GOLDENEYE 20 - Bond's Allies

James Bond is known for being a lone wolf, but many times he needs the help of his many contacts and allies to run down the threats his enemies have planned against England or the world.

In GOLDENEYE, 007's CIA contact is Jack Wade, played by Texan actor Joe Don Baker in his second Bond outing after the role of THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS' villain Brad Whitaker, opposite Timothy Dalton's Bond. He also appeared in Martin Campbell's miniseries EDGE OF DARKNESS, in the role of Jedburgh.

Wade is a fan of gardening with a great sense of humor, who even mocks at Bond's formality calling him a "stiff-assed Brit". However, he plays a key role in helping Bond to find the whereabouts of the shadowy head of Janus.

The CIA agent leads 007 to Valentin Zukovsky, a former KGB agent limping after being shot by Bond in the past. Zukovsky is now an arms dealer who owns a nightclub in St. Petersburg, a task he finds rather annoying and makes him constantly complain about the "free market economy". First holding a grudge against Bond for the incident, he later agrees to help him when the secret agent makes an arrangement with him - letting one of Zukovsky's man make a "miraculous" escape with the money of an arms-deal exchange at Kirov's Funeral Parlour and having the buyer arrested.

Scottish actor Robbie Coltrane, known for the TV series CRACKS and later the role of Hagrid in two Harry Potter films, would be so successful playing Zukovsky that he returned for a final appaerance in 1999's THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH.

Russian Defence Minister Dimitri Mishkin, is played by French actor Tcheky Karyo. A member of the new Russian Politburo, Mishkin arrests James Bond accusing him of terrorism and stealing the GoldenEye weapon. However, after Natalya's confession that the one who took and fired one of the EMP satellites was General Ourumov aka Russia's next "iron man", he becomes a rather short-term ally of 007 before being cold-blooded shot by a furious Ourumov.

The classic MI6 staff has some new faces, starting by a female M, played by Judi Dench. The British character actress, who would remain in the role for 17 years until 2012's SKYFALL, said the chance of playing the role was "one of the flatteriest invitations" she has ever had. Her credits also include SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, NOTES ON A SCANDAL and, most recently, PHILOMENA.

Nicknamed the "Evil Queen of Numbers" by the older members of the Service, Barbara Medwsley is the first civil personell to occupy the direction of the British Secret Service. She isn't intimidated by men, taking the freedom to call 007 a "sexist, mysoginist dinosaur" and a "relic of the Cold War". But in spite of that, she hopes he "comes back alive" of his assignament.

Samantha Bond's Moneypenny isn't falling to Bond's charms immediatly, and reminds him his behavior could be considered as "sexual harrasement". The British actress would reprise her role in the other three Pierce Brosnan 007 films.

Lifted straight from the novels of Ian Fleming, Bill Tanner is MI6's Chief of Staff. Michael Kitchen, whose credits include Fred Schipsi's THE RUSSIA HOUSE, was the actor chosen to play this role who appears in the saga for the first time since 1981's FOR YOUR EYES ONLY, where James Villiers played the part. 

Aged 82, Desmond Llewelyn offers his 15th appaerance as MI6's gadget master Q, still telling Bond off for mistreating his weapons and asking him to "grow up" for once and for all.

GoldenEye 20th Anniversary Live-Tweet

The GoldenEye Dossier will be joining #Bond_age_: The James Bond Social Media Project for a live-tweet session of GOLDENEYE on Wednesday, January 21st, at 9pm to coincide with the 20th anniversary of its press launch in 1995.

The live-tweet will be lead by the project's account, @007hertzrumble, and we will be posting interesting trivia facts on the film trough our account @gedossier007, using the hashtags #Bond_age_ and #goldeneye20.

Introducing Trevelyan's Mainframe

Ladies and gentleman, we are happy to announce a new section for our blog, titled Trevelyan's Mainframe. In this column, Alec will be reviewing a lot of topics regarding GOLDENEYE: aspects of the film, the game, and the careers of the actors twenty years ahead of the film that meant the return of James Bond to the cinema screens.

