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The 'EON Productions' Mystery

Pierce2DanielPierce2Daniel
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I'm confused.

There seems to be a lack of harmony over the meaning of the Eon name. Some have said that it isn't an acronym, others have said that its short for 'Everything or Nothing'. Even the documentary of that same name said as much. However, at the end of credits of each film it is written as 'Eon'.

So what's the deal with the name? Do we have any official line on this?

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  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
    edited May 2016 Posts: 23,883
    I thought it was in fact Everything or Nothing, to reflect Cubby's philosophy of going all out. No holds barred.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
    Posts: 13,384
    As did I .
  • Mendes4LyfeMendes4Lyfe The long road ahead
    edited May 2016 Posts: 8,083
    What's the confusion here?

    It's Everything or Nothing shortened to EON. Pretty simple really.
  • moneyofpropre2moneyofpropre2 France
    Posts: 850
    You need to look at the origin of the name (who doesn't mean Everithing or...) explained by Micheal G Wilson : http://www.commander007.net/2016/01/24102/
  • AlexanderWaverlyAlexanderWaverly
    Posts: 2,115
    In the documentary Inside Dr. No (part of the DVD set), Michael G. Wilson says Eon does *not* stand for Everything or Nothing. "First I've heard of it."
  • Mendes4LyfeMendes4Lyfe The long road ahead
    Posts: 8,083
    AlexanderWaverly wrote: »
    In the documentary Inside Dr. No (part of the DVD set), Michael G. Wilson says Eon does *not* stand for Everything or Nothing. "First I've heard of it."

    Dana Broccoli says different.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Yes, apparently that's not what it stands for, but as you say it's very muddled! Naming the documentary that didn't help their case much either.
  • AlexanderWaverlyAlexanderWaverly
    Posts: 2,115
    Mendes4Lyfe wrote: »
    AlexanderWaverly wrote: »
    In the documentary Inside Dr. No (part of the DVD set), Michael G. Wilson says Eon does *not* stand for Everything or Nothing. "First I've heard of it."

    Dana Broccoli says different.

    Which means two of the people who should know disagree.
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
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    It's not just the title of the documentary. Barbara Broccoli refers to EoN as "Everything or Nothing" At the start of it.
  • Mendes4LyfeMendes4Lyfe The long road ahead
    Posts: 8,083
    Obviously Michael either hasn't been told, or simply forgot.
  • AlexanderWaverlyAlexanderWaverly
    Posts: 2,115
    jake24 wrote: »
    It's not just the title of the documentary. Barbara Broccoli refers to EoN as "Everything or Nothing" At the start of it.

    That's fine. So why did her half-brother say it didn't mean that? Again, the principals involved can't get their stories straight. Which one do you believe?

  • AlexanderWaverlyAlexanderWaverly
    Posts: 2,115
    Mendes4Lyfe wrote: »
    Obviously Michael either hasn't been told, or simply forgot.

    Or the company decided to change its story between the late 1990s and 2012, when the Everything Or Nothing documentary came out.
  • RC7RC7
    Posts: 10,512
    As far as I'm aware neither Cubby nor Harry stated it stood for, Everything or nothing, in fact both actively denied it.
  • JawsIsAliveJawsIsAlive
    Posts: 233
    I have to say that I really doubt it was named as an acronym for Everything or Nothing. Seems a bit corny and millennial for a 1960s production company.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    Can t it just stand for Eon? You need a name, that s all there is to it.
  • AlexanderWaverlyAlexanderWaverly
    edited May 2016 Posts: 2,115
    One of the first instances of someone stating that Eon stood for "Everything Or Nothing" was Steven Jay Rubin in the 1983 update of his book, The James Bond films.

    Introduction, next-to-last paragraph:

    "I've also discovered that Eon Productions stands for Everything Or Nothing, an appropriate tag."

    It's also known that Eon didn't like the book. It refused to supply stills (the book uses wire service photos and other sources). So perhaps Michael G. Wilson was still parroting the company line at the time Inside Dr. No was made more than a decade later. In other words, if Steven Jay Rubin was saying it, it must not be correct.

    So either it always meant Everything Or Nothing, or the Eon principals grabbed onto the idea later. By the time the Everything Or Nothing documentary came out, almost nobody remembered Rubin's 1983 introduction.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited May 2016 Posts: 17,801
    I think that I read somewhere that Eon Productions was merely a reference to an "aeon"*, meaning a very long time; forever, an eternity. In effect, it was the original producers Broccoli and Saltzman saying through their production company name that they hoped to be making Bond films for a very long time. It's probably as simple as that!

    * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeon
  • tanaka123tanaka123
    Posts: 4,325
    Dragonpol wrote: »
    I think that I read somewhere that Eon Productions was merely a reference to an "aeon"*, meaning a very long time; forever, an eternity. In effect, it was the original producers Broccoli and Saltzman saying through their production company name that they hoped to be making Bond films for a very long time. It's probably as simple as that!

    * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeon

    Eon is also the American way of spelling 'Aeon'
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    Posts: 17,801
    tanaka123 wrote: »
    Dragonpol wrote: »
    I think that I read somewhere that Eon Productions was merely a reference to an "aeon"*, meaning a very long time; forever, an eternity. In effect, it was the original producers Broccoli and Saltzman saying through their production company name that they hoped to be making Bond films for a very long time. It's probably as simple as that!

    * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeon

    Eon is also the American way of spelling 'Aeon'

    Ah, thank you! Case closed?
  • LudovicoLudovico
    Posts: 14,822
    Never let truth stand in the way of a good story.
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
    Posts: 10,588
    It could simply just be a double meaning.
  • moneyofpropre2moneyofpropre2 France
    edited June 2016 Posts: 850
    Why your still make suposition then there are the answer in the top of the topic ?!

    Extract from the archives official site of DAD :
    Moneyofpropre wrote: »
    Jacques voulait connaître l’origine du nom «Eon Productions », qu’il sait n’avoir aucun lien avec l’expression « Everything Or Nothing » (« Tout ou Rien ») comme on a déjà pu le suggérer. Ce nom viendrait- il alors de Charles de Beaumont, Chevalier d’Eon et espion français du 18ème siècle ?

    Raté ! Mettons les choses au clair : Michael [G. Wilson] me confirme qu’il n’y faut voir rien de plus que ce qu’en dit le dictionnaire lui-même.

    Aeon (US) eon, n 1. temps infini, période incommensurable. 2. éternité.

    http://www.commander007.net/2016/01/24102/

    (and before someneone asking : no, I will no translate, you are tall, you have Google Translate at your computer)
  • RC7RC7
    Posts: 10,512
    moneyofpropre2 wrote: »
    Why your still make suposition then they are the answer in the top of the topic ?!

    Extract from the archives official site of DAD :
    jake24 wrote: »
    Jacques voulait connaître l’origine du nom «Eon Productions », qu’il sait n’avoir aucun lien avec l’expression « Everything Or Nothing » (« Tout ou Rien ») comme on a déjà pu le suggérer. Ce nom viendrait- il alors de Charles de Beaumont, Chevalier d’Eon et espion français du 18ème siècle ?

    Raté ! Mettons les choses au clair : Michael [G. Wilson] me confirme qu’il n’y faut voir rien de plus que ce qu’en dit le dictionnaire lui-même.

    Aeon (US) eon, n 1. temps infini, période incommensurable. 2. éternité.

    http://www.commander007.net/2016/01/24102/

    (and before someneone asking : no, I will no translate, you are tall, you have Google Translate at your computer)

    Ha ha. How incredibly French of you.
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