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• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  November 14 Posts: 14,875

  November 14th
  
  1966: Bond comic strip Octopussy begins its run in The Daily Express.
  (Ends 27 May 1967. 264-428) Yaroslav Horak,artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/op.php3
  
  
  http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=996
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Barcelona James Bond numero 04: Octopussy
  https://en.todocoleccion.net/comics/james-bond-numero-04-octopussy~x116600976
  
  
  
  JAMES BOND DI IAN FLEMING. OCTOPUSSY. N. 112. ED. C. CONTI, 1977. ITALIANO
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1986.php3

  Undervattensdöden (Octopussy - Part 1) -
  Undervattensdöden (Octopussy - Part 2)
  

  
  Danish 1969 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no16-1969/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 16: “Octopussy” (1969)
  ”Undervandsdøden” [The Underwater Death]
  

  
  Danish 1977 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no42-1977/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 42: “Octopussy” (1977)
  "Undervandsdøden" [The death underwater]
  
  
  
  
  

  1968: On Her Majesty's Secret Service's films OO7 and more cowbell.
  
  1972: Live and Let Die begins filming on location in Jamaica.
  1979: Olga Kurylenko is born--Berdyansk, Zaporozhye Oblast, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union.
  (Today known as Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine.)
  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 44 of 65 - "A DeRange Mind" in New York.

  

  

  James Bond Jr - A DeRange Mind

  Season 1 - Episode 44
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807090/?ref_=tt_ep_nx
  

  When an UFO is shot down by a military close to New York, the craft is taken for analysis to a military research laboratory.

  Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Andy Heyward ... (developer)
  Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
  Jeffrey Scott ... (writer)
  Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Oddjob (voice)
  Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
  Julian Holloway ... Dr.Derange (voice)
  Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
  Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter (voice)
  Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
  Kath Soucie ... Barbella (voice)
  Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Mari Devon ... (voice)

  James Bond Jr Episode 44 - A DeRange Mind
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1995: EMI releases Éric Serra's GoldenEye soundtrack.

  
  
  

  
  2006: Casino Royale Royal Premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square, London.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2006: Casino Royale released in Kuwait.
  2006: Sony Classical releases David Arnold's Casino Royale soundtrack.

  
  
  

  
  2008: Quantum of Solace released in Morocco (Casablanca), Kenya, Pakistan, and the US.

  

  

  2008: 007 Quantum (French title) and Quantum of Solace released in Canada.
  2008: 007 Quantum released in Mexico.
  2008: Định Mức Khuây Khỏa (Comfort Rate) released in Vietnam.

  

  
  2018: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Origin #3.
  Bob Q, artist. Jeff Parker, writer.

  

  James Bond Origin #3

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027244703011
  Cover A: John Cassaday
  Cover B: Declan Shalvey
  Cover C: Kev Walker
  Cover D: Ibrahim Moustafa
  Cover E: Bob Q
  Writer: Jeff Parker
  Art: Bob Q

  "CHAPTER THREE: ROCKET SEA"
  The epic account of James Bond's exploits during World War II continues, by superstar JEFF PARKER (Suicide Squad, Fantastic Four) and BOB Q (The Lone Ranger)!
  Aboard a Royal Navy submarine, Lieutenant James Bond and crew encounter deadly German warships and bombers! Can the British crew keep their nerve and evade...or will they sink into a watery grave?

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  1:06am Posts: 14,875

  November 15th
  
  1939: Yaphet Kotto is born--New York City, New York.
  (He dies 15 March 2021 at age 81--The Philippines.)

  

  Yaphet Kotto, Bond Villain and ‘Alien’
  Star, Dies at 81

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/arts/yaphet-kotto-dead.html

  Well known for playing hardened personalities, he was also seen in movies like “Midnight Run” and the TV show “Homicide: Life on the Street.”

  
  Yaphet Kotto with Sigourney Weaver in the 1979 film “Alien,” in which he played
  a member of a spaceship crew doing battle with an extraterrestrial creature.
  Credit...20th Century Fox, via Associated Press

  By Neil Genzlinger | March 16, 2021

  Yaphet Kotto, a versatile actor whose many roles included the wisecracking engineer in the hit science-fiction film “Alien,” the villainous adversary in the James Bond movie “Live and Let Die” and a police lieutenant on the long-running television series “Homicide: Life on the Street,” died on Monday near Manila. He was 81.