We hope you enjoy Trevelyan's Mainframe and particularly Alec's unique writing and personalized style, and of course his views on the world of GOLDENEYE. 

GOLDENEYE 20 - Pierce Brosnan as James Bond

As we all know, GOLDENEYE celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2015, so we'll start the celebrations dedicating the month of January to Pierce Brosnan's portrayal of James Bond with stills, clips, trivia quizzes and some of the most important quotes of the then new James Bond actor. Please visit our social media to check out these material on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, with the hashtag #goldeneye20.

Born in Navan, Ireland, on May 16, 1953, Pierce Brendan Brosnan soon felt captivated on the movies and cinema industry as long as he watched his first two movies on a theatre, LAWRENCE OF ARABIA and GOLDFINGER, the third James Bond film starring Sean Connery, in 1964. According to him, these two films made him want to become an actor.

After getting small roles in TV series like THE PROFESSIONALS or films like THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY, he gained major popularity in MTM's series REMINGTON STEELE, where he portrayed an annonymus thief with a great passion for movies who ends up assuming the identity of a detective next to Stephanie Zimbalist's Laura Holt. 

This series prevented Brosnan to become Roger Moore's replacement in the role of James Bond for 1987's THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS. Introduced to producer Albert R Broccoli by his then wife actress Cassandra Harris (who played a Bond girl in FOR YOUR EYES ONLY), he signed a contract that had to be cancelled due to contractual obligations with MTM after REMINGTON STEELE's run was extended for another season.

In 1994, when Timothy Dalton left the role of James Bond, the producers went back to Brosnan considering, in part, his appeal to the female audience and fans around the world. He was announced as the fifth agent 007 in a press conference held at the Dorchester Hotel in London on June 8. 

His portrayal of James Bond in GOLDENEYE, at the age of 42, was caracterized by the adaptation of Ian Fleming's character into the mid-1990s without totally redefining him: "He's still a ladies man, yes", he cooly said during the many interviews he had. His portrayal brought a fresh air to a character almost forgotten by the audiences for six and a half years, delivering the exact dosage of elegance, humor and violence.

GOLDENEYE resulted in an historical success for EON Productions, being the most successful James Bond film since 1979's MOONRAKER. Brosnan played the character in other three James Bond films: TOMORROW NEVER DIES, THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH and the 40th anniversary adventure DIE ANOTHER DAY. He also provided his likeness and voice for the Electronic Arts videogames 007 NIGHTFIRE and EVERYTHING OR NOTHING.
After he left the role in 2004, Brosnan said: "It was a decade of his life that I will always hold dear to my heart and a time that will never be forgotten." He has now a successful cinematic career with starring films like THE MATADOR, LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED and most recently, Roger Donaldson's THE NOVEMBER MAN, whom he also produced. He also plays an important role in activism with his actual wife, Keely Shaye.

Photos by Keith Hamshere and Larry Ellis

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Happy new year James Bond and GOLDENEYE fans. We have a great year starting right now. Remember to join the 20th anniversary festivities on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter with the #goldeneye20 hashtag.

Pierce Brosnan on Gottfried John: "Proud to Have Worked Along Side You"

Pierce Brosnan wrote a farewell message to his GOLDENEYE co-star Gottfried John today on Instagram. The German actor who played General Ourumov in the 1995 film died on Monday aged 72 suffering of a cancer, and the Irish actor took some time to remember their time together with a short post.

"My dear friend... we played in the world of James Bond and traveled the world together to celebrate the success of GOLDENEYE", he wrote. "I am so proud to have worked alongside you (...) Peace be with you, Pierce."

