Eps 6: James Bond Just Got a Third GoldenEye
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Despite licensing 1989s sagging box office, Eon Productions and the studio that had been responsible for British super-spy James Bond, MGM, began planning for the 17th installment of the series, in 1990, which would have been the third starring Timothy Dalton as 007. Its first Bond effort, 1995s GoldenEye, came after a six-year hiatus, and introduced Pierce Brosnan as a softer-spoken 007 following Timothy Daltons humorless one. While the James Bond films were a mess by then, with entirely new writers set to ushered in the new Bond in Goldeneye, Bond 17 had a few ideas that were worthy of recycling for the series.
On 17 November 1995, the widely released GoldenEye, the 17th film to feature writer Ian Flemings fictional British agent, was the first Bond movie to take place within six years--the longest gap to date between Bond films--since 1989s License to Kill. The 1995 James Bond film was the basis for GoldenEye 007, a Nintendo 64 video game developed by Rare and published by Nintendo. The 1995 James Bond film is a 1995 crime thriller, the seventeenth installment in the James Bond film series produced by Eon Productions, and the first film starring Pierce Brosnan as fictional MI6 agent James Bond.
The book follows closely the plot of the 1995 James Bond film, but novelist John Gardner added a violent sequence before an opening stunt jump, where Bond kills a group of Russian security guards, a change which was retained and expanded on in the video game GoldenEye 007. GoldenEye was the first film to reveal British superspy James Bond was orphaned, with Timothy Dalton playing 007 and Russian computer programmer Natalia Simonova grilling Bond on what makes him tick. Based on the 1995 movie, the single-player GoldenEye 007 story follows James Bond as he attempts to stop criminals using the titular moonshot weapons on London -- thus, the films premise.
GoldenEye 007, the Nintendo 64 first-person shooter, remains probably the most-beloved Bond game; but there are plenty of third-person games in the franchise, too, though not nearly as famous. GoldenEye 007 is one of the gold standards of film tie-ins: coming so late in the day, that the film was already released during much of the games production, and so allowing its developers to bend the narrative however they wanted. GoldenEye was highly influential on console FPS games, with numerous James Bond titles following trying to emulate GoldenEye, although in reality, there was a Game Boy game called James Bond 007, which followed GoldenEye.
A remake of the original, called GoldenEye 007 on the Wii, and called GoldenEye Reloaded on the PS3 and Xbox 360, was released in 2010-2011 -- interestingly, the originals remake features Daniel Craig in the lead, and the story was changed thematically as well, in order to fit in with more recent Bond films. The 1995 movie GoldenEye was supposed to feature a new James Bond actor, Pierce Brosnan, who - like all actors playing the role - had bigger shoes to fill, and bigger martinis to drink. The 1995 GoldenEye movie, and also the Nintendo 64 game, featured actor Pierce Brosnan portraying Bond, who would portray the character from 1995 until 2002.
Later on in the Goldeneye 1995 film and Nintendo 64 game, Bond is surprised to see Trevelyan alive, since it was believed that he was killed while on assignment at a chemical weapons facility. After ten years, after the Siberia Bunker Attack and theft of a satellite weapons control unit known as the Goldeneye, 007 discovers that he is indeed alive. In the 1995 film Goldeneye, Bond has to stop Janus, who is his former friend and partner, Agent 006, from firing a satellite called GoldenEye, leaving London, and potentially the world, in complete disarray. The second Bond movie would see the retired 007 forced back into action -- to halt the plotting of the villain known as Satin, who is threatening millions of lives.
The seventh and final movie starring Roger Moore British actor Roger Moores film pits 007 against Christopher Walkens Max Zorin, an industrialist trying to corner the microchip market by wiping out Silicon Valley. 007 is played once more by Daniel Craig, but will this time receive assistance from a woman named Nomi, along with his old friend Miss Moneypenny, a group known as Quantum, and M. The trailers for the second Bond movie also teased the return of German-Austrian actor Christoph Waltz. No Time To Die, the 25th Bond movie, and the fifth and final time we will see Daniel Craig play the role of Daniel Craigs 007, has been delayed to release on October 8, 2021. The year 2022 marks 60 years since the start of the James Bond film series, leading to expectations GoldenEye 007 might be a final franchise re-release to celebrate.