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It is extremely difficult to make a movie of any kind. Talk to any director or read any interview with anyone who has made a motion picture before. Nobody ever paints the process as a breeze. Harder still is to make a good movie, and one that goes on to find its audience. The seemingly impossible? Making a franchise that endures for multiple generations and through multiple incarnations. Yet, that's precisely what the "James Bond" franchise has done, having endured for a full six decades in the public consciousness of moviegoers around the world.
While the journey started with author Ian Fleming who was himself in the British Secret Service and wrote something of a fantasy spy thriller in the form of "Casino Royale,...
It is extremely difficult to make a movie of any kind. Talk to any director or read any interview with anyone who has made a motion picture before. Nobody ever paints the process as a breeze. Harder still is to make a good movie, and one that goes on to find its audience. The seemingly impossible? Making a franchise that endures for multiple generations and through multiple incarnations. Yet, that's precisely what the "James Bond" franchise has done, having endured for a full six decades in the public consciousness of moviegoers around the world.
While the journey started with author Ian Fleming who was himself in the British Secret Service and wrote something of a fantasy spy thriller in the form of "Casino Royale,...
- 10/8/2022
- by Ryan Scott
- Slash Film
James Bond wielded the knife with obvious skill. He approached, blade barely glinting in the light, and pounced, the knife coming down to join the awaiting fork. "I usually eat fruit," he said simply, "but today I'm in the mood for a good English breakfast." And with that, he began his meal. Okay, so it's not stopping arch-nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofeld from triggering World War III, or preventing Auric Goldfinger from turning the gold in Fort Knox radioactive, but it was my experience with agent 007 back in 1994. At the time, I was Senior Editor at Cinescape and somehow we ended up with the rights to do the magazine on the making of the 17th James Bond movie — and the first one to star Pierce Brosnan — GoldenEye. Even more incredibly, I was the guy chosen to fly to England to spend a few days on the set at Leavesden Studios, later...
- 3/8/2018
- by Ed Gross
- Closer Weekly
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