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Yaphet Kotto, the American actor known for being the first major Black James Bond villain, has died at the age of 81.

Kotto’s wife, Tessie Sinahon, first revealed the news on Facebook, while Kotto’s agent confirmed his death to Variety. “You played a villain on some of your movies but for me you’re a real hero and to a lot of people also. A good man, a good father, a good husband and a decent human being,” Sinahon said.

Born in New York in 1939, Kotto played villain Kananga and alter ego Mr Big in Roger Moore’s first Bond movie, Live and Let Die, in 1973. It followed appearances in TV shows including Hawaii Five-o and The Big Valley. Kotto went on to play technician Dennis Parker in Alien in 1979.

Later in his career, Kotto notched up credits on Law & Order and The Wire, while his wife said that...

The James Bond series is widely known the world over. They are absolutely iconic, even if they aren't all the greatest movies in the world, and some are infamous for being relatively corny and goofy (especially the Roger Moore outings). But the franchise is enormously popular, and even non-Bond fans know about various aspects of the series, including the actors, theme songs, campy tone, and maybe even some of the goofier puns.

Related: 5 Times James Bond Films Exceeded Fan Expectations (& 5 Times Fans Were Let Down)

While the movies are very popular, even the most die-hard Bond fans can't agree on everything. Some people love widely hated films, and some hate widely beloved actors. Unpopular opinions abound - especially on Reddit.

Welcome back to James Bond Revisited, where we take a look back at all the 007 movies counting down to the eventual release of No Time to Die, which should come out... someday. This week, we're taking a look at Roger Moore's much-maligned second-to-last James Bond outing, Octopussy, which went up against Sean Connery's Never Say Never Again in the 1983 Battle of the Bonds and won! Here's the thing - I love Octopussy. As a child, it was probably my favorite James Bond…...

Out of the six actors who have played James Bond on the big screen, two of them are no longer with us: Sean Connery, the first actor to take on the role, and Roger Moore, who took over following George Lazenby’s surprisingly memorable one-movie stint in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.

Related: James Bond: 5 Ways The 007 Franchise Is Great (& Its 5 Biggest Problems)

They were the two Bond actors with the longest tenures in the role — Connery with six movies under his belt and Moore with seven — and both hold a special place in the hearts of fans. In both Connery’s movies and Moore’s movies, there are plenty of well-staged, high-octane action sequences that still rank among the best.

The James Bond movie franchise has endured for near 60 years since the release of Dr. No in 1962. Part of the secret to its longevity is the filmmakers' willingness to adapt to contemporary trends. Every few years, the franchise reinvents itself with examples including Roger Moore's comedic approach and the darker tone of the Dalton/Craig films.

Related:  James Bond's Iconic Allies, Ranked Least To Most Helpful

But along the way, there have been plenty of experiments too, with some being more successful than others and some which were downright bizarre. It is fascinating to look back at these films and understand how they tried to appeal to audiences with their borrowed elements.

In 1981, For Your Eyes Only marked a new era for James Bond in more ways than one. After going to space in the controversial (but wildly successful) Moonraker, the choice was made to bring James Bond Movies back down to earth. To that end, John Glen was promoted to director, a post he would keep all through the eighties, while Roger Moore's James Bond was given a mature, order edged overhaul. The result was a critically acclaimed, successful Bond outing that stands as one of the…...

After the release of the novel The Man With The Golden Gun, the final novel written by Ian Fleming before his passing, Octopussy & The Living Daylights came out. A collection of short stories in the vain of Fleming's For Your Eyes Only, that collected four of Fleming's last Bond tales.

Related: James Bond: Ranking The Films By Book Accuracy

The stories would inspire two Bond movies, Octopussy, which was one of Roger Moore's final Bond films, and The Living Daylights, which was Timothy Dalton's first. That said, there are two other stories in this collection and the ones with titles fans recognize are not what they think they are.

Batman: Soul of the Dragon sets Gotham’s caped crusader in a vintage martial arts homage. Directed by Sam Liu, who also directed the animated movie version of one of the greatest Batman graphic novels ever published, Batman: The Killing Joke, this is the 42nd project in the ongoing DC Universe Movies series.

