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Screencap of the gun barrel sequence that occurs at the start of most Eon productions.

James Bond is a fictional character created by novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. Bond is a British secret agent working for MI6 who also answers by his codename, 007. He has been portrayed on film by actors Sean Connery, David Niven, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig, in twenty-four productions, with a twenty-fifth in production. Only two films were not made by company Eon Productions. Eon now currently holds the full adaptation rights to all of Fleming's Bond novels.[1][2]

In 1961, producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman joined forces to purchase the filming rights to Fleming's novels.[3] They founded production company Eon Productions and, with financial backing by United Artists, began working on Dr. No, which was directed by Terence Young and featured Connery as Bond.[4] Following Dr. No's release in 1962, Broccoli and Saltzman created the holding company Danjaq to insure future productions in the James Bond film series.[5] The series currently encompasses twenty-two films, with a twenty-third scheduled for release in 2012.[6] With a combined gross of nearly $5 billion to date, the Eon produced films create the second-highest-grossing film series, behind the Harry Potter films.[7] The films have been awarded two Academy Awards: for Sound Effects (now Sound Editing) in Goldfinger (at the 37th Awards)[8] and for Visual Effects in Thunderball (at the 38th Awards).[9] Additionally, several of the songs produced for the films have been nominated for Academy Awards for Original Song, including Paul McCartney's "Live and Let Die",[10] Carly Simon's "Nobody Does It Better"[11] and Sheena Easton's "For Your Eyes Only".[12] In 1982, Albert R. Broccoli received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.[12]

When Broccoli and Saltzman bought the rights to existing and future Fleming titles, it did not include Casino Royale, which had already been sold to producer Gregory Ratoff. After Ratoff's death, the rights were passed on to Charles K. Feldman,[13] who subsequently produced the satirical Bond spoof Casino Royale in 1967.[14] A legal case ensured that the film rights to the novel Thunderball were held by Kevin McClory as he, Fleming and scriptwriter Jack Whittingham had written a film script upon which the novel was based.[15] Although Eon Productions and McClory joined forces to produce Thunderball, McClory still retained the rights to the story and adapted Thunderball into 1983's Never Say Never Again.[16] The current distribution rights to both of those films are held by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the studio who distributes Eon's regular series.[17][18]

