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James Bond

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The James Bond franchise focuses on the titular character, a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections. Since Fleming's death in 1964, eight other authors have written authorised Bond novels or novelisations: Kingsley Amis, Christopher Wood, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, Sebastian Faulks, Jeffery Deaver, William Boyd, Anthony Horowitz and Charlie Higson. The latest novel is On His Majesty's Secret Service by Charlie Higson, published in May 2023. Charlie Higson wrote a series on a young James Bond, and Kate Westbrook wrote three novels based on the diaries of a recurring series character, Moneypenny. The character—also known by the code number 007 (pronounced "double-oh-seven")—has also been adapted for television, radio, comic strips, video games and film. The James Bond franchise is one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time. The films constitute one of the longest continually running film series and have grossed over US$7.04 billion in total at the box office, making James Bond the fifth-highest-grossing film series to date. It started in 1962 with Dr. No, starring Sean Connery as Bond. As of 2021, there have been twenty-five films in the Eon Productions series. The most recent Bond film, No Time to Die (2021), stars Daniel Craig in his fifth portrayal of Bond; he is the sixth actor to play Bond in the Eon series. There have also been two independent Bond film productions: Casino Royale (a 1967 spoof starring David Niven) and Never Say Never Again (a 1983 remake of an earlier Eon-produced film, 1965's Thunderball, both starring Connery). Casino Royale has also been adapted for television, as a one-hour show in 1954 as part of the CBS series Climax!. The Bond films are renowned for a number of features, including their soundtracks; three of the movies' theme songs have received Academy Awards and others have received nominations. Other important elements which run through most of the films include Bond's cars, his guns, and the gadgets with which he is supplied by Q Branch. The films are also noted for Bond's relationships with various women, who are popularly referred to as "Bond girls".

Infobox

Created by
Ian Fleming
Original work
Casino Royale (1953)
Years
1953–present
Novel(s)
List of novels
Short stories
See list of novels
Comics
List of comic books
Comic strip(s)
James Bond (1958–1983)
Film(s)
List of films
Short film(s)
Happy and Glorious (2012)
Television series
"Casino Royale" (Climax! season 1 – episode 3) (1954)
Animated series
James Bond Jr. (1991)
Traditional
Various
Role-playing
James Bond 007: Role-Playing In Her Majesty's Secret Service
Video game(s)
List of video games
Radio program(s)
Radio dramas
Original music
Music
Toy(s)
Various
Portrayers
mw- Pierce Brosnan Sean Connery Daniel Craig Timothy Dalton Bob Holness Michael Jayston George Lazenby Roger Moore Barry Nelson David Niven Toby Stephens

