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e e e e e e Spectre is a 2015 spy film and the 24th in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions directed by Sam men's and written by John Logan Neil pervis Robert Wade and jez Butterworth from a story conceived by Logan pervis and Wade it stars Daniel Craig as Bond alongside Kristoff Waltz Leia sedu Ben Wishaw Naomi Harris Dave bista Monica beluchi and Ralph Fen it was distributed by Sony Pictures releasing in the film Bond battle Spectre an international crime organization led by France oberhauser Waltz despite initially stating he would not direct Spectre men's confirmed his return in 2014 after Nicholas's winding Ren declin to direct men's became the first to direct successive James Bond films since John Glenn the inclusion of vector and its Associated characters marked the end of the Thunderball controversy in which Kevin mccl and Fleming were embroiled in lengthy legal disputes over the film rights to the novel Spectre is the first film to feature these elements since diamonds are forever 1971 following the Sony Pictures hack it was revealed Sony and Eon clashed regarding Finance stunts and filming locations Spectre is estimated to have a final budget of $245 300 million principal photography began in December 2014 and lasted until July 2015 with filming locations including Austria the United Kingdom Italy Morocco and Mexico Spectre premiered at the Royal Albert Hall on the 26th of October 2015 and was theatrically released in conventional and a Max formats in the United Kingdom that day and in the United States on the 6th of November the film received mixed reviews from critics who praised the action sequences cast performances particularly Craigs and bista and the musical score but criticized the pacing and formulaic narrative decisions it grossed $880 million worldwide making it the sixth highest grossing film of 2015 and the second highest grossing James Bond film after Skyfall unadjusted for inflation fourth when adjusted the film's theme song writings on on the wall won an Academy Award and Golden Globe for best original song the next film in the series no time to die was released in 2021 a postumus message from the previous M leads my six agent James Bond to carry out a mission in Mexico City foiling a bombing attempt on a stadium during the day of the dead Festival Bond obtains a ring stylized with an octopus from the deceased attacker Marco Cyra and uncovers his connection connection to a secret organization in London Gareth mallerie the current M suspends bond for his unauthorized action m is engaged in a power struggle with Max Denby whom Bon dubs C the director general of the new privately backed joint intelligence Service formed by the merger of my five and my six see campaigns for Britain to join the global surveillance and intelligence initiative 9 eyes and shut down the zeros in section Bond who was operating on a mission postumus assigned by the previous M to eliminate CRA and track down his employers goes Rogue from my 6 with Eve monip peny and Q agreeing to Aid Bond covertly following the previous M's instructions Bond attends cyra's funeral in Rome and rescues his widdow Lucia from assassins Lucia reveals cyra's association with a terrorist Network run by France oberhauser who has been presumed Dead for 20 years using cra's ring Bond infiltrates a meeting where oberhauser targets The Pale King for assassination oberhauser recognizes Bond who flees across the city in a modified eston Martin db10 pursued by the Network's top assassin HS money peny identifies The Pale King as Mr White a former member of the organization's subsidary Quantum Bond tracks white down to Aly where he is dying of thalium poisoning Bond offers to protect white's daughter mateline Swan a psychiatrist who possesses knowledge about luran white commits suicide Bond finds Swan who is reluctant to trust him until hins and his forces abduct her bond rescues Swan earning him her trust Q reveals Le chiffer Dominic green and rul Silva as agents of oberhauser organization which Swan reveals is named Spectre Swan takes bond to urane a hotel in Tanger where a secret room directs them to Ober Hauser's base in the Sahara hins ambushes them on route to the base but they fight him off and defeat him arriving at the base Bond and Swan confront oberhauser who reveals spectre's involvement in the joint intelligence service and the nine eyes program C complicit inspector's scheme plans to give Spectre unrestricted access to intelligence gathered by nine eyes after showing Swan a distressing recording of her father's suicide oberhauser subjects bond to Neurosurgical torture he discusses his shared past with Bon to Swan revealing that they became adoptive Brothers after Bon's parents died believing that his father loved Bond more than him oberhauser killed him and staged his death as well since then he founded Spectre intending to Target Bond and adopted the name Ernst Stavro blof fold Bond and Swan Break Free stun blow fold with an explosive wristwatch and destroy the base before fleeing to London to prevent nine eyes from going online in London Bond Swan m q Bill Tanner and MIP peny gather to arrest C but Swan and bond are separately abducted by Spectre operatives while the others proceed with a plan after Q stops N9 eyes from going online a fatal struggle between M and C results in SE death bond is taken to the ruins of the old my 6 building scheduled for demolition after Silva's bombing and two where Swan is held captive blof fold who survived the base's destruction with heavy scarring to his face gives Bond a three-minute ultimatum to abandon Swan or attempt a rescue and risk death Bond finds Swan and they escape as the building collapses Bon shoots down blof fold's helicopter which crashes onto west Minster Bridge blof fold survives and is arrested by m later Bond receives his restored ason Martin DB5 from q and drives off with swan in March 2013 men said he would not return to direct the next film in the series then known as Bond 24 25 to 26 he later recanted and announced that he would return as he found the script and the plans for the long-term future of the franchise appealing 27 Nicholas winding Reen would later reveal that he turned down an offer to direct the film 28 in directing Skyfall and Spectre men's became the first director to oversee two successive Bond films since John Glenn directed five consecutive films ending with license to kill in 1989 29 Dennis gastner returned as the film's production designer 30 while cinematographer Hoy van HOA took over from Roger deacons 3 31 in July 2015 men's noted that the combined crew of Spectre numbered over 1,000 making it a larger production than Skyfall 32 Craig is listed as co-producer he considered the credit a high point of his career saying I'm just so proud of the fact that my name comes up somewhere else on the titles 33 the film's use of the Spectre organization and its characters marked the end of long-standing litigation between Eon Productions and producer Kevin mccl who sued James Bond Creator Ian Fleming in 1961 claiming ownership over elements of the novel Thunderball 34 and in an outof Court settlement 2 years later was awarded the novel's film rights including Spectre and its characters and three mccl died in 26 and in November 2013 MGM and the MCL estate formally settled the issue with Dan Jack sister company of eon Productions with MGM acquiring the full copyright film rights to the concept of Spectre and all of the characters associated with it 36 it has been suggested that with the acquisition of the film rights and the organization's reintroduction to the series continuity the Spectre acronym was discarded and the organization reimagined as Spectre 3703 839 when Sony Pictures Entertainment renegotiated with Metro Goldwin mayor pictures the deal to co-finance the bond franchise in 2011 they were tasked to provide 25% of the negative cost of both Skyfall and Spectre in exchange for receiving 25% of the profits plus distribution fees for overseeing its worldwide rollout when the film was announced in June 2013 the budget was not yet fixed but was certain to be higher than the $210 million of Skyfall due to foreign locations and bigger payments for men's and Craig 40 in November 2014 e writing Spectre marked the return of many script writers from the previous Bond films such as Skyfall writer John Logan 29 Neil pervis and Robert Wade who had done work in five previous Bond films N4 and British playwright jez Butterworth who had previously made uncredited contributions to Skyfall Butterworth was brought in to polish the script being helped by men's and Craig Butterworth considered that his changes involved adding what he would like to see as a teenager and limited the scenes with Bon talking to men as Bon shoots other men he doesn't sit around chatting to them so you put a line through that 44 with the acquisition of the rights to Spectre and its Associated characters pervis and Wade revealed that the film would provide a