The longest running and most financially booming English language motion picture franchise to date is the James Bond movies. James Bond 007 is a especially notorious but imaginary person that was created in 1953 by the writer Ian Fleming. He was featured in twelve novels and two short story collections. The motion picture franchise began in 1962 with Dr. No.
Ian Fleming died in 1964, nevertheless that was not the finish of the novels featuring James Bond. Kingsley Amis, writing as Robert Markham, John Pearson, Raymond Benson, John Gardner and Sebastian Faulks, wrote following James Bond novels. Also, Christopher Woods novelized two screenplays and various other writers’ authored unofficial versions of the character.
There have been 22 movies in the James Bond franchise to date, the newest being “Quantum of Solace” that was released October 31, 2008. The first movie was “Dr. No”, from the year 1962.
Throughout the years numerous actors have portrayed the lead character of James Bond. Sean Connery is thought to be the original James Bond. He was Bond in 6 singular films, starting with the first “Dr. No” in 1962, followed by “From Russia With Love” in 1963, “Goldfinger” from 1964, “Thunderball” in 1965, “You Only Live Twice” in 1967 and “Diamonds Are Forever” from 1971.
In 1969, Sean Connery took a break from being James Bond for the motion picture “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”. George Lazenby played James Bond in that show. He was the only actor of all of the James Bond actors to merely work in one show.
After that Roger Moore became Bond. In 1973 for “Live and Let Die”, 1974 in “The Man with the Golden Gun” and 1977, “The Spy who Loved Me”, in 1979 it was “Moonraker” and 1981 brought “For Your Eyes Only”, “Octopussy” in 1983 and the last movie starring Roger Moore was “A View to a Kill” in 1985.
Timothy Dalton followed for only the next two movies “The Living Daylights” from 1987 and “License to Kill” in 1989. “Goldeneye” came out in 1995 with Pierce Brosnan as James Bond. He continued for 3 other movies, in 1997 “Tomorrow Never Dies” and 1999, “The World Is Not Enough” and 2002 “Die Another Day”.
Presently the lead role of James Bond belongs to Daniel Craig, the only blonde James Bond so far. He was Bond in “Casino Royale” in 2006 and “Quantum of Solace” in 2008. One more movie is in the works now, as of yet untitled and referred to as simply James Bond 23.
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