However, Soul of the Dragon is an original tale, not based on a precedent comic. Like the eye popping anime-style film Batman Ninja, this is a completely stand-alone story. Batman: Soul of the Dragon is yet another chapter in the many creation tales for Batman. It tells of his martial indoctrination and joining him on this adventure are three of the best martial artists within the DC multiverse: Lady Shiva (Kelly Hu), Ben Turner a.k.a. Bronze Tiger (Michael Jai White), and Richard Dragon (Mark Dacascos).

“It’s a 70s martial arts action-adventure drama with a great sense of humor,...

Following a recent post from Bridgerton star Regé-Jean Page that seemed to tease a potential interest in taking over the role of James Bond, odds on the actor taking over from Daniel Craig after No Time to Die have vastly improved. Page has quickly crept up the table as an outside favorite, with Ladbrokes' reporting that Page is now at 5/1 to suit up as 007, having previously been at 40/1 before Christmas.

"Tom Hardy still leads the way as favorite, with James Norton close behind in second place. But it really is all to play for in the race for 007 and Rjp has a great chance if the odds are anything to go by," Ladbrokes representative Alex Apati has stated.

However, before Bridgerton fans get too excited, Apati noted that this kind of dramatic shift in the odds is pretty common off the back of a successful show. "It's the reason Cillian Murphy...

Film and TV star who found fame as one of Charlie’s Angels and was a Bond girl opposite Roger Moore in A View to a Kill

Tanya Roberts, who has died aged 65 of sepsis, was already a film and television star when she was cast as a “Bond girl”, Stacey Sutton, opposite Roger Moore in A View to a Kill (1985). Moore was 58 at the time, and looking somewhat creaky as he scaled the Golden Gate bridge during his final outing in the role of James Bond, while Roberts was 30 and having the time of her life commandeering a fire engine during a chase through San Francisco, albeit with a little help from bluescreen technology.

She was second choice for the part after the producers were unable to secure Priscilla Presley. This hardly fazed Roberts, who had already made her name stepping into another actor’s shoes when she was cast...

James Bond in space! I know, I know - sounds crazy, right? Well, it actually happened back in 1979. In the wake of The Spy Who Loved Me's major box office success, another Bond movie was greenlit, and originally the plan was to do For Your Eyes Only. But then, a little movie called Star Wars came out and the decision was made to compete by making the next 007 flick sci-fi. The result was Moonraker, a Roger Moore James Bond film that's often much maligned by fans,…...

Though not as beloved as Roger Moore's other Bond films such as The Spy Who Loved Me, For Your Eyes Only is notable for a few reasons. The 12th Bond film actually feels more Ian Fleming than the typical Moore affair, featuring a darker story and a more ruthless Bond.

Related: James Bond: Why Jaws Didn't Return In For Your Eyes Only

With that being said, there was quite a bit riding on this movie and a lot of turmoil going into the filming. With No Time To Die only a few months away, perhaps it's time to revisit this underrated 007 adventure and take a gander at what went down behind the curtain.

Tanya Roberts died Monday night in Los Angeles, a day after her publicist mistakenly announced her death.

The A View to a Kill, Charlie’s Angels and That 70’s Show actress died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she had been hospitalized since Christmas Eve after collapsing in her home, her partner Lance O’Brien told The New York Times and TMZ. She was 65. A cause of death has not been specified.

Publicist Mike Pingel sent out a release Sunday that was picked up widely by the media saying Roberts had died. He told outlets that O’Brien had told him he was with Roberts that day and that as he was holding her she “seemed for him to slip away.” Pingel said Roberts had not been noticeably ill before she collapsed.

The rep said he received a call from the hospital Monday morning saying Roberts was alive, though she remained in “poor condition,...

Tanya Roberts, who famously played a Bond girl in 1985’s A View to Kill and later had a recurring role as Midge Pinciotti on That ’70s Show, died Monday, January 4th, The New York Times reports. She was 65.

Roberts’ partner, Lance O’Brien, confirmed her death, although it came after a bizarre bout of confusion Monday when her death was prematurely announced. Roberts’ publicist, Mike Pingel, had told several media outlets that Roberts had died, only to retract that statement several hours later. Speaking with The New York Times Monday,...

Initially announced to have died on Sunday after a mistaken statement by her publicist, Roberts’ partner now reports she died on Monday

Tanya Roberts, the glamorous actor who starred opposite Roger Moore in the 1985 Bond film A View to a Kill, has died aged 65, it has been reported. Roberts’ death had been mistakenly announced by her representative Mike Pingel on Sunday, leading to multiple news organisations, including the Guardian, to report it, before a retraction was issued a day later.