RIP Gottfried John

Pierce Brosnan: "I Loved GoldenEye"

It was a busy week for Irish actor Pierce Brosnan, now back in action next Wednesday when his upcoming action film THE NOVEMBER MAN gets its US release. After a few interviews with hosts like Jimmy Fallon, he quickly talked to fans trough an AMA on Reddit last Thursday.

Replying to his fans, he admitted GOLDENEYE is his favoourite Bond film of the ones he made: "I loved that movie", he said. His other favourite Bond film was, of course, GOLDFINGER, the one he saw aged 11 when he first came to England.

He also claimed he had "no problems with killing 006", the tracherous agent played by Sean Bean on the 1995 film, and that James Bond would kill Jason Bourne "with one bullet". Jokingly, he added that if he would have loved to be killed by Famke Janssen and that he keeps an Aston Martin and the credit lockpick card from THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH.

Asked about his encounters with the other five Bond actors he recalled a meeting with the current 007 Daniel Craig: "I was moving on from Bond and he was moving in. (...) I always wished him good fortune and wanted the best for this man because he's such a fantastic actor, Daniel. And he is a Bond for his time, and will be remembered with such strength of will and charisma."

20 YEARS OF 007 BROSNAN – Prologue: To Get So Close And Be Denied

“If he can act, he’s my guy,” said producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli on the set of 1981’s FOR YOUR EYES ONLY, thinking of a replacement for Roger Moore who was considering his retirement of the role of 007.

Broccoli was talking about none other than the 28-year-old man who was visiting the film set in Corfu, Greece, where his wife Cassandra Harris was playing a love interest of Moore’s Bond, Countess Lisl Von Schalf.

By the time, Pierce Brendan Brosnan was an Irish actor who moved to London during his early teens, where he was captivated by films like LAWRENCE OF ARABIA and, particularly, by Sean Connery’s portrayal of James Bond in GOLDFINGER.

He wasn’t known worldwide yet, having just two non-speaking parts in THE MIRROR CRACK’D and the role of an IRA hitman in THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY. Soon, he would get some fame with the miniseries THE MANIONS OF AMERICA, but his fame baptism would come playing the title role in the 1982 MTM series REMINGTON STEELE, opposite Stephanie Zimbalist. Brosnan was supposed to play a secondary role in comparison to Zimbalist who portrayed female detective Laura Holt, but his onscreen charisma playing a mysterious man with fancy tastes in action, women and dinner jackets gave a lot of popularity to the show, with magazines even calling him “The new Cary Grant”.

The TV series’ success soared and by 1985, when Roger Moore retired after being the longest-running James Bond actor with 7 films, Brosnan’s name came back to Cubby’s mind. In July 1986, the REMINGTON STEELE rating was poor and the TV series were cancelled with a 60 day option to reconsider the renewal of the show. The search for a new Bond, the series cancelation and the fact that the Remington Steele character proved Brosnan could fit the James Bond style very well heated up the hype of his choice as the fourth James Bond for the 1987 adventure, THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, directed by John Glen.

Pierce was then called to do the Bond screentests. He passed with flying colours and was ready to sign for the part. But, in the nick of time, NBC decided to reair REMINGTON STEELE, whose contract forced Brosnan to decline the 007 role and return to the small screen.

“James Bond is finished for me. Over. I am never going to get it now,” said Pierce to his wife Cassandra, who always had the desire to see him playing the part of Ian Fleming’s character created in Jamaica in 1953, paradoxically, the same year Brosnan was born.

On August 6, 1986, Welsh actor Timothy Dalton, an early contender to replace Sean Connery in ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE, was cast as the new James Bond. “I know Tim, he’s a nice guy and I wished him well”, reflected Pierce, but he was really uncomfortable with the situation: “I came to terms with the fact that not getting Bond was never going to leave me. However spectacular my career might be, I’d still be known for that.”

Luck clearily wasn’t on Brosnan’s side. But he never knew that eight years later, fate would determinate another thing.

