Hollywood Movie James Bond Facts

Ian Fleming

Sean Connery

Ian Fleming wrote 14 James Bond books ,starting with Casino Royale (1953) and ending with the Living Daylights-published in 1966,two years after his death.

Fleming selected the name James Bond as he wanted the Secret Service agent to have the dullest name possible .A keen birdwatcher ,he appropriated the name from American ornithologist James Bond.

Fleming wrote most of his novels from his Jamaican retreat Goldeneye

Over 100 million Bond books have been sold and over half the world's population has seen a Bond film

Fleming's other works include the children's favourite Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1964),which was made into a film and stage musical,The Diamond Smugglers (1957) and a collection of travel writings called Thrilling Cities(1963)

Comedian Charlie Higson authors the Young Bond books for children.He will also be appearing at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature in March.
Other previous authors of official James Bond novels include Kingsley Amis,John Garner and Raymond Benson,
Bond Actors

Sean Connery (1962–1967)

1. Dr. No(1992)

2.  From Russia with Love(1963)

3. Goldfinger(1964)

4. Thunderball(1965)

5. You Only Live Twice(1967)

George Lazenby (1969)

1.  On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

Sean Connery's return (1971)

1. Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

Roger Moore (1973–1985)

1. Live and Let Die(1973)
2.  The Man with the Golden Gun(1974)
3.  The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
4. Moonraker(1979)
5. For Your Eyes Only (1981)
6.  Octopussy(1983)
7.  A View to a Kill (1985)

Timothy Dalton (1987–1989)

1. The Living Daylights(1987)
2. Licence to Kill(1989)

Pierce Brosnan (1995–2002)

1. GoldenEye(1995)
2. Tomorrow Never Dies(1997)
3.  The World Is Not Enough (1999)
4. Die Another Day (2002)

Daniel Craig (2006–present)

1.  Casino Royale (2006)
2.  Quantum of Solace,(2008)

Future (Bond 23)