minor ritcon to the continuity of the previous films with the quantum organization alluded to in Casino Royale and introduced in Quantum of Solace reimagined as a division within Spectre rather than an independent organization which is implied to be no longer active by the film's events the plot of Spectre also linked the events of Skyfall to Craig's first two Bond movies by revealing antagonist Raul Silva to be associated with Spectre reverting skyfalls initial solo story status 45 various plot ideas were discussed and discarded during the writing process Ralph Fen revealed in a 2021 podcast interview that at one stage Sam men's suggested a plot twist revealing M to be the villain which fien vetoed another draft by Logan had my six Chief of Staff Bill Tanner uncovered as a spectre mole 464 these 748 despite being an original story Spectre draws on Ian Fleming's Source material most notably in the character of France oberhauser played by Kristoff Waltz and his father Hans Hans oberhauser is a background character in the short story octopusy from the octopusy and The Living Daylights collection and is named in the film as having been a temporary legal guardian of a young bond in 1983 49 as men's searched for a events in young Bond's life to follow the childhood discussed in Skyfall he came across Hans oberhauser who becomes a father figure to bond from there men's conceived the idea of a natural child who had been pushed out cuckoo in the nest by bond which became France 50 similarly charman bond is shown to have been his full-time Guardian observing the backstory established by Fleming 49 casting at the age of of 50 Monica beluchi became the oldest actress to be cast as a Bond girl the main cast was revealed in December 2014 at the ziz A7 stage at Pinewood Studios Daniel Craig returned for his fourth appearance as James Bond while Ralph Fen Naomi Harris and Ben wiaw reprised their roles as M Eve MIP peny and Q respectively having been established in Skyfall Rory kenar also reprised his role as Bill Tanner in his third appearance in the series 51 Kristoff Waltz was cast in the role of France oberhauser though he refus to comment on the nature of the part 52 it was later revealed with the film's release that he is Ernst Stavro blofeld Waltz got interested in the film for dealing with technology assisted Mass surveillance speaking about relevant social issues in a way that few bonds have done before and denied rumors that the role was written specially for him but added that when I came on board the role grew evolved and mutated 53 in addition to the principal cast alesandro Crona was cast as Marco Cyra Stephanie Sigman was cast as Estella and dlift both was cast as a villain for scenes shot in Austria 23661 in February 2015 over wanting 500 background artists were hired for the pre-title sequence set in Mexico though though they were replicated in the film giving the effect of around 10,000 extras 62,63 weding 664 filming men's revealed that production would begin on the 8th of December 2014 at Pinewood Studios with filming taking 7 months 65 men's also confirmed several filming locations including London Mexico City and Rome van Hua shot the film mostly on Kodak 35 mm film stock in addition to digital cameras such as the 6K AR Alexa 65 mm66 in contrast to Skyfall being filmed solely on digital cameras 67 early filming took place at Pinewood Studios and around London with scenes variously featuring Craig and Harris at Bond's flat and Craig and kenar traveling down the river temps 68 after being cancelled in 2012 the Jaguar CX7 5 was recommissioned to appear inspector the eston Martin db10 is driven by bond in the film The eston Martin DB5 reappears after reconstruction in Q's workshop at the film's ending with Bon driving away with it e with filming completed in Rome production moved to Mexico City in late March to shoot the film's opening sequence with scenes to include the Day of the Dead Festival filmed in and around the zoko and the Central historico District 86 at the time no such Day of the Dead parade like the one from the film took place in Mexico City in 2016 due to the interest raised by Spectre and the government's desire to promote the prehispanic Mexican culture the federal and local authorities decided to organize an actual diad Dem WTO parade through peso de la reforma and Centro historico on the 29th of October 2016 which was attended by 250,000 people 8788 the film opens with a long take that joins six shots seamlessly and was one of the few scenes that required Prov visualization through extensive planning filming did not require motion control cameras the scene joints were done in post- production through retiming and reprojections which even matched Mexico locations with Interiors filmed at Pinewood 73 filming of the Mexico City scenes revolving around a Day of the Dead parade the planned scenes required the city Square to be closed for filming a sequence involving a fight aboard a messers Schmid burlow blown bow 105 CBS helicopter flown by stunt pilot Chuck Aaron 89 which called for modifications to be made to several buildings to prevent damage 90 this particular scene in Mexico required wanting 500 extras 10 giant skeletons and 250,000 paper flowers 91 reports in the Mexican media added that the film's second unit would move to Pink in the state of chapus to film aerial maneuvers considered too dangerous to shoot in an urban area 92 these were pasted over a computer generated square and crowd below the helicopter with motion captur doubles fighting inside men's and the effects team felt that this approach would get believable composition and movement compared to adding a digital helicopter above the Mexico City location 93 following filming in Mexico and during a scheduled break Craig was flown to New York to undergo minor surgery to fix his knee injury it was reported that filming was not affected and he had returned to filming at Pinewood Studios as planned on the 22nd of April 94 nonetheless some parts of the Mexico scene were done with stunt doubles whose faces were digitally replaced with Craigs 73 on the 17th of May 2015 filming took place on the temps in London stunt scenes involving Craig and sadu on a speedboat as well as a low flying helicopter near Westminster Bridge were shot at night with filming temporarily closing both Westminster and Lambeth Bridges scenes were also shot on the river near my 6's headquarters at Vox Hall cross 95 the crew returned to the river less than a week later to film scenes solely set on Westman Bridge the London fire brigade was on set to simulate rain as well as monitor smoke used for filming Craig sidu and Waltz as well as Harris and fien were seen being filmed 96 prior to this scenes involving fien were shot at a restaurant in Cent Garden 97 blow folds helicopter crash was done with two full-sized helicopter shells which were rigged with steel work and an overhead track computer generat ated rotor blades and scenery damage were added in post- production the my 6 building which in the film is vacated and scheduled for demolition following the terrorist attack from Skyfall was replaced in the production plates for a digital reconstruction when the building is detonated it is a combination of both a miniature and a breakaway version of the digital building 73 after wrapping up in England production traveled to Morocco in June with film fing taking place in AA Tanger and oud after preliminary work was completed by the Productions second unit 98 the headquarters of Spectre in Morocco was located in garam medir which is a crater caused by erosion and of neither volcanic nor impact origin 99 an explosion filmed in Morocco holds a Guinness world record for the largest film stunt explosion in cinematic history involving 18 140 L of kerosene and 24 charges each with a kilogram of high explosives 100 the outside shots of a train in a desert featured the Oriental Desert Express 101 principal photography concluded on the 5th of July 2015 a wrap-up party for Spectre was held in commemoration before entering post- production 102 filming took 128 days 103 whilst filming in Mexico City speculation in the media claimed that the script had been altered to accommodate the demands of Mexican authorities reportedly influencing details of the scene and characters casting choices and modifying the script to portray the country in a positive light to secure tax concessions and financial support worth up to $20 million for the film 104 this was denied by producer Michael G Wilson 104 who stated that the scene had always been intended to be shot in Mexico as production had been attracted to the imagery of the Day of the Dead and that the script had been developed from there 105 production of Skyfall had previously faced similar problems while attempting to secure permits to shoot the film's pre-title sequence in India before moving to aan buul 10 160 107 five companies did the visual effects industrial Light and Magic double negative moving picture company cocy and Peerless under the supervision of Steve