Part 2 of our 20 years of 007 Brosnan special will be uploaded next Sunday. Interact with us on Twitter and Facebook with the #20yearsof007Brosnan hashtag

Images courtesy of 007 Magazine, "Inside The Living Daylights" DVD documentary. Pierce Brosnan's quotes taken from "The Making of GoldenEye", by Garth Pearce (Boxtree, 1995)

Serena Gordon on Acting: "Botox and Bitchiness"

50-year-old actress Serena Gordon, who played MI6 neurotic assesor Caroline in GOLDENEYE (the first girl to succumb to Pierce Brosnan's James Bond charms onscreen), revealed why she left acting: "Unless you’re prepared to do the full Botox thing nowadays, it’s a very harsh world."

The British actress, whose credits include HOLBY CITY and RIDERS, left acting in 2009 claiming that the introduction of the HD TV forced actress to use Botox all the time: "I’d be frightened of it going wrong, and of getting addicted to it," she told in an interview with The Telegraph, "Acting is an intense, quite cruel, bitchy world. You have to either be thick-skinned or very well grounded so you don't take it too seriously,” she added.

She also noted that actors attending castings for roles above 60 look 45.

Thanks to MI6-HQ for the alert.

Happy Easter!

Have a wonderful Easter Sunday, GOLDENEYE enthisuasts!

The Lost Art of Interrogation: Yannick Zenhäusern Interview

He's really the man with the midas touch when it comes to rescore a Bond film we love or bring a modern touch to the classic GOLDENEYE 64 tunes for the Mod version of the 1997 classic, hence his nickname GoldenZen. Ladies and gentleman, this is Yannick Zenhäusern, best known his work  on GOLDENEYE: SOURCE and GoldenEye: Decrypted, a rescore of the 1995 James Bond film. In the following interview, we have some "chit-chat" with GoldenZen about it all: Bond, Serra, NIGHTFIRE: SOURCE and, of course, something on his upcoming GOLDFINGER project...

Yannick, what was your first experience with Bond and GOLDENEYE? It was the films or the videogames? 

First of all, thank you very much for having me on. I really like The GoldenEye Dossier and it the work that's put in it. To the question: I was still pretty young when GOLDENEYE was released. I remember playing the N64 game for hours with friends. After that I've seen the movie and loved everything from the very start. 

Yannick in his studio, playing his electric guitar.

The Nintendo 64 version of GOLDENEYE was one of the game's strong points, how did you feel of rearranging Grant Kirkhope and Greame Norgate's work? 

Both are great composers and have created amazing pieces. It made my work so easy and you could instantly create that GOLDENEYE 64 feeling by playing the first few seconds of a song because the original pieces where so distinct. I started to build every song upon the original and go from there. Maybe expand it a little, add more orchestra or more modern stuff and that was it. I still love to listen to the original tracks a lot and it makes me even prouder that Grant Kirkhope listened to some of my work and made very kind comments.

How did you came to work with GOLDENEYE: SOURCE? Were you in the project from the beginning? 

No, when I joined the GOLDENEYE: SOURCE team I've just been composing for about 3-4 years and started to sound halfway decent. At the time where I've applied there were already 2 musicians involved. They've really created some great tracks but where more into the techno, dubstep kind of department. When I've applied with a track that was very reminiscent of the actual GOLDENEYE movie soundtrack it started some wild discussions in the background. Some thought there's no need for a third composer and some thought: "Hey, we make a GOLDENEYE game and his music sounds like the movie – sure we take him". To make a long story short, I was given the chance to prove myself with a few more tracks and I was officially a part of the team. One of my biggest achievements ever and I've learned so much during that time. I might say, without GOLDENEYE: SOURCE – no GoldenZen

GOLDENEYE: SOURCE, the Mod version for the 1997 Nintendo 64 classic. where Yannick proved his scoring talents.

Who's your favourite Bond composer, and has he influenced you in your compositions? 