EON Films

No.	Title	Year	Bond actor	Director	Synopsis	Actual (Millions)		Adjusted (Millions)
						Box office[108]	Budget[108]	Box office	Budget
1	Dr. No	1962	Sean Connery	Terence Young	James Bond traces a mysterious murder to a Chinese doctor living on a small Jamaican island who, working for SPECTRE, plans to disrupt American rocket launches.	59.6	1	419.35	8.44
2	From Russia with Love	1963			SPECTRE hires a seductive young female Russian agent to act as a fake defector in a plot to assassinate James Bond; Bond in turn uses her to get a Soviet decoding machine.	78.9	2	547.835	17.35
3	Goldfinger	1964		Guy Hamilton	Bond battles gold magnate Auric Goldfinger, who plans to irradiate the gold supply of Fort Knox making it worthless, increasing the value of Goldfinger's supply.	124.9	3	853.2	23.9
4	Thunderball	1965		Terence Young	Bond is sent to the Cayman Islands in a bid to stop playboy billionaire and deputy head of SPECTRE; Emile Largo from from using hijacked nuclear weapons to devastate the North American coastline.	141.2	9	955.27	37.9
5	You Only Live Twice	1967		Lewis Gilbert	After faking his own death, Bond investigates the hijacking of American and Russian manned spacecraft from orbit. Bond's cover includes a fake marriage to Kissy Suzuki. Eventually, Bond meets his greatest enemy: Ernst Stavro Blofeld.	111.6	9.5	716	61
6	On Her Majesty's Secret Service	1969	George Lazenby	Peter R. Hunt	Removed from hunting Blofeld, Bond almost resigns, but Moneypenny alters his letter to a request for leave. He pursues Blofeld on his own. Incognito as Blofeld's hired genealogy expert, Bond discovers SPECTRE's plan for biochemical terror. Meanwhile, Bond falls in love with and marries a crime lord's suicidal daughter.	82	8	518.2	41.5
7	Diamonds Are Forever	1971	Sean Connery	Guy Hamilton	Bond traces a diamond smuggling operation first to Holland and Las Vegas and then to a SPECTRE plot to build a satellite with laser beams capable of destroying weapons on the ground.	116	7.2	615.2	38.2
8	Live and Let Die	1973	Roger Moore		Bond fights voodoo priests, heroin smugglers and a ruthless dictator in New York, New Orleans and San Monique in a film imitating the conventions of "blaxploitation" movies of the era.	161.8	7	801.7	38.7
9	The Man with the Golden Gun	1974			While trying to locate a missing solar expert, Bond is led to believe the world's top assassin; Francisco Scaramanga may be behind the expert's disappearance. Bond's investigations lead him to powerful Hong Kong energy magnate Hai Fat and an intense game of cat and mouse with Scaramanga; culminating in a deadly duel for his life.	97.6	7	442	31.7
10	The Spy Who Loved Me	1977		Lewis Gilbert	Bond teams up with a female Russian agent to locate two missing nuclear submarines; he winds up dealing with a man whose dream is an undersea empire.	185.4	14	669	50.5
11	Moonraker	1979			Bond investigates the mid-air hijacking of one of the Moonraker space shuttles. The shuttle's maker, Hugo Drax, is using his shuttle fleet to help in wiping out every human on Earth and re-populating it with a hand-picked racial rainbow of superior human pairs.	210.3	31	650	77.3
12	For Your Eyes Only	1981		John Glen	Bond's investigation of the murder of a marine archaeologist working for the British Secret Service leads him to a race against the Soviets for a submarine attack computer in a sunken ship.	195.3	28	474	68
13	Octopussy	1983			The murder of Agent 009 and a forgery of a Fabergé egg leads Bond to Kamal Khan, a playboy Afghan prince and Octopussy, the leader of an all-female 'octopus cult'. Khan has betrayed Octopussy, who also owes Bond a favour for having helped her father long ago. They ally against Khan, who with Russian General Orlov is plotting to "accidentally" detonate a nuclear device on a US air base in Germany, hoping NATO will disarm and the Soviets can take over Europe in record time.	187.5	27.5	404.7	75.5
14	A View to a Kill	1985			Bond investigates a high-tech firm, Zorin Industries; headed up by former Nazi and German industrialist: Max Zorin and uncovers a plot to corner the market on microchips by manufacturing an earthquake that would drown Silicon Valley (and all of Zorin's competition).	152.6	30	304.9	60
15	The Living Daylights	1987	Timothy Dalton		Bond deliberately misses when the Russian agent he must shoot turns out to be a civilian (and an attractive female cellist) who was asked to impersonate a (fictitious) spy. They investigate the fake defector for whom she was allegedly working, leading them to a weapons-for-drugs smuggling scheme headed up by powerful arms dealer Brad Whitaker.	191.2	40	363	76
16	Licence to Kill	1989			Bond resigns from the secret service to avenge the attempted murder of his CIA friend, Felix Leiter. His pursuit of the assailants leads him to powerful Colombian drug lord Franz Sanchez and a mysterious woman; Pam Bouvier who has an agenda of her own in bringing down Sanchez and his empire.	156.2	32	272.2	73.2
17	GoldenEye	1995	Pierce Brosnan	Martin Campbell	Bond fights to prevent a syndicate of techno-terrorists; including corrupt Russian General Ourumov, lust-murderer and sadomasochist Xenia Onatopp, techno-whizzkid Boris Grishenko and a mysterious face from his past, using the GoldenEye satellite weapon against London to cause a global financial meltdown.	356.4	60	496.3	84.2
18	Tomorrow Never Dies	1997		Roger Spottiswoode	Bond investigates media mogul Elliot Carver, who aims to start a war between the UK and China so he can be guaranteed exclusive coverage for his new cable news channel.	339.5	110	459.8	145.9
19	The World Is Not Enough	1999		Michael Apted	Bond is asked to play bodyguard to oil heiress Elektra King whose father was murdered in MI6 headquarters. The heiress was once a captive of terrorist Renard; who is slowly dying and cannot feel pain, but Bond soon learns the two still have a connection...and a plan.	361.7	135	501	173.4
20	Die Another Day	2002		Lee Tamahori	Bond is captured by North Koreans after he kills Colonel Moon. When released, his 00 status is revoked. Bond goes out on his own to discover who betrayed him, teaming up with a female American agent. Moon's henchmen have ties to a mysterious diamond dealer, Gustav Graves.	431.9	142	543.5	169.2
21	Casino Royale	2006	Daniel Craig	Martin Campbell	Bond, in his first assignment as a '00' agent, attempts to frustrate the schemes of terrorist financier Le Chiffre by defeating him at a high-stakes game of Texas hold 'em poker at Casino Royale inMontenegro.	594.2	102	632.5	138.4
22	Quantum of Solace	2008		Marc Forster	Bond pursues Quantum, the organisation he believes responsible for the death of Vesper Lynd while his superiors believe he has gone rogue and is seeking revenge. Bond finds an ally in Camille Montes, a young woman seeking revenge for the death of her family at the hands of corrupt Bolivian General Medrano. Together, they discover a joint plan by Quantum and Medrano to stage a military coup in Bolivia and hijack the country's supply of fresh water.	586.1	230
23	Bond 23	2012		Sam Mendes
Totals	Films 1–23					$5.02B	$1.04B	$11.64B	$1.72B
Non-EON Films
-	Casino Royale(Climax! TV episode)	1954	Barry Nelson	William H. Brown, Jr.	American spy Jimmy Bond attempts to frustrate the schemes of Soviet agent Le Chiffre by defeating him at a high-stakes game of baccarat at an expensive French casino.	Not applicable			unknown
-	Casino Royale(parody)	1967	David Niven	Ken Hughes and others	Sir James Bond 007 comes out of retirement to investigate the deaths of international spies. With the aid of Bond impersonators he battles the mysterious Dr. Noah and SMERSH.	$44.4	$12	$274.2	unknown
-	Never Say Never Again	1983	Sean Connery	Irvin Kershner	Remake of Thunderball, with added element of Bond coming out of retirement.	$160	$36	$331.4

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