Tables

· Publication history › Novels and related works › Ian Fleming novels
1953 Casino Royale 1954 Live and Let Die 1955 Moonraker 1956 Diamonds Are Forever 1957 From Russia, with Love 1958 Dr. No 1959 Goldfinger
1960 For Your Eyes Only (short stories) 1961 Thunderball 1962 The Spy Who Loved Me 1963 On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1964 You Only Live Twice 1965 The Man with the Golden Gun 1966 Octopussy and The Living Daylights (short stories; "The Property of a Lady" added to subsequent editions)
· Publication history › Novels and related works › Post-Fleming novels
1981 Licence Renewed 1982 For Special Services 1983 Icebreaker 1984 Role of Honour 1986 Nobody Lives for Ever 1987 No Deals, Mr. Bond 1988 Scorpius 1989 Win, Lose or Die
1989 Licence to Kill (novelisation) 1990 Brokenclaw 1991 The Man from Barbarossa 1992 Death Is Forever 1993 Never Send Flowers 1994 SeaFire 1995 GoldenEye (novelisation) 1996 Cold
· Publication history › Novels and related works › Post-Fleming novels
1997 "Blast From the Past" (short story) 1997 Zero Minus Ten 1997 Tomorrow Never Dies (novelisation) 1998 The Facts of Death 1999 "Midsummer Night's Doom" (short story) 1999 "Live at Five" (short story)
1999 The World Is Not Enough (novelisation) 1999 High Time to Kill 2000 DoubleShot 2001 Never Dream of Dying 2002 The Man with the Red Tattoo 2002 Die Another Day (novelisation)
· Publication history › Novels and related works › Post-Fleming novels
2008 Devil May Care 2011 Carte Blanche 2013 Solo 2015 Trigger Mortis
2018 Forever and a Day 2022 With a Mind to Kill 2023 On His Majesty's Secret Service
· Publication history › Novels and related works › Young Bond
2005 SilverFin 2006 Blood Fever 2007 Double or Die 2007 Hurricane Gold 2008 By Royal Command & SilverFin (graphic novel) 2009 "A Hard Man to Kill" (short story)
· Publication history › Novels and related works › <i>The Moneypenny Diaries</i>
2005 The Moneypenny Diaries: Guardian Angel 2006 Secret Servant: The Moneypenny Diaries 2008 The Moneypenny Diaries: Final Fling
· Adaptations › Films › Eon Productions films
Title
Year
Actor
Director
Dr. No
1962
Sean Connery
Terence Young
From Russia with Love
1963
Goldfinger
1964
Guy Hamilton
Thunderball
1965
Terence Young
You Only Live Twice
1967
Lewis Gilbert
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969
George Lazenby
Peter R. Hunt
Diamonds Are Forever
1971
Sean Connery
Guy Hamilton
Live and Let Die
1973
Roger Moore
The Man with the Golden Gun
1974
The Spy Who Loved Me
1977
Lewis Gilbert
Moonraker
1979
For Your Eyes Only
1981
John Glen
Octopussy
1983
A View to a Kill
1985
The Living Daylights
1987
Timothy Dalton
Licence to Kill
1989
GoldenEye
1995
Pierce Brosnan
Martin Campbell
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997
Roger Spottiswoode
The World Is Not Enough
1999
Michael Apted
Die Another Day
2002
Lee Tamahori
Casino Royale
2006
Daniel Craig
Martin Campbell
Quantum of Solace
2008
Marc Forster
Skyfall
2012
Sam Mendes
Spectre
2015
No Time to Die
2021
Cary Joji Fukunaga
· Adaptations › Films › Non-Eon films
Title
Year
Actor
Director(s)
Casino Royale
1967
David Niven
Ken HughesJohn HustonJoseph McGrathRobert ParrishVal GuestRichard Talmadge
Never Say Never Again
1983
Sean Connery
Irvin Kershner
· Censorship and alterations › Bans and censorship by country
Novels
Novels
Release year
Novels
1954
1954
Release year
1954
Title
Live and Let Die
Country
Republic of Ireland
Notes
Banned in 1954.
1957
1957
Release year
1957
Title
Dr. No
Country
Francoist Spain
Notes
Under Francoist Spain, the final pages of Dr. No were cut entirely, due to sexual references. The censored editions are still sometimes reproduced in Spain today, often unknowingly.
Various
Various
Release year
Various
Title
All titles
Country
Soviet Union
Notes
All Bond novels were banned during the existence of the Soviet Union. Russian newspaper the Komsomolskaya Pravda condemned the series, describing it as being set in a "nightmarish world where laws are written at the point of a gun, where coercion and rape is considered valour and murder is a funny trick".
Films
Films
Release year
Films
Various
Various
Release year
Various
Title
All titles
Country
Soviet Union
Notes
All Bond films were banned during the existence of the Soviet Union.
1964
1964
Release year
1964
Title
Goldfinger
Country
Israel
Notes
In December 1965, shortly after its release in the country, Israel banned the film Goldfinger, after discovering actor Gert Fröbe's past association with the Nazi Party. The ban was lifted two months later, in February 1966, after the Israel Film Censorship Board found evidence that Fröbe had quit the Nazi Party in 1937. Additionally, the film's producers were believed to have made appeals to Israel to lift the ban, and because Israeli public demand to see the popular film was high, the reversal on the ban was made.
2012
2012
Release year
2012
Title
Skyfall
Country
People's Republic of China
Notes
In 2007, China gave permission for the 2006 film Casino Royale to play uncensored in the nation. It was the first Bond film to gain a release unaltered in the country, followed by Quantum of Solace. However, Skyfall was released in an edited version, after cutting a torture scene, altering subtitles, and removing references to prostitution in the film.
2015
2015
Release year
2015
Title
Spectre
Country
India
Notes
In 2015, Spectre was released censored in India, after the Central Board of Film Certification ordered kissing scenes in the film be trimmed by 50%.
Video games
Video games
Release year
Video games
1997
1997
Release year
1997
Title
GoldenEye 007
Country
Germany
Notes
In 1997, Germany banned the video game GoldenEye 007, with the German Federal Review Board placing it on their List of Media Harmful to Minors. The ban was lifted in 2021.
Release year
Title
Country
Notes
Novels
1954
Live and Let Die
Republic of Ireland
Banned in 1954.
1957
Dr. No
Francoist Spain
Under Francoist Spain, the final pages of Dr. No were cut entirely, due to sexual references. The censored editions are still sometimes reproduced in Spain today, often unknowingly.
Various
All titles
Soviet Union
All Bond novels were banned during the existence of the Soviet Union. Russian newspaper the Komsomolskaya Pravda condemned the series, describing it as being set in a "nightmarish world where laws are written at the point of a gun, where coercion and rape is considered valour and murder is a funny trick".
Films
Various
All titles
Soviet Union
All Bond films were banned during the existence of the Soviet Union.
1964
Goldfinger
Israel
In December 1965, shortly after its release in the country, Israel banned the film Goldfinger, after discovering actor Gert Fröbe's past association with the Nazi Party. The ban was lifted two months later, in February 1966, after the Israel Film Censorship Board found evidence that Fröbe had quit the Nazi Party in 1937. Additionally, the film's producers were believed to have made appeals to Israel to lift the ban, and because Israeli public demand to see the popular film was high, the reversal on the ban was made.
2012
Skyfall
People's Republic of China
In 2007, China gave permission for the 2006 film Casino Royale to play uncensored in the nation. It was the first Bond film to gain a release unaltered in the country, followed by Quantum of Solace. However, Skyfall was released in an edited version, after cutting a torture scene, altering subtitles, and removing references to prostitution in the film.
2015
Spectre
India
In 2015, Spectre was released censored in India, after the Central Board of Film Certification ordered kissing scenes in the film be trimmed by 50%.
Video games
1997
GoldenEye 007
Germany
In 1997, Germany banned the video game GoldenEye 007, with the German Federal Review Board placing it on their List of Media Harmful to Minors. The ban was lifted in 2021.

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