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Sun, 05 May 2013 19:41:36 GMTBond fan Phil Noble jr. has, with EON's blessing, revealed that M's name is...Olivia Mansfields. So know we know.
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Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:17:51 GMT007 Declassified: James Bond Was Almost Named James Secretan
And right now you're thinking "The name's Secretan. James Secretan." It doesn't work quite as well, does it?
007 author Ian Fleming eventually thought the same thing, as pop culture's most famous secret agent officially emerged with the much more secret agent-ish handle of "James Bond." But in an early draft of the first Bond novel, "Casino Royale," everyone's favorite MI6 operative -- and at least one of his well-known cohorts -- were wearing decidedly different name tags.
"Ian's first idea was to give James Bond an assumed name as his cover," revealed Fleming's niece Kate Grimond upon the 1952 early draft of "Casino Royale" recently being made available to the public in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the novel's publication. "Ian must have realized it would cause confusion if he had Bond known as Bond to friends and the security services in London, but as Secretan for his cover name to strangers or people he didn't want to know he was a spy."
This, of course, began the decades-long joke of Bond being a secret agent who's not very good at being secret, as he tends to drop his real name wherever he goes. This questionable yet endearing character quirk is a small price to pay, though, if it means he doesn't have to be called "James Secretan."
As Fleming was known for basing the names of his characters on his own friends, acquaintances and influences, it's speculated that "James Secretan" was named after Charles Secretan, a 19th century Swiss philosopher whose writing was, according to Wikipedia, meant to "build up a rational, philosophical religion to reconcile the ultimate bases of Christianity with the principles of metaphysical philosophy." You know, secret agent kind of stuff.
"I've no proof but I do know Ian was interested in philosophy," said Grimond. Fleming would have studied the work of Secretan while at Eton College and when he went to universities in Germany and Switzerland.
The name "James Bond" has long been acknowledged to derive from the the American ornithologist of the same name, who was an expert on Caribbean birds. And Felix Leiter, Bond's trusted CIA colleague, is a nod to Fleming's own American friend, Marion Leiter.
Miss Moneypenny, M's trusty executive assistant at MI6, went through a less dramatic name change. She was referred to in the early draft of "Casino Royale" as "Miss Pettavel," which Bond affectionately shortened to "Miss Petty." The name and character were based on Kathleen Pettigrew, personal assistant to Stewart Menzies, the then director-general of MI6.
"But Ian again had second thoughts and changed it to Miss Moneypenny," Grimond said. Probably a good idea to not have the name of your fictional MI6 secretary sound so much like the name of a real-life MI6 secretary, after all.
Finally, Bond films may now be able to command $200 million budgets, but back in 1953, you could buy a Bond book for pretty cheap. Too cheap, at least according to the author, as revealed in another letter that was recently released to the public in which Fleming complains to Jonathan Cape, the publisher of "Casino Royale," about the suggested cover price being too low.
"I am not in favour of reducing the price of the book to 10/6d [10 schillings, 6 pennys, per British currency before 1971]," said Fleming in the letter dated October 1952. "Hardly a novel is published today under 12/6d, and I think it would be a mistake for your first thriller to seem to be given away ... Moreover it [the lower price] would whittle down still further my already meagre financial expectations from the book."
Fleming's protesting was for naught, as the price stayed at 10/6d. The 2006 film adaptation of "Casino Royale," which featured Daniel Craig's first performance as Secretan, er, Bond, went on to gross almost $600 million in worldwide box office -- MGM never has "meagre financial expectations" when it comes to their best cinematic agent.
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Sun, 14 Apr 2013 09:20:40 GMTTotal Film has compiled a list of the 50 best movie heroes and villains, and Blofeld is of course on the villain list. But most interesting to us is the fact that Bond is number two on the hero list, only beaten by Ellen "Alien" Ripley.
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Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:51:52 GMTWas watching a TV series recently on Ireland, and when they visited Blarney Castle (including the "poison garden") I thought of Fleming's YOLT. I think it would make an excellent future Bond film location- even the sign in the garden is reminiscent of the famous sign outside LALD's crocodile farm
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Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:05:22 GMTMGM has announced that the next James Bond movie will be released within three years,
No further details at this point.
20/03/13.MGM has announced that the next James Bond movie will be released within three years,
No further details at this point.
20/03/13.
]]>Current NewsMarkmBhahttp://www.bondmovies.com/board/showthread.php?t=128728Daniel Craig Becomes Real-Life James Bond With a New Aston Martin
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Wed, 13 Mar 2013 03:31:58 GMTLife is imitating art for Daniel Craig.
The "James Bond" star has a new car in his garage that is near and dear to his iconic character's heart: an Aston Martin Vantage Roadster.
Over the weekend, the £150,000 British luxury sports car (that's more than $223,000 in U.S. dollars) was personally delivered to his London home, leading some to speculate it was a belated birthday present. In photos, Craig -- who turned 45 on March 2 -- looks as giddy as a schoolboy as he checks out his shiny (and very red) new toy before signing on the dotted line.
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It's unclear if Craig bought it for himself or if it was a gift from someone else, like his wife, Rachel Weisz, who has been away promoting her new film, "Oz: The Great and Powerful."
The Vantage Roadster certainly has a license to thrill. According to Aston Martin, the two-seater's body is comprised of aluminum, magnesium alloy, composite, and steel and has a six-speed manual transmission. It can go from 0-60 mph in a mere 4.7 seconds and can max out at 180 mph … although the speedometer goes all the way up to 220 mph.
The Aston Martin is a favorite of James Bond's and was first introduced in 1964's "Goldfinger," the third installment in the six-decade spanning film series. Since then, five different models have been featured in 11 movies ... and counting.
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Craig's debut as Bond in 2006's "Casino Royale" unveiled a brand new Aston Martin to the world: the DBS V12. The actor also zipped around in another model, the DB5, making the film the first time to feature two Aston Martins, according to the company. Bond's DBS had a secret compartment for his Walther P99 gun and an emergency medical kit that housed various poisons and a small defibrillator.
In Craig's second Bond flick, 2008's "Quantum of Solace," the Aston Martin DBS V12 opened the film with a memorable high-speed chase in Siena, Italy. Heartbreaking for car lovers everywhere, six Aston Martins were destroyed during filming.
And in Craig's most recent Bond film, last year’s "Skyfall," the DB5 returned (with Craig, of course, behind the wheel) for its sixth appearance. This version, which was later wrecked, featured an ejector seat and two front-firing machine guns.
Enjoy your new car, Daniel Craig … after all, you only live twice.