Clearly Eric Serra. He was the original composer for GOLDENEYE. The movie was and still is the ultimate and unbeaten experience movie experience to me. All the amazing characters, the locations, the gadgets, Pierce Brosnan, the ladies the dark and intense atmosphere – all that was perfectly supplemented with a soundtrack that is a perfect fit in my eyes. Despite the fact that a lot of people doubt Eric Serra's work on this movie I absolutely love it and still get goosebumps whenever I get to hear The GoldenEye Overture (Editor's note: This is track #2 of the film's original soundtrack). But of course I love John Barry's, David Arnold's and Michael Kamen's work very much too.

Unlike many Bond fans in the world, Yannick calls Eric Serra his favourite Bond composer: "I absolutely love it", he points out.

You recently rescored GOLDENEYE and the unofficial Bond film NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN. Why you picked those films? You felt they needed a rescore? 

Because I love the movie GoldenEye so much I always wanted to rescore it. Not with the intention to make it better but different. I've tried to combine all the best elements from Eric Serra and maybe a touch of David Arnold and some of my own elements. During the GOLDENEYE rescore project (GoldenEye: Decrypted) I was already approached by different people who asked me if I'm going to rescore another James Bond movie. The thought actually never occured to me first but then some people suggested me to rescore NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN. Nevertheless, after a little break after completing GOLDENEYE I was working on it already, although I wanted to take a longer James Bond music break. I guess I can't just live without this tune.

Artwork for GoldenEye: Decripted, Yannick's rescore for the 1995 film

So your next project is the Mod version of NIGHTFIRE, released in 2002. Why has the team picked this game and what are your expectations in the terms of music and playability? 

Currently the developer team is quite small. A friend suggested me to apply there and send them some material of mine. They liked my previous work and I was in the team right away. It's also a great project for me because I can create a whole new soundtrack based on my ideas. These tracks are mainly based on orchestra and a lot of synth and percussive elements. Fast driven and full of Bond elements – I just love it. Some preview material can be found on YouTube. The developers are very dedicated and slowly but steadily we make progress and I believe it's gonna be a great thing.

Any other projects on the horizon? 

Bond, what else? No seriously, I'm still working on NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN and just finished to write a whole new title track with lyrics and everything. It turned out to be one of my best tracks so far.

NIGHTFIRE: SOURCE is still on my list and then there's the secret GOLDFINGER project in collaboration with some very talented people to. Funny thing - Despite the fact some people doubted the sense of the GoldenEye: Decrypted project, it was the project that got me connected with a lot of cool and nice people like game developers and filmmakers all over the world who liked it and things are looking really great. There's definitely a whole lot more music to come!

As usual, we thank Yannick for his time and we wish him the best of luck in his projects. To read more of him and keep in touch with his projects, check out his official Facebook Page.

Ralph Fiennes Talks About His Bond Screentest in 1994

British actor Ralph Fiennes has finally made into the Bond series by playing Gareth Mallory in SKYFALL, a role he will reprise in Bond 24 and the following 007 adventures after being revealed as the new M in the 2012 film. But in 1994 he was considered to play James Bond himself for GOLDENEYE, before Pierce Brosnan took over the role.

“There was a conversation that was great and a meeting with Cubby Broccoli, that was terrific,” said Fiennes to The Telegraph. “I think that’s all I can say, except that it didn’t lead to anything on both sides. I don’t think I felt ready to commit and I think they were looking at Pierce.”

Fiennes also revealed that he would have been a "terrible" 007 and that he feels happy playing M. "I think Daniel Craig is a brilliant Bond" he added. The actor, also famous for THE CONSTANT GARDENER (based on John LeCarre's novel with a screenplay by GOLDENEYE's Jeffrey Caine) and SCHINDLER'S LIST will star in Wes Anderson's THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL before he starts shooting scenes for Bond 24 by the end of the year.

Image copyright 2012 MGM/Columbia Pictures.

