Making James Bond a Woman Was Pitched Before 1962’s ‘Dr. No’ Got Made; Ian Fleming Met Sean Connery and Said: ‘I Want an Elegant Man, Not This Roughneck’ ...

Household names, rising stars, and complete unknowns were all mentioned behind closed doors until Connery landed the gig, ...

When James Bond returns to movie screens sometime in the next few years, the script will be written by Peaky Blinders creator ...

Maybe we can put it like this: Ian Fleming wrote the poetry, and James Bond—that bastard, that black daffodil—burned it.

Lashana Lynch became the first woman to own the 007 title in the 2021 James Bond tentpole “No Time to Die,” but it turns out a plan to make James Bond a woman was actually pitched over 60 ...

Fleming died in 1964, but Bond has outlived him as a movie character, a global brand, and an icon. You know his lines: “Shaken, not stirred”; “Bond. James Bond.” ...

Despite the runaway success of “Casino Royale,” the James Bond movie franchise was slow to gestate. By the early 1960s, Fleming’s 70-cigarettes-a-day habit had caught up with him.

In their heyday, the Beatles and Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels marked the United Kingdom’s greatest exports. In 1964 alone, the Fab Four sold 25 million records in the United States.

James Bond fans were left wondering if a star should have 'quit earlier' for a perfect end to their run as the Ian Fleming ...

Ian Fleming’s James Bond book series, UK, 13th August 1964. (Photo by Bob Haswell/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Still, novels are not soft drinks or laundry detergents or even movies.

Ian Fleming, who died in 1964, had said in past interviews that the monicker was stolen from an American bird expert. The James Bond film series is made up of 25 movies, including 1964’s ...