Bond film design

Loosely based upon Ian Fleming's third best-selling novel, the James Bond film Moonraker (1979), the eleventh EON 007 production, was a spectacular movie in every meaning of the word. While the late Sir Roger Moore often named The Spy Who [...]

When Sir Ken Adam (1921-2016) passed away a few years ago, he was seen by many film experts and cultural commentators as a 'designer extraordinaire'. His influence on the James Bond movies of the 1960s and 1970s was instrumental in [...]

The year 2023 has certainly witnessed plenty of coverage of famous Bond villains or their henchmen. Part of the 50th anniversary celebrations for Live and Let Die (1973), for example, has included numerous clips of the actor and acclaimed dancer [...]

It was the glossy spy movie that created another box-office triumph for EON and United Artists (UA), firmly established actor Sean Connery as a major star, and created the classic James Bond film formula, a template that many of the subsequent 007 movies would successfully follow. Its director, [...]

Now pay attention, 007. Gadgets and secret pieces of hi-tech have always been a beloved part of the James Bond universe, in both the books and in the EON films, and the blur between fact and fiction is often commented [...]

Now pay attention, 007. One morning Ken Adam, a former pilot himself, was listening to the radio and he heard the inventor and ex-RAF pilot Wing Commander Ken Wallis talking about his autogyro helicopter. Adam suggested to EON that this [...]

In 2014 the JBIFC was very sad to report the death of actor Richard Kiel, aged 74, on September 10 in California. Richard, of course, had played the very tall and steel-toothed henchman 'Jaws' in two hugely successful James Bond [...]

When you watch a 007 movie on the big screen in a cinema, you know that the architecture, artwork and design of the films have both reflected and influenced style and fashion for well over fifty years. In fact, one [...]

  To help celebrate what is nearly an incredible 40 years since the premiere of Octopussy, Roger Moore's sixth smash-hit adventure as Ian Fleming's iconic secret agent James Bond, the JBIFC have in the last few weeks made available six [...]

To help celebrate what is nearly 40 years since the premiere of Octopussy, Roger Moore's sixth smash-hit adventure as Ian Fleming's iconic secret agent James Bond, the JBIFC have in the past few weeks made available five edited extracts from [...]

All Time High! To help celebrate nearly 40 years of Octopussy, the JBIFC is re-publishing some edited extracts from an on-set report we carried in 007 magazine back in January, 1983. The JBIFC's report was the first detailed account from [...]

The UK's main ITV channel has been continuing with its summer season of Daniel Craig Bond films and, as Skyfall is rolled out as part of this, the JBIFC takes the opportunity to look back on Craig's third 007 adventure [...]

Do you have access to large amounts of private land, preferably somewhere in the desert, or a road network in a secluded forest where you could dispose of an unwanted passenger? A recent report in the London Times newspaper, 'No. [...]

Now pay attention, 007. Gadgets have always been a beloved part of the James Bond universe, in both book and film, and the blur between fact and fiction is often commented on. Secret spy gadgets sent to British soldiers trapped [...]

Twenty-five years ago this month, in April, 1995, the Main Unit of the James Bond franchise spent two busy days shooting at the Nene Valley Railway, near Peterborough in Cambridgeshire, for Pierce Brosnan's debut 007 adventure Goldeneye. The production's Second [...]

Now pay attention, 007. Eyes Only. A special decoded message from 'Q' follows: The James Bond franchise has often been called 'spy-fi', as it has regularly fused spy fiction with science fiction. An exciting new book, The Science of James [...]

Now pay attention, 007. It has been called the 'Most Famous Car in the World', and has become so strongly associated in the public mind with the James Bond film series that the car has retained a presence even in [...]

From a view to a new thrill! Following on from some great publicity generated from the recent Royal visit to the B25 set at Pinewood, 007 aficionados have been given another welcome treat. Bond fans have been given their first [...]