Antenna Malfunction! (well, not quite)

The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, famous for its appaerance on the 1995 James Bond film GOLDENEYE, has suffered a serious damage last month due to an earthquake, almost snapping one of the cables holding the structure, Gizmodo reports.

Operated by the Cornell University, the world's biggest radio transmitter was built in 1962 and used in the film and video game versions (aka the "Cradle" mission) of GOLDENEYE, doubling as Janus' Base in Cuba. The plataform is still working but with a reduced range of motion until it's fully repaired, so... that means objective A is failed, after all.

Thanks to Kimberly Last for the alert.

HAPPY 2014 - Celebrating 20 Years of Brosnan's Bond

Happy new year to all our GOLDENEYE and James Bond enthusiasts worldwide! We have a very special year in 2014 because not only we are getting close to the 20th anniversary of the film who brought a new generation of Bond fans to the world, but because next June 8th we'll be celebrating two decades of the announcement of Pierce Brosnan as James Bond! Stay tuned to our site and our Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts for many features regarding the seven years of the Brosnan era from GOLDENEYE to DIE ANOTHER DAY in 2002. Be sure to follow our hashtag, #20Yearsof007Brosnan, on all our social networks.

Happy new year everybody!

Merry Christmas Bond Fans!

Have a wonderful Christmas 007 enthusiasts. We sincerely hope you get plenty of surprises underneath your Christmas tree (not as good as the one on the image above, I guess)

GoldenEye: The First Resurrection

By Nicolás Suszczyk (first published on 007hertzrumble.com)

In SKYFALL, Daniel Craig’s James Bond says to an overjoyed Silva his hobby is “resurrection”. Of course he resurrected in SKYFALL after a not so bright QUANTUM OF SOLACE and in CASINO ROYALE after the somewhat grotesque DIE ANOTHER DAY. But the first resurrection 007 has ever had was, without a doubt, the 1995 film GOLDENEYE.

I was seven and a half years old when I saw a graphic ad in Buenos Aires announcing the cable TV premiere of GOLDENEYE in December 1997 or January 1998. Against a white background, there was a good-looking fellow in a tuxedo holding a silenced Walther PPK handgun, in an image lifted from the film’s teaser poster under the tagline “you know the name, you know the number.”

I didn’t know the name. I didn’t know the number, but that campaign forced me to learn more. I’d also heard once before some people in a toy store playing the famous GOLDENEYE game on a Nintendo 64 telling me this was the “agent 007 game.” After my dad gave me some Bond backstory, on January 31st 1998 we watched the film on TV. Multiple things happened to little Nicolás Suszczyk there: I went wow when I saw the hero shooting the audience through a gun barrel. My eyes opened wide when the same man bungee-jumped over 700 feet from a dam, and, of course, I fell in love with Famke Janssen, now the only woman over 45 I would think of dating. 

GOLDENEYE ushered in a new generation of Bond fans and introduced the Cold War secret agent to the last leg of the 20th century. It showed Bond can still survive and arise with success in a generation of Internet and cellphones and that he didn’t really need SPECTRE or the Soviet Union to exist. Of course, the film has taken full advantage of the end of the Cold War, and they didn’t hide the fact (some sort of in-joke maybe) that 007 was a “relic of the Cold War” — a notion perhaps only exacerbated by the more than six-year hiatus where everybody thought Bond was dead after the poor box office for 1989’s LICENCE TO KILL.

The remarkable direction of Martin Campbell (who has never disappointed me with any film, inside or outside Bond), the sharp photography of Phil Mehéux, Terry Rawling’s breathtaking editing and of course, the vivid imagination of the late Michael France who choreographed the unforgettable face-off between two double-oh agents. Bruce Feirstein and Jeffrey Caine turned France’s script into the the exquisite final recipe for GOLDENEYE, made even better with Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean and Judi Dench in the cast. I even like Eric Serra’s score. Of course it has many flaws, but those metallic pings and pops capture the essence of the film, not to mention its time and place. As does the score for the epic tank chase by John Altman and the end title song “The Experience of Love,” which fits the triumphant feeling of the film’s romantic ending. 