the computer generated effects included set extensions digital touches on the vehicles and crumbling buildings 7393 a 6 one frame store handled the title sequence the seventh in the series designed by Daniel Clayman it took four months to complete and centered on an octopus Motif reminiscent of the Spectre logo along with images of love and relationships 108 soundtrack Main article Spectre soundtrack Thomas Newman returned as spectre's composer 30 rather than composing the score once the film had moved into post-production Newman worked during filming 64 the theatrical trailer released in July 2015 contained a rendition of John Barry's on Her Majesty's Secret Service theme 190 110 men stated that the final film would have more than 100 minutes of Music 32 the soundtrack album was released on the 23rd of October 2015 in the UK and the 6th of November 2015 in the US on Decker records 111 112 the English band radio head were commissioned to write the title song and submitted man of war an unreleased song written in the 1990s 113 it was rejected as it had not been written for the film and so was ineligible for the Academy Award for best original song 114 radio head recorded another song for the film Spectre but this was also rejected as too Melancholy 115 iner and 14 at the 2024 Ivor nollo Awards Lana Del re told BBC news that she wrote her song 24 in for the film but had it rejected by producers 116 in September 2015on announced that Sam Smith had recorded the title theme writings on the wall 117 Smith reported writing the song in a single session with regular collaborator Jimmy napes in under half an hour before recording a demo satisfied with the quality the filmmakers used the demo in the final release 118 writings on the wall was released as a download on the 25th of September 2015 119 it received mixed reviews from critics and fans particularly in comparison to Adele's Skyfall when 120 billion 121 milon 12020 w23 leading to Shirley bossi trending on Twitter on the day it was released 161 on 24 despite the mixed reception it became the first Bond theme to reach number one in the UK singles chart 125 the 2 to win the Academy Award for best original song 126 and the fifth to be nominated 127 a winner 28 and5 it also won the golden Globe Award for best original song at the 73rd Golden Globe awards Spectre is a 2015 spy film and the 24th in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions directed by Sam men's and written by John Logan Neil pervis Robert Wade and jez Butterworth from a story conceived by Logan pervis and Wade it stars Daniel Craig is Bond alongside Kristoff Waltz Leia sedu Ben Wishaw Naomi Harris Dave bista Monica beluchi and Ralph Fen it was distributed by Sony Pictures releasing in the film Bond battle Spectre an international crime organization led by France oberhauser Waltz despite initially stating he would not direct Spectre men's confirmed his return in 2014 after Nicholas's winding Reen declined to direct men's became the first to direct successive James Bond films since John Glenn the inclusion of Spectre and its Associated characters marked the end of the Thunderball controversy in which Kevin mccl and Fleming were embroiled in lengthy legal disputes over the film rights to the novel Spectre is the first film to feature these elements since diamonds are forever 1971 following the Sony Pictures hack it was revealed Sony andon clashed regarding Finance stunts and filming locations Spectre is estimated to have a final budget of $245 300 million principal photography began in December 2014 and lasted until July 2015 with filming locations including Austria the United Kingdom Italy Morocco and Mexico Spectre premiered at the Royal Albert Hall on the 26th of October 2015 and was theatrically released in conventional and a Max formats in the United Kingdom that day and in the United States on the 6th of November the film received mixed reviews from critics who praised the action sequences cast performances particularly Craigs and Bas and the musical score but criticized the pacing and formulaic narrative decisions it grossed 880 million worldwide making it the sixth highest grossing film of 2015 and the second highest grossing James Bond film after Skyfall unadjusted for inflation fourth when adjusted the films them song writings on the wall W an Academy Award and Golden Globe for best original song the next film in the series no time to die was released in 2021 a postumus message from the previous M leads my 6 Agent James Bond to carry out a mission in Mexico City foiling a bombing attempt on a stadium during the day of the dead Festival Bond obtains a ring stylized with an octopus from the deceased attacker Marco Cyra and uncovers his connection to a secret organization in London Gareth mallerie the current M suspends bond for his unauthorized action m is engaged in a power struggle with Max Denby whom Bond dubs C the director general of the new privately backed joint intelligence Service formed by the merger of my five and my six see campaigns for Britain to join the global surveillance and intelligence initiative nine eyes and shut down down the zeros in section Bond who was operating on a mission postumus assigned by the previous M to eliminate CRA and track down his employers goes Rogue from my six with Eve monip peny and Q agreeing to Aid Bond covertly following the previous M's instructions Bond attends cyra's funeral in Rome and rescues his widow Lucia from assassins Lucia reveals cyra's association with a terrorist Network run by France oberhauser who has been presumed dead for 20 years using cra's ring Bond infiltrates a meeting where oberhauser targets The Pale King for assassination oberhauser recognizes Bond who flees across the city in a modified ason Martin db10 pursued by the Network's top assassin HS money Penney identifies The Pale King as Mr White a former member of the organization's subsidiary Quantum Bond tracks WIP down to alt toy where he is dying of thallium poisoning Bond offers to protect white's daughter mateline Swan a psychiatrist who possesses knowledge about luran white commits suicide Bond finds Swan who is reluctant to trust him until hins and his forces abduct her bond rescues Swan earning him her trust Q reveals leiffer Dominic green and rul Silva as agents of oberhauser organization which Swan reveals is named spect Swan takes Bon to luran a hotel in Tanger where a secret room directs them to oberhauser base in the Sahara hins ambushes them on route to the base but they fight him off and defeat him arriving at the base Bond and Swan confront oberhauser who reveals spectre's involvement in the joint intelligence service and the nine eyes program C complicit inspector's scheme plans to give Spectre unrestricted access to intelligence gathered by nine eyes after showing Swan a distressing recording of her father's suicide oberhauser subjects bond to Neurosurgical torture he discusses his shared past with bond to Swan revealing that they became adoptive Brothers after Bond's parents died believing that his father loved Bond more than him oberhauser killed him and staged his death as well since then he founded Spectre intending to Target Bond and adopted the name Ernst Stavro blow fold Bond and Swan Break Free stun blow fold with an explosive wristwatch and destroy the base before fleeing to London to prevent nine eyes from going online in London Bond Swan m q Bill Tanner and MIP peny gather to arrest C but Swan and bond are separately abducted by Spectre operatives while the others proceed with a plan after Q stops nine eyes from going online a fatal struggle between M and C results and C's death bond is taken to the ruins of the old my 6 building scheduled for demolition after Silva's bombing n two where Swan is held captive blof fold who survived the base's destruction with heavy scarring to his face gives Bond a three-minute ultimatum to abandon Swan or attempt a rescue and risk death Bond finds Swan and they escape as the building collapses Bond shoots down blof fold's helicopter which crashes onto Westminster Bridge blof fold survives and is arrested by m later Bond receives his restored Aon Martin DB5 from q and drives off with swan in March 2013 men said he would not return to direct the next film in the series then known as Bond 24 25 to 26 he later recanted and announced that he would return as he found the script and the plans for the long-term future of the franch appealing 27 Nicholas winding Reen would later reveal that he turned down an offer to direct the film 28 in directing Skyfall and Spectre men's became the first director to oversee two successive Bond films since John Glenn directed five consecutive films ending with license to kill in 1989 29 Dennis gastner returned as the film's production designer 30 while cinematographer hoit van HOA took over from Roger deacons 331 in July 2015 men's noted that the combined crew of Spectre numbered over 1,000 making it a larger production than Skyfall 32 Craig is listed as co-producer he considered the credit a high point of