The character has also been adapted for television, radio, comic strip, video games and film. The films are the longest continually running and the third-highest grossing film series to date, which started in 1962 with Dr. No, starring Sean Connery as Bond. As of 2015, there have been twenty-three films in the Eon Productions series. The most recent Bond film, Skyfall (2012), stars Daniel Craig in his third portrayal of Bond; he is the sixth actor to play Bond in the Eon series. There have also been two independent productions of Bond films: Casino Royale (a 1967 spoof) and Never Say Never Again (a 1983 remake of an earlier Eon-produced film, Thunderball).
The Bond films are renowned for a number of features, including the musical accompaniment, with the theme songs having received Academy Award nominations on several occasions, and one win. Other important elements which run through most of the films include Bond's cars, his guns, and the gadgets with which he is supplied by Q Branch. The films are also noted for Bond's relationships with various women, who are sometimes referred to as "Bond girls".
Publication history
Creation and inspiration
Main articles: James Bond (literary character) and Inspirations for James Bond
As the central figure for his works, Ian Fleming created the fictional character of James Bond, an intelligence officer in the Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6. Bond was also known by his code number, 007, and was a Royal Naval Reserve Commander.Fleming based his fictional creation on a number of individuals he came across during his time in the Naval Intelligence Division during World War II, admitting that Bond "was a compound of all the secret agents and commando types I met during the war".[1] Among those types were his brother, Peter, who had been involved in behind-the-lines operations in Norway and Greece during the war.[2] Aside from Fleming's brother, a number of others also provided some aspects of Bond's make up, including Conrad O'Brien-ffrench, Patrick Dalzel-Job and Bill "Biffy" Dunderdale.[1]
The name James Bond came from that of the American ornithologist James Bond, a Caribbean bird expert and author of the definitive field guide Birds of the West Indies. Fleming, a keen birdwatcher himself, had a copy of Bond's guide and he later explained to the ornithologist's wife that "It struck me that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name was just what I needed, and so a second James Bond was born".[3] He further explained that:
When I wrote the first one in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened; I wanted him to be a blunt instrument ... when I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, (James Bond) is the dullest name I ever heard.On another occasion, Fleming said: "I wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could find, 'James Bond' was much better than something more interesting, like 'Peregrine Carruthers'. Exotic things would happen to and around him, but he would be a neutral figure—an anonymous, blunt instrument wielded by a government department."[5]
—Ian Fleming, The New Yorker, 21 April 1962[4]
Fleming also endowed Bond with many of his own traits, including sharing the same golf handicap, the taste for scrambled eggs and using the same brand of toiletries.[7] Bond's tastes are also often taken from Fleming's own as was his behaviour,[8] with Bond's love of golf and gambling mirroring Fleming's own. Fleming used his experiences of his espionage career and all other aspects of his life as inspiration when writing, including using names of school friends, acquaintances, relatives and lovers throughout his books.[1]
It was not until the penultimate novel, You Only Live Twice, that Fleming gave Bond a sense of family background. The book was the first to be written after the release of Dr. No in cinemas and Sean Connery's depiction of Bond affected Fleming's interpretation of the character, to give Bond both a sense of humour and Scottish antecedents that were not present in the previous stories.[9] In a fictional obituary, purportedly published in The Times, Bond's parents were given as Andrew Bond, from the village of Glencoe, Scotland, and Monique Delacroix, from the canton of Vaud, Switzerland.[10] Fleming did not provide Bond's date of birth, but John Pearson's fictional biography of Bond, James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007, gives Bond a birth date on 11 November 1920,[11] while a study by John Griswold puts the date at 11 November 1921.[12]
Main article: List of James Bond novels and short stories
Ian Fleming novels
After completing the manuscript for Casino Royale, Fleming showed the manuscript to his friend (and later editor) William Plomer to read. Plomer liked it and submitted it to the publishers, Jonathan Cape, who did not like it as much. Cape finally published it in 1953 on the recommendation of Fleming's older brother Peter, an established travel writer.[16] Between 1953 and 1966, two years after his death, twelve novels and two short-story collections were published, with the last two books – The Man with the Golden Gun and Octopussy and The Living Daylights – published posthumously.[18] All the books were published in the UK through Jonathan Cape.
