James Bond Movies
Spectre (2015) is the twenty-fourth James Bond film
produced by Eon Productions, and is the direct sequel to the 2012 film Skyfall.
It features Daniel Craig in his fourth performance as James Bond, and Christoph
Waltz as Ernst Stavro Blofeld, with the film marking the character's
re-introduction into the series. It was directed by Sam Mendes as his second
James Bond film following Skyfall, and was written by John Logan, Neal Purvis,
Robert Wade and Jez Butterworth. It is distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and
Columbia Pictures. With a budget around $245 million, it is the most expensive
Bond film and one of the most expensive films ever made.
The story sees James Bond pitted against the global
criminal organisation SPECTRE, marking the group's first appearance in an Eon
Productions film since 1971's Diamonds Are Forever,[N 2] and tying Craig's
series of films together with an overarching storyline. Several recurring James
Bond characters, including M, Q and Eve Moneypenny return, with the new
additions of Léa Seydoux as Dr. Madeleine Swann, Dave Bautista as Mr. Hinx,
Andrew Scott as Max Denbigh and Monica Bellucci as Lucia Sciarra.
Directed by Sam Mendes
Produced by Michael G. Wilson,Barbara Broccoli
Screenplay by John
Logan,Neal Purvis,Robert Wade,Jez Butterworth
Story by John
Logan,Neal Purvis,Robert Wade
Based on James
Bond by Ian Fleming
Starring Daniel
Craig,Christoph Waltz,Léa Seydoux,Ben Whishaw,Naomie Harris,Dave
Bautista,Andrew Scott,Monica Bellucci, Ralph Fiennes
Music by Thomas
Newman
Cinematography Hoyte van Hoytema
Edited by Lee
Smith
Production
company Eon Productions
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,Columbia
Pictures
Release dates 26 October
2015 (United Kingdom)
6 November 2015
(United States)
Running time 148 minutes
Country United Kingdom
United States
Language English
Budget $245–250 million
Box office $875.7 million
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Story of Spectre Movie
Following Mallory's promotion to M, on a mission in
Mexico City unofficially ordered by a posthumous message from the previous M,
007 James Bond kills three men plotting a terrorist bombing during the Day of
the Dead and gives chase to Marco Sciarra, an assassin who survived the attack.
In the ensuing struggle, Bond steals his ring, which is emblazoned with a
stylised octopus, and then kills Sciarra by kicking him out of a helicopter.
Upon returning to London, Bond is indefinitely suspended from field duty by M,
who is in the midst of a power struggle with C, the head of the
privately-backed Joint Intelligence Service, consisting of the recently merged
MI5 and MI6. C campaigns for Britain to form alongside 8 other countries
"Nine Eyes ", a global surveillance and intelligence co-operation
initiative between nine member states, and uses his influence to close down the
'00' section, believing it to be outdated.
Bond disobeys M's order and travels to Rome to attend
Sciarra's funeral. That evening he visits Sciarra's widow Lucia, who tells him
about SPECTRE, a criminal organisation to which her husband belonged. Bond
infiltrates a SPECTRE meeting, where he identifies the leader, Franz
Oberhauser. When Oberhauser addresses Bond by name, he escapes and is pursued
by Mr. Hinx, a SPECTRE assassin. Moneypenny informs Bond that the information
he collected leads to Mr. White, former member of Quantum, a subsidiary of SPECTRE.
Bond asks her to investigate Oberhauser, who was presumed dead years earlier.
Bond travels to Austria to find White, who is dying of
thallium poisoning. He admits to growing disenchanted with Quantum and tells
Bond to find and protect his daughter, Dr. Madeline Swann, who will take him to
L'Américain; this will in turn lead him to SPECTRE. White then commits suicide.
Bond locates Swann at the Hoffler Klinik, but she is abducted by Hinx. Bond
rescues her and the two meet Q, who discovers that Sciarra's ring links
Oberhauser to Bond's previous missions, identifying Le Chiffre, Dominic Greene
and Raoul Silva as SPECTRE agents. Swann reveals that L'Américain is a hotel in
Tangiers.
The two travel to the hotel and discover White's secret
room where they find co-ordinates pointing to Oberhauser's operations base in
the desert. They travel by train to the nearest station, but are once again
confronted by Hinx; they engage in a fight throughout the train in which Mr
Hinx is eventually thrown off the train by Bond with Swann's assistance. After
arriving at the station, Bond and Swann are escorted to Oberhauser's base.
