Author Profile: David Leigh

Sam Peffer, who provided the artwork for many Pan paperback editions of the James Bond novels, has recently died at the age of 92. He created pulp fiction style covers for the novels after taking over the job in 1957, although moved to film posters after the work for paperback covers dried up. You can […]

Ralph Fiennes is to star in George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman at The National Theatre from February 2015, suggesting his role as M will be limited. [adsense] Fiennes has in the past said that he had “heard” rumours that his character would have a larger role in Bond 24, but given that the play will start during […]

The Press Association has released a video shot (above) at the launch of Bond In Motion earlier this week in which they feature a short segment with Bond producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, who comment on Bond 24. Broccoli says they have been working with director Sam Mendes, screenwriter John Logan and Daniel […]

Director of photography on The Man With The Golden Gun, Oswald Morris, has passed away at the age of 98. Morris was cinematographer on more than 50 films, and won an Oscar for Fiddler on the Roof (1971) as well as receiving two further nominations, including for Oliver! (1968). In his long career he worked […]

Speaking at the launch of the Bond In Motion exhibition in London yesterday, Michael G Wilson told reporters from ITN that Bond 24 would feature a new Aston Martin: “The next film, by the way, we’re going to have a new Aston – people haven’t seen.” Presumably that means a new, as yet unreleased model […]

Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson were joined by past Bond girls Caterina Murino and Maryam d’Abo, current Miss Moneypenny actress Naomie Harris, and various other members of the production crew past and present at the official launch of Bond In Motion at the London Film Museum in Covent Garden. The exhibition is the largest […]

Ian Fleming describes James Bond’s cigarette case as holding fifty on at least two occasions, in Casino Royale and in the short story Octopussy.

The next book in the Young Bond series, which is currently untitled, is now available to pre-order from Amazon UK. Young Bond 6 is written by Steve Cole and the UK hardback edition will be published in November by Doubleday Childrens. The book will carry on directly from Charlie Higson’s Young Bond books set while […]

A new range of perfumes inspired by the Bond girls is to be launched by P&G to sit alongside the 007 fragrances that first hit the shelves in 2012. Since launch the range has expanded from a single fragrance to a range of four, each in a distinctively designed bottle featuring the 007 logo. According […]

Empire Online caught up with Skyfall and Bond 24 screenwriter John Logan this morning, when they quizzed him about progress on the Bond 24 screenplay. [adsense] Logan told Empire that the first draft is almost complete and that he had been working closely with Sam Mendes on the storyline, which will continue the themes of […]

A few days ago we reported that Bond 24 was scheduled to start shooting in October, according to none other than Ralph Fiennes. [adsense] However, Baz Bamigboye in the Daily Mail has reported that filming has been delayed by a month and it will now start in November. Normally I take little notice of what […]

MI6 Confidential, the full-colour magazine celebrating the world of James Bond 007, returns with its twenty-fourth issue. All cinematic icons have their backroom stalwarts, and this issue pays homage to four of them. The screenwriting duo, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, writers of the five most recent adventures talk candidly about their years with Bond; Mark Mawston […]

MTV recently interviewed Ralph Fiennes for his new film, The Grand Budapest Hotel, directed by Wes Anderson in which he revealed that while he has not seen a script for Bond 24, cameras are due to start rolling in October. [adsense] He tells MTV that he can’t tell them much having not seen a script and […]

The recent biopic mini-series “Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond” that aired recently on BBC America from the end of January and on Sky Atlantic earlier this month is now available on Amazon Instant Video in March and will be released on DVD on 10th March. The Fleming biopic stars Dominic Cooper as Ian Fleming […]

From the word go Ian Fleming established James Bond as an expert card player when M sends him to Royale-les-Eaux in an attempt to bankrupt SMERSH operative Le Chiffre at the baccarat tables. Judged to be the best card player in the service, we learn that he spent two months in Monte Carlo before the […]

Roger Deakins, who won so much praise for his cinematography work on Skyfall, will not be returning for Bond 24 according to one industry commentator on Twitter last night. Kristopher Tapley of HitFix.com tweeted: At dinner with Deakins last night I learned some news that makes me sad: He won’t be shooting the next Bond. — Kristopher […]

  Ian Fleming Publications has today unveiled the cover artwork for the forthcoming paperback editions of Solo, by William Boyd. The UK edition is published by Random House on 8th May 2014, with the US and Canadian edition by HarperCollins hitting bookshelves on 3rd June. You can pre-order the Solo paperback from Amazon UK or Amazon.com. IFP says […]

A self-published book about James Bond’s drinks will compete against the best in the world after judges of the 2014 World Gourmand Awards announced it the UK winner of the cocktails category. Published at the end of 2012 following the release of “Skyfall”, the second edition of David Leigh’s The Complete Guide to the Drinks […]

Red Carpet News TV recently spoke to Naomie Harris (Eve Moneypenny) and Rory Kinnear (Tanner) briefly about Bond 24. Watch the videos above to hear what they had to say.

By the time of Thunderball, Ian Fleming tells us that Bond’s daily intake of spirits is around half a bottle. Like his creator, James Bond drinks a lot, hence his much needed stay in a health farm ordered by M. However, unlike the popular belief that Bond drinks nothing but vodka martinis – shaken, not […]