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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to James Bond:
James Bond is a fictional character created in 1953 by the journalist and writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in 12 novels and two short story collections. [1] The character has also been used in the long-running and third most financially successful English-language film series to date (behind only the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Star Wars). [2] The film series started in 1962 with Dr. No , starring Sean Connery as James Bond, and has continued with other actors, including Daniel Craig as the most recent actor to portray Bond. [3]
| 1954 | Casino Royale (Climax!) |
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| 1955 | |
| 1956 | |
| 1957 | |
| 1958 | |
| 1959 | |
| 1960 | |
| 1961 | |
| 1962 | Dr. No |
| 1963 | From Russia with Love |
| 1964 | Goldfinger |
| 1965 | Thunderball |
| 1966 | |
| 1967 | Casino Royale |
| You Only Live Twice | |
| 1968 | |
| 1969 | On Her Majesty's Secret Service |
| 1970 | |
| 1971 | Diamonds Are Forever |
| 1972 | |
| 1973 | Live and Let Die |
| 1974 | The Man with the Golden Gun |
| 1975 | |
| 1976 | |
| 1977 | The Spy Who Loved Me |
| 1978 | |
| 1979 | Moonraker |
| 1980 | |
| 1981 | For Your Eyes Only |
| 1982 | |
| 1983 | Octopussy |
| Never Say Never Again | |
| 1984 | |
| 1985 | A View to a Kill |
| 1986 | |
| 1987 | The Living Daylights |
| 1988 | |
| 1989 | Licence to Kill |
| 1990 | |
| 1991 | |
| 1992 | |
| 1993 | |
| 1994 | |
| 1995 | GoldenEye |
| 1996 | |
| 1997 | Tomorrow Never Dies |
| 1998 | |
| 1999 | The World Is Not Enough |
| 2000 | |
| 2001 | |
| 2002 | Die Another Day |
| 2003 | |
| 2004 | |
| 2005 | |
| 2006 | Casino Royale |
| 2007 | |
| 2008 | Quantum of Solace |
| 2009 | |
| 2010 | |
| 2011 | |
| 2012 | Skyfall |
| 2013 | |
| 2014 | |
| 2015 | Spectre |
| 2016 | |
| 2017 | |
| 2018 | |
| 2019 | |
| 2020 | |
| 2021 | No Time to Die |
| 1982 | Shaken but Not Stirred |
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| 1983 | James Bond 007 |
| 1984 | |
| 1985 | A View to a Kill |
| James Bond 007: A View to a Kill | |
| 1986 | James Bond 007: Goldfinger |
| 1987 | The Living Daylights |
| 1988 | Live and Let Die |
| 1989 | 007: Licence to Kill |
| 1990 | The Spy Who Loved Me |
| Operation Stealth | |
| 1991 | James Bond Jr. |
| 1992 | |
| 1993 | James Bond 007: The Duel |
| 1994 | |
| 1995 | GoldenEye (dedicated) |
| 1996 | |
| 1997 | GoldenEye 007 |
| 1998 | James Bond 007 (GB) |
| 1999 | Tomorrow Never Dies |
| 2000 | The World Is Not Enough (N64) |
| The World Is Not Enough (PS) | |
| 007 Racing | |
| 2001 | The World Is Not Enough (GBC) |
| James Bond 007: Agent Under Fire | |
| 2002 | James Bond 007: Nightfire |
| 2003 | James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing |
| 2004 | GoldenEye: Rogue Agent |
| 2005 | James Bond 007: From Russia with Love |
| 2006 | |
| 2007 | |
| 2008 | 007: Quantum of Solace |
| 2009 | |
| 2010 | GoldenEye 007 (remake) |
| James Bond 007: Blood Stone | |
| 2011 | |
| 2012 | 007 Legends |
| 2013 | |
| 2014 | |
| 2015 | |
| 2016 | |
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| 2018 | |
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| 2020 | |
| 2021 | |
| 2022 | |
| 2023 | "Cypher 007" |
| TBA | Project 007 (working title) |
The James Bond series focuses on the titular character, a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections. Since Fleming's death in 1964, eight other authors have written authorised Bond novels or novelisations: Kingsley Amis, Christopher Wood, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, Sebastian Faulks, Jeffery Deaver, William Boyd, and Anthony Horowitz. The latest novel is With a Mind to Kill by Anthony Horowitz, published in May 2022. Additionally Charlie Higson wrote a series on a young James Bond, and Kate Westbrook wrote three novels based on the diaries of a recurring series character, Moneypenny.
