The DB5 Before 007: David Brown’s Legacy of High-Speed Ambition
Before it became the lethal extension of a cinematic super-spy, the Aston Martin DB5 was...
Category: Franchises
Calculated Chaos: The Mechanics and Practical Stunts of the Live and Let Die Boat Chase
In the history of cinematic aquatic action, the boat chase in Live and Let Die...
The Bond That Never Was: The Story of Donald Westlake’s “Lost” 007 Movie
In the vast archive of unmade cinema, most "lost" films are merely fragments—a pitch on...
The Blueprint, The Con, and Production Chaos: How Bruce Geller and His Team Built Mission: Impossible
In front of the camera, the Mission: Impossible team was a well-oiled machine: a group...
GoldenEye’s Forgotten Motorbike BASE Jump Deserves More Respect
Everyone remembers GoldenEye for its bungee jump. It is the stunt that introduced Pierce Brosnan...
Dead Reckoning’s Motorbike Jump: How 13,000 Jumps, 500 Skydives, Computer Simulation, and an Engineered Ramp Created Cinema’s “Biggest Stunt”
The motorbike BASE jump executed by Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning was...
The Encor Series I: A Modern Esprit S4 Wearing Bond’s Most Iconic Disguise
The Encor Series I is built on the chassis of a Lotus Esprit S4, but...
Tom Sims, Apocalypse Snow — and the James Bond Stunt That Transformed Snowboarding
Before 1985, few people had heard of snowboarding. Then out came A View To A...
How Goldfinger Predicted the Future of Laser Technology
The 1964 Bond scene that foresaw the laser’s role as a precision industrial and medical...
How Bond’s Lotus Esprit Submarine Inspired the Real-Life Rinspeed sQuba
When The Spy Who Loved Me hit theaters in 1977, the sight of a Lotus...