Whoever becomes the new EON James Bond will rapidly find that their success will be very dependent on, and ultimately shaped by, the nature of the Bond 26 storyline. It has always been a huge challenge for the various screenwriters [...]
Now pay attention, 007. The latest issue of the popular and glossy UK sci-fi and cult nostalgia magazine Infinity, which has just been published, will be a must-buy for James Bond fans as it celebrates 60 years of [...]
As Bond fans across the globe continue to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the EON James Bond movie Goldfinger (1964), many critics still point to the third smash-hit 007 movie as the film that embodied everything audiences came to love [...]
The 'alternative' versions of Bond history have always proved beguiling to 007 fans. In a fascinating article for a British newspaper, best-selling author and James Bond expert Jeremy Duns has described the events that led to him gaining access to [...]
It was a key moment in the big-screen movie version of Ian Fleming's famous novel. Auric Goldfinger, explaining his villainous career to James Bond, told 007: 'This is gold, Mr. Bond. All my life I've been in love with its [...]
The major new biography of Ian Fleming by Nicholas Shakespeare contains plenty of new and exciting information about the early career of the 007 creator, and argues that the future Bond author was much more than a mere desk-bound pen-pusher [...]
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The exciting new biography of James Bond creator Ian Fleming, Ian Fleming: The Complete Man, by Nicholas Shakespeare (Harvill Secker publishers), has won plenty of praise from critics in the UK. Very positive reviews have appeared in The Spectator magazine, [...]
Now pay attention, 007. When it was released, there were a number of comments from critics and Bond fans alike that the ending to Daniel Craig's final James Bond movie, No Time To Die, was somehow not in the 'Fleming [...]
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 [...]
Miss Taro, Rosa Klebb, Fiona Volpe, Helga Brandt, Irma Bunt, Bambi and Thumper, Rosie Carver, Xenia Onatopp, Elektra King, Miranda Frost... The EON James Bond franchise has certainly had its fair share of strong and dastardly female characters over the [...]
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Happy Birthday, Mr. Bond! Ian Fleming's iconic fictional spy, James Bond, 007, is celebrating an astonishing 0070 years as one of Britain's greatest cultural creations of the post-1945 period. The very first James Bond thriller, Casino Royale, was published by [...]
Now pay attention, 007. Many of us are very familiar with the diamond smuggling theme that was a crucial part of the storyline to Sean Connery's sixth smash-hit James Bond movie Diamonds Are Forever (1971). In many ways, though, the [...]
Bond is back - and this time he is working on behalf of His Majesty's Secret Service. In a press release issued on Friday, 31st March, 2023, Ian Fleming Publications revealed the exciting news that Young Bond author Charlie Higson [...]
It is one of the best-known James Bond novels. But where did 007 author Ian Fleming gain his inspiration for the raid on Fort Knox in his best-selling novel Goldfinger? The year 2024 will enable us to celebrate the 60th [...]
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As Bond fans across the globe continue to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the EON James Bond movie franchise, many critics still point to the third smash-hit 007 movie Goldfinger (1964), as the film that embodied everything audiences came to [...]
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Bond author Ian Fleming was a big fan of hi-tech inventions and new gadgets, and some of his close associates shared his enthusiasm. In 2013, the year after Skyfall was released, a movie which sought to break away from 'gadgets' [...]
It has already left readers both shaken and stirred. The new James Bond novel With a Mind to Kill, the third and final entry in a trilogy by the best-selling author Anthony Horowitz, has been given very positive and enthusiastic [...]
Bond is Back! The eagerly anticipated new James Bond novel, With A Mind To Kill, the third of a trilogy by the best-selling author Anthony Horowitz, has now been published in the UK by Jonathan Cape. It will undoubtedly prove [...]
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Roger Moore's fourth James Bond movie Moonraker (1979), the eleventh in the smash-hit EON series, generated huge financial returns at the global box office, but it was very different to Ian Fleming's original third novel (1955). In fact, apart from [...]
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(Warning: Spoilers Ahead). There have been a number of comments from critics and Bond fans alike that the ending to the new James Bond movie, No Time To Die, is somehow not in the 'Fleming tradition' and is 'unBond-like'. Some [...]
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It was a key moment in the big-screen movie version of Ian Fleming's famous novel. Auric Goldfinger, explaining his villainous career to James Bond, told 007: 'This is gold, Mr. Bond. All my life I've been in love with its [...]
The UK's BBC Radio-4 have given Bond fans an early Xmas present by repeating some of the Toby Stephens 007 adventures, the highly-praised adaptations by Archie Scottney of the Ian Fleming novels, produced by Martin Jarvis and Rosalind Ayres Productions. [...]
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The best-selling author William Boyd, who penned the James Bond novel Solo back in 2013, has revealed that he thinks he has pinpointed where Ian Fleming's secret agent 007 actually lived - in a flat in a house in Wellington [...]
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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 [...]
The espionage author and best-selling thriller writer Jeremy Duns, who is also a leading expert on the literary world of James Bond, has given a fascinating account of his re-discovery of a rare screenplay for the 1967 version of Casino [...]
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Memo from 'M', for your eyes only: the new April, 2020, edition of the BBC History magazine has an article by espionage expert Henry Hemming, which explores the possible real-life inspirations behind the lead characters in Ian Fleming's 007 novels, [...]
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Toby Stephens has returned as 007! He played James Bond for the ninth time in a BBC Radio-4 adaptation of Ian Fleming's The Man With The Golden Gun, directed by Martin Jarvis, who was also the voice of Fleming, and [...]
Recent Bond villains have come in all shapes and sizes, ranging from the bleeding-eye ruthlessness of Le Chiffre to the state-building schemes of Dominic Greene or the technological hacking skills of Raoul Silva. And, over the course of 24 on-screen [...]
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Ian Fleming was once called the Man with the Golden Pen, and he was certainly a prolific letter writer, as well as a highly successful journalist and thriller-writer. This is confirmed again in new revelations about the author, which provide [...]
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Young Bond author Charlie Higson gave a special talk on 'James Bond and the Cold War' on Thursday evening, 3rd October, and the JBIFC sent along a spy to listen to what was said. The talk took place as part [...]
The JBIFC is very sad to report that the American actor David Hedison, who played 007's CIA buddy Felix Leiter twice on the big screen, has passed away. He died on July 18, aged 92, in Los Angeles, California. Both [...]
The Scottish location filming scheduled for Bond 25 in August appears to have already started. The beginning of last week saw some footage taken for a car chase scene along the shores of Loch Laggan, which is located in the [...]
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Spy novelist and Ian Fleming expert Jeremy Duns has published a fascinating new short study of the influence of author Dennis Wheatley on the 007 creator. Entitled A Spy Is Born: Dennis Wheatley and the Secret Roots of Ian Fleming's James [...]
One of the great things to observe during the first week of filming for B25 in Jamaica was the return of James Bond's CIA buddy Felix Leiter, played by Jeffrey Wright. Leiter is a recurring character in the Ian Fleming books [...]
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The Bank Holiday weekend in Britain has a nicely 'Bondian' and Jamaican feel to it. Not only has production commenced on the latest EON 007 movie in Jamaica, but actor Toby Stephens is back as Ian Fleming's James Bond in [...]
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