On October 6, James Bond fans will be able to discover the latest installment of the saga, the ultimate for actor Daniel Craig, after several postponements due to the pandemic. How did Mr. Bond become cult over time?
In To die can wait, which comes out on October 6, Daniel Craig takes on the costume of James Bond for the fifth and final time. At the end of the shoot, the Englishman said goodbye to his iconic role. “It was one of the greatest honors of my life“, he declared. In almost sixty years, James Bond has changed face six times. The saga has revolutionized the spy film and seduced all generations.
James Bond was born in 1953 on the typewriter of Ian Flemming. The movie hero played by Sean Connery from 1962 is more modern than in the novels. In a suit as in a bathrobe, Agent 007 has class. He’s an enduring hero with 25 films, up from nine for Star wars. The James Bond saga is the most lucrative in the history of cinema with $ 15 billion in revenue since the 1960s.
“You can watch it as a family“, smiles a fan.”I think everyone has seen the movies“, continues another. James Bond has also known how to evolve with the times, as with women. The roles are sometimes reversed.” Dying can wait is the first of the MeToo era, one of the writers came to expand the team to strengthen the weight of the female characters“, indicates Guillaume Evin, author of the book Once upon a time James Bond.