his career saying I'm just so proud of the fact that my name comes up somewhere else on the titles 33 the film's use of the Spectre organization and its characters marked the end of longstanding litigation between on Productions and producer Kevin mccl who sued James Bond Creator Ian Fleming in 1961 claiming ownership over elements of the novel Thunderball 34 and in an outof Court settlement 2 years later was awarded the novel's film rights including Spectre and its characters and three mccl died in 26 and in November 2013 MGM and the mcor state formally settled the issue with Dan Jack sister company of eon Productions with MGM acquiring the full copyright film rights to the concept of Spectre and all of the characters associated with it 36 it has been suggested that with the acquisition of the film rights and the organization's reintroduction to the series continuity the Spectre acronym was discarded and the organization reimagined as Spectre 370 3839 when Sony Pictures Entertainment renegotiated with Metro Goldwin mayor pictures the deal to co-finance the bond franchise in 2011 they were tasked to provide 25% of the negative cost of both Skyfall and Spectre in exchange for receiving 25% of the profits plus distribution fees for overseeing its worldwide rollout when the film was announced in June 2013 the budget was not yet fixed but was certain to be higher than the $210 million of Skyfall due to foreign locations and bigger payments for men's and Craig 40 in November 2014 writing Spectre marked the return of many script writers from the previous Bond films such as Skyfall writer John Logan 29 Neil pervis and Robert Wade who had done work in five previous Bond films N4 and British playwright jez Butterworth who had previously made uncredited contributions to Skyfall Butterworth was brought in to polish the script being helped by men's and Craig Butterworth considered that his changes involved adding what he would like to see as a teenager and limited the scenes with Bon talking to men as Bon shoots other men he doesn't sit around chatting to them so you put a line through that 44 with the acquisition of the rights to Spectre and its Associated characters pervis and Wade revealed that the film would provide a minor redcon to the continuity of the previous films with the quantum organization alluded to in Casino Royale and introduced in Quantum of Solace reimagined as a division within Spectre rather than an independent organization which is implied to be no longer active by the film's events the plot of Spectre also linked the events of Skyfall to Craig's first two Bond movies by revealing antagonist Raul Silva to be associated with Spectre reverting skyfalls initial solo story status 45 various plot ideas were discussed and discarded during the writing process Ralph Fen revealed in a 2021 podcast interview that at one stage Sam men's suggested a plot twist revealing M to be the villain which Fen vetoed another draft by Logan had my six Chief of Staff Bill Tanner uncovered as a spectre mole 464 the 748 despite being an original story Spectre draws on Ian Fleming's Source material most notably in the character of France oberhauser played by Kristoff Waltz and his father Hans Hans oberhauser is a background character in the short story octopusy from the octopusy and The Living Daylights collection and is named in the film as having been a temporary legal guardian of a young bond in 1983 49 as men's searched for events in young Bond's life to follow the childhood discussed in Skyfall he came across Hans oberhauser who becomes a father figure to bond from there men's conceived the idea of a natural child who had been pushed out cuckoo in the nest by bond which became France 50 similarly charm and bond is shown to have been his full-time Guardian observing the backstory established by Fleming 49 casting at the age of 50 Monica beluchi became the oldest actress to be cast as a Bond girl the main cast was revealed in December 2014 at the ziz and7 stage at Pinewood Studios Daniel Craig returned for his fourth appearance as James Bond while Ralph Fen Naomi Harris and Ben wiaw reprised their roles as M Eve MIP peny and Q respectively having been established in Skyfall Rory kenar also reprised his role as Bill Tanner in his third appearance in the series 51 Kristoff Waltz was cast in the role of France oberhauser though he refused to comment on the nature of the part 52 it was later revealed with the film's release that he is earnst Stavro blof fold Waltz got interested in the film for dealing with technology assisted Mass surveillance speaking about relevant social issues in a way that few bonds have done before and denied rumors that the role was written specially for him but added that when I came on board the role grew evolved and mutated 53 in addition to the principal cast alesandro Crona was cast as Marco Cyra Stephanie Sigman was cast as a strella and deadlif both was cast as a villain for scenes shot in Austria 23661 in February 2015 over wanting 500 background artists were hired for the pre-title sequence said in Mexico though they were replicated in the film giving the effect of around 10,000 extras 62 million 63 weding 664 filming men's revealed that production would begin on the 8th of December 2014 at Pinewood Studios with filming taking 7 months 65 men's also confirmed several filming locations including London Mexico City and Rome van Hua shot the film most mostly on Kodak 35mm film stock in addition to digital cameras such as the 6K AR Alexa 65mm 66 in contrast to Skyfall being filmed solely on digital cameras 67 early filming took place at Pinewood Studios and around London with scenes variously featuring Craig and Harris at Bond's flat and Craig and kener traveling down the river temps 68 after being cancelled in 2012 the Jaguar cx75 was recommissioned to appear in Spector the eston Martin db10 is driven by bond in the film The eston Martin DB5 reappears after reconstruction in Q's workshop at the film's ending with Bon driving away with it e with filming completed in Rome production moved to Mexico City in late March to shoot the film's opening sequence with scenes to include the Day of the Dead Festival filmed in and around the zoko and the Central historico District 86 at the time no such Day of the Dead parade like the one from the film took place in Mexico City in 2016 due to the interest raised by Spectre and the government's desire to promote the prehispanic Mexican culture the federal and local authorities decided to organize an actual Dia dim WTO parade through peso de la reforma and Centro historico on the 29th of October 26 16 which was attended by 250,000 people 8788 the film opens with a long take that joins six shots seamlessly and was one of the few scenes that required Prov visualization through extensive planning filming did not require motion control cameras the scene joints were done in post-production through retiming and reprojections which even matched Mexico locations with Interiors filmed at Pinewood 73 filming of the Mexico City scenes revolving around a Day of the Dead parade the planned scenes required the city Square to be closed for filming a sequence involving a fight aboard a messers Schmid burow blown B 105 CBS helicopter flown by stunt pilot Chuck Aaron 89 which called for modifications to be made to several buildings to prevent damage 90 this particular scene in Mexico required wanting 500 extras 10 giant skeletons and 250,000 paper flowers 91 reports in the Mexican media added that the film's second unit would move to Pink in the state of chapus to film aerial maneuvers considered too dangerous to shoot in an urban area 92 these were pasted over a computer generated square and crowd below the helicopter with motion captured doubles fighting inside men's and the effects team felt that this approach would get believable composition and movement compared Ed to adding a digital helicopter above the Mexico City location 93 following filming in Mexico and during a scheduled break Craig was flown to New York to undergo minor surgery to fix his knee injury it was reported that filming was not affected and he had returned to filming at Pinewood Studios as planned on the 22nd of April 94 nonetheless some parts of the Mexico scene were done with stunt doubles whose faces were digitally replaced with cray 73 on the 17th of May 2015 filming took place on the temps in London stunt scenes involving Craig and sidu on a speedboat as well as a low flying helicopter near Westminster Bridge were shot at night with filming temporarily closing both Westminster and Lambeth Bridges scenes were also shot on the river near my 6's headquarters at Vox Hall cross 95 the crew returned to the river less than a week later to film scene solely set on Westminster Bridge the London fire brigade was on set to simulate rain as well as monitor smoke used for filming Craig sidu and Waltz as well as Harris and fien were seen being filmed 96 prior to this scenes involving fien were shot at a restaurant in Cent Garden 97 blow folds