Stealth Boat Blunder: Why Elliot Carver’s Master Plan in Tomorrow Never Dies Sinks Faster Than the HMS Devonshire
Ah, James Bond films—the pinnacle of espionage entertainment, filled with ingenious gadgets, and villains who...
Category: Writing
‘Jaws’: The Monster Movie With Moby Dick Connections Turns 50
It's 1974, and producers Richard Zanuck and David Brown share a few drinks with author...
“Goldprick”: The Feud That Created An Iconic Bond Villain
The James Bond novels—and the films they inspired—are not exactly known for their realism, but...
The Lost Jaws Prequel—Steven Spielberg’s Jaws 2 Described as “Saving Private Ryan, With Sharks”
Jaws 2 is the best of the sequels to the Steven Spielberg classic, but it...
How A Russian Thief Bought the Rights to ‘Casino Royale’ and Turned James Bond into a Woman
In 1955, flamboyant Russian actor and director Gregory Ratoff was in Cairo, Egypt, acting and...
The name’s Secretan, James Secretan. James Bond’s Original Name Just Might Have Been the Death of Him
It’s arguably the greatest introduction by a movie character. “The name’s Bond. James Bond” was...
From Russia With Love’s Helicopter Attack Vs. North By Northwest’s Crop-Duster Sequence: Why The Bond Sequence Isn’t a Rip-Off of Hitchcock’s Famous Set Piece
The helicopter attack in From Russia With Love is often unfairly dismissed as a rip-off...
Alfred Hitchcock Subverted 1 Common Thriller Cliche In The Crop-Duster Sequence in North By Northwest
The man gunned down by thugs in a car while standing on the street corner...
James Bond Joins Villain to Solve Overpopulation In Rejected Script Pitch for ‘Tomorrow Never Dies’
James Bond has saved the world no less than 25 times. And in every film,...
Skyfall Originally Partnered Up James Bond and Villain Raoul Silva to Fight a Bigger Threat
Daniel Craig's third Bond film went through various story changes and rewrites before settling on Skyfall. One...