Welcome Us Back, Mr. Bond: Producers Announce That 'SPECTRE' Will Be The Name Of The Upcoming James Bond Film.

MI6, the James Bond web site, not the British intelligence service, offers a look at the Bond film producers' press release regarding the upcoming James Bond film. The title of the film will be called SPECTRE.

SPECTRE, the Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion, is the international criminal organization created by Ian Fleming in his James Bond novel Thunderball. The organization was run by the mad, evil genius Ernst Stravo Blofeld, who appeared in the next two Fleming thrillers, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and You Only Live Twice. SPECTRE was the principal villain in the early Bond films.   

PRESS RELEASE: 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.

Along with Daniel Craig, Mendes presented the returning cast, Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Ben Whishaw and Rory Kinnear as well as introducing Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux, Dave Bautista, Monica Bellucci and Andrew Scott. Mendes also revealed Bond's sleek new Aston Martin, the DB10, created exclusively for SPECTRE.

A cryptic message from Bond's past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organisation. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.

You can read the rest of the press release via the below link:

http://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/bond-24-spectre-title-announcement

You can also read Ryan Smith's piece in the Daily Mail and watch videos of the Bond film announcement via the below link:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2860541/Daniel-Craig-set-joined-star-studded-cast-anticipated-James-Bond-movie-Spectre-sleek-new-Aston-Martin-unveiled.html

And you can read my Crime Beat column on the Ian Fleming and the James Bond phenomenon via the below link:

http://www.pauldavisoncrime.com/2010/06/casino-royale-revisited-film-that.html

Lucy Fleming: If I Reveal The James Bond Skyfall Plot I Might Be Shot

Nick Curtis at the British newspaper the Evening Standard interviews Lucy Fleming, the niece of James Bond creator Ian Fleming.

Lucy Fleming hasn’t seen the new James Bond film, Skyfall, which has been shrouded in as much secrecy as a royal wedding dress. But she has read the script. She had to, as Ian Fleming’s niece and one of the controllers of his literary estate. “We look at the things about Bond that might be inaccurate, but the film-makers generally know as much as we do,” says the elegant 65-year-old actress. “If there’s a glaring thing, such as that Bond loves tea, we point it out — Bond hates tea.”

So there’s no tea-drinking in Skyfall, I say? Obviously I’m fishing for details, especially after she tells me the producers wanted to clarify something in Bond’s past. Possibly, we will learn something about Bond’s family. Very probably, Bond will learn something awful about his spymaster, M. Almost certainly, Sam Mendes’s movie, released on the 50th anniversary of the first film, Dr No, will complete the revisionist arc that began with Casino Royale in 2006, taking Bond back to his literary roots, not just as a ruthless assassin but as an emotional man capable of love, loss and feelings of betrayal. Won’t it?

“I think you’re right, but I’d rather not comment. I might be shot,” Fleming says pertly.

You can read the rest of the interview via the below link:

 

http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/lucy-fleming-if-i-reveal-the-james-bond-skyfall-plot-i-might-be-shot-8195413.html