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Post-Fleming novels
After Fleming's death a continuation novel, Colonel Sun, was written by Kingsley Amis (as Robert Markham) and published in 1968.[33] Amis had already written a literary study of Fleming's Bond novels in his 1965 work The James Bond Dossier.[34] Although novelizations of two of the Eon Productions Bond films appeared in print, James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me and James Bond and Moonraker, both written by screenwriter Christopher Wood,[35] the series of novels did not continue until the 1980s. In 1981, thriller writer John Gardner picked up the series with Licence Renewed.[36] Gardner went on to write sixteen Bond books in total; two of the books he wrote – Licence to Kill and GoldenEye – were novelizations of Eon Productions films of the same name. Gardner moved the Bond series into the 1980s, although he retained the ages of the characters as they were when Fleming had left them.[37] In 1996, Gardner retired from writing James Bond books due to ill health.[38]
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Young Bond
Main article: Young Bond
The Young Bond series of novels was started by Charlie Higson[70] and, between 2005 and 2009, five novels and one short story were published.[71] The first Young Bond novel, SilverFin was also adapted and released as a graphic novel on 2 October 2008 by Puffin Books.[72] In October 2013 Ian Fleming Publications announced that Stephen Cole would continue the series, with the first edition scheduled to be released in Autumn 2014.[73]
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The Moneypenny Diaries
The Moneypenny Diaries are a trilogy of novels chronicling the life of Miss Moneypenny, M's personal secretary. The novels are penned by Samantha Weinberg under the pseudonym Kate Westbrook, who is depicted as the book's "editor".[81] The first instalment of the trilogy, subtitled Guardian Angel, was released on 10 October 2005 in the UK.[82] A second volume, subtitled Secret Servant was released on 2 November 2006 in the UK, published by John Murray.[83] A third volume, subtitled Final Fling was released on 1 May 2008.[84]Adaptations
Television
In 1954 CBS paid Ian Fleming $1,000 ($8,782 in 2015 dollars[88]) to adapt his novel Casino Royale into a one-hour television adventure as part of its Climax! series.[89] The episode aired live on 21 October 1954 and starred Barry Nelson as "Card Sense" James 'Jimmy' Bond and Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre.[90] The novel was adapted for American audiences to show Bond as an American agent working for "Combined Intelligence", while the character Felix Leiter—American in the novel—became British onscreen and was renamed "Clarence Leiter".[91]In 1973 a BBC documentary Omnibus: The British Hero featured Christopher Cazenove playing a number of such title characters (e.g. Richard Hannay and Bulldog Drummond). The documentary included James Bond in dramatised scenes from Goldfinger—notably featuring 007 being threatened with the novel's circular saw, rather than the film's laser beam—and Diamonds Are Forever.[92] In 1991 a TV cartoon series James Bond Jr. was produced with Corey Burton in the role of Bond's nephew, also called James Bond.[93]
Radio
In 1956, the novel Moonraker was adapted for broadcast on South African radio, with Bob Holness providing the voice of Bond.[94] According to The Independent, "listeners across the Union thrilled to Bob's cultured tones as he defeated evil master criminals in search of world domination".[95]The BBC have adapted five of the Fleming novels for broadcast: in 1990, You Only Live Twice was adapted into a 90-minute radio play for BBC Radio 4 with Michael Jayston playing James Bond. The production was repeated a number of times between 2008 and 2011.[96] On 24 May 2008, BBC Radio 4 broadcast an adaptation of Dr. No. The actor Toby Stephens, who played Bond villain Gustav Graves in the Eon Productions version of Die Another Day, played Bond, while Dr. No was played by David Suchet.[97] Following its success, a second story was adapted and on 3 April 2010, BBC Radio 4 broadcast Goldfinger with Stephens again playing Bond.[98] Sir Ian McKellen was Goldfinger and Stephens' Die Another Day co-star Rosamund Pike played Pussy Galore. The play was adapted from Fleming's novel by Archie Scottney and was directed by Martin Jarvis.[99] In 2012 the novel From Russia, with Love was dramatized for Radio 4; it featured a full cast again starring Stephens as Bond.[100] In May 2014 Stephens again played Bond, in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, with Alfred Molina as Blofeld, and Joanna Lumley as Irma Bunt.[101]
Comics medium
Main articles: James Bond (comic strip) and James Bond comic books
