James Bond News - April 2014
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Bond 24: John Logan says first draft almost complete: 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. 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 Skyfall. […] Read more...Bond girl perfume to launch in time for Bond 24: 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 […] Read more...James Bond cars and driving: While Aston Martin is the marque most closely associated with James Bond, the literary character is very much a Bentley man. From the word go in Casino Royale Bond is driving one, and while he is to be found behind the wheel of a secret service Aston Martin in Goldfinger, Bond’s personal car is always a Bentley in […] Read more...New Young Bond logo unveiled on Amazon UK: 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 […] Read more...James Bond’s cigarette case: 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. Read more...Producers, cast and crew attend Bond In Motion launch in London:![1601300_10152050380003138_2083871506_n[1]](http://www.tjbd.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1601300_10152050380003138_2083871506_n1-75x75.jpg) 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 […] Read more...New Aston Martin to feature in Bond 24: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 […] Read more...The Man With The Golden Gun photographer passes away: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 […] Read more...Producers hope to select Bond 24 villain within 2 months:![0[1]](http://www.tjbd.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/01-75x75.jpg) 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 […] Read more...Ralph Fiennes to star on stage during Bond 24 photography: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. 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 principal […] Read more...Pan paperback cover artist Sam Peffer dies: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 […] Read more...Confirmation Roger Deakins turned down Bond 24:While it was recently widely reported that Roger Deakins was not returning for Bond 24 after Kristopher Tapley (HitFix.com) tweeted that Deakins broke the news to him at dinner, it turns out the news had already broken by that stage. 48 hours or so before Tapley tweeted the news, Deakins had already been quoted as […] Read more...James Bond’s lighter: As a heavy smoker, he needed some fairly robust smoking accessories, and we first learn of James Bond’s lighter in Casino Royale, when Ian Fleming described it as an oxidised Ronson. In Moonraker the Ronson is further described as black-oxidised and in From Russia, With Love as battered. It was also in this book that […] Read more...Behind the James Bond car stunts: Last week the Telegraph included a feature covering the car stunt work on the James Bond films to coincide with the launch of Bond In Motion. The telegraph spoke to former stig Ben Collins, the stunt driver in the Aston Martin at the beginning of Quantum of Solace, as well as legendary stuntman, stunt coordinator […] Read more...Toby Stephens and Joanna Lumley in OHMSS radio play:Former Bond villain Toby Stephens and ex-Bond girl Joanna Lumley are taking part in a radio version of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, with the former playing Bond (for the fourth time, after Dr No, Goldfinger and From Russia With Love) while the later is Blofeld’s sidekick Irma Bunt. Lumley previosuly played one of the “angels of death” in […] Read more...Ian Fleming love letters to be auctioned in New York next week:
Never Say Never Again screenwriter dies:
Rare Works by Ian Fleming Go Under The Hammer:
Defending ‘Die Another Day’:
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number of love letters written by Ian Fleming to his Austrian lover
in the early 1930s will be auctioned next week in New York. The letters
were written in German to Edith Morpurgo, the daughter of a Salzberg
businessman. Fleming went to Kitzbuhel both on holiday as well as attending
a finishing school and […] 
The
adventures of secret agent James Bond have a timeless appeal, and a
complete collection of writer Ian Fleming's 007 novels comprise lots
48 – 62 of this sale. Although all are in excellent condition, of particular
note is a first edition of Casino Royale (1953), the book that introduced
the character of James Bond […] 
Much
has been said about Eon’s 20th 007 adventure, Die Another Day,
and in recent years not much of it has been good. In this article though
I’d like to redress the balance and take you on a look back to
this celebration of Bond’s 40th anniversary […]