helicopter crash was done with two full-sized helicopter shells which were rigged with steel workor and an overhead track computer generated rotor blades and scenery damage were added in post production the my 6 building which in the film is vacated and scheduled for demolition following the terrorist attack from Skyfall was replaced in the production plates for a digital reconstruction when the building is detonated it is a combination of both a miniature and a breakaway version of the digital building 73 after wrapping up in England production traveled to morocc Rocco in June with filming taking place in AA Tanger and oud after preliminary work was completed by the Productions second unit 98 the headquarters of Spectre in Morocco was located in garir which is a crater caused by erosion and of neither volcanic nor impact origin 99 an explosion filmed in Morocco holds a Guinness world record for the largest film stunt explosion in cinematic history involving 18100 40 L of kerosene and 24 charges each with a kilogram of high explosives 100 the outside shots of a train in a desert featured the Oriental Desert Express 101 principal photography concluded on the 5th of July 2015 a wrap-up party for Spectre was held in commemoration before entering post- production 102 filming took 128 days 103 whilst filming in Mexico City spe speculation in the media claimed that the script had been altered to accommodate the demands of Mexican authorities reportedly influencing details of the scene and characters casting choices and modifying the script to portray the country in a positive light to secure tax concessions and financial support worth up to $20 million for the film 104 this was denied by producer Michael G Wilson 104 who stated that the scene had always been intended to be shot in Mexico as production had been attracted to the imagery of the Day of the Dead and that the script had been developed from there 105 production of Skyfall had previously faced similar problems while attempting to secure permits to shoot the film's pre-title sequence in India before moving to Istanbul 160 107 five companies did the visual effects industrial Light and Magic double negative moving picture company cocy and peerless under the supervision of Steve beg the computer generated effects included set extensions digital touches on the vehicles and crumbling buildings 7393 a 6 one frin store handled the title sequence the seventh in the series designed by Daniel Clayman it took four months to complete and centered on an octopus Motif reminiscent of the Spectre logo along with images of love and relationships 108 soundtrack main article Spectre soundtrack Thomas Newman returned as spectre's composer 30 rather than composing the score once the film had moved into post-production Newman worked during filming 64 the theatrical trailer released in July 2015 contained a rendition of John Barry's on Her Majesty's Secret Service theme 190 110 men's stated that the final film would have more than 100 minutes of music 32 the soundtrack album was released on the 23rd of October 2015 in the UK and the 6th of November 2015 in the US on Decker records 111 112 the English band radio head were commissioned to write the title song and submitted man of war an unreleased song written in the 1990s 113 it was rejected as it had not been written for the film and so was ineligible for the Academy Award for best original song 114 radio head recorded another song for the film Spectre but this was also rejected as too Melancholy 115 in and 14 at the 2024 Iver nollo Awards Lana Del re told BBC news that she wrote her song 24 in for the film but had it rejected by producers 16 in September 2015on announced that Sam Smith had recorded the title theme writings on the wall 117 Smith reported writing the song in a single session with regular collaborator Jimmy NES in under half an hour before recording a demo satisfied with the quality the filmmakers used the demo in the final release 118 writings on the wall was released as a download on the 25th of September 20159 it received mixed reviews from critics and fans particularly in comparison to a Dell's Skyfall 120 billion 121 million 12020 w23 leading to Shirley bossi trending on Twitter on the day it was released 161 on 24 despite the mixed reception it became the first Bond theme to reach number one in the UK singles chart 125 the 2 to win the Academy Award for best original song 126 and the fifth to be nominated 127 a winner 28 and 5 it also won the Golden Globe Award for best original song at the 73rd Golden Globe awards Spectre is a 2015 spy film and the 24th in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions directed by Sam men and written by John Logan Neil pervis Robert Wade and jez Butterworth from a story conceived by Logan pervis and Wade it stars Daniel Craig as Bond alongside Kristoff Waltz Leia sedu Ben wiaw Naomi Harris Dave bista Monica beluchi and Ralph Fen it was distributed by Sony Pictures releasing in the film Bond battles Spectre an international crime organization led by France oberhauser Waltz despite initially stating he would not direct Spectre men's confirmed his return in 2014 after Nicolas winding rein declined to direct men's became the first to direct successive James Bond films since John Glenn the inclusion of Spectre and its Associated characters marked the end of the Thunderball controversy in which Kevin mccl and Fleming were embroiled in lengthy legal disputes over the film rights to the novel Spectre is the first film to feature these elements since diamonds are forever 1971 following the Sony Pictures hack it was revealed Sony and Eon clashed regarding Finance stunts and filming locations Spectre is estimated to have a final budget of $245 300 million principal photography began in December 2014 and lasted until July 2015 with filming locations including Austria the United Kingdom Italy Morocco and Mexico Spectre premiered at the Royal Albert Hall on the 26th of October 2015 and was theatrically released in conventional and a Max formats in the United Kingdom that day and in the United States on the 6th of November the film received mixed reviews from critics who praised the action sequences cast performances particularly Craigs and bodas and the musical score but criticized the pacing and formulaic narrative decisions it grossed $880 million worldwide making it the sixth highest grossing film of 2015 and the second highest grossing James Bond film after Skyfall unadjusted for inflation fourth when adjusted the film's theme song writings on the wall one an Academy Award and Golden Globe for best original song the next film in the series no time to die was released in 2021 a postumus message from the previous M leads my six agent James Bond to carry out a mission in Mexico City foiling a bombing attempt on a stadium during the day of the dead Festival Bond obtains a ring stylized with an octopus from the de ceased attacker Marco Cyra and uncovers his connection to a secret organization in London Gareth mallerie the current M suspends bond for his unauthorized action m is engaged in a power struggle with Max Denby whom Bond dubs C the director general of the new privately backed joint intelligence Service formed by the merger of My5 and my6 see campaigns for Britain to join the global surveillance and intelligence initiative nine eyes and shut down the zeros in section Bond who was operating on a mission postumus assigned by the previous M to eliminate CRA and track down his employers goes Rogue from my six with Eve monip peny and Q agreeing to Aid Bond covertly following the previous M's instructions Bond attends cyra's funeral in Rome and rescues his widow Lucia from assassins Lucia reveals cyra's association with a terrorist Network run by France oberhauser who has been presumed dead for 20 years using cra's ring Bond infiltrates a meeting where oberhauser targets The Pale King for assassination oberhauser recognizes Bond who flees across the city in a modified ason Martin db10 pursued by the Network's top assassin hins money Penney identifies The Pale King as Mr White a former member of the organization's subsidiary Quantum Bond tracks white down to Aly where he is dying of thallium poisoning Bond offers to protect white's daughter mateline Swan a psychiatrist who possesses knowledge about luran white commits suicide Bond finds Swan who is reluctant to trust him until hinx and his forces abduct her bond rescues Swan earning him her trust Q reveals leiffer Dominic green and rul Silva as agents of oberhauser organization which Swan reveals is named Spectre Swan takes Bon to luran a hotel in Tanger where a secret room directs them to Ober Hauser's base in the Sahara hinx ambushes them on route to the base but they fight him off and defeat him arriving at the base Bond and Swan confront oberhauser who reveals spectre's involvement in the joint intelligence service and the nine eyes program C complicit inspector's scheme plans to give Spectre unrestricted access to intelligence gathered by nine eyes after showing