GOLDENEYE is the Bond film that has it all: the inclusion of the Internet in a Bond film with a small pinch of a Soviet Union Cold War dread sprinkled about, explosive and breathtaking action scenes, a solid script dealing with Bond’s emotions not only toward women but toward friends, an innocent and lovely girl in Izabella Scorupco, a sadistic sex-bomb in Famke Janssen, a charming but evil rouge agent in Sean Bean and of course, lots of humour with Robbie Coltrane and Alan Cumming. 

Want to jump into the Bondwagon? Need a good introductory film to watch? Start with GOLDENEYE. 

GOLDENEYE IN YOUR TASTE

Our friends from the Club James Bond France shared a nice story about the rarest GOLDENEYE collectable (probably rarest Bond collectable!) ever to be produced: a GOLDENEYE red wine.

Some time before the film was released in 1995, movie critic Kevin Collette was hired as an editor to supervise a special 007 issue of Lui, a Playboy style French magazine. Having the list of official worldwide licences by MGM to offer readers an accuarate list of must-have Bond/GOLDENEYE merchandising, he finally found two rare items that had never reached the market.

One of them was a Bond parfume for men, and the other one -Kevin tells us still with admiration- this GOLDENEYE Bodeaux Vintage bottle. Jerome Nicod, then President of the Club James Bond, was working on them and did the prototype designs: "I was in partnership with Eon's licensing company and we were working with them. I did the design on the bottle and had two prototype bottle for my company", he said.  One of those prototipes (pictured avobe) is the ocre version which is now part of then Vice President Laurent Perriot's collection: "A great gift from my friend Jerome", he remembers.

The other prototype was the Bordeaux vintage bottle which featured the Bond silohuette (pictured right) was kindly given to Kevin by a French Danjaq representative. So, why wasn't it finally released? Apparently, EON and Danjaq wasn't happy to get the 007 logo in a bottle of wine. Remember those were the times after the six year gap who almost killed the cinematic Bond and the worldwide launch of a new James Bond with the face of Pierce Brosnan who, apparently, wasn't too much confident in having his face in every product.

We want to thank Kevin, Jerome and Laurent for sharing such lovely memories of this rarely seen GOLDENEYE item. You can also take some time to visit Kevin's site, Our Man from Bond Street.

ERRATA: This article was edited because Kevin Collette was wrongfully attributed to the Club James Bond France when he only wrote for them from time to time. The Bordeaux bottle wasn't "found" by him either, but given by a Danjaq representative as we now rectified.

THE GOLDENEYE ARCHIVE - Cine Top (November 1995, Argentina)

Welcome to our new section, The GoldenEye Archive. In this new section we will be posting magazine articles related to the release of GOLDENEYE around the world covering more than one page and the cover. Many of you have enjoyed our Magazine and Newspaper album on Facebook, but we tought we should deliver something for the no 3.0 community and in a more tidy way, so all the articles will be uploaded in .pdf format for a clearer view and reading.

Today we start with a monthly magazine from Argentina called "Cine Top", which run in the 1990s long before the big theatre corporations occupied the whole country knocking the little cinemas out. In this case, we offer our readers the November 1995 edition, featuring a Keith Hamshere still of Pierce Brosnan starring for the first time as James Bond, and a four-page article with relatively known information and stills, finishing  with a list of all the Bond movies to date.

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NEW GOLDENEYE CONCEPT ART REVEALED

Bond artwork expert Thomas Nixdorf from Germany has provided us with a GOLDENEYE concept artwork poster which can't be found nowhere but in his collection...

The artwork features the classic photoshoot by Keith Hamsere of Pierce Brosnan, Famke Janssen and Izabella Scorupco, against a black and gold background.

Click on the left image to enlarge