The Untold Story of The Persuaders!: Cars, Glamour, Conflict and James Bond
Robert S. Baker had wanted to make a buddy picture for years. While producing The Saint, he tested the idea in “The Ex-King of Diamonds,”…
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Stella Rimington: MI5’s First Female Spy Chief Inspired Judi Dench’s M
Judi Dench played James Bond’s boss, M, in eight Bond films from GoldenEye (1995) to SPECTRE (2015). Casting a woman as Bond’s boss was a…
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The Truth About Pierce Brosnan’s Hiring and Firing as James Bond
In 1994, five people sat down at MGM/UA to settle who would play James Bond next. Two wanted Timothy Dalton back. Two wanted somebody else….
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“Let’s Go Fishing”: The Mid-Air Plane Heist That Launched Licence to Kill — and the Star Who Wouldn’t Stay on the Ground
In Licence to Kill, James Bond’s best friend and DEA agent Felix Leiter is about to get married. But on the way to the church,…
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The Living Daylights Cargo Net Fight: How Bond’s Wildest Aerial Stunt Was Filmed
At 6,500 feet above the Mojave Desert, clinging to a cargo net at 100 knots, BJ Worth gave a signal. The signal was simple. But…
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James Bond’s Bobsled Chase: How an Abandoned, Repurposed Bob Run & Stunt Accidents Rewrote OHMSS’s Finale
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…
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When The Volume Stopped Working: How Star Wars Learned the Limits of StageCraft
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…
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StageCraft: How ILM Built the Virtual Stage That Changed Production, Its Limits, and the Stages That Followed
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…
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Live and Let Die Bus Chase: A Bond Girl Turned Accidental Stuntwoman & How to Rig a Top Deck to Slide Off a Double-Decker Bus
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…
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Creating “Baby Yoda”: As the Opposite of Yoda, Grogu Shouldn’t Work. Instead He’s the Face of The Mandalorian — In More Ways Than One
When The Mandalorian premiered in 2019, it ended on an image that broke the internet: a wide-eyed green infant blinking up out of a floating…
