The first James Bond movie starring Sean Connery, then an unknown and unlikely actor, was Dr. No and released in 1962. The first words Sean Connery uttered as Bond was the world famous iconic phrase Bond, James Bond.
People, including myself, have thought that Connery spontaneously changed the script from an unknown name to Bond, James Bond. because it sounded better.
However, the famous catchy line was supposedly arrived at by Berkely Mather the co-script writer for Dr. No, From Russia With Love and Goldfinger which were the first three Bond movies. Maher was a British script writer.
There were a total of twenty five Bond movies featuring several Bond characters
EON Productions Limited produced the first movies. Albert R . "Cubby" Broccoli and Herschel Harry Saltzman were partners for the first nine Bond movies.
Their unfriendly partnership supposedly ended in 1972 by mutual agreement but Broccoli initially would not fulfill the agreement to sell his shares to Saltzman for about 9 million dollars. The issue was resolved later.
EON Productions Limited and Danjaq LLC was wholly owned and controlled by the Wilson/Broccoli family. Danjaq is the US based company that controlled, along with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios the copyrights to the existing James Bond films and controlled the rights to produce future James Bond films.
Amazon, in 2022 closed an $8.5 billion deal to purchase MGM studios which which gave Amazon control of famous movie franchises like James Bond and Rocky.
Barbara Broccoli, Cubby's daughter was involved with Bonds movies and now has an estate estimated to be $400 million as of 2022.
There are plans for additional releases of most Bond movies on Prime Video and they will be stream able. Bond was scheduled to leave Prime in 2022.
Do not worry. Bond will always be out there.
