Author Profile: David Leigh

Eon Productions announce Bond star will undergo surgery for ankle injury sustained while filming in Jamaica. The tabloids have had a field day recently after reports emerged that Daniel Craig had injured his ankle while filming in Jamaica. Initially reports said filming was “cancelled” although they really meant postponed. Later they dialled back on the […]

The Aston Martin DBS Superleggera is set to become the newest James Bond inspired car, thanks to the most recent collaboration between Aston Martin and Eon Productions, the company that produces the James Bond films with Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of James Bond film, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 50 On Her Majesty’s […]

Bond 25’s second unit keeping busy in Jamaica after the main unit returned to Pinewood. View this post on Instagram Klipp fra James Bond-innspilling på Jamaica, innsendt av @sailingwiththomas ⛵️💥 #jamaica #jamesbond #explosion A post shared by Filmweb (@filmweb_no) on May 21, 2019 at 1:01am PDT Filmweb Norway have uploaded video footage to their Instagram […]

The latest episode of James Bond & Friends is now available on iTunes and elsewhere. How much of a Bond film is recycled from unused scripts? In the first segment, we wrap up some loose ends and dive in to the latest Bond 25 media coverage including Daniel Craig’s injury and how Twitter would cover […]

Orlebar Brown has today launched a new 007 collection inspired by clothing from the early James Bond films. Items worn by Sean Connery, George Lazenby and Roger Moore are all represented by the collection produced in association with Eon Productions. You can find polos, shirts, shorts and a dressing gown from Dr No, Goldfinger, Thunderball […]

Back in August Aston Martin announced it was to build a limited edition of 25 DB5s kitted out with Q Branch optional extras. Each Goldfinger DB5 continuation car will be priced at £2.75m plus taxes. First deliveries to customers will commence in 2020 but the car will not be street legal. In this video Chris […]

The latest episode of James Bond & Friends is now available on iTunes and elsewhere. This was a really fun episode record and seemed to be going perfectly… until Bill Koenig’s cable company cut him off during recording. When he complained to the workmen who had dug up his cable they just laughed. While the […]

Baz Bamigboye reports behind the scenes chaos while Phoebe Waller-Bridge talks of making the Bond girls believable. The Daily Mail’s Baz Bamigboye has a story in which he says the Bond 25 script is still unfinished. The screenplay for the untitled film is being endlessly re-written by a committee consisting of director Cary Joji Fukunaga, […]

Issue #50 of the full-colour James Bond magazine MI6 Confidential is now shipping worldwide. For the 16th Bond adventure Michael G Wilson took the lead in penning a darker, more brooding Bond story, borrowing only a smattering of Fleming source material and setting the story South of the border. Dalton, who firmly believed Bond wasn’t […]

The latest episode of James Bond & Friends is now available on iTunes and elsewhere. <img src=”https://www.thejamesbonddossier.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/james-bond-and-friends.jpg”> Which two Bond films could blend into a new recipe? In the first segment, we experiment with throwing two less-loved Bond films in a blender to come up with something better. We then cover the latest Bond 25 […]

Issue #49 of the full-colour James Bond magazine MI6 Confidential is now shipping worldwide. It is surprisingly infrequent that the Bond movies reflect on Bond’s military pedigree – a Commander in the Royal Navy, recruited to military intelligence, starting as a Lieutenant, by the end of the war a Commander, acknowledged with Companion of the […]

A new book that examines the impact of Pierce Brosnan’s first Bond film will be published in June. The World of Goldeneye: A Comprehensive Study On The Seventeenth James Bond Film And Its Legacy is due to be published on 8th June 2019 by Amazon Publishing. The book is by some time contributor to this […]

The long awaited start of Bond 25 got underway in Jamaica on Sunday. After the livestream event last Thursday introducing the cast members for Bond 25, Sunday saw shooting finally begin in Port Antonio. The town is on the northeastern shore of Jamaica and about an hour from Kingston. To commemorate the start of principal […]

Interviewed in Jamaica after yesterday’s Bond 25 launch event, Daniel Craig says he probably won’t do another Bond and that it’s time someone else has a chance to take over. The segment above lasts slightly longer than a a minute.

The latest episode of James Bond & Friends is now available on iTunes and elsewhere. Dissecting the Bond 25 reveal event. In this special extended episode, we take apart the Bond 25 live reveal event. How did it all go down? What was expected and was surprising? Along the way we trip over a forgetful producer, […]

Speaking on Good Morning America, Rami Malek talks about James Bond. During the interview he mentions Goldfinger, The Man With The Golden Gun and Casino Royale as among his favourite Bond films. Although he is unable to give any details about Bond 25, Malek does confirm he will play the villain. Thanks to MI6’s James […]

Bond 25 to start shooting in Jamaica on Sunday. James Bond Producers, Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli today confirmed the start of principal photography on the 25th official James Bond film begins on 28th April 2019.  From Albert R. Broccoli’s Eon Productions and Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, the film is directed by Cary Joji […]

Watch the official launch of Bond 25 from 1:10 pm  in the UK from one of 007’s most iconic locations. For non-UK based fans it’s at 2:10 pm for most of continental western Europe, 8:10 am on the East coast of USA and 5:10 am on the West coast). Given that cast and crew recently […]

Daniel Craig aboard jet that brought cast and crew to Kingston. Daniel Craig and Michael G Wilson were among Bond 25 cast and crew who touched down at Norman Manley International Airport in Jamaica yesterday aboard a chartered Airbus A340 arriving from London Stansted. However, instead of a long-anticipated press conference in which various details […]

The latest episode of James Bond & Friends is now available on iTunes and elsewhere. What were Bond’s drinking habits across the books and how do they differ in the films? We discuss aspects of James Bond’s drinks and along the way we mull over the loss of local flavour, drinks missing from the films, Bond’s salad […]