Most of the Bond novels and short stories have since been adapted for illustration, as well as Kingsley Amis's Colonel Sun; the works were written by Henry Gammidge or Jim Lawrence with Yaroslav Horak replacing McClusky as artist in 1966.[105] After the Fleming and Amis material had been adapted, original stories were produced, continuing in the Daily Express and Sunday Express until May 1977.[104]
Several comic book adaptations of the James Bond films have been published through the years: at the time of Dr. No's release in October 1962, a comic book adaptation of the screenplay, written by Norman J. Nodel, was published in Britain as part of the Classics Illustrated anthology series.[107] It was later reprinted in the United States by DC Comics as part of its Showcase anthology series, in January 1963. This was the first American comic book appearance of James Bond and is noteworthy for being a relatively rare example of a British comic being reprinted in a fairly high-profile American comic. It was also one of the earliest comics to be censored on racial grounds (some skin tones and dialogue were changed for the American market).[108][107]
With the release of the 1981 film For Your Eyes Only, Marvel Comics published a two-issue comic book adaptation of the film.[109][110] When Octopussy was released in the cinemas in 1983, Marvel published an accompanying comic;[107] Eclipse also produced a one-off comic for Licence to Kill, although Timothy Dalton refused to allow his likeness to be used.[111] New Bond stories were also drawn up and published from 1989 onwards through Marvel, Eclipse Comics and Dark Horse Comics.[107][110]
Films
Main article: James Bond in film
The Eon Productions films
In 1962 Eon Productions, the company of Canadian Harry Saltzman and American Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli, released the first cinema adaptation of an Ian Fleming novel, Dr. No, featuring Sean Connery as 007.[112] Connery starred in a further four films before leaving the role after You Only Live Twice,[113] which was taken up by George Lazenby for On Her Majesty's Secret Service.[114] Lazenby left the role after just one appearance and Connery was tempted back for his last Eon-produced film Diamonds Are Forever.[115]In 1973, Roger Moore was appointed to the role of 007 for Live and Let Die and played Bond a further six times over twelve years before being replaced by Timothy Dalton for two films. After a six-year hiatus, during which a legal wrangle threatened Eon's productions of the Bond films,[116] Irish actor Pierce Brosnan was cast as Bond in GoldenEye, released in 1995; he remained in the role for a total of four films, before leaving in 2002. In 2006, Daniel Craig was given the role of Bond for Casino Royale, which rebooted the series.[117] The twenty-third Eon produced film, Skyfall, was released on 26 October 2012.[118] The series has grossed just over $6 billion to date, making it the third-highest-grossing film series (behind Harry Potter and the Marvel Cinematic Universe),[119] and the single most successful adjusted for inflation.[120]
Title | Year | Actor | Director |
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Dr. No | 1962 | Sean Connery | Terence Young |
From Russia with Love | 1963 | ||
Goldfinger | 1964 | Guy Hamilton | |
Thunderball | 1965 | Terence Young | |
You Only Live Twice | 1967 | Lewis Gilbert | |
On Her Majesty's Secret Service | 1969 | George Lazenby | Peter R. Hunt |
Diamonds Are Forever | 1971 | Sean Connery | Guy Hamilton |
Live and Let Die | 1973 | Roger Moore | |
The Man with the Golden Gun | 1974 | ||
The Spy Who Loved Me | 1977 | Lewis Gilbert | |
Moonraker | 1979 | ||
For Your Eyes Only | 1981 | John Glen | |
Octopussy | 1983 | ||
A View to a Kill | 1985 | ||
The Living Daylights | 1987 | Timothy Dalton | |
Licence to Kill | 1989 | ||
GoldenEye | 1995 | Pierce Brosnan | Martin Campbell |
Tomorrow Never Dies | 1997 | Roger Spottiswoode | |
The World Is Not Enough | 1999 | Michael Apted | |
Die Another Day | 2002 | Lee Tamahori | |
Casino Royale | 2006 | Daniel Craig | Martin Campbell |
Quantum of Solace | 2008 | Marc Forster | |
Skyfall | 2012 | Sam Mendes | |
Spectre | 2015 |
Non-Eon films
In 1967, Casino Royale was adapted into a parody Bond film starring David Niven as Sir James Bond and Ursula Andress as Vesper Lynd. David Niven had been Ian Fleming's preference for the part of James Bond.[121] The result of a court case in the High Court in London in 1963 allowed Kevin McClory to produce a remake of Thunderball titled Never Say Never Again in 1983.[122] The film, produced by Jack Schwartzman's Taliafilm production company and starring Sean Connery as Bond, was not part of the Eon series of Bond films. In 1997 the Sony Corporation acquired all or some of McClory's rights in an undisclosed deal,[122] which were then subsequently acquired by MGM, whilst on 4 December 1997, MGM announced that the company had purchased the rights to Never Say Never Again from Taliafilm.[123] Eon now currently (as of 2015) holds the full adaptation rights to all of Fleming's Bond novels.[122][124]Title | Year | Actor | Director |