Now Roberts’ partner Lance O’Brien is reported to have said he was informed by staff at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles that Roberts died on Monday evening. O’Brien had reportedly mistakenly informed Pingel of her death on Sunday, leading to inaccurate media reports.

Bridgerton star Regé-Jean Page recently posted a Bond-esque tweet on his official Twitter account and now fans of the star and his new hit Netflix series, are endorsing him as their candidate for the next 007. The post features the actor dressed to impress and walking confidently towards the camera before raising what some have called a Roger Moore-esque eyebrow.…...

The James Bond franchise has gone through plenty of changes over the years. After establishing the 60s spy genre, the franchise had often shown a willingness to adapt to contemporary trends to stay relevant. The Roger Moore films of the 70s emphasized the comedic aspects of the character, while the modern ones took a more gritty tone.

Related: Ranking Daniel Craig's James Bond Movies, According To Rotten Tomatoes

Not all of these experiments worked out so well though, with the franchise sometimes reversing direction by the next film. Beyond just that, there are all kinds of crazy things that have happened in Bond films that the franchise would never do today - from sexism and a fourth wall break to bizarre entries outside of the main series.

The former Bond girl was mistakenly reported dead after being hospitalised following a fall at her home

Tanya Roberts, who played Roger Moore’s love interest in A View to a Kill and later starred in the sitcom That ‘70s Show as Midge Pinciotti, has been hospitalised after falling at her home.

Her publicist, Mike Pingel, mistakenly reported the 65-year-old dead on Monday, leading multiple outlets, including the Guardian, to publish stories saying she had died. Pingel later told the Associated Press that Roberts was still alive as of 10am in California but was in a poor condition.

Update:  The absurd victimization of Tanya Roberts continues. After it was announced she had passed away, her representative retracted that remark. We published that news yesterday. Now comes word from TMZ that her doctor has indeed confirmed her death. Click here for update. 

Earlier:

Actress Tanya Roberts has passed away at age 65 from unspecified causes. She had been hospitalized on December 24 after collapsing at her home in California. The cause of death has not been announced but her representative said it was not due to Covid-19. Roberts, a former model, transcended into acting in the 1970s. She landed her most prominent big screen role as the female lead of Stacey Sutton, a geologist, in the 1985 James Bond film "A View to a Kill" opposite Roger Moore in his final appearance as 007. She went on to enjoy popularity in the final season of "Charlie's Angels", replacing actress Shelly Hack who had left the series.

Tanya Roberts, the veteran actress who starred in A View to a Kill and That '70s Show, has passed away. Reportedly, Roberts was admitted to Cedar-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles after she collapsed while she was out walking her dogs on Christmas eve. Roberts then died on Sunday, and while a cause of death wasn't given, it's not related to Covid-19, nor was Roberts feeling ill in the days before her collapse. She was 65 years old.

"I'm devastated," says Mike Pingel, Roberts' longtime friend and rep. "She was brilliant and beautiful and I feel like a light has been taken away. To say she was an angel would be at the top of the list. She was the sweetest person you'd ever meet and had a huge heart. She loved her fans, and I don't think she realized how much she meant to them."

Roberts was born as Victoria...

Thanks to ongoing delays, audiences have been left wondering whether we will ever see Daniel Craig's last outing as the famous secret agent, James Bond, in the upcoming No Time to Die. Despite previous dismissal from producers that another actor is currently being courted to take over the role once Craig steps down, an outside choice for 007, that of Bridgerton star Regé-Jean Page, is slowly becoming a firm favorite, with a recent social media post teasing the idea.

Regency, royalty

Shaken and stirred.#Bridgertonpic.twitter.com/cSwnSpLQCy

— Regé-Jean Page (@regejean) December 16, 2020"Regency, royalty. Shaken and stirred."

The post was made by Regé-Jean Page himself, and features the actor dressed to the nines and walking confidently towards camera before raising a Roger Moore-esque eyebrow. Fans of James Bond will, of course, recognise the second part of the caption, with Page potentially teasing his espionage aspirations.

At present, Page has...

Film and TV star who found fame as one of Charlie’s Angels and was a Bond girl opposite Roger Moore in A View to a Kill

Tanya Roberts, who has died aged 65, was already a film and television star when she was cast as a “Bond girl”, Stacy Sutton, opposite Roger Moore in A View to a Kill (1985). Moore was 58 at the time, and looking somewhat creaky as he scaled the Golden Gate Bridge during his final outing in the role of James Bond, while Roberts was 30 and having the time of her life commandeering a fire engine during a chase through San Francisco, albeit with a little help from bluescreen technology.

