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But today’s the 13th, Commander
OTD in 1961, Richard Maibaum & Wolf Mankowitz submitted the first draft screenplay for DR. NO. It was rejected as they made the villain a monkey. Mankowitz departed, Maibaum re-wrote closer to the novel, Johanna Harwood polished.
Happy 86th birthday George Lazenby
⚪⚪🔫 After Legends, A New Beginning 🎮 Why First Light must do more than succeed - it must redefine Bond... www.mi6-hq.com/sections/art...
IO Interactive have revealed 30 minutes of gameplay and a new trailer for 007 FIRST LIGHT www.mi6-hq.com/sections/art...
4 hours to go before we have a proper look at the new James Bond game - 007 First Light. 30 minutes of gameplay is expected…
'This Month In Bond' newsletter for August is hitting mailboxes right now. If you haven't subscribed, you can read it here: open.substack.com/pub/mi6hq/p/...
What is your most controversial James Bond opinion? (These may be discussed in a future podcast)
RIP Terence Stamp. He was approached to take over thee role of James Bond from Sean Connery in 1968 but his unique idea for how to reboot the character didn’t go down well www.mi6-hq.com/news/index.p...
Joe Caroff - he hand that gave James Bond his mark - has died aged 103 www.mi6-hq.com/sections/art...
No other character walks quite so strange and dramatic a path in the Bond series www.mi6-hq.com/sections/art...
UK TV alert! 'No Time To Die' CHANNEL: ITV1 (UK) DATE: SATURDAY 9th AUGUST 2025 TIME: 20:30
Season Two trailer is out - all 8 episodes drop on August 22nd www.youtube.com/watch?v=tERL...
⚪⚪🔫 James Bond & Friends 🎙️ podcast is back with a new episode 0161: Direction Perfection? With guests Phil Nobile Jr, Sean Longmore & Dr Lisa Funnell podcast.mi6-hq.com/e/0161-direc...
The title and synopsis for Kim Sherwood's third and final instalment of her Double-O trilogy have been confirmed. www.mi6-hq.com/sections/art...
This Month In Bond (July 2025) newsletter is out now - When Bond Becomes The Decade open.substack.com/pub/mi6hq/p/...
"I’m hoping that being a Bond fan for so many years, that will sort of be imbued into me and I’ll be able to produce something that’s the same but different and better and stronger and bolder" - writer Steven Knight www.mi6-hq.com/news/steven-...
"You appear with the tedious inevitability of an unloved season 2" All 8 new episodes will land on Amazon Prime on August 22nd
British screenwriter and novelist Steven Knight will pen the script to Bond 26, based on a story idea by director Denis Villeneuve www.mi6-hq.com/sections/art...
Dance into the fire with Issue #76 of MI6 Confidential - the James Bond magazine now shipping worldwide #jamesbond www.mi6confidential.com/issue-76
Primarily, yes.
Watch A VIEW TO A KILL today and you do not merely observe Bond. You see the 1980s in full bloom - its music, its madness, its magnificent self-importance www.mi6-hq.com/sections/art...
Order direct from LaLaLand Records
An expanded remaster of the OHMSS soundtrack is coming soon www.mi6-hq.com/sections/art...
A Citroën 2CV from the 'For Your Eyes Only' car chase is going up for auction on July 17th, 2025. www.mi6-hq.com/sections/art...
American actor Michael Madsen, who played NSA chief Damian Falco in 'Die Another Day,' has died aged 67 www.mi6-hq.com/sections/art...
Before the gadgets and globe-trotting, there was Moonraker: Bond at his most British, most brutal, and most believable. This is the reboot Fleming would have approved. www.mi6-hq.com/sections/art...
Fresh in your inbox (if you subscribe) - This Month In Bond for June 2025. We share our thoughts on how Denis Villeneuve may reboot 007... open.substack.com/pub/mi6hq/p/...
Everyone has questions since Denis Villeneuve was announced to direct Bond 26. We tackle the top 10... #bond26 www.mi6-hq.com/sections/art...
Denis Villeneuve will direct Bond 26!!! www.mi6-hq.com/sections/art...
The man in the gun barrel is different for each of us www.mi6-hq.com/sections/art...
