Author Profile: David Leigh

LaBellaDonnaForte #MONICABELLUCCI a #BOND WOMAN to be reckoned with.Check http://t.co/EHHkHbH3YC tomorrow. https://t.co/ak0bkX32Hu — Baz Bamigboye (@BazBam) December 3, 2014 Baz Bamigboye of the Daily Mail has suggested this evening on Twitter that Monica Bellucci has signed for Bond 24. Although Bellucci has been suggested previously in the media, this is the first time that someone […]

Five Range Rovers modified for filming in Bond 24 were stolen at the end of October, according to reports. The Range Rover Sports, a Range Rover Evoque and five other cars were stolen from Jaguar Land Rover’s training facility in Germany and estimated to be worth around €800,000. The cars have since been replaced and […]

Andrew Scott, who plays Moriarty in Sherlock, has reportedly been selected for the role of a villain in Bond 24 according to The Mirror. An unnamed “insider” is quoted in the article, which appeared online last night, as saying the Irish actor was hand-picked due to his performance in Sherlock. Whether there is any truth […]

The title and cast of Bond 24 are to be officially unveiled during a livestream direct from Pinewood’s 007 on Thursday and it has also been confirmed that principal photography will start on 8th December. The event will start streaming at 10:50 GMT, with an expected kick off time at 11:00. All being well The […]

Jany Temime is confirmed for Bond 24 according to our friends at From Sweden With Love following her work on Skyfall. Since the last 007 film Temime has worked on Gravity and Hercules, while her previous credits include several Harry Potter films Bridget Jones. Tom Ford is also believed to be supplying much of Daniel Craig’s wardrobe, although […]

The video above shoes the Austrian village of Obertilliach where preparations are underway prior to shooting scenes for Bond next year. The video is in German, but gives you an idea of the transformation in the village.

Christoph Waltz, who may or may not be the villain in Bond 24, was recently interviewed by Screen Rant about he new film, Horrible Bosses 2. Bond 24 isn’t discussed at all, but if you’d like to know a little more about the German actor and how he found out he can’t improvise, click the […]

With the days counting down before Bond 24 starts filming I thought it might be interesting exercise to find out the thoughts of other Bond website owners and bloggers. So, last Saturday I started going through my 007 contact list and from that night onwards the replies trickled in. The full Q&A is presented below in the order in which […]

Earlier this week Austrian press revealed that Eon representatives took the unusual step of discussing their plans with local residents and the expected impact on Obertilliach. It has known for a while now that preparations have been taking place in the Austrian village of Obertilliach to prepare for shooting next year, but following a meeting in which the mayor […]

For the the man for whom a showroom model is not enough: Aston Martin’s bespoke service covers just about everything except an ejector seat or machine guns. Check out what you can get them to do in the video above.

Bond 24 will film in Rome between February 19th abnd March 12th, according to Italian news site ANSA.

It was recently revealed that Austrian actor Christoph Waltz had a role in Bond 24, although it was not clear whether he had been signed as the villain or on the side of good. Today’s Daily Mail provides more information on his role, stating that during the press conference planned for the first week of […]

Bond 24 cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema has recently confirmed that he will return to celluloid for Bond 24 after predecessor Roger Deakins elected to shoot Skyfall digitally. Speaking to HitFix, van Hoytema’s most recent work can be seen in Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, also shot on film and in the interview he talks about film versus digital and while he says […]

One of the most popular recurring characters throughout the Bond films is Felix Leiter, but the biggest stumbling block to growing the character has always been that, until David Hedison in Licence To Kill, the same actor never played the role twice. Jeffrey Wright became the second actor to play the role twice, first in Casino […]

Work has been going on this month in Morocco, ahead of the start of filming next month according to photos posted on Instagram. David Gray, who worked on the second unit for Skyfall, posted photos from Morocco in the last few days with the hashtag #bond24. There is not much to see other than what […]

A London cinema is to screen all the James Bond films in a weekly retrospective starting in January. The films will be shown by Prince Charles Cinema, located near Leicester Square, on every Sunday starting with Dr No on 4th January and finish with Skyfall on 28th June. With the exception of Goldfinger, which will […]

Bond 24 likely has a villain according to Baz Bamigboye in the Daily Express, in the form of double Oscar winner Christoph Waltz. Austrian born Waltz won both Oscars for Best Supporting Actor in two Quentin Tarantino films, Inglourious Basterds in which he played an SS officer and Django Unchained as a bounty hunter. Bamigboye’s source stated that it […]

Before 007 appeared on the big screen Ian Fleming was involved in an aborted series for US television. When the project fell through many of the stories were reworked by Fleming  and published in the collection For Your Eyes Only.  At the beginning of last month Ian Fleming Publications announced a new James Bond novel to be written […]

A Walther PPK 9mm bought in 1966 is unboxed.  

A short clip originally shown on the BBC and recently on on the Dr No DVD special features.