Author Profile: David Leigh

The 2020 season pre-order package on MI6 Confidential will open soon! To know when subscriptions are open simply enter your details in the form below. This option is currently unavailable. With the subscription you get five magazines throughout the year but pay for just four. All subscribers receive a limited edition postcard, shipped with the […]

Issue #53 of the full-colour James Bond magazine MI6 Confidential is now shipping worldwide. 2019 was a bumper year for James Bond film anniversaries, but none more poignant than the 50th year of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. We are busy working on an upcoming special publication focused on the man at the centre of […]

Issue #52 of the full-colour James Bond magazine MI6 Confidential is now shipping worldwide. It’s often said a reputation precedes a man. It is undoubtedly true in the case of Maurice Binder. An artist in all the senses of the word, Binder’s design defined the Bond titles for two generations of cinemagoers. He was famously […]

The latest episode of James Bond & Friends is now available on Apple Podcasts and elsewhere.     How much Bond continuity is successful? How much is necessary? This episode we consider the problem of continuity in a 57 year-old film franchise. We speculate why the Daniel Craig era leaned so heavily on connections to […]

The Many Lives of James Bond offers the largest ever collection of original interviews with actors who have played Bond in different media.

Filmmakers used a number of Moroccan locations for SPECTRE. Here we investigate where they were. When Bond and Madeleine arrive in Morocco (1:13:52) they walk up the steps of a passageway in the medina. Below them the hustle and bustle of medina life goes on while in the background is the bay. High on the […]

The new model Defender is one of four models from Land Rover to be used in filming. No Time to Die is the first movie to feature Land Rover’s New Defender it was announced today. The New Defender, will appear in a chase sequence and has been tested by the 007 expert stunt team in […]

Last week Bollinger hosted an event at the Hôtel de Crillon to mark the 40th anniversary of their partnership with 007. To celebrate this landmark anniversary, guest of honour Michael G Wilson, producer of the James Bond films, was joined by an exclusive list of invitees. The evening paid tribute to the shared history of […]

The latest episode of James Bond & Friends is now available on Apple Podcasts and elsewhere. How did the character of Moneypenny evolve from page to screen? In light of the news that Naomie Harris has suggested an independent Moneypenny adventure, we delve into the character of M’s long-serving secretary and the other women of […]

Titan Books announces No Time to Die: The Making of the Film to be published in April. Titan Books is delighted to announce a new collaboration with Eon Productions to publish the official making of book for No Time To Die, the 25th official James Bond 007 film. In Daniel Craig’s 5th outing as 007, Bond has […]

Phoebe Waller-Bridge talks about No Time to Die and Fleabag in a BBC interview. Writer of the moment Phoebe Waller-Bridge told the BBC that she was brought in because the filmmakers “were just looking for tweaks across a few of the characters and a few of the storylines”. In the interview she insists she was […]

Now that filming has wrapped on No Time to Die it seems like the publicity department started to get down to work. The Hollywood Reporter has a feature on Lashana Lynch and Ana de Armas and how they are helping modernise the franchise. There is also a video embedded in the article (top) in which […]

Rami Malek will play Safin in No Time to Die, according to Empire magazine. The article quotes Barbara Broccoli as saying: He is really the supervillain. He’s the one that really gets under Bond’s skin. He’s a nasty piece of work. So there it is; Safin, not Dr No. The online article doesn’t really provide […]

No Time to Die has finished shooting some 182 days after filming started in Jamaica. The film finished right on schedule following a night shoot on 25th October. The news was confirmed on Eon’s office social media accounts in the early hours of Saturday morning with a photo of Daniel Craig with his arm around […]

The latest episode of James Bond & Friends is now available on Apple Podcasts and elsewhere.  This episode is quite different to anything we’ve done before and was great fun to record. I’ve never laughed so much during a recording, as you’ll find out when you listen. We asked 100 James Bond fans… Taking […]

The Australian actor heads an all-star cast that also features Glynis Barber, Nickolas Grace, Michael Brandon and Terence Stamp as the head of MI6. George Lazenby, who 50 years ago succeeded Sean Connery to become the youngest ever 007 James Bond in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, is plunging back into the world of MI6 […]

Daniel Craig has worn sweaters provided by N Peal in the last couple of James Bond films, making their products extremely popular with fans. After starting their association with 007 in Skyfall the company must have been laughing all the way to the bank when they saw Craig wearing their charcoal mock turtleneck on the […]

The latest episode of James Bond & Friends is now available on Apple Podcasts and elsewhere. How do the films most faithful to Fleming stack up against the best original adventures? The panel selects their favourite film from the franchise that is closest to the Ian Fleming source material and – conversely – picks out […]

Over the summer 120,000 fans immersed themselves in Secret Cinema’s presentation of Casino Royale for a box office take of more than £8m. Since June 2019, London has played host to Secret Cinema’s immersive production of the critically acclaimed film Casino Royale. The four-month show entertained over 120,000 people, placing the film back in the […]

A look at SPECTRE’s Rome locations including a breakdown of that car chase. The first shot of Bond arriving in Rome (27:55) shows him driving his Aston Martin DB10 the wrong way along Via di Porta San Pancrazio towards the arch of Porta San Pancrazio before the camera rises to show a panoramic shot of […]