  His agent, Ryan Goldhar, confirmed the death but said he did not know the cause. Mr. Kotto had lived in the Philippines for some years.
  
  Mr. Kotto worked mostly in the theater for the first decade or so of his career. His bodily size made him a dominating figure in any sort of role, though it tended to bring him parts as a heavy.
  
  “I’m always called powerful, bulky or imposing,” he told The Baltimore Sun in 1993, when “Homicide: Life on the Street” made its debut. “Or they say I fill up a room. I’m a 200-pound, 6-foot 3-inch Black guy. And I think I have this image of a monster. It’s very difficult.”

  
  Mr. Kotto as a police lieutenant on the long-running TV series “Homicide: Life on the Street.”
  Credit...James Sorensen/NBC Universal, via Getty Images

  In 1969, still largely unknown, he had the formidable task of replacing James Earl Jones on Broadway in “The Great White Hope,” Howard Sackler’s drama based on the life of the boxer Jack Johnson. Mr. Jones had won a Tony Award for his portrayal of the lead character, who in the play is named Jack Jefferson. Mr. Kotto stepped into the role as the production entered its second year, and Clive Barnes, taking a fresh look at the show in The New York Times, was impressed.
  
  “I had never even heard of the Hollywood-based Mr. Kotto,” he wrote. “But luckily someone had, for this is inspired casting, and Mr. Kotto will never be unheard-of again.”
  
  It was two decades before he returned to the stage, and again it was as something of a shadow to Mr. Jones, who had received another Tony playing Troy Maxson in August Wilson’s “Fences” in 1987. Mr. Kotto tackled the role in 1990 at Arena Stage in Washington, again drawing raves.
  
  “Setting the tone throughout is the thunderous Mr. Kotto,” Hap Erstein wrote of that production in The Washington Times, “a caged animal pacing the backyard, a bullying brute more expressive with his hands than his words. Away from the theater for many years pursuing film and TV work, he makes a scorching return to the stage.”

  
  Mr. Kotto with Roger Moore in the 1973 James Bond film “Live and Let Die.”
  It was Mr. Moore’s first film as Bond, and one of Mr. Kotto’s best-known movie roles.
  Credit...MGM/UA Entertainment

  In between those stage appearances, two movie roles in the 1970s particularly elevated Mr. Kotto’s his profile. The first, in 1973, was in “Live and Let Die,” Roger Moore’s debut as James Bond. Mr. Kotto played his chief nemesis, a dual role in which he was both a corrupt Caribbean dictator and that character’s alter ago, a drug trafficker named Mr. Big.
  Then, in 1979, came “Alien,” Ridley Scott’s outer-space horror classic, in which Mr. Kotto’s character, Parker, was part of a spaceship crew doing battle with a nasty extraterrestrial creature.
  
  “The combination punch for my career of ‘Live and Let Die’ and ‘Alien’ was like wham, bam!” he told The Canadian Press in 2003, adding that those wildly different roles showcased his versatility. “I think the only other person who has a combination like that is Harrison Ford.”

  
  Yaphet Frederick Kotto was born on Nov. 15, 1939, in Harlem and grew up in the Bronx. His father, he told The Baltimore Jewish Times in 1995, was from Cameroon and jumped ship as a merchant seaman, ending up in New York; his mother, he said, was of Panamanian and West Indian descent. His father had adopted Judaism, and his mother was Roman Catholic. The couple separated when Mr. Kotto was a child, and he was raised by his maternal grandparents.
  
  Mr. Kotto said his career path was set by a fateful trip to the movies.
  
  “One day, when I was about 16, I walked into this theater showing ‘On the Waterfront’ and I saw Marlon Brando for the first time,” he told The Orange County Register of California in 1994. “I couldn’t speak. It was like somebody had punched me in the stomach. It was like someone had crashed cymbals in both ears. I was blasted out of the theater. I knew from that moment that I wanted to be an actor.”
  
  The actress Judy Holliday saw him in a stage production and became a mentor, he said, “moving me around like furniture, telling me what to eat.” He said his knowledge of Yiddish earned him his only other Broadway credit, in the 1965 production of “The Zulu and the Zayda,” a comedy about a Jewish grandfather who settles in South Africa.
  