Swan a distressing recording of her father's suicide oberhauser subjects bond to Neurosurgical torture he discusses his shared past with bond to Swan revealing that they became adoptive Brothers after Bond's parents died believing that his father loved Bond more than him oberhauser killed him and staged his death as well since then he founded Spectre intending to Target Bond and adopted the name Ernst Stavro blof fold Bond and Swan Break Free stun blof fold with an explosive wristwatch and destroy the base before fleeing to London to prevent nine eyes from going online in London Bond Swan m q Bill Tanner and MIP peny gather to arrest C but Swan and bond are separately abducted by Spectre operatives while the others proceed with a plan after Q stops nine eyes from going online a fatal struggle between M and C results and C's death bond is taken to the ruins of the old my 6 building scheduled for demolition after Silva's bombing N2 where Swan is held captive blof fold who survived the bases destruction with heavy scarring to his face gives Bond a three-minute ultimatum to abandon Swan or attempt a rescue and risk death Bond finds Swan and they escape as the building collapses Bond shoots down blof fold's helicopter which crashes onto Westminster Bridge blof fold survives and is arrested by m later Bond receives his restored Aon Martin DB5 from q and drives off with swan in March 2013 men said he would not return to direct the next film in the series then known as Bond 24 25- 26 he later recanted and announced that he would return as he found the script and the plans for the the long-term future of the franchise appealing 27 Nicholas winding Reen would later reveal that he turned down an offer to direct the film 28 in directing Skyfall and Spectre men's became the first director to oversee two successive Bond films since John Glenn directed five consecutive films ending with license to kill in 1989 29 Dennis gastner returned as the film's production designer 30 while cinematographer hoit van HOA took over from Roger deacons 331 in July 2015 men's noted that the combined crew of Spectre numbered over 1,000 making it a larger production than Skyfall 32 Craig is listed as co-producer he considered the credit a high point of his career saying I'm just so proud of the fact that my name comes up somewhere else on the titles 33 the film's use of the Spectre organization and its characters marked the the end of longstanding litigation between ion Productions and producer Kevin mccl who sued James Bond Creator Ian Fleming in 1961 claiming ownership over elements of the novel Thunderball 34 and in an outof Court settlement 2 years later was awarded the novel's film rights including Spectre and its characters and three mccl died in 26 and in November 2013 MGM and the MCL State formally settled the issue with Dan Jack sister company of on Productions with MGM acquiring the full copyright film rights to the concept of Spectre and all of the characters associated with it 36 it has been suggested that with the acquisition of the film rights and the organization's reintroduction to the series continuity the Spectre acronym was discarded and the organization reimagined as Spectre 370 3839 when Sony Pictures Entertainment renegotiated with Metro Goldwin mayor pictures the deal to co-finance the bond franchise in 2011 they were tasked to provide 25% of the negative cost of both Skyfall and Spectre in exchange for receiving 25% of the profits plus distribution fees for overseeing its worldwide rollout when the film was announced in June 2013 the budget was not yet fixed but was certain to be higher than the $210 million of Skyfall due to foreign locations and bigger payments for men's and Craig 40 in November 2014 writing Spectre marked the return of many script writers from the previous Bond films such as Skyfall writer John Logan 29 Neil pvis and Robert Wade who had done work in five previous Bond films N4 and British playwright jez Butterworth who had previously made uncredited contributions to Skyfall Butterworth was brought in to polish the script being helped by men's and Craig Butterworth considered that his changes involved adding what he would like to see as a teenager and limited the scenes with Bon talking to men as Bon shoots other men he doesn't sit around chatting to them so you put a lying through that 44 with the acquisition of the rights to Spectre and its Associated characters pervis and Wade revealed that the film would provide a minor redcon to the continuity of the previous films with the quantum organization alluded to in Casino Royale and introduced in Quantum of Solace reimagined as a division within Spectre rather than an independent organization which is implied to be no longer active by the film's events the plot of Spectre also linked the events of Skyfall to Craig's first two Bond movies by revealing antagonist Raul Silva to be associated with Spectre reverting skyfall's initial solo story status 45 various plot ideas were discussed and discarded during the writing process Ralph Fen revealed in a 2021 podcast interview that at one stage Sam men's suggested a plot twist revealing mem to be the villain which fien vetoed another draft by Logan had my six Chief of Staff Bill Tanner uncovered as a spectre mole 464 748 despite being an original story Spectre draws on Ian Fleming's Source material most notably in the character of France oberhauser played by Kristoff Waltz and his father Hans Hans oberhauser is a background character in the short story octopusy from the octopusy and the living Daylight's collection and is named in the film as having been a temporary legal guardian of a young bond in 1983 49 as men's searched for events in young Bond's life to follow the childhood discussed in Skyfall he came across Hans oberhauser who becomes a father figure to bond from there men's conceived the idea of a natural child who had been pushed out cuckoo in the nest by bond which became France 50 similarly charm and bond is shown to have been his full-time Guardian observing the backstory established by Fleming 49 casting at the age of 50 Monica beluchi became the oldest actress to be cast as a Bond girl the main cast was revealed in December 2014 at the ziz A7 stage at Pinewood Studios Daniel Craig returned for his fourth appearance as James Bond while Ralph Fen Naomi Harris and Ben wiaw reprised their roles as M Eve monip peny and Q respectively having been established in Skyfall Rory kenar also reprised his role as Bill Tanner in his third appearance in the series 51 Kristoff Waltz was cast in the role of France oberhauser though he refused to comment on the nature of the part 52 it was later revealed with the film's release that he is Ernst Stavro blofeld Waltz got interested in the film for dealing with technology assisted Mass surveillance speaking about relevant social issues in a way that few bonds have done before and denied rumors that the role was written specially for him but added that when I came on board the role grew evolved and mutated 53 in addition to the principal cast alesandro Crona was cast as Marco Cyra Stephanie Sigman was cast as a strella and deff both was cast as a villain for scenes shot in Austria 23661 in February 2015 over wanting 500 background artists were fired for the pre-title sequence set in Mexico though they were replicated in the film giving the effect of around 10,000 extras 62,63 weding 664 filming men's revealed that production would begin on the 8th of December 2014 at Pinewood Studios with filming taking 7 months 65 men's also confirmed several filming locations including London Mexico City and Rome van Hua shot the film mostly on Kodak 35mm film stock in addition to digital cameras such as the 6K arel XA 65 mm66 in contrast to Skyfall being filmed solely on digital cameras 67 early filming took place at Pinewood Studios and around London with scenes variously featuring Craig and Harris at Bond's flat and Craig and kenar traveling down the river temps 68 after being canceled in 2012 the Jaguar cx75 was recommissioned to appear inspector the eston Martin db10 is driven by bond in the film The eston Martin DB5 reappears after reconstruction in Q's workshop at the film's ending with Bond driving away with it e with filming completed in Rome production moved to Mexico City in late March to shoot the film's opening sequence with SC means to include the Day of the Dead Festival filmed in and around the zoko and the Centro historico District 86 at the time no such Day of the Dead parade like the one from the film took place in Mexico City in 2016 due to the interest raised by Spectre and the government's desire to promote the prehispanic Mexican culture the federal and local authorities decided to organize an actual dim WTO parade through peso de la reforma and Centro historico on the 29th of October 2016 which was attended by 250,000 people 8788 the film opens with a long take that joins six shots seamlessly and was one of the few scenes that required per visualization through extensive planning filming