She was second choice for the part after the film’s producers were unable to secure Priscilla Presley. This hardly fazed Roberts, who had already made her name stepping into another actor’s shoes when she was cast...

Roberts played Roger Moore’s love interest in A View to a Kill and starred in a string of cult fantasy films as well as the hit TV series

Tanya Roberts, the glamorous actor who starred opposite Roger Moore in the 1985 Bond film A View to A Kill as well as taking over one of the principal roles in the final series of hit TV show Charlie’s Angels, has died aged 65. Her representative confirmed the news to the Hollywood Reporter, saying she had collapsed while walking near her home in Los Angeles.

In A View to a Kill, Roberts was given a substantial role as geologist Stacey Sutton, Bond’s principal love interest and a key ally in the battle against Christopher Walken’s villainous industrialist Max Zorin. By then she had already consolidated her on-screen appeal by appearing in the 1980-81 season of detective series Charlie’s Angels, taking over...

Actress Tanya Roberts, known for the James Bond film A View to a Kill and the hit TV comedy That '70s Show, has died at age 65. Her rep confirmed to TMZ that the star passed away Sunday, Jan. 3 after she collapsed in her home on Dec. 24 following a walk with her dogs. She was hospitalized and placed on a ventilator but did not recover from the health issue that was not related to the coronavirus, according to her team. Tanya, née Victoria Leigh Blum, starred as Bond girl Stacey Sutton opposite Roger Moore's 007 in the 1985 flick A View to a Kill. She appeared in a number of campy genre films and comedies throughout the late 1970s and 1980s,...

Monday January 4, 2021 2:50 p.m. Pt: This post has been updated.

Reps for Tanya Roberts on Monday retracted their own statements that the 65-year-old actress had died on Sunday after being hospitalized in L.A. on Christmas Eve.

On Sunday, Roberts’ manager Tarri Markel confirmed to TheWrap news of the death of the actress, best known as Bond girl Stacey Sutton in “A View to a Kill” and later for her work on “That ’70s Show.”

Her publicist Mike Pingel had hold TMZ that she was walking her dog on Christmas Eve and collapsed shortly after she returned home. She was taken to the hospital and put on a ventilator. Pingel also issued a statement from her husband, Lance: “As I held her in her last moments, she opened her eyes.”

Born Victoria Leigh Blum in the Bronx, Roberts’ career began when she was a teenager, studying at the Actors Studio and,...

Tanya Roberts, who co-starred on That ’70s Show and Charlie’s Angels, passed away Sunday at 65.

Roberts reportedly collapsed at home following a walk with her dogs on Christmas Eve, a rep for Roberts told TMZ. She was hospitalized and put on a ventilator, but never recovered. The official cause of death is currently unknown. (Update: According to a new statement from Roberts’ rep, the actress is actually still alive.)

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Over a decade before Martin Campbell would be hired to reboot the Bond franchise and introduce a new actor as 007 in Casino Royale, he was hired to reboot the Bond franchise and introduce a new actor as 007 in GoldenEye. Pierce Brosnan’s stint as Bond is generally considered to be one of the franchise’s weakest stretches — although Roger Moore’s too-old-to-play-Bond years give Brosnan a run for his money — because they relied heavily on primitive CGI and poor storytelling.

Related: 007: 10 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About GoldenEye

However, Brosnan himself is regarded as one of the most perfect casting choices for Bond, and he got a stellar debut in GoldenEye.

No actor has continuously held the role of James Bond for longer than Roger Moore. After Sean Connery defined the character with his initial stint in the role and George Lazenby held his own in a solid single outing, Moore took over playing the gentleman spy starting with Live and Let Die. Moore played Bond in seven movies across the ‘70s and ‘80s, holding the role well into his twilight years.

Related: 007: 10 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About The Spy Who Loved Me

From the opening Union Jack parachute jump to the big supertanker finale, 1977’s The Spy Who Loved Me is Moore’s greatest 007 outing by far, and one of the franchise’s all-time best installments.