  Mr. Kotto received an Emmy nomination for his performance as Idi Amin, the Ugandan strongman, in the 1977 television movie “Raid on Entebbe.” He appeared opposite Robert Redford in the prison movie “Brubaker” in 1980.
  
  In the 1988 action-comedy “Midnight Run,” starring Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin, he played the F.B.I. agent Alonzo Mosely, whose stolen ID becomes fodder for a running joke. And in “The Running Man,” a dystopian 1987 thriller set in what was then the near future (2019), Mr. Kotto played a resistance fighter alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in a fascist version of America.
  
  Mr. Kotto married three times, Mr. Goldhar said. He and Thessa Sinahon, who is from the Philippines, married in 1998. A full list of survivors was not immediately available.
  
  Mr. Kotto was always conscious of the image projected by his roles, something that led him to reject certain ones.
  
  “I was offered a part in ‘Glory’” — a 1989 movie about a Black company commanded by a white office in the Civil War — “which I refused, because for me it purported to be about a Black experience and was really about the white guy,” he told The Globe and Mail of Canada in 1994. “Do you see me taking orders like that? I couldn’t see myself in ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ either, playing the chauffeur, taking it from some old lady. Some other actor may be able to put that on and make it look real, but I couldn’t do it.”
  
  “Homicide,” a police series that was innovative for its time, was a career high point, running for seven seasons. But things started off badly, Mr. Kotto said.
  
  “The script was so good and the camera work was so different than what I was used to that I forgot my lines,” he told The Register. “I was really embarrassed. That had never happened to me before.
  
  “But the other actors came over to me and told me the same thing had happened to them.”
  
  Mike Ives contributed reporting.
  
  Neil Genzlinger is a writer for the Obituaries Desk. Previously he was a television, film and theater critic. @genznyt
  

  

  Yaphet Kotto (1939–2021)

  Actor | Writer | Director
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001433/
  

  
  
  
  
  

  
  1972: Live and Let Die films Rosie Carver's death by scarecrow.

  

  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 45 of 65 - "Catching the Wave."

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Catching the Wave

  Season 1 - Episode 45
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807096/?ref_=tt_ep_nx
  

  Jaws and Nick Nack prepare to gatecrash a secret meeting of the Government Technology Committee.

  Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Andy Heyward ... (developer)
  Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
  Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Nick Nack / Scumlord (voice)
  Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
  Julian Holloway ... Baron Von Skarin (voice)
  Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
  Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
  Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Jaws (voice)
  Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Mari Devon ... (voice)

  James Bond Jr Episode 45 - Catching the Wave
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1999: Radioactive releases "The World Is Not Enough" as a limited-edition digipak CD single and a cassette single in the UK. Both include "Ice Bandits". CD adds remix by Unkle.

  
  
  
  

  
  2004: Video game GoldenEye Rogue Agent released in Canada.

  

  

  GoldenEye: Rogue Agent (2004)

  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0422335/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  Join the other side of the law, as you play a rogue MI6 Agent, who becomes involved in a bitter gang war between Dr. No and Auric Goldfinger.

  Directed by Ken Harsha ... (in-game cinematics)
  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Danny Bilson
  Paul De Meo
  Ian Fleming ... (characters)
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Enn Reitel ... Auric Goldfinger (voice)
  Jeannie Elias ... Pussy Galore (voice)
  Christopher Lee ... Francisco Scaramanga (voice)
  Jenya Lano ... Xenia Onatopp (voice)
  Carlos Alazraqui ... Dr. Julius No (voice)
  Jason Carter ... James Bond / 007 (voice)
  Gideon Emery ... Number One (Ernst Stavro Blofeld) (voice)
  André Sogliuzzo ... (voice)
  Robert Wu ... (voice)
  Ron Yuan ... (voice)
  Danny Mann ... (voice)
  Brian George ... (voice)
  Linda Wang ... Hong Kong 1 'Sexy Bath House Girl' (voice)
  Peter Kwong ... Hong Kong 1 (voice)
  Tim Dang ... Triad Informant (voice) (as Timothy Dang)
  Greg Ellis ... (voice)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Judi Dench ... M (voice)
  Zach Goldsmith ... (voice)
  Kirsten Kairos ... Hologram Hostess (voice) (as Kristen Kairos)
  Nolan North ... (voice)
  Robin Sachs ... (voice)
  Toonyun ... Hong Kong 'Sexy Bath House Girl' (voice) (as Shirley To)

  HQ James Bond: Goldeneye:Rogue Agent Introduction
  
  
  GoldenEye: Rogue Agent Teaser Trailer
  

  
  
  

  2006: Casino Royale released in Bahrain, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Jordan, Oman, and the Philippines.
  