There, he reveals that SPECTRE has been staging terrorist attacks around the
world, creating a need for the Nine Eyes programme. In return, SPECTRE will be
given unlimited access to intelligence gathered by Nine Eyes. Bond is tortured
as Oberhauser discusses their shared history: after the younger Bond was
orphaned, Oberhauser's father, Hannes, became his temporary guardian. Believing
that Bond supplanted his role as son, Oberhauser killed his father and staged
his own death, subsequently adopting the name Ernst Stavro Blofeld and going on
to form SPECTRE. Bond and Swann escape, killing several SPECTRE agents and
destroying the base in the process, leaving Blofeld to apparently die during
the explosion.
As the African base was one node in a wider network, Bond
and Swann return to London where they meet M, Bill Tanner, Q, and Moneypenny;
they intend to arrest C and stop Nine Eyes from going online. Swann leaves
Bond, telling him she cannot be part of a life involving espionage, and is
subsequently kidnapped. On the way, the group is ambushed and Bond is
kidnapped, but the rest still proceed with the plan. After Q succeeds in
preventing the Nine Eyes from going online, a brief struggle between M and C
ends with the latter falling to his death. Meanwhile, Bond is taken to the old
MI6 building, which is scheduled for demolition, and frees himself. Moving
throughout the ruined labyrinth, he meets a scarred Blofeld, who tells him that
he has three minutes to escape the building before explosives are detonated or
die trying to save Swann. Bond finds Swann and the two escape by boat as the
building collapses. Bond shoots down Blofeld's helicopter, which crashes onto
Westminster Bridge. As Blofeld crawls away from the wreckage, Bond confronts
him but ultimately leaves him to be arrested by M. Bond leaves the bridge with
Swann, and after making a brief stop to see Q a few days later to get back his
repaired 1964 Aston Martin DB5, departs with her in his car.
Cast by
Daniel Craig as James Bond, agent 007.
Christoph
Waltz as Ernst Stavro
Blofeld.
Léa Seydoux as Dr. Madeleine Swann, a psychologist working at a
private medical clinic in the Austrian Alps, and the daughter of Mr. White.
Ben Whishaw as Q, the MI6 quartermaster who outfits Bond with
equipment for use in the field.
Naomie Harris as Eve Moneypenny, a former agent who left the field to
become M's assistant.
Dave Bautista as Mr. Hinx, a high-ranking member of Spectre who acts
as the organisation's assassin.
Andrew Scott as Max Denbigh, a member of the British government who
is revealed as an agent of SPECTRE, who is also known by his code name.
Monica
Bellucci as Lucia Sciarra, the
widow of an assassin killed by Bond.
Ralph Fiennes as M, code name for Gareth Mallory, the recently
appointed head of MI6 and Bond's superior.
Rory Kinnear as Bill Tanner, the MI6 Chief of Staff.
Jesper
Christensen as Mr. White, a
fugitive from MI6 and a senior figure in the Quantum organisation, a former
subsidiary of Spectre.
Alessandro
Cremona as Marco Sciarra,
a criminal and the husband of Lucia Sciarra.
Judi Dench as Mallory's predecessor M.
Musics
Thomas Newman returned as Spectre 's composer. Rather
than composing the score once the film had moved into post-production, Newman
worked during filming. The theatrical trailer released in July 2015 contained a
rendition of John Barry's On Her Majesty's Secret Service theme. Mendes
revealed that the final film would have more than one hundred minutes of music.
The soundtrack album was released on 23 October 2015 in the UK and 6 November
2015 in the USA on the Decca Records label.
In September 2015 it was announced that Sam Smith and
regular collaborator Jimmy Napes had written the film's title theme,
"Writing's on the Wall", with Smith performing it for the film. Smith
said the song came together in one session and that he and Napes wrote it in
under half an hour before recording a demo. Satisfied with the quality, the
demo was used in the final release.
The song was released as a digital download on 25
September 2015. It received mixed reviews from critics and fans, particularly
in comparison to Adele's "Skyfall". The mixed reception to the song
led to Shirley Bassey trending on Twitter on the day it was released. It became
the first Bond theme to reach number one in the UK Singles Chart. The English
band Radiohead also composed a song for the film, which went unused.
