Author Profile: David Leigh

MI6 Confidential returns with its twenty-seventh issue. Although not often hailed as the greatest or most memorable Bond adventure, The Man With The Golden Gun took the Bond family to the fantastic vistas of Southeast Asia, and welcomed a high calibre cast and crew, including the Hammer horror hero Christopher Lee, and Academy Award winning cinematographer Oswold Morris, […]

The chance for a character in the next James Bond novel by Anthony Horowitz and to be published in September next year proved to be the star lot of the night at an auction for the London Air Ambulance that raised a total of £120,000. Horowitz offered to not only name a character after the highest bidder, but […]

The recent hacking of Sony’s computer network and subsequent upload of terabytes of information mirrors the actions of Silva in Skyfall, but while the consequences are unlikely to directly cause any fatalities there are certainly some red faces. Many of the leaked documents have been scoured by the world’s press, where the true feelings of […]

Prep work continues in the small East Tyrolean village of Obertilliach ahead of cast and crew arriving for filming starting 10th January. The area has had a covering of snow already and a 70 strong crew is working on building sets and shifting gear that includes aircraft parts and a battered Land Rover ahead of the arrival of […]

Sam Mendes has revealed the singer for the theme of SPECTRE has already been chosen, but is not giving anything away at present. It is believed the filmmakers were trying to lure back Adele after the success of Skyfall but not known whether it is her or another singer who has been chosen.

The company on the ground for SPECTRE in Morocco, Zak Productions, has revealed some details of the filming schedule, including news that Sam Mendes recently headed up a small unit to film Daniel Craig on board a train in Oujda, northeast Morocco. Presumably the filming took place when it was reported that Daniel Craig was […]

Today marked the start of shooting on SPECTRE, with the clapperboard above shared on the official 007 social media channels.

A location said to be used in SPECTRE has a very familiar look and feel.

  Hornby will be releasing a range of SPECTRE products under the Corgi and Scalextric brands, ensuring Bond fans young and old will have a full stocking on Christmas Day 2015. Details are not yet available but the new range but we can almost certainly expect the new Aston Martin DB10 to be added to […]

Champagne house Bollinger and Dutch Brewer Heineken are among the seven promotional partners named on the press release to coincide with the SPECTRE anniversary announcement on Thursday. Once again the film will have no vodka brand linked to it, after Smirnoff was dropped for Skyfall. Other partners include Aston Martin, who is providing the DB10, […]

Audio book publisher Audible is offering anyone who buys one of its James Bond audiobooks the opportunity to win one of seven limited edition posters. The prize draw ends at 12pm on 11th December.

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A look at the filming locations used in SPECTRE. Speaking at Pinewood Studios in early December 2014, director Sam Mendes revealed a number of details about the 24th James Bond film. The event took place the week before filming started and Mendes announced the new film was to be titled SPECTRE. He also unveiled the […]

Danish website Euroman is claiming Jesper Christensen, who played Mr White in Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, will return in SPECTRE. Christensen told the website, “I am looking forward to working with Sam Mendes and Daniel Craig. It is a truly exciting script and a very capable team. So it’ll be fun. ” Fans […]

The Mail Online has an article about a variety of Bond props available for auction that include the jet from the pre-title sequence of Octopussy, a chair used by Blofeld in You Only Live Twice and a variety of other screen used paraphernalia. The article refers to “Dr Blofeld” several times, so beware of other […]

PRESS RELEASE: Aston Martin together with EON Productions, the producers of the James Bond film franchise, unveiled Bond’s stunning new car, the Aston Martin DB10, on the 007 stage at Pinewood Studios. The luxury British sports car brand is delighted to confirm that James Bond will once again drive an Aston Martin in Spectre. On […]

James Bond Producers, Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli today released the title of the 24th James Bond adventure, SPECTRE.

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12.10 That concludes the event. It’s over! 12.10 David Bautista confirmed as Mr Hinx. Monica Bellucci is in. Lea Seydeoux Christoph Waltz and Daniel Craig! 12.08 Cast introductions now. Rory Kinnear as Tanner, Ben Whishaw as Q, Naomie Harris as Miss Moneypenny, Ralph Feines as M and Andrew Scott as Denby. 12.06 The Aston Martin […]

Watch details of Bond 24 being announced live when the film is officially launched at Pinewood. The live video feed is due to start broadcasting at 10:50 GMT, with the event starting at 11:00 GMT, or midday in Western Europe. If you’re in the US, times are 6:00am EST/3:00am PST. If you can’t watch live […]