Production designer who worked on James Bond films from Goldfinger to Casino Royale, and won an Oscar for Titanic

The production designer Peter Lamont, who has died aged 91, worked on every James Bond film between Goldfinger (1963), the third in the series, and Casino Royale (2006), the 21st official instalment. He was absent during that time only from Tomorrow Never Dies, which clashed with James Cameron’s Titanic (also 1997). It was Lamont’s work on the latter which brought him an Oscar, following nominations for Fiddler on the Roof (1971), the Bond adventure The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Cameron’s horror sequel Aliens (1986).

As he moved up the ladder from draughtsman to set decorator and art director before finally being appointed production designer on For Your Eyes Only (1981), Lamont became a prized member of the Bond family. “I so admire Peter and his colleagues,” said Roger Moore in his 2008 autobiography My Word Is My Bond.

When No Time to Die finally hits theaters in April a full twelve months behind schedule, as soon as the credits fade to black on Daniel Craig’s final outing as James Bond, the focus will almost immediately shift to who will be named as his successor. And as one of the most coveted roles in the business that only a handful of actors have had the privilege to inherit, taking on the mantle of cinema’s most famous secret agent is a potentially life-changing assignment.

Of course, the rumor mill has already been turning for several years now, especially when it looked as though Craig might not even return for a fifth movie after he very publicly flirted with the idea of walking away following Spectre. The usual suspects like Henry Cavill, Tom Hardy and Idris Elba are always in or around the conversation, but 007 expert Dr. Ian Kinane,...

Live and Let Die, Roger Moore's first 007 adventure, is a time capsule of 1973. Created to capitalize on the blaxploitation genre, the movie feels like an outsider's view of the craze, with several stereotypes being used in the film. However, it has a pervasive charm that makes it a firm favorite for Bond fans.

Obviously, the movie was inspired by the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming, with the movie being somewhat faithful to the novel. That said, there's a lot left on the cutting room floor, some of which was picked up and inserted into other Bond films.

Boba Fett’s green, T-visored helmet is a menacing visage that’s nearly evocative of Star Wars as Darth Vader’s; one first embodied on film by actor Jeremy Bulloch, who, sadly, passed away on December 17 at the age of 75. However, the legacy that Bulloch leaves behind has proven far greater than a character with minimal screentime and dubbed lines seemingly had any right to possess. It’s a legacy to which hit Disney+ series The Mandalorian owes a great deal of thanks.

Bulloch, born in Leicestershire, England on February 16, 1945, wasted little time getting himself onscreen with uncredited roles—while still an adolescent—in 1958 films Violent Playground and Titanic tragedy movie A Night to Remember, continuing to work steadily for years in U.K.-aimed films and television shows. He fielded a notable four-episode 1974 run as Hal the Archer on Doctor Who (opposite Jon Pertwee’s Third Doctor); his second run on the series,...

Welcome back to James Bond Revisited, where we revisit all the Bond films movie by movie. Following the disaster that was The Man With The Golden Gun, Eon had to pull out all the stops for the next make-or-break instalment. Complicating matters was a tricky rights situation that meant a longer delay between films, which arguably worked to The Spy Who Loved Me's advantage, with it generally considered Roger Moore's greatest turn as 007. Do we agree? It certainly does have all the…...

With the passing of Sean Connery on October 31, we imagine you’ve revisited at least a few James Bond films in remembrance. Now, it’s easier than ever to do so for those living in the United States, as twenty films featuring 007 are now available to watch for free.

From 1967’s Dr. No all the way through The World is Not Enough in 1999, the only titles not available for free are the original Casino Royale, Die Another Day, and the Daniel Craig entries. So, if you can do with a few ad breaks, start watching below as we wait and see if Craig’s final Bond film No Time to Die will indeed arrive in theaters this spring.

Sean Connery

Dr. No

From Russia With Love

Goldfinger

Thunderball

You Only Live Twice

Diamonds Are Forever

George Lazenby

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

Never Say Never Again

Roger Moore

Live and Let Die...

Refresh your memory of 007’s past adventures before No Time to Die. The first nineteen James Bond movies are free to stream on YouTube!

“If you have a hankering for some Bond, James Bond action, YouTube is, surprisingly, suddenly an appealing place to turn. As noticed by Slash Film, the first nineteen James Bond films are streaming, for free, on the platform. That includes the films starring nearly all of the Bonds: Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, and Pierce Brosnan.”

Read more at Gizmodo.

The latest episode of Big Mouth tackles the blackness of one of its characters Missy Foreman-Greenwald, a first for the show.

