Michael G Wilson

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Daniel Craig, Naomie Harris and Lashana Lynch at the Bond 25 film launch in Jamaica. Photograph: Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures
James Bond: Is a black female actor really the ‘new 007’?

Anybody who doubts the continuing appeal of James Bond need only look to the furore generated by even the flimsiest snippet of gossip. The Daily Mail (...)

Daniel Craig will take the Aston Martin round the block one more time
James Bond: How a potentially radical film became a far safer movie

These pages have, in recent months, been much taken up with discussion of the candidates – some admirable, some outright cranks – vying for a ceremoni(...)

Daniel Craig in Spectre, the sixth James Bond film with writing credits for Neal Purvis and Robert Wade. Photograph: United Artists
Veteran 007 writers Purvis and Wade rehired to salvage Bond 25
  • Film
  • September 17, 2018, 09:13

As producers try to get the next James Bond film back on track, after the abrupt departure of Danny Boyle as its director, reports have emerged that t(...)

British filmmaker Lewis Gilbert, who has died aged 97. Photograph: William Conran/PA Wire
British film director Lewis Gilbert dies aged 97
  • UK
  • February 27, 2018, 19:53

Tributes were paid last night to British filmmaker Lewis Gilbert, who has died aged 97. The director, best known for making three James Bond films, i(...)

Christopher Nolan’s company Syncopy briefly appeared as a co-producer on Bond 25. Photograph: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP
Is Christopher Nolan directing the next Bond film?

Ah, the search for the new James Bond. Like the source of the Nile or the first cuckoo of spring, that subject has offered pundits endless material fo(...)

The 24th James Bond film ‘Spectre’ will feature Monica Bellucci and Daniel Craig, pictured here on location in Italy. Photograph: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty
New James Bond trailer unveiled in fittingly covert style

The teaser trailer for Spectre, the 24th James Bond film, was unveiled on Friday evening to a select set of journalists in Mexico City. The Iri(...)