The James Bond Film Guide: The Official Guide to All 25 007 Films Hardcover – December 14, 2021 by Will Lawrence

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Author: Lawrence Will

Brand: Hero Collector

Color: Black

Edition: Media tie-in

Package Dimensions: 0x292x567

Number Of Pages: 288

Release Date: 14-12-2021

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For your eyes only – the essential guide to all 25 Bond adventures, including the newest film, No Time to Die, starring Daniel Craig!

The James Bond Film Guide has it all: facts on the stories, characters, vehicles, gadgets, and locations of each 007 movie. This authorized guide takes fans through six decades of one of the entertainment industry’s greatest, most-enduring film franchises ever, and it boasts nearly 1,000 photographs, posters, and movie images from the filmmakers’ extensive archives.

007 expert Will Lawrence, author of
Blood, Sweat and Bond: Behind the Scenes of Spectre, delivers an indispensable guide to what happened in which film – and when – providing everything new and longtime fans alike could ever want to know about the world of James Bond. That phenomenal world has been at the center of EON Productions’ iconic film franchise, the long-running big screen series in history, since the release of
Dr. No in 1962, and continuing later this year with
No Time to Die.

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From the back cover
The authorized guide to all 25 official
James Bond films, from
Dr. No to
No Time to Die.

Illustrated throughout with iconic imagery, poster art, and film stills from the filmmaker’s archive. Includes vehicles and equipment form each movie. Featuring profiles of the Bond actors and producers who brought
007 to the big screen.

About the Author

Will Lawrence is a freelance writer and a contributing editor on the film magazine Empire. He has written for many international newspapers, websites and magazines. He writes extensively on the Bond series, has worked closely with Eon Productions on all the Daniel Craig films, and authored the book
Blood, Sweat and Bond: Behind the Scenes of Spectre.

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IAN FLEMING

Setting out to write the spy story to end all spy stories, Ian Fleming created one of literature’s best-loved agents, then saw his dreams realized with James Bond’s magnificent leap to the big screen.

In creating the character of James Bond, Ian Fleming redefined the spy thriller fiction genre. His 12 novels and nine short stories featuring the British agent became the standard against which all other spy fiction would be measured. Fleming is, without doubt, one of the most influential authors of popular literature, and has garnered a readership of more than 100 million to date.

Born in Mayfair, London, on 28 May 1908, to Valentine and Evelyn, Ian Lancaster Fleming was the second of four sons. His older brother Peter would go on to become a world-renowned adventurer and writer. Their father, a barrister and officer in the Oxfordshire Yeomanry, was elected Member of Parliament for Henley in 1910. Life for the family changed tragically when Valentine, whose regiment had mobilized on the outbreak of World War I, was killed in action on the Western Front in May 1917 – just days before his second son’s ninth birthday. A framed copy of The Times’ obituary of his father, a warm tribute written by his friend and comrade-in-arms Winston Churchill, hung in Fleming’s bedroom all his life.

Fleming attended Durnford preparatory school in Dorset and then continued on to Eton where he excelled at athletics, twice winning the victor ludorum (champion of the games). His energetic lifestyle, however, incurred the disapproval of his housemaster, and Fleming left Eton before the final term to prepare for entry into the Royal Military College at Sandhurst.

A year later, feeling that he was unsuited to a career in the military, Fleming left Sandhurst and looked to a future in the Foreign Office. He went abroad in 1927 to attend the Villa Tennerhof, a school in Kitzbühel, Austria, run by Ernan Forbes-Dennis, a former British spy, and his novelist wife Phyllis Bottome. He called this a “golden time” – his talent for writing was fostered and he felt free to pursue his interests. He also honed his French and German language skills, although he did not