The best running and most money-wise victorious English language motion picture franchise to date is the James Bond movies. James Bond 007 is a incredibly famous but fictional individual 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 started in 1962 with Dr. No.
Ian Fleming, the author of James Bond, died back in 1964 but the larger-than-life person of James Bond lives on in novels by up to five other writers, such as Robert Markham, the pen name for Kingsley Amis, John Pearson, Raymond Benson, John Gardner and Sebastian Faulks. Christopher Woods novelized two screenplays and various other authors’ wrote unendorsed versions of James Bond.
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 time 1962.
All through the years various 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 movies, 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.
Sean Connery momentarily left the lead role in 1969, for “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’ when an actor by the name of George Lazenby played Bond. George Lazenby was the only one of all of the Bond actors to have only played in one film.
The next player to depict Bond acted in 7 movies. Roger Moore was James Bond in 1973 for “Live and Let Die”, 1974 for “The Man with the Golden Gun”, in 1977 “The Spy who Loved Me”, from 1979 “Moonraker”, “For Your Eyes Only” in 1981, “Octopussy” in 1983 and the last film to star Roger Moore as Bond was “A View to a Kill” in 1985.
Timothy Dalton was next for “The Living Daylights” in 1987 and “License to Kill” in 1989. After just two movies with Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan took over the lead role in “Goldeneye” in 1995. We enjoyed 3 added movies with Pierce Brosnan, “Tomorrow Never Dies” in 1997, “The World Is Not Enough” in 1999 and “Die Another Day” in 2002.
The single blonde player to ever portray Bond is the current star of the franchise. Daniel Craig was Bond in 2006 for “Casino Royale” and 2008 for “Quantum of Solace”. Another Bond movie is now in the works, set for an unstipulated occasion and only referred to now as “James Bond 23″. Daniel Craig is set to star in the lead part.
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