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'Why The James Bond Series Recast Felix Leiter So Often'. ^ a b c d e f g h Ponniah, Gabriel (1 June 2021).'All James Bond Movies In Order: From Sean Connery To Daniel Craig'. ^ a b c d e f g Scott, Hugh (8 October 2021).found that McClory's rights in the Thunderball material had reverted to the estate of Fleming Archived from the original on 12 October 2021. Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal. 'License to Copyright – The Ongoing Dispute Over the Ownership of James Bond'. No (1962) to Desmond Llewelyn in From Russia with Love (1963). There is only one clear case of a single M, Q, or Moneypenny character switching actor: when Q, Major Boothroyd, switches from Peter Burton in Dr. Such change was explicit for M in GoldenEye (1995), with Judi Dench's character referred to as a newcomer, and in Skyfall (2012), as Ralph Fiennes' character Gareth Mallory replaces Dench's character as M it was explicit for Q in Die Another Day (2002), as John Cleese's character replaces Desmond Llewelyn's Q after being his apprentice in The World Is Not Enough (1999). Several of the series' supporting characters, such as M, Q, and Miss Moneypenny, are MI6 posts, not character names, and some of the actor changes in these positions reflect in-universe replacements. Bond has been portrayed in these films by six actors: Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, and Daniel Craig. There have been twenty-five films in total released between 19 and produced by Eon Productions, which now holds the adaptation rights to all of Fleming's Bond novels. The James Bond film series is a British series of spy films based on the fictional character of MI6 agent James Bond, '007', who originally appeared in a series of books by Ian Fleming.

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