Introducing Trevelyan's Mainframe

Ladies and gentleman, we are happy to announce a new section for our blog, titled Trevelyan's Mainframe. In this column, Alec will be reviewing a lot of topics regarding GOLDENEYE: aspects of the film, the game, and the careers of the actors twenty years ahead of the film that meant the return of James Bond to the cinema screens.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Happy new year James Bond and GOLDENEYE fans. We have a great year starting right now. Remember to join the 20th anniversary festivities on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter with the #goldeneye20 hashtag.

Statement from The GoldenEye Dossier regarding the SPECTRE and Sony Pictures leaks

The GoldenEye Dossier staff publically promises not to share, leak or discuss sensitive material regarding the plot of the new James Bond film, SPECTRE, that was regretfully leaked publically after a hack attack to the Sony Pictures computer system.

We would also like to express our sympathy towards Sony Pictures, Metro Goldwyn Mayer, EON Productions and Danjaq for suffering this criminal attack and particuarly to the people who work hard to bring us a new James Bond film for our enjoyment.

Bond 24 will be titled... SPECTRE

PRESS RELEASE: LONDON, UK, December 4, 2014 – 007 Soundstage, Pinewood Studios, London. James Bond Producers, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli today released the title of the 24th James Bond adventure, SPECTRE. The film, from Albert R. Broccoli’s EON Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, and Sony Pictures Entertainment, is directed by Sam Mendes and stars Daniel Craig, who returns for his fourth film as Ian Fleming’s James Bond 007. SPECTRE begins principal photography on Monday, December 8, and is set for global release on November 6, 2015.

BOND 24 ANNOUNCEMENT - LIVE FEED

Transmission begins on Thursday, December 4, at 11am GMT

Happy Easter!

Have a wonderful Easter Sunday, GOLDENEYE enthisuasts!

Bond 24 is Come and Dive! (or how to identify a FAKE James Bond Trailer)

Bond 24 will be released in October 2015. Director Sam Mendes will be back, just like Daniel Craig, Naomie Harris, Ben Whishaw, Rory Kinnear and Ralph Fiennes, who pointed out the shooting may begin in November. But the film has already a trailer, a theme song and a title: the somewhat hilarious COME AND DIVE. We rush to say it was a complete fake.

FLEMING - To Be or Not To Be Bond

And here it comes another Ian Fleming biopic released, perhaps this time to tie in with the 50th anniversary of the passing of the author, as a TV miniseries by BBC America. The 007 creator is played by Dominic Cooper, who you surely remember from MAMMA MIA! opposite Meryl Streep and, of course, our beloved Bond Pierce Brosnan, who became the fourth actor to play Ian Lancaster Fleming after Charles Dance, Jason Connery and Ben Daniels, not forgetting James D'Arcy, Skip Goere, Tobias Menzies and Jeremy Crutchley in other productions where Fleming appeared but weren't actually based on his life.

Merry Christmas Bond Fans!

Have a wonderful Christmas 007 enthusiasts. We sincerely hope you get plenty of surprises underneath your Christmas tree (not as good as the one on the image above, I guess)

MONEYPENNY FULL THROTTLE IN BOND 24?

According to Baz Bamigboye from the Daily Mail, producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, as well as director Sam Mendes, are eyeing a bigger part in action sequences for Naomie Harris as Eve Moneypenny in BOND 24. 

"The idea formulating in Bond-land is for Naomie to be much more of a sidekick to James, and for her to get out and harm the bad guys", told one of the insiders to Bamigboye, who leaked the truth about the iconic character behind Harris' character in SKYFALL around March 2012

NEW GOLDENEYE CONCEPT ART REVEALED

Bond artwork expert Thomas Nixdorf from Germany has provided us with a GOLDENEYE concept artwork poster which can't be found nowhere but in his collection...

The artwork features the classic photoshoot by Keith Hamsere of Pierce Brosnan, Famke Janssen and Izabella Scorupco, against a black and gold background.

Click on the left image to enlarge

OFFICIAL - BOND 24: SAM MENDES DIRECTS, RELEASE DATE 2015

It's official! Sam Mendes will direct the 24th installement of the James Bond franchise, set for an October 2015 release. 