  2011: Michael Alexander Olson (of Williams Lake, British Columbia, Canada) completes Goldeneye 007's Antenna Cradle in record time on Nintendo 64.

  

  2012: The New York Times prints Edward Rothstein's "No, Mr. Bond, We Expect You to Die".

  
  https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/16/arts/design/exquisitely-evil-bond-villains-at-international-spy-museum.html?ref=todayspaper
  

  2012: Skyfall released in Cambodia.
  2013: Danjaq, LLC and MGM announce they acquired full rights to Blofeld and SPECTRE from the McClory estate.
  
  2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Kill Chain #5.
  Luca Casalanguida, artist. Andy Diggle, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND: KILL CHAIN #5 (OF 6)

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513026017805011
  Cover A: Greg Smallwood
  Writer: Andy Diggle
  Art: Luca Casalanguida
  Publication Date: November 2017
  Page Count: 32 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 11/15

  As NATO tears itself apart from within, 007 is declared Europe's most wanted man. Hunted by SMERSH and the CIA, he must infiltrate a nuclear airbase to learn the secrets of Operation Hooded Falcon before Europe erupts into all-out war!

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2024: Go!Tekken Wiki projects future animated product James Bond 007: An Italian Mission to Live it and Die. (?!?)

  

  

  James Bond 007: An Italian
  Mission to Live it and Die

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://gotekken.fandom.com/wiki/James_Bond_007:_An_Italian_Mission_to_Live_it_and_Die

  James Bond 007: An Italian Mission to Live it and Die
  Directed by Guy Richard
  Screenplay by Guy Richard, Tessa Selier, Jackie Sanderman
  Based on James Bond by Ian Fleming
  
  Starring
  Michael Caine
  Lea Seydoux
  Lisa-Dorah Sonnet
  Ben Whislaw
  Naomie Harris
  Mike Nawrocki
  Jack Dylan Grazer
  Emma Berman
  Josh Gad
  Tony Hale
  Alec Baldwin
  
  Music by Dan Romer (score), Pharrell Williams (songs)
  Cinematography by Sanne De Beer (lighting), Rinske Hermus (camera)
  Edited by Mandy van Zuylen
  
  Production Company
  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  Eon Productions
  Goanimate Animation
  
  Distributed by
  Warner Bros Pictures (North America and Asia)
  20th Century Studios (International)
  
  Release Date
  November 15, 2024 (United Kingdom)
  November 22, 2024 (United States)
  
  Running Time 105 minutes
  Country United Kingdom, The Netherlands, United States
  Budget $115 million (€110 million)

  James Bond 007: An Italian Mission to Live it and Die is 2024 upcoming computer-animated spy comedy film and the 27th film to the James Bond film series, it will be directed by Guy Richard, produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Eon Productions and Goanimate Animation and distributed by Warner Bros Pictures, the production will be started in December 2021 and will take nearly 4 years until September 2024, Michael Caine will do the role of James Bond, along with the new voice actors including Mike Nawrocki, Emma Berman, Josh Gad, Jack Dylan Grazer, Tony Hale and Alec Baldwin, and with Ben Whislaw reprising the role of James Bond's Quartermaster named Q, Léa Seydoux and Lisa-Dorah Sonnet as the roles of Madeleine Swann and his daughter Mathilde, and with Naomie Harris returning to voice the role of Eve Moneypenny, with the estimated production budget of $115 million, James Bond 007: An Italian Mission to Live it and Die is first very-expensive animated film of James Bond movie series that is ever made and the third Goanimate Animation film to feature the computer-animated on-screen logo with the squirrel mascot Scrat, since the fifth Andrew Orozco movie and Cartoons: King's Games: The Movie.

  James Bond 007: An Italian Mission to Live it and Die will have its world premiere at De Bodde Film Festival in Eindhoven, The Netherlands on November 13, 2024, and was scheduled to be released direct-to-streaming on Goanimate Plus on November 22, 2024, it was originally intended for the worldwide theatrical release, but the fears from the worldwide people over the infections rises caused by B.A. 4 and B.A. 5, resulted in the change.
  