Q is a character in the James Bond films and novelisations. Q is the head of Q Branch, the fictional research and development division of the British Secret Service charged with oversight of top secret field technologies.
Miss Moneypenny, later assigned the first names of Eve or Jane, is a fictional character in the James Bond novels and films. She is secretary to M, who is Bond's superior officer and head of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).
M is a codename held by a fictional character in Ian Fleming's James Bond book and film series; the character is the Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service for the agency known as MI6. Fleming based the character on a number of people he knew who commanded sections of British intelligence. M has appeared in the novels by Fleming and seven continuation authors, as well as appearing in twenty-four films. In the Eon Productions series of films, M has been portrayed by four actors: Bernard Lee, Robert Brown, Judi Dench and Ralph Fiennes, the incumbent; in the two independent productions, M was played by John Huston, David Niven and Edward Fox.
A Bond girl is a character who is a love interest, female companion or (occasionally) an adversary of James Bond in a novel, film, or video game. Bond girls occasionally have names that are double entendres or sexual puns, such as Plenty O'Toole, Holly Goodhead, or Xenia Onatopp. The female leads in the films, such as Ursula Andress, Honor Blackman, or Eva Green, can also be referred to as "Bond girls". The term Bond girl may also be considered as an anachronism, with some female cast members in the films preferring the designation Bond woman.
Eon Productions Limited is a British film production company that primarily produces the James Bond film series. The company is based in London's Piccadilly and also operates from Pinewood Studios in the UK.
Michael Gregg Wilson, is an American-British screenwriter and film producer, best known for his association with the James Bond film series.
Ian Fleming Publications is the production company formerly known as both Glidrose Productions Limited and Glidrose Publications Limited, named after its founders John Gliddon and Norman Rose. In 1952, author Ian Fleming bought it after completing his first James Bond novel, Casino Royale; he assigned most of his rights in Casino Royale, and the works which followed it to Glidrose.
Since its inception in 1962, the James Bond film series from Eon Productions has featured many musical compositions, many of which are now considered classic pieces of British film music. The best known piece is the "James Bond Theme" composed by Monty Norman. Other instrumentals, such as "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", and various songs performed by British or American artists such as Shirley Bassey's "Goldfinger", Nancy Sinatra's "You Only Live Twice", Paul McCartney's "Live and Let Die", Carly Simon's "Nobody Does It Better", Sheena Easton's "For Your Eyes Only", Duran Duran's "A View to a Kill", Tina Turner's "GoldenEye" also become identified with the series.
Peter Curtis Lamont was a British set decorator, art director, and production designer most noted for his collaborations with filmmaker James Cameron, and for working on eighteen James Bond films, from Goldfinger (1964) to Casino Royale (2006). The only Bond film that he did not work on during that period was Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), as he was working on Cameron's Titanic (1997) at the time. He also worked extensively as a set dresser on the Carry On series in the 1960s.
James Bond was a comic strip that was based on the eponymous, fictional character created by author Ian Fleming. Starting in 1958 and continuing to 1983, it consisted of 52 story arcs that were syndicated in British newspapers, seven of which were initially published abroad.
"Shaken, not stirred" is how Ian Fleming's fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond prefers his martini cocktail.
In Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and the derived films, the 00 Section of MI6 is considered the secret service's elite. A 00 is a field agent who holds a licence to kill in the field, at their discretion, to complete any mission. The novel Moonraker establishes that the section routinely has three agents concurrently; the film series, in Thunderball, establishes a minimum number of nine 00 agents active at that time.
The James Bond series of films contain a number of repeating, distinctive motifs which date from the series' inception with Dr. No in 1962. The series consists of twenty five films produced by Eon Productions featuring the James Bond character, a fictional British Secret Service agent. The most recent instalment is No Time to Die, released in UK cinemas on 30 September 2021. There have also been two independently made features, the satirical Casino Royale, released in 1967, and the 1983 film Never Say Never Again.
The series of theatrical feature films about James Bond have been filmed since the 1960s; in each decade at least three movies have been filmed. Before the films there was an episode of the television series Climax! which was produced that adapted the novel Casino Royale into a one-hour TV movie.
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