At least it wasn’t the FYEO poster again
I hear the new M is a lady! www.bbc.com/news/article...
Ian Fleming Publications today announced a new blockbuster 007 literary adventure, 'James Bond and the Secret Agent Academy,' by bestselling crime writer M.W. Craven. Publishing in June 2026, it will kick-off an action-packed new series for readers aged 8-12.
Author MW Craven has a two-book deal to write a new series of Bond books aimed at 8 to 12-year-olds. James Bond and the Secret Agent Academy, will be published next June. Bond is retired and training kids… www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
Mads Mikkelsen has reprised his role as Le Chiffre in the new 'Banker' expansion DLC for IOI's iconic 'Hitman' game www.mi6-hq.com/sections/art...
Coke Zero Zero Seven? Let’s just hope they don’t do First Light dirty like they did Jack White with leaking his song early
Coca Cola?!
Ladies and gentlemen, here is your new James Bond. Does anyone else see a hint of Tom Holland in him?
IO Interactive today revealed the first look at their new James Bond videogame '007 First Light.' The preview trailer reveals the face of the new James Bond and his backstory, which modernizes Ian Fleming's original creation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-fg...
Tune in at 6pm PST this Friday 6th June for the first IO Interactive showcase that will feature 007 First Light reveal… youtube.com/live/xh4qGAI...
IO Interactive, which took over the James Bond videogame licence in 2020, has finally revealed what it has been working on. 'First Light' will tell a 007 origin story and is not connected to any actor or era in the film series. A release date may not be part of the reveal.
The next 007 adventure is about to be announced 🕹️🎮
Ian Fleming would have turned 117 this week. We consider the relevance of his literature in 2025. www.mi6-hq.com/sections/art...
The first chapter of Raymond Benson's new Felix Leiter novel 'The Hook and the Eye' is available to read online - or listen to him reading it here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIR9...
La La Land Records has announced a new vinyl pressing of the 'Goldfinger' soundtrack, promising to be the most complete ever www.mi6-hq.com/sections/art...
Happy 72nd birthday Pierce Brosnan
American actor Joe Don Baker, who appeared in 3 James Bond films, has died at the age of 89. www.mi6-hq.com/sections/art...
An early inspiration for the James Bond gunbarrel motif
Our ‘This Month In Bond’ newsletter is out for April and we ponder the past home video release strategies… Read it here and if you like it, please subscribe to your email: mi6hq.substack.com/p/this-month...
After a 5 year break, Toby Stephens is back as James Bond for the 10th adaptation for BBC Radio 4 - Casino Royale www.mi6-hq.com/sections/art...
"Bond. James Bond." Here's my alternative poster for James Bond's first motion picture, Ian Fleming's DR. NO, starring Sean Connery as the agent 007... 💥🕵️♂️🔫 #JamesBond #posterdesign #SeanConnery @posterspy.com @mi6hq.bsky.social
Two different sets of the Sean Connery 4K Collection will be released on June 10th (a week later than previously announced) www.mi6-hq.com/sections/art...
The Living Daylights dollar store action figures
Luciana Paluzzi to attend 'Thunderball' screening at TCM festival - April 25th - Los Angeles www.mi6-hq.com/news/luciana...
Robert McGinnis, the painter and illustrator who created some of the most iconic James Bond movie posters, has died age 99. Full biography by Matthew Field: www.mi6-hq.com/sections/art...
Amy Pascal and David Heyman are in London starting work on Bond 26 - confirmed by Amazon www.mi6-hq.com/sections/art...
OK Connery / 4K Connery
Relax folks... Variety misquoted Amazon execs when they said the new James Bond film production was 'exotic.' It was actually 'exhilarating.' They goofed. So everyone can stand down their race/tropical/style theories on Bond 26.
"Those are the best Bond villains ever written" RIP Bruce Glover - Mr. Wint in 1971's 'Diamonds Are Forever' Biography by @ohmssmatt.bsky.social www.mi6-hq.com/sections/art...
Marquette University in Wisconsin names building after Bond villain www.mi6-hq.com/news/marquet...
'They know where to find me' - is Pierce Brosnan open to offers for a Bond return? www.mi6-hq.com/sections/art...
$2.33 per film and you don't have to buy No Time To Die - what a deal! 🥸 www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/...