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Casino Royale | 1967 | David Niven | Ken Hughes John Huston Joseph McGrath Robert Parrish Val Guest Richard Talmadge |
Never Say Never Again | 1983 | Sean Connery | Irvin Kershner |
Music
Main article: James Bond music
“ | ... cocky, swaggering, confident, dark, dangerous, suggestive, sexy, unstoppable. | ” |
A Bond film staple are the theme songs heard during their title sequences sung by well-known popular singers.[129] Several of the songs produced for the films have been nominated for Academy Awards for Original Song, including Paul McCartney's "Live and Let Die",[130] Carly Simon's "Nobody Does It Better",[131] Sheena Easton's "For Your Eyes Only"[132] and Adele's "Skyfall".[133] Adele won the award at the 85th Academy Awards. For the non-Eon produced Casino Royale, Burt Bacharach's score included "The Look of Love", which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song.[134]
Video games
Main article: James Bond (games)
In 1983, the first Bond video game, developed and published by Parker Brothers, was released for the Atari 2600, the Atari 5200, the Atari 800, the Commodore 64 and the ColecoVision.[135] Since then, there have been numerous video games either based on the films or using original storylines. In 1997, the first-person shooter video game GoldenEye 007 was developed by Rare for the Nintendo 64, based on the 1995 Pierce Brosnan film GoldenEye.[136] The game received very positive reviews,[137] won the BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Award for UK Developer of the Year in 1998[138] and sold over eight million copies worldwide,[139][140] grossing $250 million.[141]In 1999, Electronic Arts acquired the licence and released Tomorrow Never Dies on 16 December 1999.[142] In October 2000, they released The World Is Not Enough[143] for the Nintendo 64[144] followed by 007 Racing for the PlayStation on 21 November 2000.[145] In 2003, the company released James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing,[146] which included the likenesses and voices of Pierce Brosnan, Willem Dafoe, Heidi Klum, Judi Dench and John Cleese, amongst others.[147] In November 2005, Electronic Arts released a video game adaptation of 007: From Russia with Love,[148] which involved Sean Connery's image and voice-over for Bond.[148] In 2006 Electronic Arts announced a game based on then-upcoming film Casino Royale: the game was cancelled because it would not be ready by the film's release in November of that year. With MGM losing revenue from lost licensing fees, the franchise was removed from EA to Activision.[149] Activision subsequently released the 007: Quantum of Solace game on 31 October 2008, based on the film of the same name.[150]
A new version of GoldenEye 007 featuring Daniel Craig was released exclusively for the Nintendo Wii and a handheld version for the Nintendo DS in November 2010.[151] A year later another new version was released for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 under the title GoldenEye 007: Reloaded.[152][153] In October 2012 007 Legends was released, which featured one mission from each of the Bond actors of the Eon Productions' series.[154]
Other
In 2015, David Oyelowo was selected to portray Bond in the audiobook adaptation of Anthony Horowitz's Trigger Mortis.[155]Guns, vehicles and gadgets
Main articles: List of James Bond vehicles and List of James Bond gadgets
Guns
For the first five novels, Fleming armed Bond with a Beretta 418[156] until he received a letter from a thirty-one-year-old Bond enthusiast and gun expert, Geoffrey Boothroyd, criticising Fleming's choice of firearm for Bond,[157] calling it "a lady's gun – and not a very nice lady at that!"[158] Boothroyd suggested that Bond should swap his Beretta for a Walther PPK 7.65mm and this exchange of arms made it to Dr. No.[159] Boothroyd also gave Fleming advice on the Berns-Martin triple draw shoulder holster and a number of the weapons used by SMERSH and other villains.[160] In thanks, Fleming gave the MI6 Armourer in his novels the name Major Boothroyd and, in Dr. No, M introduces him to Bond as "the greatest small-arms expert in the world".[159] Bond also used a variety of rifles, including the Savage Model 99 in "For Your Eyes Only" and a Winchester .308 target rifle in "The Living Daylights".[156] Other handguns used by Bond in the Fleming books included the Colt Detective Special and a long-barrelled Colt .45 Army Special.[156]The first Bond film, Dr. No, saw M ordering Bond to leave his Beretta behind and take up the Walther PPK,[161] which the film Bond used in eighteen films.[162] In Tomorrow Never Dies and the two subsequent films, Bond's main weapon was the Walther P99 semi-automatic pistol.[162]
