that Fleming describes in the books," Boyd explained. "That's someone who looks like the American singer-songwriter Hoagy Carmichael - a tall, lean, rangy, very dark-haired, good-looking man."

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of Fleming's first James Bond novel Casino Royale.
He wrote 14 Bond books in all, and the series has sold more than 100 million copies.

Fleming's niece, actress Lucy Fleming, said her uncle would have been "thrilled" with Boyd's new addition to the Bond universe.
"Nobody - least of all Uncle Ian - could have guessed what could have come from that day in early 1952 when he sat down in front of his typewriter in Goldeneye [his estate in Jamaica] and wrote the first sentence of Casino Royale.
"He must be looking down - or possibly up - at us in amazement with, I hope, a big grin on his face." :D

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24227999
 
This took a while...
James Bond Settlement Sparks Blofeld Return Rumors

The archvillain from the James Bond films — who's often seen stroking a white cat — might be making a return to the big screen following a settlement announced Friday between studio MGM, production company Danjaq and the estate of Kevin McClory.

McClory was a co-writer of the 1965 movie "Thunderball" with Bond book writer Ian Fleming but was embroiled in a legal dispute over the movie rights for over 50 years.

On Friday, the three parties announced that Danjaq and MGM had acquired all of the rights and interests relating to James Bond from the McClory estate and family.

Terms weren't disclosed.

The McClory family's law firm said McClory created the iconic character, Ernst Stavro Blofeld and the global terrorist organization he headed, SPECTRE (Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion), which were not part of the original novels.

William Kane, a lawyer who represented the McClory estate, said in a statement that the settlement "will benefit James Bond film fans throughout the world."

The legal dispute dates back to 1959, six years after the publication of Fleming's first Bond book, "Casino Royale." The estate claims that McClory then proposed to Fleming that they set a James Bond movie in the Bahamas, which later became "Thunderball." Fleming allegedly took the script and wrote the novel "Thunderball" without giving McClory credit.

Following a legal tussle, McClory was able to produce "Thunderball" in 1965 and put out the 1983 film "Never Say Never Again," which brought back Sean Connery as Agent 007.

That year, a competing film, "Octopussy," starring Roger Moore as 007, was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Danjaq, the production company now run by the family of late producer Albert R. Broccoli.

For years, "Never Say Never Again" has been left out of the Bond canon. The movie is not listed on the official James Bond 007 website, and was not included in last year's "Bond 50" box set of discs celebrating 50 years of James Bond, dubbed "The Complete 22 Film Collection." MGM lists 2012's "Skyfall" as the 23rd James Bond film.

The settlement may change that.

The 24th movie in the series, with Sam Mendes returning as director, is set for release in late 2015.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/1 ... 91697.html
 
I wonder if they can retrieve Blofeld from that chimney?
 
Bloody doctors, they have to spoil everything.

James Bond is an 'impotent drunk'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25349738
By James Gallagher
Health and science reporter, BBC News

Doctors say James Bond, played here by actor Daniel Craig, has a drink problem

Vodka martini, "shaken not stirred" - often said as part of a bad Sean Connery impersonation - is one of the most quotable lines from Bond.

Yet Her Majesty's top secret agent's love of the bottle would leave him impotent and at death's door.

Doctors analysing the Ian Fleming novels show James Bond polishes off the equivalent of one and a half bottles of wine every day.

They say he is not the man to trust to deactivate a nuclear bomb.

Doctors in Derby and Nottingham sat down to read the 14 Bond novels in their spare time.

With a notebook at hand they charted every day and every drink.

Excluding the 36 days Bond was in prison, hospital or rehab, the spy downed 1,150 units of alcohol in 88 days.

It works out at 92 units a week - about five vodka martinis a day and four times the recommended maximum intake for men in the UK.

The doctors' report in the festive edition of the British Medical Journal concluded: "Although we appreciate the societal pressures to consume alcohol when working with international terrorists and high stakes gamblers, we would advise Bond to be referred for further assessment of his alcohol intake."