The director of SKYFALL becomes the first 007 director to helm two consecutive Bond flicks since John Glen, who directed the last three Roger Moore films and the two Timothy Dalton adventures bewteen 1981 and 1983.

FLEMING - FIRST LOOK AND TEASER TRAILER

Sky Atlantic has launched a few stills of their new production FLEMING, starring Dominic Cooper as 007's creator Ian Fleming and Lara Pulver as his love interest and then wife, Anne Rorthemere. Annabelle Wallis will also have a part in the miniseries as Muriel Wright, another of Fleming's love interests, as well as Lesley Manville (Evelyn, Ian's mother), Anna Chancellor (Lt. Monday), Samuel West (Admiral Godfrey) and Rupert Evans (Peter Fleming) who are also joining the cast.

EON PRODUCTIONS TO EXECUTIVE PRODUCE "THE SILENT STORM"

Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, heirs of the Bond production throne since 1995's GOLDENEYE, will executive-produce THE SILENT STORM, a love story starring Andrea Risenborough and Damian Lewis.

Written and to be directed by Corinna Villari-McFarlane, the story deals with an outsider girl living on a Scottish island caught between a commanding husband and a 17-year-old delinquent. The shooting is set to start this summer.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PIERCE!

The GoldenEye Dossier wishes Mr Pierce Brosnan a very happy 60th birthday!

PIERCE ON CRAIG - "He's a Bond for this age and this time"

Big spoilers ahead.

In an interview with Yahoo! News while promoting the coming film LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED, a Danish romantic comedy directed by Susanne Bier, Pierce Brosnan talked about the SKYFALL and the Daniel Craig era in the James Bond franchise he was asked to leave nine years ago.

"There's enough space, time, and water under the bridge to see what this man has done," said Brosnan in reference to his deception of being put away from the Bond franchise after producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson decided to go back to basics and rebooting the franchise with 2006's CASINO ROYALE. "I loved it, I really did."

BOND GOES "SOLO" IN HIS NEXT NOVEL! - Title confirmed for William Boyd's continuation novel

In today's London Book Fair, William Boyd has announced the title for his James Bond novel is SOLO. It's the third 007 novel after the resurgence of the literary Bond after Sebastian Faulks' DEVIL MAY CARE in 2008 and Jeffery Deaver's CARTE BLANCHE, published in 2011.

A WHISPER OF LOVE, A WHISPER OF HATE - The Fans Speak about CASINO ROYALE

CASINO ROYALE first reached my hands when I was 13. My friend, artist Pat Carbajal, gave me one of the 1964 Panamenian editions ten years ago as a birthday present. At the time I was very anxious to know how the novel was, since all I've seen (and it was released) were the 1954 and 1967 adaptations, that didn't seem to be very close to the novel, or so people claimed. It took around one month to finish it, I found it really interesting, since it wasn't even close to any of the Bond films, not even to the Pierce Brosnan era I loved and I still love. The other interesting thing I realized when I reached the last chapter is that how we're accostumed to see the cinematic Bond as a winner, when he's really a loser in a sense - he's someone that can never be happy in love. CASINO ROYALE teaches you there are a lot of sad and traumatic moments in the construction of a legend, and I was really glad to see the long-awaited official version in 2006, representing exactly what the essence of the 1953 novel was.

THE SPY STORY TO END ALL SPY STORIES – Ian Fleming’s CASINO ROYALE turns 60!

He was probably talking to his friend Ivar Bryce or to anyone of his wartime friends when he said he would write “the spy story to end all spy stories.” But the truth is that Ian Lancaster Fleming never imagined the “spy story” that would “end all spy stories” has had multiple cancelled screen adaptations, a swinging ‘60s spy spoof with A-class actors and a cancelled stage play, everything ending in with a proper adaptation by EON productions in 2006 and starring Daniel Craig as James Bond… 53 years after its original publication!

DEREK WATKINS, 007'S TRUMPETIST, DIES AT 68

A black day for the James Bond music since that fateful penultimate day of January 2011 where the master John Barry left us. Derek Watkins, trumpetist for every Bond film soundtrack from 1962's DR NO to 2012's SKYFALL, has died today after battling to a sarcoma, a rare form of cancer.