Fifty turned Bond back
View(s):Turning 50 years, the 23rd James Bond movie ‘Skyfall’ will be released at Majestic Cineplex Colombo on November 9 in line with the US release.
Produced for MGM, Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Entertainment, the latest James Bond is featured by Daniel Craig who makes his third appearance as the suave and brutal super-spy.
Directed by Sam Mendes and written by John Logan, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, the film’s release would coincide with the 50th anniversary of the series, which began with Dr. No in 1962 in which Scottish actor Sean Connery became the first James Bond.
Based on James Bond by Ian Fleming, the film also stars Javier Bardem, Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Bérénice Marlohe, Albert Finney and Judi Dench.
When an operation in Istanbul ends in disaster, James Bond is missing and presumed to be dead, and the identities of all active undercover MI6 agents are leaked onto the internet. In the aftermath, questions are raised over M’s ability to run the Secret Service, and she becomes the subject of a government review over her handling of the situation.
When the service itself is attacked, Bond’s sudden reappearance gives M the pretext she needs to seek out Raoul Silva, a dangerous villain claiming a personal connection to both of them – but as he follows a trail from London to the South China Sea, Bond soon finds his loyalty to M challenged over secrets from her past.
Skyfall which began filming in November 2011 was shot in the United Kingdom, China and Turkey.
Starting the James Bond mania, Connery starred in six Bond movies from the first and was followed by George Lazenby in one Bond movie ‘On Her Majesty’s Secrete Service’, Roger Moore in seven adventures , Timothy Dalton in two ‘The Living Daylights’ and ‘Licence to Kill’, Pierce Brosnan who made four movies and Davin Niven who played the character in the spoof original ‘Casino Royale’ in 1967.
The 22 official Bond films have amassed more than 5 billion U.S. dollars at the box office worldwide. The last of the series ‘Quantum of Solace’ along had grossed nearly 600 million U.S. dollars almost the ten times of first franchise ‘Dr. No’ in 1962.
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