
More on From Russia With Love Goldfinger (1964) Bond’s claustrophobic fight with Red Grant, highlighted by Peter Hunt’s groundbreaking editing, has rarely been equalled in the series.

The second Bond film makes great use of the location work in Istanbul, as well as the scenes on board the Orient Express as Bond, Tania and Kerim flee with the Lektor. When Dr No proved to be a hit Eon Productions quickly followed it up with From Russia With Love, considered by Fleming to be his best work. However, rather than the Cold War plot pitting the Russians and SMERSH against 007 the screenplay features SPECTRE play the Russians against MI6 in order to assassinate 007 and get hold of the Lektor code machine. More on Dr No From Russia With Love (1963) Apart from the James Bond Theme the music is largely unmemorable. But while many of the classic Bond elements were introduced, the first Bond film lacks a John Barry score. They also added Felix Leiter, who did not appear in the book. But when Saltzman refused they teamed up instead and created Eon Productions to put 007 on the big screen.ĭr No remains a fairly faithful adaptation of the novel but the screenwriters added a number of scenes. In 1961 Albert R “Cubby” Broccoli found that Harry Saltzman had a six-month option to film the James Bond novels and tried to buy him out. The James Bond movies in order Dr No (1962) You can follow all the latest news about No Time to Die here.

The next Bond film is scheduled for release in October 2021. When is the next James Bond movie due out? The producers of those films owned the rights to make them. Many fans refer to the Eon series as “official” movies, although really it is incorrect to think the other films are unofficial. You can read about these three productions here. But there was also a 1954 television adaptation of Casino Royale, a 1967 spoof version of the same book, and a 1983 remake of Thunderball with Sean Connery, titled Never Say Never Again. That’s an interesting question as the answer isn’t quite straightforward.Īt the time of this update, in April 2018, there are 24 Bond movies in the series produced by Eon Productions. If you have a different question then please get in touch by email and I’ll respond! Q1. But more than 50 years later we still eagerly await each new instalment in the series.īefore we look at each film, there are a couple of questions that are asked frequently by more more casual fans.

The style of each film reflects the time in which it was made. It took James Bond from being a successful series of books to an unprecedented worldwide phenomenon, hitting its peak in the mid-1960s. To jump to each actor’s debut as James Bond use the menu below:
