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GOLDENEYE – Éric Serra

October 16, 2025 2 comments

THROWBACK THIRTY

Six years after Timothy Dalton vacated the role, in the wake of the comparative commercial flop of License to Kill, and after several years of protracted contract negotiations, legal disagreements and financial disputes at MGM, and stalled screenplay ideas, James Bond returned with a new face, a new style, and a new sound in 1995 with GoldenEye. Having been previously thwarted by the fact that he was contracted to play Remington Steele on American television in the 1980s, the producers finally cast Irish actor Pierce Brosnan as their preferred 007, and the main supporting cast was rounded out by Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco, Famke Janssen, and Judi Dench as M, the new head of MI6. New Zealander Martin Campbell was hired as director, and the screenplay was credited to Jeffrey Caine and Bruce Feirstein, based on a story by Michael France. Read more…