⚪⚪🔫 James Bond & Friends - latest podcast episode links for Apple and Spotify: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/0... open.spotify.com/episode/6juC...
Of course
⚪⚪🔫 'James Bond & Friends 0160: Producer Adducer' - the podcast panel discusses the Amy Pascal and David Heyman news and what could be in store for Bond 26. 🎙️ podcast.mi6-hq.com/e/160-produc...
Did Barbara Broccoli collect a scalp at Amazon on her way out? www.mi6-hq.com/news/amazon-...
Amazon MGM Studios has confirmed the deal to take creative control of James Bond from Broccoli & Wilson officially closed on Monday (March 24th 2025). Pascal & Heyman were announced the following day.
Barbara Broccoli's seven-year stalker nightmare revealed in court www.mi6-hq.com/news/barbara...
4K Connery! All six (official) films in stunning Ultra HD in one steelbook set - coming June 3rd. Pre-order is available now in the USA: www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/...
After 20 years, Bond author Raymond Benson is back with a new Felix Leiter adventure www.mi6-hq.com/sections/art...
Amazon MGM Studios has officially confirmed Amy Pascal and David Heyman as producers www.mi6-hq.com/sections/art...
Happy birthday to Timothy Dalton who turned 79 today! 🎂🎂🔫
One from the recent past and one from another successful British franchise... Who are Amazon looking to run the next era of James Bond? www.mi6-hq.com/sections/art...
A View To A Kill - The Musical 🎵 May Day's Surprise 🎶 www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpW7...
How Skyfall nearly lost its villain: www.mi6-hq.com/sections/art...
Michael Fassbender talks about his brush with Bond in 2004/2005: www.mi6-hq.com/sections/art...
A View To A Kill - The Musical 🎵 Four Days To Alaska (Hold On) 🎶 www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9LG...
🎵 The Quiche of Fate 🎶 An ode to Stacey Sutton #aviewtoakill www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6Fq...
Out Now! ⚪⚪🔫'Skyfall: Production Diary' is our latest 100-page full colour special publication - an exhaustive history of the Bond film that broke a billion dollars. www.mi6confidential.com/issue-s8
How was the first 11 mins?
Pierce Brosnan discusses Amazon's take-over: "You know, everything changes, everything falls apart" www.mi6-hq.com/sections/art...
Pierce Brosnan rolling back the years. 2002 -> 2025 www.mi6-hq.com/sections/art...
James Bond may not be back yet, but the MI6 newsletter is! We're not dead yet: open.substack.com/pub/mi6hq/p/...
If you were a kid in 1992 you almost scored James Bond Jr toys in a McDonald's Happy Meal www.mi6-hq.com/sections/art...
Awks
Doja Cat admits to screwing up 'Diamonds Are Forever' performance www.mi6-hq.com/news/doja-ca...
Adele reacts to Oscar's medley version of Skyfall
I enjoyed when Doja Cat and The Entity from MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - DEAD RECKONING did “Diamonds Are Forever”
They may pull a Dr Who and start numbering them from 1 again
James Bond got a send-off at the Oscars on Sunday night. Full coverage! www.mi6-hq.com/sections/art...
Jane Seymour on the Amazon news: "I hope they're good. I am sure it'll do really well. I think Bond will keep going. People love Bond. It's a great franchise." www.mi6-hq.com/news/bond-gi...
The Oscar ceremony on Sunday will feature a James Bond music tribute (again). If you've never seen what they did back in 1982, then today is your lucky day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hHj...
No Time To Die
Trade press speculate on what triggered Broccoli to sell up: ‘I don’t care what it costs, get rid of her’ www.mi6-hq.com/news/trade-p...
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy seeks to reassure Bond fans: “Nobody’s written the story yet. But we will take great care.” www.mi6-hq.com/news/amazon-...
Timothy Dalton gives candid interview about his 007 tenure: "I have some good friends from the Bond days, some really good people, but they’re trapped. Everyone’s trapped by it in a way. I never really wanted to do more than 3, but Cubby wouldn’t accept that." www.mi6-hq.com/news/timothy...
Christopher Nolan wanted to direct a James Bond film but producer Barbara Broccoli closed the door www.mi6-hq.com/news/christo...
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