In Casino Royale, David Corenswet says Bond gets his second kill in the bathroom, not in the office
“My hot take is, everyone thinks the second kill is when Bond kills the main bad guy in the office later and he’s like, ‘Yes, considerably.’
“But what actually happened is, experientially, Bond already had his second kill because he drowned the guy and then had to shoot him.”
“So, in his experience, he had to go through drowning the guy, thought he was dead, thought that he had had his first kill, and then the guy woke up and he just shot him. So, that’s actually the second kill in his mind that was super easy.”
“It’s a human experience thing. The point is not the second person you kill, it’s the second experience of killing.”
This week has been one of the most emotional moments in IOI’s history.
Across all five of our studios, we’ve shared excitement, relief, gratitude, and many unforgettable moments together. From launch countdowns to tears of joy when players around the world finally stepped into 007 First Light, this week has meant more to us than words can fully express after years of pouring our hearts into this game.
To everyone who has played the game, shared your reactions, supported us, or simply been part of this journey, thank you. The reception this week has been deeply moving for every developer who helped bring this game to life.
As the weekend begins, our team is finally taking a moment to breathe, reflect, and enjoy something we’ve been waiting years for: sitting down at home with family and friends to simply play the game together.
The following weeks we’ll be pulling back the curtain, sharing how magical this week has been for us, with moments from inside our studios and the people behind 007 First Light.
Stay tuned!
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1.5 million copies sold!
Thank you for showing up to the launch of 007 First Light, for your overwhelming enthusiasm and for sharing your experience with the game.
Play our re-imagined James Bond origin story today and #EarnTheNumber. Available now.
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Léa Seydoux says she sent a note to Denis Villeneuve after hearing he was set to direct the next #JamesBond film:
“I was a bit sad when I heard that it was sold [to Amazon MGM], but now that it’s Denis, I was like, ‘Oh, at least it’s him, so it will be cinema.’”
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EXCLUSIVE: Tom Francis has auditioned to play James Bond for Amazon MGM.
• The 26-year-old British actor is best known for appearing opposite Nicole Scherzinger in the stage production of “Sunset Boulevard”
• Francis is one of many performers jockeying for the part in a casting process that is ongoing and being overseen by Nina Gold (“Game of Thrones”)
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We asked over 1,000 fans to vote for the best James Bond film – and Daniel Craig's 2012 entry came out on top. 🍸
Check out the full ranking and read writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade's thoughts on why the film has become such a firm favourite: https://t.co/rShU83qNQ2
Casting director Nina Gold says the next James Bond actor she’s looking for must "ooze sex appeal."
He should also "be young enough to play him in three or four, or more pictures."
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Casting director Nina Gold says the next James Bond actor must “ooze sex appeal.”
She is also looking for someone “young enough to play him in 3, 4 or more pictures.”
(Source: Deadline)
@AmazonMGMStudio officially announce that the casting process for the next James Bond @007 actor has begun with the experienced British casting director Nina Gold as head of the process. Gold will work with director Denis Villeneuve and producers Amy Pascal & David Heyman over..
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios has officially started auditioning actors for the next #JamesBond.
• Veteran casting director Nina Gold (#GameOfThrones) has been tasked with finding the next 007
• “The search for the next James Bond is underway,” Amazon MGM Studios said in a statement. “While we don’t plan to comment on specific details during the casting process, we’re excited to share more news with 007 fans as soon as the time is right.”
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Statement from Amazon MGM Studios:
“The search for the next James Bond is underway. While we don’t plan to comment on specific details during the casting process, we’re excited to share more news with 007 fans as soon as the time is right.”
On this day 20 years ago, the first teaser trailer for CASINO ROYALE was released.
This was the world’s first look at Daniel Craig as the sixth actor to play James Bond.
Bond is an orphan. Skyfall is the story of him losing his second mother. And Sam Mendes shot Dench's death scene on her actual last day after 17 years as M. So part of the grief on screen is real.
His parents died when he was a small boy. He hid for two days in a secret passage at his childhood home. That home is called Skyfall. M says it out loud at one point in the film: "orphans always make the best recruits."
So when Mendes set out to give Dench her goodbye, he picked Skyfall as the title. And the location. The same house where Bond lost his first mother is where he loses his second one. He's a grown man, and he's going home to bury a parent again.
The villain, Silva, calls M "Mommy" and "Mother" through the whole movie. He's the son she rejected. Bond is the son she chose. Her dying words to Bond, in his arms in the chapel on his family estate, are "Well, I did get one thing right." She means him.
The poem M reads earlier in the film, in front of a bunch of British politicians who are about to fire her, is an old British poem called Ulysses. The poet wrote it after losing his closest friend. The lines she picks are about old soldiers who aren't as strong as they used to be, but won't quit. "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." She's reading her own eulogy out loud while Silva is shooting his way into the room. Mendes cuts back and forth between the two.
Daniel Craig once said Dench could speak a hundred words and make them sound wonderful, but a single look from her could break your heart.
That same year, 2012, Dench was diagnosed with an eye disease that's been slowly taking her sight. She's 91 now. She can't recognize faces anymore. She's stopped acting.
Watch the chapel scene again knowing all that. Bond cries. He kisses her forehead. The boy who hid in that secret passage at Skyfall is back in the same house, holding the woman who became the closest thing he had to a mother.
She leaves him a small bulldog statue from her desk. And for the first time in the entire franchise, the audience learns her real name. Olivia.