  Premise
  ..and to Genova, where Nonos Spectre will kill people with the pepper spray gun, to stop the plan to kill the people, James Bond, Giulia Marcovaldo, Larry Bond and Steve will work together to save Italy and prevent it from getting people killed and died by the pepper spray.
  
  Cast
  For the international voice casts, see James Bond 007: An Italian Mission to Live it and Die international voice casts.

  Michael Caine as James Bond, a british MI6 agent, Mathilde's father and Giulia's uncle.
  Lea Seydoux as Madaline Swann, James Bond's girlfriend.
  Lisa-Dorah Sonnet as Mathilde Swann, Madaline and Bond's daughter.
  Mike Nawrocki as Larry Bond, a british-accent cucumber agent from the MI6.
  Jack Dylan Grazer as Alberto Scorfano, Giulia's adopted brother from Portorosso.
  Josh Gad as Steve, a smart-knoweldge bird and Mathilde's bird friend.
  Emma Berman as Giulia Marcovaldo, a 13-year old girl from italy who is the fan of James Bond.
  Marco Barricelli as Massimo Marcovaldo, an Italian fisherman, cook, and Giulia's father.
  Alec Bladwin as Noros Spectre, a half human and half stork villain who is the co-founder of Spectre.
  Phil Vischer as Dr. Zorro, Noros's nervous tomato assistant.
  Guy Richard as Almir Piegon, a piegon with indian accent.
  Brian Hull as Sudsan Piegon, a piegon who is Almir's brother.
  Wesley Selier as Casino Worker #2, Crash the Hand, and the cheese-headed bean boy.

  Production
  Animation and Compositing
  The animation was created by Goanimate Mac Guff in Waalwijk, The Netherlands, the models of the italian towns of Portorosso, Rome and Genova, and the MI6 headquarters in London, England was created after building for 4 months with Autodesk Maya, while the characters James Bond and Larry Bond was created with Blender, a dutch animation software that the Goanimate Mac Guff animation-studio and other animation studios used it, and to composit the movie, the compositing team used the Nuke software.
  
  Release
  Theatrical and streaming
  James Bond 007: An Italian Mission to Live it and Die was originally scheduled for theatrical release in the United States on September 15, 2023, but due to the production not starting until November 2021, it was delayed by a year to July 8, 2024, and then on April 3, 2024, the film got delayed again, this time to November 22, 2024, due to the rapid spread of the Deltacron variant in the US and Canada.
  
  On October 4, 2024, it was announced that the film would have its world premiere at the De Bodde Film Festival Eindhoven on November 6, 2024.
  
  Marketing
  To promote the film's theatrical release, Goanimate Animation signed the sereval deals with the marketing companies like Tokon Toys (for the non-dangerously guns) and Spreadshirt (for the clothes and home accessories like t-shirts, pants, socks, caps, mugs, coasters, drink bottles, fabric bags and iphone cases for IPhone 7, 8 and X).
  
  Music
  Score soundtrack
  No. Title Composer
  1 Gunbarrel/A Life in Portorosso | Dan Romer | 2:35
  2 James Bond, You're Back! | Dan Romer | 1:32
  3 The Pepper Spray Gun/A Fight in Rome | Dan Romer | 1:25
  4 For Once in My Life Guy Richard 2:50
  
  Omitted tracks
  For Once in My Life by Stewie Wonder (played in the end credits scene)
  
  Reception
  Box office
  James Bond 007: An Italian Mission to Live it and Die was projected to gross $95-120 million in the opening weekend in the United States and Canada.
  
  Critical response
  On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film had its rating of 95% and had the audience score of 84%, with an average rating of 7.30/10. The website's critics consensus reads ''James Bond 007: An Italian Mission to Live it and Die is one of the best James Bond movies, and of course the first animated movie in the movie series that the fans was hoped, for the action, the spy missions, the comedy and friendship, and animated look of James Bond was surprised for the James Bond fans''.
  
  Sequel
  After beginning development of the first James Bond 007 animated film, Goanimate Animation is also developing the sequel to James Bond 007: An Italian Mission to Live it and Die titled James Bond 007: No Far from Italy, the planned sequel is slated for theatrical release on July 17, 2026, and Micheal Caine was interested about reprising the role of James Bond in the animated sequel.

  Gallery
  Textless promotional posters
  
  
  
  Promotional posters
  Untitled James Bond animated movie reveal poster