James Bond

James Bond is a novel character who has been portrayed by various actors over various eras in cinema. The character was mentioned in Trojan Horse.

Ever since 1995, the character has been retooled twice and appeared in films which bare resemblance to the Die Hard scenario formula as well as The Bourne Identity film series starring Matt Damon. The James Bond series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections. Since Fleming's death in 1964, seven other authors have written authorised Bond novels or novelizations: Kingsley Amis, Christopher Wood, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, Sebastian Faulks, Jeffery Deaver and William Boyd, with a further instalment due in September 2015 by Anthony Horowitz. The character has also been adapted for television, radio, comic strip, video games and film. The films are the longest continually running and the third-highest grossing film series to date, which started in 1962 with Dr. No, starring Sean Connery as Bond. As of 2015, there have been twenty-three films in the Eon Productions series. To date, the series has grossed just over $6 billion to date, making it the third-highest-grossing film series (behind Harry Potter and the Marvel Cinematic Universe), and the single most successful adjusted for inflation. The character while heroic is sometimes considered an anti-hero by his respective filmmakers.