Vehicles
In the early Bond stories Fleming gave Bond a battleship-grey Bentley 4½ Litre with an Amherst Villiers supercharger.[163] After Bond's car was written off by Hugo Drax in Moonraker, Fleming gave Bond a Mark II Continental Bentley, which he used in the remaining books of the series.[164] During Goldfinger, Bond was issued with an Aston Martin DB Mark III with a homing device, which he used to track Goldfinger across France. Bond returned to his Bentley for the subsequent novels.[164]The Bond of the films has driven a number of cars, including the Aston Martin V8 Vantage,[165] during the 1980s, the V12 Vanquish[165] and DBS[166] during the 2000s, as well as the Lotus Esprit;[167] the BMW Z3,[168] BMW 750iL[168] and the BMW Z8.[168] He has, however, also needed to drive a number of other vehicles, ranging from a Citroën 2CV to a Routemaster Bus, amongst others.[169]
Bond's most famous car is the silver grey Aston Martin DB5, first seen in Goldfinger;[170] it later featured in Thunderball, GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, Casino Royale and Skyfall.[171][172] The films have used a number of different Aston Martins for filming and publicity, one of which was sold in January 2006 at an auction in the US for $2,090,000 to an unnamed European collector.[173]
Gadgets
For the film adaptations of Bond, the pre-mission briefing by Q Branch became one of the motifs that ran through the series.[176] Dr. No provided no spy-related gadgets, but a Geiger counter was used; industrial designer Andy Davey observed that the first ever onscreen spy-gadget was the attaché case shown in From Russia with Love, which he described as "a classic 007 product".[177] The gadgets assumed a higher profile in the 1964 film Goldfinger. The film's success encouraged further espionage equipment from Q Branch to be supplied to Bond, although the increased use of technology led to an accusation that Bond was over-reliant on equipment, particularly in the later films.[178]
If it hadn't been for Q Branch, you'd have been dead long ago!
Q, to Bond, Licence to Kill
Cultural impact
See also: James Bond parodies
Following the release of the film Dr. No in 1962, the line "Bond ... James Bond", became a catch phrase that entered the lexicon of Western popular culture: writers Cork and Scivally said of the introduction in Dr. No that the "signature introduction would become the most famous and loved film line ever".[195] In 2001 it was voted as the "best-loved one-liner in cinema" by British cinema goers[196] and in 2005, it was honoured as the 22nd greatest quotation in cinema history by the American Film Institute as part of their 100 Years Series.[197] The 2005 American Film Institute's '100 Years' series also recognised the character of James Bond himself in the film as the third greatest film hero.[198] He was also placed at number eleven on a similar list by Empire.[199] Premiere also listed Bond as the fifth greatest movie character of all time.[200]
The twenty-three James Bond films produced by Eon Productions, which have grossed $4,910,000,000 in box office returns alone,[201] have made the series one of the highest-grossing ever. It is estimated that since Dr. No, a quarter of the world's population have seen at least one Bond film.[202] The UK Film Distributors' Association have stated that the importance of the Bond series of films to the British film industry cannot be overstated, as they "form the backbone of the industry".[203]
Television also saw the effect of Bond films, with the NBC series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.,[204] which was described as the "first network television imitation" of Bond,[205] largely because Fleming provided advice and ideas on the development of the series, even giving the main character the name Napoleon Solo.[206] Other 1960s television series inspired by Bond included I Spy,[192] and Get Smart.[207]
By 2012, James Bond had become such a symbol of the United Kingdom that the character, played by Craig, appeared in the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics as Queen Elizabeth II's escort.[208]
Throughout the life of the film series, there have been a number of tie-in products released.[209]
See also
Main article: Outline of James Bond
- Bibliography of James Bond
- 9007 James Bond Asteroid named after the character
- Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet
- Shaken, not stirred
- The Battle for Bond
References
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