In Ian Fleming’s 1963 novel, the bobsleigh chase that closes On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is over almost as soon as it begins. As Piz…
StageCraft transformed television production when it arrived with The Mandalorian in 2019. Within four years it had become the most criticised tool in Hollywood. This…
ILM’s StageCraft is the realisation of a vision George Lucas had been articulating for years — a stage of the future in which the walls…
Parked among Caribbean palms a few yards from the sea, a repainted double-decker London Transport bus — out of place on the tropical coastline of…
On 5 October 1986, in Vienna, Timothy Dalton was introduced to the world as James Bond. He stood alongside Maryam d’Abo — his Bond girl,…
“Beautiful on the outside, vicious on the inside — that was already becoming part of the formula.” — Ken Adam, production designer, Goldfinger It was…
When the Burton Batmobile reappeared in 2023’s The Flash, it didn’t race through Gotham or fire its afterburners. It just sat in the Bat Cave…
John Richardson hangs beneath a helicopter over Iguaçu Falls when he hears the stitching in his harness begin to go. Ping. Ping. Ping. Ping. Below…
A Venetian Gondola that transforms into a speed boat then a hovercraft — nicknamed ‘the Bondola’ — earned its title as Bond’s most ridiculed gadget…
Sean Bean almost became James Bond. Or at least, that’s the story that has followed the actor for decades after GoldenEye reinvented 007 for the…