“For the past four seasons, Big Mouth‘s Missy Foreman-Greenwald (voiced by Jenny Slate) has been a nerdy, awkward teenage girl who was the moral compass of the show. However, despite being one of the handful of visibly non-white kids on the show,...

The semi-automatic pistol used by Sean Connery in the James Bond film “Dr. No” goes up for auction on Thursday. The Walther Pp gun is expected to fetch between $150,000 and $200,000 at Julien’s Auctions.

Film producer and prop collector on Disney Plus’ “Prop Culture,” Dan Lanigan is the current owner of the gun. He says he hopes the pistol will be purchased by the Academy Museum and put on display when it opens in April 2021.

Having been a fan of “Dr. No,” Lanigan was drawn to the prop. “I picked this amazing piece 15 years ago when I was relatively early in my collecting,” he tells Variety. The pistol comes from the original prop armory supplier Bapty in the U.K. The company sold the weapon at an auction in 2006, and Langigan acquired it there.

In “Dr. No,” the pistol is identified as a Ppk, but it’s a Pp in real life.

The 25th installment in the James Bond franchise was supposed to arrive in theaters eight months ago, but after initially being delayed until November, No Time to Die was pulled from the schedule again and will now premiere in April of next year. There’ve been rumors that Daniel Craig’s final outing as 007 could end up heading straight to streaming, but you get the impression that MGM would much rather see Cary Fukanaga’s blockbuster debut on the biggest screen possible.

Those suffering withdrawal symptoms are in luck, though, because the studio have made the first 20 movies in the series available to stream for free on YouTube. That covers the entire tenures of Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan, with Craig’s four efforts under the tux the only ones missing.

James Bond Heads To Italy In New No Time To Die Set...

James Bond fans who don't already own copies of the movies and are looking for something to watch are in luck. MGM has decided to take down the paywall for most of the entries in the franchise on YouTube, meaning they can all be streaming, legally, right now, for free. All one needs is an internet connection and access to YouTube and everything from Dr. No to Die Another Day can be streamed without having to shell out any dough. But exactly how long this will last is anyone's guess.

Currently, Dr. No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die, The Man With the Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights, License to Kill, Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough...

Welcome back to another episode of "James Bond Revisited"! This time, we're taking a look at Roger Moore's second outing as 007, The Man With the Golden Gun, which was actually something of a fiasco for the series, resulting in a soft reboot behind the scenes in the next film, the Bond classic The Spy Who Loved Me. On this one, the relationship between Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli finally reached its breaking point, and Roger Moore struggled with a poorly…...

The Lost Adventures of James Bond

By Mark Edlitz

315 pages, $29.95 (print)/$9.99, (eBook)

It sometimes feels like that for every James Bond film made, there are several others that never get before the cameras. We hear of actors, writers, and directors coming and going, which sometimes explains the long gap between films. And with an unexpected delay for No Time to Die (please open in 2021), we could use a dose of 007.

Mark Edlitz delivers with his latest deep dive into pop culture. His self-published The Lost Adventures of James Bond covers the films, novels, comic books, and other media complete with fresh interviews with many who were actively developing stories we’ll never see.

While I knew comics writer Cary Bates wrote an unsolicited treatment, which he sold, I had no idea John Landis, fresh off Schlock, was invited by Bond impresario Cubby Broccoli to write a screenplay for Roger Moore.

With Sir Sean Connery’s tragic passing, it felt appropriate to pay tribute to the late actor and rank the seven films that featured him in arguably his most famous role, James Bond: 7. Never Say Never Again (1983): With Sir Roger Moore taking over the role of James Bond after Connery left, it must have been […]

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Developer Io Interactive shocked the world today by releasing a teaser trailer for a new James Bond game known simply as Project 007. I highly recommend you check out the teaser trailer for this Bond origin story project if you haven’t already done so.

It has been eight long years since the release of the last James Bond game. If you’re wondering why it feels like it’s been even longer than that, it’s probably because 2012’s 007 Legends was a poor attempt at not only recapturing the glory days of Bond himself (its gimmick was that you got to play as every major film version of Bond) but the glory days of Bond video games. Its failure to do so was the sadly appropriate end of Activision’s run with the James Bone license which failed to produce a single title that felt worthy of legendary Bond games...

I can't believe it, but the time has finally come! We've finally cracked the Roger Moore era here on James Bond Revisited. When Sean Connery returned for Diamonds Are Forever in 1971, it was a one-shot deal, paving the for Rog, who I must admit, is my nostalgic favorite. That said, it took Moore some time to make the part his own. To some extent, he's doing…...

