On this day in 1908 James Bond creator Ian Fleming was born in London.
Skyfall Bond girl Berenice Marlohe was joined by Carole Bouquet (For Your Eyes Only) and Martine Beswick (From Russia, With Love and Thunderball) appeared at the Cannes Film Festival to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the James Bond film series. Bouquet played Melina Havelock on For Your Eyes Only opposite Roger Moore. She still looks stunning. This photo and red carpet footage of Marlohe and Beswick is courtesy 007.com.
I’m still not sure if Severine (Marlohe’s character) is a heroine, villainess of perhaps a bad girl that goes good after sleeping with James Bond (Daniel Craig.)
Doesn’t it seem like the Cannes Film Festival would be an exciting location for a James Bond story? I recommend Never Dream of Dying by Raymond Benson setting in Cannes and Corsica. It was final part of The Union Trilogy. Bond’s fling with a scandalous actress leads him to her producer husband, an ally in a terrorist attack by the Union.
The first trailer for the new James Bond film is online! Daniel Craig returns as 007 in Skyfall this November.
We see Bond being interrogated while M (Judi Dench) and Ralph Fiennes watch. It reminded me of the test for replicants in Blade Runner. When the word “Skyfall” is given Bond says “done” and leaves.
The trailer builds with a slow burn revealing more hints of the story. We see shots of the Shanghai skyline, the London underground and what I think is Scotland. As for characters you can see a silhouette of the mystery woman Severine played by Berenice Marlohe, a quick shot of Naomie Harris as Eve giving Craig a shave. There is one shot of a man walking away from a burning building at night. I assume that is Javier Bardem as the villain.
One haunting image is several coffins covered by the British flag and the shot pans out to show M. Perhaps this is a key moment in story. Producers have said 007’s mission in this film is related to a mistake in M’s past coming back to haunt her.
After a final burst of action the trailer with James Bond announcing: “Some men are coming to kill us. We’re gonna kill them first.”
Thanks to 007.com. You can see the trailer on the big screen in front of Men in Black III this weekend. By Editor
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Bond…James Bond. 007.com revealed the poster for the next James Bond adventure Skyfall. The first trailer is coming May 21st! This is Daniel Craig’s third time as 007.
New photos of Daniel Craig in Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar filming Skyfall on MI6.com. The new James Bond adventure brings Craig as 007 and Naomie Harris as MI6 agent Eve to the iconic location for a scene involving actor Ola Rapace as a villian.
Daniel Craig in Istanbul courtesy MI6.com
For more photos here’s the MI6.com link. Bond visited Turkey in Pierce Brosnan’s The World Is Not Enough. One of my favorite sequences in From Russia, With Love was underneath Istanbul. Sean Connery and Kerim Bey (the M of Turkey you might say) travel on an underground canal to a spy hole that lets them get a peek inside the Russian embassy – before an army of rats are unleashed.
You don’t have to board Prometheus to visit the alien landscape in Ridley Scott’s sci-fi epic. The director filmed on the Isle of Sky in Scotland. I’m a travel buff along with being a geek. Lord of the Rings was part of my inspiration to visit New Zealand.
VisitScotland is hoping the film will inspire movie fans to experience the Isle of Sky according to the Daily Mail. Chairman Mike Cantlay said: ‘As thousands of holidaymakers discover every year, Skye possesses an ethereal, out-of-this-world quality, so it is no surprise that Ridley Scott chose the island to shoot scenes for Prometheus.
Here’s the trailer that shows the rocky landscape of the Isle of Sky seen in Prometheus.
The new James Bond film Skyfall is filming in Scotland at Duntrune Castle. The 007 film title refers to Skyfall Lodge.
Daniel Craig’s new James Bond mission is embroiled in a secret from M’s past. In a new videoblog released on 007.com we see a brief first video of who I think is Ralph Fiennes with Daniel Craig and Judi Dench in M’s office. Fiennes is playing an MI6 agent. It’s been rumored Fiennes’ character will take over as the new M in this film.
Oscar-winning production design Dennis Gassner is the real star of this latest videoblog showing off the sets he’s created for Skyfall. There’s an elaborate underground station that’s a MI6 headquarters and a scene set in a Shanghai high-tech office you may recognize from the first offical photo.
James Bond. Doctor Who. Two of Britain’s incredible contributions to my geeky life. While the two characters will never meet on-screen Skyfall director Sam Mendes compares the secret agent to the Time Lord. The Director was part of a recent press conference in Turkey and told Collider.
“That’s why I mentioned the word in the press conference, “regeneration” rather than “evolving,” because I feel it is like, you know, we have Doctor Who…there’s a geek answer…we have Doctor Who and I was brought up on the idea of Doctor Who, who at the end of his final episode, he dissolves and a new actor pops up and he regenerates and it’s a whole other character: sometimes it’s an old man, sometimes it’s a young man, but he just changes. I’ve always loved that idea.”
Mendes goes on to discuss Daniel Craig’s performance as 007 and compares other action film franchises.
“I think that what’s interesting is you have an actor who is capable of playing the consequences of his actions as well as fulfilling those actions with great elan and cool and that is always more interesting. That’s not to say that what I’m looking at or what I want to look at is a kind of navel-gazing depressive [laughs] because that’s not what Bond will ever be. He’s a doer, not a thinker. And I think you have to understand that. I also think he doesn’t walk amongst us. He’s not Bourne , he doesn’t walk the streets. He’s a lone wolf. You have to keep him separate for most of the movie. It’s a very particular area he has to exist in.
But, there’s a reason why the most interesting, to my mind, franchises now are The Dark Knight and Bourne because there are characters at the center who are, to some degree, in conflict about what they do and are pushed right to the edge. That is one of the wonderful things about what’s happened to these movies recently is that audiences have embraced movies that go darker and more personal. Having said that, they all have the thrills and spills you expect, as well. It’s about a balance.
James Bond is back in Turkey in Skyfall. 007 has been to the exotic country where East meets West in two previous adventures. My favorite 007 book and movie From Russia, With Love is set in Cold War Istanbul with my all time favorite Bond ally, Kerim Bey (played with perfection by Pedro Armendariz) head of Station T. The World Is Not Enough featured a finale in the Bosphorus as Pierce Brosnan’s Bond saved Istanbul from a financially driven terrorist attack.
Director Sam Mendes, Daniel Craig, Bond girls Naomie Harris & Berenice Marlohe, Ola Rapace and producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson held a video press conference to mark 007’s return to Turkey.