Patrick Davies, a consultant in paediatric intensive care at Nottingham University Hospitals, told the BBC: "You wouldn't want this person defusing a nuclear bomb.

"He's a very glamorous person, he gets all the girls and that's totally incompatible with the lifestyle of an alcoholic, which he is."

He said Bond would be classified in the "top whack" of problem drinkers and would be at high risk of liver damage, an early death and impotence.

"So he might be practising safe sex after all," said Dr Davies.

From Russia with vodka
He also had a "Drink and Let Drive" habit after consuming 39 units in Casino Royale then crashing in a high-speed car chase and needing two weeks in hospital.

On his biggest bender, Bond had 50 units in a single day during From Russia With Love and only 13 days in all the novels were free of the sauce.

Charting James Bond's drinking habits with age, he starts off drinking heavily in Casino Royale (1953) before seemingly starting to get his life in order as he heads towards Goldfinger (1959).

However, his intake starts to soar again and peaks at 132 units a week in You Only Live Twice (1964).

The researchers argue this may be a response to the death of his wife a year earlier in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

They say the study is light-hearted, and did not interfere with their day jobs, but raises an important message about alcohol.

Excessive alcohol consumption is thought to cause 2.5 million deaths every year around the world.

"The level of functioning as displayed in the books is inconsistent with the physical, mental, and indeed sexual functioning expected from someone drinking this much alcohol," the doctors said.
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Just read this. Not convinced.

Many men of that era and class drank alcohol as if it was water and often had a staggering tolerance to its effects.

What early-21st-century wimps call alcoholism, they termed loosening up and being sociable.
 
I can think of another Scot, Manny Shinwell, who loved his Scotch and became Secretary of State for Defence. He lived to 101, the last thing he did was drink a glass of Scotch , say "I've had enough" and die. Just like that.
 
James Bond was a fictional character who probably embodied Ian Fleming's wish-fulfliment fantasies. He smoked, drank, ate and screwed only the very best. Most of which were represented by top notch brand names of the 50s and 60s. Bond was not only a superman, he was one of the first super-consumers. He'd be at least 95 by now, anyway.

Fleming lived like his creation, but he was mortal. According to Wikipedia:
Fleming was a heavy smoker and drinker who suffered from heart disease; he died in 1964, aged 56, from a heart attack.
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Stolen by SMERSH!

Early villains have emerged in the next James Bond film “SPECTRE”: hackers who stole a version of the screenplay as part of a devastating cyberattack on Sony Pictures.

Producers of the James Bond films said they learned on Saturday morning that an early version of the “SPECTRE” script was among material stolen and made public by hackers who infiltrated computers at the Sony studio. “Eon Productions is concerned that third parties who have received the stolen screenplay may seek to publish it or its contents,” Eon said in a statement, while warning that the script is protected by U.K. copyright laws. “SPECTRE,” starring Daniel Craig as 007, is set for release on Nov. 6, 2015. Filming began this month after producer Barbara Broccoli and director Sam Mendes unveiled the title, cast and new car, but little about the plot.


Read more at http://newsdaily.com/2014/12/hacker...pt-stolen-in-sony-attack/#oPcFK4JDlb5Z7M0S.99
 
Is it just me...or is it a bit flaccid?
 
Just what we need, to hear about Bond's personal life.

What we want to see is him shag women, shoot bad guys, and drive fast cars. None of this broody, philosophical crap.
 
The great Johnny Cash also submitted a song for a Bond movie!
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Rollin' rollin' rollin' :eek:


Makes no more sense than the one they did actually use. Possibly Cash's gravitas makes it even more preposterous.
 
