Bond At 60: A Barbara Broccoli/Michael G. Wilson Interview Special

The Empire Film Podcast

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Tv & Film, Film Reviews

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🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Happy birthday, Mr. Bond. Yes, this October sees 007 turn 0060 with the 60th anniversary of Dr No, the film that brought Ian Fleming's James Bond to the big screen for the first time. The celebrations begin this weekend with a series of Bond At 60 events at the BFI Southbank and BFI Imax, then a The Sound Of Bond concert at the Royal Albert Hall on Tuesday October 4, headlined by Dame Shirley Bassey, and the debut of Mat Whitecross' documentary, The Sound Of Bond, on Prime Video on October 5. Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson are the producers who have overseen not one, but two, key reboots of the character, through the Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig eras, firmly keeping alive the traditions established by their father, Albert R. 'Cubby' Broccoli. They've been around since the franchise began — Michael cameoed briefly in Goldfinger in 1964, while a very young Barbara toured the world with her father as the movies became a cultural phenomenon in the Sixties — and in this special interview with Empire's Chris Hewitt, the two talk about their relationship with Bond, the movies and actors, through the decades, culminating in the major decision they made with the most recent movie, No Time To Die. Enjoy.

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0:00.0	Hello, Vod, I'm Chris Hewitt and welcome to this very special edition of the Empire Podcast.
0:20.5	James Bond is 60 and yet he doesn't look at day over 007.
0:27.3	Good joke there. Strong start to the podcast.
0:30.3	Nobody's true folks. James Bond turned 60 at least as far as the big screen is concerned this year.
0:37.6	Doctor No, the first film to introduce Inflaming Super Spy as played by Sean Connery of course
0:43.5	back then was released in UK cinemas in October 1962.
0:49.0	Since then of course he's become the star of one of cinema's greatest franchises with six
0:54.2	men Sean Connery George Lesbys Roger Moore Timothy Dalton Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig
1:01.2	playing 007 across 25 films and though I'm not going to list those culminating in last
1:06.9	years no time to die which saw Daniel Craig and his five film runs Bond in spectacular
1:13.5	and shall we say mold breaking fashion.
1:17.5	The celebrations as you might expect are going to be suitably lavish and befitting of
1:21.5	Bond where to start. Well this weekend at the BFI Southbank and the BFI IMAX there
1:27.4	is a special James Bond at 60 event that has all kinds of incredible bond screenings and
1:33.7	panels including a triple bill of Craig movies on the IMAX screen a 60th anniversary screening
1:40.5	of Doctor No a 45th anniversary screening of the Spy who loved me a 35th anniversary which
1:48.7	makes me feel really old screening of the living day lights there's going to be a preview
1:54.1	of Matt White Cross's new documentary The Sound of 007 which explores the music of the
2:00.2	movies and there's going to be much much more besides and next Tuesday at the Royal
2:06.5	Albert Hall at October 4th there is an incredible evening called The Sound of 007 in concert
2:13.6	curated by David Arnold and featured in the likes of garbage of course did the theme
2:17.8	for the world is not enough Celeste the Royal Phenharmonic concert orchestra and headlined
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