The Man With The Golden Gun, Roger Moore's second outing as James Bond, is no one's favorite film in the Bond movie series. It's tonal whiplash and less than pleasant portrayal of the famous spy turned many fans off, with the film's low box office nearly killing the film series.

Related: Dr. No: 10 Biggest Differences Between The James Bond Novel & Movie

Ian Fleming's novel is a similar, if wildly more grounded experience. With that being said, there is a massive, sad difference between the two. While the film's creative issues were probably due to it being rushed, the novel has a more drastic, fairly understandable reason for being a bit hazy.

In honor of both the late Sean Connery and the 25th anniversary of “GoldenEye” (1995), Be Reel looks back at the debuts of every actor to embody 007: Connery, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, and Daniel Craig—with a courteous nod to George Lazenby, too.

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Each actor brings different qualities to Bond in a franchise that tends to over-correct more than evolve.

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Well, it’s been a week now and I still haven’t got over it. Even the most chaotic Presidential Election in living memory hasn’t managed to distract me from the pressing melancholy – as absurd as it feels to say it out loud…we are no longer living on the same planet as Sean Connery.

It’s not that he was suddenly struck down in the prime of life (90 years of age is a good haul for anyone), it’s just that Connery, along with the rarified likes of Michael Caine and Clint Eastwood, carried an air of genuine immortality. He even played an immortal in Highlander and the fact that he was wearing a coat made of peacock feathers at the time, didn’t make it feel any less plausible.

Perhaps, like his aforementioned peers, it’s the fact that his vitality never withered away like so many...

On Nov. 8, Norman Lloyd will celebrate his 106th birthday, which is just one more accomplishment for a man whose nearly-100-year career is filled with amazing milestones. Lloyd worked as an actor, director and/or producer in theater, the early days of radio, film and TV. He wasn’t a household name, but he has always been well known and respected within the industry — not only for his work, but for the people he worked with. That list includes Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Elia Kazan, Jean Renoir, Robin Williams, Martin Scorsese, Denzel Washington, Mark Harmon, Cameron Diaz, Judd Apatow and Amy Schumer.

As his contemporary Karl Malden summed up in 2007, “He is the history of our industry.”

Lloyd was born Norman Perlmutter Nov. 8, 1914, in Jersey City, N.J. He took singing and dancing lessons and was a paid professional by the age of 9. He performed with...

Actor Harrison Ford paid tribute to Sean Connery who played his father on 1989’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the third installment of the popular franchise directed by Steven Spielberg.

“He was my father … not in life … but in Indy 3,” Ford said in a statement. “You don’t know pleasure until someone pays you to take Sean Connery for a ride in the sidecar of a Russian motorcycle bouncing along a bumpy, twisty mountain trail and getting to watch him squirm. God we had fun — if he’s in heaven, I hope they have golf courses. Rest in peace dear friend.”

As father and son, the pair had great on-screen chemistry as Connery’s Henry Jones, Sr. constantly referred to Ford’s Indy as “Junior” much to his chagrin.

Connery died peacefully on November 1 in the Bahamas after a long illness. His son Jason Connery confirmed the news to the BBC.

In his final film appearances as James Bond, the late Sean Connery reminded us all that even the world’s greatest secret agent (and the legendary actor who brought him to life) can’t elude the effects of time.

While 1971’s Diamonds Are Forever and 1983’s infamous Never Say Never Again (which was not produced by Eon Productions) aren’t always remembered as the worst James Bond movies, there is something bittersweet about them. Sean Connery may have been three years younger than eventual Bond successor Roger Moore, but it’s challenging to watch his final film appearances as Bond without thinking that he was just no longer the dashing young man who secured his status as an icon of film in Dr. No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, and You Only Live Twice.

Looks and age aside, that cavalier spirit and natural bravado that made Connery the definitive...

The first entry in the greatest tentpole series of all time, seven of which starred Sean Connery in the role that made him an international star. Amazingly, author Ian Fleming wanted composer-actor Hoagy Carmichael to play his licensed-to-kill Agent 007. The then-groundbreaking amorality of the concept led Patrick McGoohan to turn down the role, as did Richard Johnson (who later played in two Bond-like Bulldog Drummond films) and Roger Moore, who later replaced Connery as Bond.

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