  Double-0 heaven and counting! In just one's year's time, on April 8th 2020, Bond 25 will be released to an eager world. Anticipation has risen to new levels in recent weeks when the production made use of locations in [...]

It's Double-O Go! Although principal photography with Daniel Craig as 007 is yet to begin, some preliminary production shooting on Bond 25 has already commenced this week in Norway. A 'B25' crew, with a large number of support vehicles and filming [...]

007 and counting... As pre-production work begins to take shape on Bond movie no. 25, director Danny Boyle has chosen art production designer Mark Tildesley as his production designer on the new 007 movie, which is due to commence filming later [...]

  The exciting new Austrian-based James Bond exhibition '007 Elements', which opens on July 12th and promises to be the 'ultimate Bond experience' for visitors, has received an early review from the London Times newspaper. The new Bond experience, which the [...]

From Austria With Love: further details have been revealed about the new James Bond Experience in Solden. Called '007 ELEMENTS', the Experience is a new James Bond cinematic installation built inside the summit of the Gaislachkogl Mountain in Solden. According [...]

From Le Mans champions to the big-screen James Bond's favourite car and on to today's supercars, a beautifully produced new book, Aston Martin DB, written by motoring expert Andrew Noakes, will be a must-have buy both for 007 fans and more [...]

  The recent screening of the third Sean Connery James Bond movie Goldfinger by the UK's ITV-4 channel (on 21st July) drew appreciative comments by reviewers in the weekly TV listings in British newspapers, and one critic was full of praise [...]

Interesting reports have emerged that EON Productions have been in 'advanced talks' about using the historic port town of Dubrovnik, in Croatia, as a possible shooting location for the 25th James Bond movie. The news appears to confirm rumours that [...]

Figures released by the British Film Institute (BFI) on Thursday, 28 January, show that the UK's film industry has reached new heights in the last year, with key studios such as Pinewood (the traditional home of 007), Shepperton, and Leavesden [...]

The DB5, Little Nellie, Wet Nellie, the jet ski Wet bike... and Wet Nellie 2? The MI6 Quartermaster always delivered some fantastic gadgets and iconic vehicles for secret agent 007 and, breaking the usual briefing convention, Pierce Brosnan's James Bond was [...]

Christmas has come early! Not only is Bond back on the radio, but some special guests will join him, too. Toby Stephens is making a welcome return as 007 in a new radio adaptation of Thunderball (1961), which will be broadcast on BBC [...]

The influence of Ian Fleming's James Bond on popular culture was enormous in the 1960s, and this could be seen in the numerous spy-related movies and TV series that all tried to cash in on the success of 007. 'Spymania' (as it [...]

The latest issue of the popular British sci-fi magazine Starburst contains an interview with Peter Lamont, the man who has contributed so much to the production design of the 007 franchise, having worked on an astonishing eighteen of the James Bond [...]

The latest James Bond movie SPECTRE, released to huge box office success in 2015, has evidently left a special and lasting legacy in Mexico City. As many 007 fans will recall, director Sam Mendes and his hard-working crew created a [...]

It was the glossy spy movie that created another box-office triumph for EON and United Artists (UA), firmly established actor Sean Connery as a major star, and created the classic James Bond film formula, a template that many of the subsequent 007 movies would successfully follow. Its director, [...]

Later this year the fourth 007 movie Thunderball will celebrate its 50th anniversary, so it seems doubly appropriate that the Ian Fleming novel on which the film was based is to be the next BBC radio James Bond play. Yes, [...]

Golden High, 007! Pinewood Studios, located in the county of Buckinghamshire in Britain, and the famous UK home to the 55-year old James Bond film franchise, has announced that, due to recent blockbusters such as the 24th James Bond movie Spectre [...]

Now pay attention, 007. A new issue of the glossy Bond magazine MI6 Confidential has just been published, and contains some great coverage of the visual effects that go into a James Bond movie. In fact, issue no. 35 of [...]