did not require motion control cameras the scene joints were done in post- production through retiming and reprojections which even matched Mexico locations with Interiors filmed at Pinewood 73 filming of the Mexico City scenes revolving around a Day of the Dead parade the plan scenes required the city Square to be closed for filming a sequence involving a fight aboard a messers Schmid burow Blom B 105 CBS helicopter flown by stunt pilot Chuck Aaron 89 which called for modifications to be made to several buildings to prevent damage 90 this particular scene in Mexico required wanting 500 extras 10 giant skeletons and 250,000 paper flowers 91 reports in the Mexican media added that the film's second unit would move to Pink in the state of chapus to film aerial maneuvers considered too dangerous to shoot in an urban area 92 these were pasted over a computer generated square and crowd below the helicopter with motion captur doubles fighting inside men's and the effects team felt that this approach would get believable comp position and movement compared to adding a digital helicopter above the Mexico City location 93 following filming in Mexico and during a scheduled break Craig was flown to New York to undergo minor surgery to fix his knee injury it was reported that filming was not affected and he had returned to filming at Pinewood Studios as planned on the 22nd of April 94 nonetheless some parts of the Mexico scene were done with stunt doubles whose faces were digitally replaced with Craigs 73 on the 17th of May 2015 filming took place on the temps in London stunt scenes involving Craig and sidu on a speedboat as well as a low flying helicopter near Westminster Bridge were shot at night with filming temporarily closing both Westminster and Lambeth Bridges scenes were also shot on the river near my 6's headquarters at Vox Hall cross 95 the crew returned to the river Les than a week later to film scenes solely set on Westminster Bridge the London fire brigade was on set to simulate rain as well as monitor smoke used for filming Craig sidu and Waltz as well as Harris and fien were seen being filmed 96 prior to this scenes involving fien were shot at a restaurant in Cent Garden 97 blof folds helicopter crash was done with two full-sized helicopter shells which were rigged with steel work and an overhead track computer generated rotor blades and scenery damage were added in post production the my6 building which in the film is vacated and scheduled for demolition following the terrorist attack from Skyfall was replaced in the production plates for a digital reconstruction when the building is detonated it is a combination of both a miniature and a breakaway version of the digital building 73 after wrapping up in England production traveled to Morocco in June with filming taking place in AA Tanger and oud after preliminary work was completed by the Productions second unit 98 the headquarters of Spectre in Morocco was located in garam medwar which is a crater caused by erosion and of neither volcanic nor impact origin 99 an explosion filmed in Morocco holds a Guinness world record for the largest film stunt explosion in cinematic history involving 18 140 L of kerosene and 24 charges each with a kilogram of high explosives 100 the outside shots of a train in a desert featured the Oriental Desert Express 101 principal photography concluded on the 5th of July 2015 a wrap-up party for Spectre was held in commemoration before entering Post production 102 filming took 128 days 103 whilst filming in Mexico City speculation in the media claimed that the script had been altered to accommodate the demands of Mexican authorities reportedly influencing details of the scene and characters casting choices and modifying the script to portray the country in a positive light to secure tax concessions and financial support worth up to $20 million for the film 104 this was denied by producer Michael G Wilson 104 who stated that the scene had always been intended to be shot in Mexico as production had been attracted to the imagery of the Day of the Dead and that the script had been developed from there 105 production of Skyfall had previously faced similar problems while attempting to secure permits to shoot the film's pre-title sequence in India before moving to Istanbul 10 16 107 five companies did the visual effects industrial Light and Magic double negative moving picture company cocy and Peerless under the supervision of Steve beg the computer generated effects included set extensions digital touches on the vehicles and crumbling buildings 7393 a 6 one frame store handled the title sequence the seventh in the series designed by Daniel Clayman it took four months to complete and centered on an octopus Motif reminiscent of the Spectre logo along with images of love and relationships 108 soundtrack main article Spectre soundtrack Thomas Newman returned as spectre's composer 30 rather than composing the score once the film had moved into post-production Newman worked during filming 64 the theatrical trailer released in July 2015 contained a rendition of John Barry's on Her Majesty's Secret Service theme 190 110 men's stated that the final film would have more than 100 minutes of Music 32 the soundtrack album was released on the 23rd of October 2015 in the UK and the 6th of November 2015 in the US on Decker records 111 112 the English band radio head were commissioned to write the title song and submitted man of war an unreleased song written in the 1990s 113 it was rejected as it had not been written for the film and so was ineligible for the Academy Award for best original song 114 radio head recorded another song for the film Spectre but this was also rejected as too Melancholy 115 iner and 14 at the 2024 Iver Noll Awards Lana Del re told BBC news that she wrote her song 24 in for the film but had it rejected by producers 116 in September 2015on announced that Sam Smith had recorded the title theme writings on the wall 117 Smith reported writing the song in a single session with regular collaborator Jimmy napes in under half an hour before recording a demo satisfied with the quality the filmmakers used the demo in the final release 118 writings on the wall was released as a download on the 25th of September 2015 119 it received mixed reviews from critics and fans particularly in comparison to Adele's Skyfall 120 billion 121 milon 12020 23 leading to Shirley bossi trending on Twitter on the day it was released 161 on 24 despite the mixed reception it became the first Bond theme to reach number one in the UK singles chart 125 the 2 to win the Academy Award for best original song 126 and the fifth to be nominated 12 27 a winner 28 and5 it also won the Golden Globe Award for best original song at the 73rd Golden Globe awards Spectre is a 2015 spy film and the 24th in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions directed by Sam mens and written by John Logan Neil pervis Robert Wade and jez Butterworth from a story conceived by Logan pervis and Wade it stars Daniel Craig as Bond alongside Kristoff Waltz Leia sedu Ben Wishaw Naomi Harris Dave bista Monica beluchi and Ralph Fen it was distributed by Sony Pictures releasing in the film Bond battle Spectre an international crime organization led by France oberhauser Waltz despite initially stating he would not direct Spectre men's confirmed his return in 2014 after Nicholas's winding Ren declined to direct men's became the first to direct successive James Bond films since John Glenn the inclusion of Spectre and its Associated characters marked the end of the Thunderball controversy in which Kevin mccl and Fleming were embroiled in lengthy legal disputes over the film rights to the novel Spectre is the first film to feature these elements since diamonds are forever 1971 following the Sony Pictures hack it was revealed Sony and Eon clashed regarding Finance stunts and filming location Spectre is estimated to have a final budget of $245 300 million principal photography began in December 2014 and lasted until July 2015 with filming locations including Austria the United Kingdom Italy Morocco and Mexico Spectre premiered at the Royal Albert Hall on the 26th of October 2015 and was theatrically released in conventional and a Max formats in the United Kingdom that day and in the United States on the 6th of November the film received mixed reviews from critics who praised the action sequences cast performances particularly Craigs and Bas and the musical score but criticized the pacing and formulaic narrative decisions it grossed $880 million worldwide making it the sixth highest grossing film of 2015 and the second highest grossing James Bond film after Skyfall unadjusted for inflation forth when adjusted the film's theme song writings on the wall W an Academy Award and Golden Globe for best original song the next film in the series no time to die was released in 2021 a postumus message from the previous M leads my six agent James Bond to carry out a mission in Mexico City foiling a bombing attempt on a stadium during