The Most Successful Motion Picture Franchise In History- James Bond

The top running and most monetarily lucrative English language big screen franchise to date is the James Bond films. James Bond 007 is a extraordinarily famed but imaginary person that was developed in 1953 by the author Ian Fleming. He was featured in twelve novels and two short story collections. The movie franchise began in 1962 with Dr. No.

The author, Ian Fleming, died in 1964 but the character James Bond lived on. Successive James Bond novels were written by up to five other writers, such as Kingsley Amis, under the pen name Robert Markham, John Pearson, Raymond Benson, John Gardner and Sebastian Faulks. Two screenplays were novelized by Christopher Woods and innumerable other authors’ also contributed and wrote unsanctioned versions of James Bond.

There have been 22 pictures to date and a 23rd is promised now in the James Bond franchise. The first film was from the time 1962, “Dr. No” and on October 31, 2008 the most up-to-date came out, which was “Quantum of Solace”.

Sean Connery is contemplated to be the real McCoy James Bond. He played the character in 6 movies beginning with “Dr. No” in 1962, followed by “From Russia with Love” in 1963, “Goldfinger:” in 1964, “Thunderball” in 1965, “You Only Live Twice” from 1967 and “Diamonds Are Forever” from 1971.

In 1969 “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” came out with an player named George Lazenby in the central part. Of all the stars to portray Bond, Mr. Lazenby was the only one who only acted in one movie. In 1971, Sean Connery returned for “Diamonds Are Forever”.

The next performer to depict Bond acted in 7 films. Roger Moore was James Bond in 1973 for “Live and Let Die”, 1974 for “The Man with the Golden Gun”, in 1977 “The Spy who Loved Me”, from 1979 “Moonraker”, “For Your Eyes Only” in 1981, “Octopussy” in 1983 and the very last film to star Roger Moore as Bond was “A View to a Kill” in 1985.

Timothy Dalton was next for “The Living Daylights” in 1987 and “License to Kill” in 1989. After just two films with Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan took over the principal part in “Goldeneye” in 1995. We enjoyed 3 further films with Pierce Brosnan, “Tomorrow Never Dies” in 1997, “The World Is Not Enough” in 1999 and “Die Another Day” in 2002.

The only fair-haired artist to ever represent Bond is the current star of the franchise. Daniel Craig was Bond in 2006 for “Casino Royale” and 2008 for “Quantum of Solace”. Another Bond movie is now occurring, set for an unspecified occasion and only referred to now as “James Bond 23″. Daniel Craig is set to star in the lead part.