OneWingedBird said:
Rollin' rollin' rollin' :eek:


Makes no more sense than the one they did actually use. Possibly Cash's gravitas makes it even more preposterous.
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It might have worked if they'd cast John Wayne as Bond and made it a western :)
 
Peripart said:
I agree that the trailer built up a good bit of tension, but I also agree with Mooks and Anome that it wasn't very Bond-y.
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If you look at the ring bond puts down on that table in that trailer, it's got 7 downward 'tentacles' ... now re-look at the Spectre film's bullet hole in glass logo, underneath the bullet hole is 7 more prominent downward shatter marks .. this is the seven terrorist cells that M and 007 were previously unaware of and are starting to catch up with (hopefully) .. RIP M and God bless The Queen :cool: ...
 
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Moooksta said:
Is it just me...or is it a bit flaccid?
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Is that Bond's new catchphrase? Advancing years and all?

Anyway, not much to go on, but he's a what dancing in a hurricane? Bit impertinent. Just hoping they remembered the jokes like they did in Skyfall, which was the Bondiest of the Craig movies for me.
 
Names is for tombstones, baby...

Am I being a bit wrong to declare my love for Live and Let Die? Is that tantamount to claiming that I like Bernard Manning?

I've watched it quite often, and it seems to me that it was the Daniel Craig Bond-reboot of its day. Bond doesn't drink Vodka Martini - it's bourbon throughout. And he doesn't rely on gadgets. (The one gadget he's given - the magnetic watch - fails when he most needs it, surrounded by crocodiles). Basically he bluffs his way though the entire film based on luck and his ability to punch people really hard. And he's constantly getting outwitted and caught. Unlike the later Moore films where he basically seems to be untouchable.

Damn, I love Live and Let Die! ("You used to say Live and Let Live, you know you did, you know you did, you know you diiiiiiddd..")
 
No I'm with you on that, Live and Let Die is my favorite Bond film, despite my dislike of Moore as Bond. It also has probably the greatest car stunt ever filmed (which is largely undermined by some buffoon putting on a swanny whistle sound effect).
 
Bond actually drank more Bourbon than Vodka, in martinis or otherwise. Someone's done an analysis of the books.

Also important to remember the Vesper was a specific pre-dinner drink, not what he had whenever he walked into a bar. And he had a nasty habit of adding pepper to straight vodka, to the consternation of his social betters.

Live or Let Die is OK, and certainly one of the better Moore Bonds. The later ones just got sillier and sillier, and not in a way that was particularly enjoyable.
 
Heckler20 said:
No I'm with you on that, Live and Let Die is my favorite Bond film, despite my dislike of Moore as Bond. It also has probably the greatest car stunt ever filmed (which is largely undermined by some buffoon putting on a swanny whistle sound effect).
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The stunt (without the whistle or equally annoying good ole boy) was copied - at the second attempt - by a programme that used to be on the telly a long time ago:

 
graylien said:
Names is for tombstones, baby...

Am I being a bit wrong to declare my love for Live and Let Die? Is that tantamount to claiming that I like Bernard Manning?

I've watched it quite often, and it seems to me that it was the Daniel Craig Bond-reboot of its day. Bond doesn't drink Vodka Martini - it's bourbon throughout. And he doesn't rely on gadgets. (The one gadget he's given - the magnetic watch - fails when he most needs it, surrounded by crocodiles). Basically he bluffs his way though the entire film based on luck and his ability to punch people really hard. And he's constantly getting outwitted and caught. Unlike the later Moore films where he basically seems to be untouchable.

Damn, I love Live and Let Die! ("You used to say Live and Let Live, you know you did, you know you did, you know you diiiiiiddd..")
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It's my favourite to ... it's just so much fun to watch even if it isn't the 'best' Bond film. The scene with the guy who takes his prosthetic face off blew my mind as a kid and was one of the reasons I got into FX make-up ..
 
Ah, that stunt is from The Man with the Golden Gun. Easy to get them mixed up as Sheriff J.W Pepper from Live and Let Die pops up again. I've seen an interview with soundtrack composer John Barry where he said he really regretted putting the swanee whistle over the car flip. Dunno why they don't just take it off the soundtrack for the DVD releases, coz everyone hates it.
 
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