Series of films by Eon Productions

Title Year Bond actor Director Synopsis Box
office[19] 		Budget[19] Box
office 		Budget Rotten Tomatoes rating
Actual $ (millions) Adjusted 2024 $ (millions)[20]
Dr. No 1962 Sean Connery Terence Young James Bond traces a mysterious murder to a Chinese scientist living on a small Jamaican island who, working for SPECTRE, plans to disrupt American rocket launches. 59.6 1 600 10 98%[21]
From Russia with Love 1963 Sean Connery Terence Young SPECTRE hires a seductive young female Russian agent to act as a fake defector in a plot to assassinate Bond; in turn 007 uses her to get a Soviet decoding machine. 78.9 2 785 20 96%[22]
Goldfinger 1964 Sean Connery Guy Hamilton Bond battles gold magnate Auric Goldfinger, who plans to irradiate the gold supply of Fort Knox, making it worthless and increasing the value of his own supply. 124.9 3 1,227 29 96%[23]
Thunderball 1965 Sean Connery Terence Young Bond is sent to the Bahamas in a bid to stop Emilio Largo, playboy billionaire and deputy head of SPECTRE, from using hijacked nuclear weapons to devastate the coastline of the eastern United States. 141.2 9 1,365 87 88%[24]
You Only Live Twice 1967 Sean Connery Lewis Gilbert After faking his own death, Bond goes to Japan to investigate the hijacking of American and Russian manned spacecraft from orbit, which turns out to be a plan by Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the megalomaniacal head of SPECTRE. 111.6 9.5 1,020 87 70%[25]
On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1969 George Lazenby Peter R. Hunt On the pursuit of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Bond discovers SPECTRE's plan for biochemical terror. Meanwhile, Bond falls in love with and marries a crime lord's suicidal daughter, who dies on their wedding day. 87.4 8 726 66 82%[26]
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 7.2 873 54 67%[27]
Live and Let Die 1973 Roger Moore Guy Hamilton 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 1,111 48 64%[28]
The Man with the Golden Gun 1974 Roger Moore Guy Hamilton While trying to locate a missing solar expert, Bond ends up in an intense game of cat-and-mouse with the world's top assassin, Francisco Scaramanga. 97.6 7 603 43 52%[29]
The Spy Who Loved Me 1977 Roger Moore 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 14 932 70 79%[30]
Moonraker 1979 Roger Moore Lewis Gilbert 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 31 883 130 64%[31]
For Your Eyes Only 1981 Roger Moore 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 28 655 94 69%[32]
Octopussy 1983 Roger Moore John Glen The murder of Agent 009 and a forgery of a Fabergé egg lead Bond to India, where he allies with cult leader Octopussy against Kamal Khan, a playboy Afghan prince, 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 27.5 574 84 47%[33]
A View to a Kill 1985 Roger Moore John Glen Bond investigates a high-tech firm 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 30 432 85 39%[34]
The Living Daylights 1987 Timothy Dalton John Glen Bond teams up with a female cellist to investigate the fake defector for whom she was allegedly working, General Georgi Koskov, leading them to a weapons-for-drugs smuggling scheme headed up by powerful arms dealer Brad Whitaker. 191.2 40 513 107 73%[35]
Licence to Kill 1989 Timothy Dalton John Glen 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 32 384 79 71%[36]
GoldenEye 1995 Pierce Brosnan Martin Campbell Bond fights to prevent a syndicate of techno-terrorists from causing a global financial meltdown through usage of the GoldenEye satellite weapon against London. 356.4 60 713 120 80%[37]
Tomorrow Never Dies 1997 Pierce Brosnan 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. 339.5 110 644 209 55%[38]
The World Is Not Enough 1999 Pierce Brosnan Michael Apted Bond is asked to play bodyguard to oil heiress Elektra King whose father was murdered in MI6 headquarters, and discovers she still has a connection and a plan to the terrorist who once kidnapped her, Renard. 361.7 135 662 247 51%[39]
Die Another Day 2002 Pierce Brosnan Lee Tamahori After Bond is released from one year in North Korean captivity for killing General Moon, he tries to discover who betrayed him, teaming up with a female American agent. Eventually he finds out Moon's henchmen have ties to a mysterious diamond dealer, Gustav Graves. 431.9 142 732 241 59%[40]
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 in Montenegro. In the meantime he falls in love with treasury employee Vesper Lynd, who turns out to have an agenda of her own. 594.2 102 898 154 94%[41]
Quantum of Solace 2008 Daniel Craig Marc Forster Bond pursues Quantum, the organisation he believes responsible for the death of Vesper Lynd. Along with Camille Montes, a young woman seeking revenge, he goes after corrupt General Medrano, who plans with Quantum to stage a military coup in Bolivia and hijack "one of the world's most precious natural resources". 586.1 230 829 325 64%[42]
Skyfall 2012 Daniel Craig Sam Mendes Events in M's past bring into question 007's loyalty to her; With MI6 coming under attack, Bond must find and destroy the source of the trouble, whatever the cost. TBA 135[43] TBA 135
Totals $4.91B $1.17B $12.36B $1.72B

Non-Eon versions

Title Year Bond actor Director Synopsis Box
office[19] 		Budget[19] Box
office 		Budget Rotten Tomatoes rating
Actual $ (millions) Adjusted 2024 $ (millions)[20]
Casino Royale 1967 David Niven Ken Hughes
John Huston
Joseph McGrath
Robert Parrish
Val Guest
Richard Talmadge 		A parody, in which Bond 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 12 406 110 29%[44]
Never Say Never Again 1983 Sean Connery Irvin Kershner Remake of Thunderball, with the added element of Bond coming out of retirement. SPECTRE operative Maximilian Largo hijacks two thermo-nuclear warheads from a NATO airbase and plans to detonate them over an oilfield known as the 'Tears of Allah'. 160 36 489 110 65%[45]
  • All sums in millions of US dollars, except where otherwise stated.
  • Total box office-adjusted and budget-adjusted calculated on 2024 dollars[20]


See also

References

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  3. ^ Chapman 2009, p. 5.
  4. ^ Chapman 2009, p. 43.
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