the day of the dead Festival Bond obtains a ring sty ized with an octopus from the deceased attacker Marco CRA and uncovers his connection to a secret organization in London Gareth mallerie the current M suspends bond for his unauthorized action m is engaged in a power struggle with Max Denby whom Bond dubs C the director general of the new privately backed joint intelligence Service formed by the merger of my five and my 6 see campaigns for Britain to join the global surveillance and intelligence initiative nine eyes and shut down the zeros in section Bond who was operating on a mission post humously assigned by the previous M to eliminate CRA and track down his employers goes Rogue from my six with Eve monip peny and Q agreeing to Aid Bond covertly following the previous M's instructions Bond attends cyra's funeral in Rome and rescues his widow Lucia from assassins Lucia reveals cyra's Association with a terrorist Network run by France oberhauser who has been presumed dead for 20 years using cyra's ring Bond infiltrates a meeting where oberhauser targets The Pale King for assassination oberhauser recognizes Bond who flees across the city in a modified ason Martin db10 pursued by the Network's top assassin HS money peny identifies The Pale King as Mr White a former member of the organization's subsidiary quantum Bond tracks white down to Aly where he is dying of thalium poisoning Bond offers to protect white's daughter mateline Swan a psychiatrist who possesses knowledge about luran white commits suicide Bond finds Swan who is reluctant to trust him until hinx and his forces abduct her bond rescues Swan earning him her trust Q reveals Le chiffer Dominic green and rul Silva as agents of oberos organization which Swan reveals is named Spectre Swan takes bond to luran a hotel in Tanger where a secret room directs them to Ober Hauser's base in the Sahara hinx ambushes them on route to the base but they fight him off and defeat him arriving at the base Bond and Swan confront oberhauser who reveals spectre's involvement in the joint intelligence service and the nine eyes program C complicit inspector's scheme plans to give Spectre unrestricted access to intelligence gathered by nine eyes after showing Swan a distressing recording of her father's suicide oberhauser subjects bond to Neurosurgical torture he discusses his shared past with bond to Swan revealing that they became adoptive Brothers after Bond's parents died believing that his father loved Bond more than him oberhauser killed him and staged his death as well since then he founded Spectre intending to Target Bond and adopted the name Ernst Stavro blof fold Bond and Swan Break Free stun blow fold with an explosive wristwatch and destroy the base before fleeing to London to prevent nine eyes from going online in London Bond Swan m q Bill Tanner and money peny gather to arrest C but Swan and bond are separately abducted by Spectre operatives while the others proceed with a plan after Q stop stops nine eyes from going online a fatal struggle between M and C results and C's death bond is taken to the ruins of the old my 6 building scheduled for demolition after Silva's bombing N2 where Swan is held captive blof fold who survived the base's destruction with heavy scarring to his face gives Bond a three-minute ultimatum to abandon Swan or attempt a rescue and risk death Bond finds Swan and they escape as the building collapsed Bond shoots down blof fold's helicopter which crashes onto Westminster Bridge blof fold survives and is arrested by m later Bond receives his restored Aon Martin DB5 from q and drives off with swan in March 2013 men said he would not return to direct the next film in the series then known as Bond 24 25 to 26 he later recanted and announced that he would return as he found the script and the plans for the long-term future of the franchise appealing 27 Nicholas winding Reen would later reveal that he turned down an offer to direct the film 28 in directing Skyfall and Spectre men's became the first director to oversee two successive Bond films since John Glenn directed five consecutive films ending with license to kill in 1989 29 Dennis gastner returned as the film's production designer 31 while cinematographer Hoy van HOA took over from Roger deacons 331 in July 2015 men's noted that the combined crew of Spectre numbered over 1,000 making it a larger production than Skyfall 32 Craig is listed as co-producer he considered the credit a high point of his career saying I'm just so proud of the fact that my name comes up somewhere else on the titles 33 the film's use of the Spectre organization and its characters marked the end of longstanding litigation between on Productions and producer Kevin mccl who sued James Bond Creator Ian Fleming in 1961 claiming ownership over elements of the novel Thunderball 34 and in an outof Court settlement two years later was awarded the novel's film rights including Spectre and its characters and three mccl died in 26 and in November 2013 MGM and the MCL State formally settled the issue with Dan Jack sister company of eon Productions with MGM acquiring the full copyright film rights to the concept of Spectre and all of the characters associated with it 36 it has been suggested that with the acquisition of the film rights and the organization's reintroduction to the series continuity the Spectre acronym was discarded and the organization reimagined as Spectre 3070 3839 when Sony Pictures Entertainment renegotiated with Metro Goldwin mayor pictures the deal to co-finance the bond franchise in 2011 they were tasked to provide 25% of the negative cost of both Skyfall and Spectre in exchange for receiving 25% of the profits plus distribution fees for overseeing its worldwide rollout when the film was announced in June 2013 the budget was not yet fixed but was certain to be higher than the $210 million of Skyfall due to foreign locations and bigger payments for men's and Craig 40 in November 2014 writing Spectre marked the return of many script writers from the previous Bond films such as Skyfall writer John Logan 29 Neil pervis and Robert Wade who had done work in five previous Bond films and4 in British playwright Jaz Butterworth who had previously made uncredited contributions to Skyfall Butterworth was brought in to polish the script being helped by men's and Craig Butterworth considered that his changes involved adding what he would like to see as a teenager and limited the scenes with Bon talking to men as Bon shoots other men he doesn't sit around adding to them so you put a line through that 44 with the acquisition of the rights to Spectre and its Associated characters pervis and Wade revealed that the film would provide a minor ritcon to the continuity of the previous films with the quantum organization alluded to in Casino Royale and introduced in Quantum of Solace reimagined as a division within Spectre rather than an independent organization which is implied to be no longer active by the film's events the plot of Spectre also also linked the events of Skyfall to Craig's first two Bond movies by revealing antagonist Raul Silva to be associated with Spectre reverting skyfalls initial solo story status 45 various plot ideas were discussed and discarded during the writing process Ralph Fen revealed in a 2021 podcast interview that at one stage Sam men's suggested a plot twist revealing M to be the villain which Fen vetoed another draft by Logan had my six Chief of Staff Bill Tanner uncovered as a spectre mole 464 748 despite being an original story Spectre draws on Ian Fleming's Source material most notably in the character of France oberhauser played by Kristoff Waltz and his father Hans Hans oberhauser is a background character in the short story octopusy from the octopusy and The Living Daylights collection and is named in the film as having been a temporary legal guard guardian of a young bond in 1983 49 as men's searched for events in young Bond's life to follow the childhood discust and Skyfall he came across Hans oberhauser who becomes a father figure to bond from there men's conceived the idea of a natural child who had been pushed out cuckoo in the nest by bond which became France 50 similarly charman bond is shown to have been his full-time Guardian observing the backstory EST established by Fleming 49 casting at the age of 50 Monica beluchi became the oldest actress to be cast as a Bond girl the main cast was revealed in December 2014 at the ziz A7 stage at Pinewood Studios Daniel Craig returned for his fourth appearance as James Bond while Ralph Fen Naomi Harris and Ben wiaw reprised their roles as M Eve monip peny and Q respectively having been established in Skyfall Rory kenar also reprised his role as Bill Tanner in his third appearance in the series 51 Kristoff Waltz was cast in the role of France oberhauser though he refused to comment on the nature of the part 52 it was later revealed with the film's release that he is Ernst Stavro blofeld Waltz got interested in the film for dealing with technology assisted Mass surveillance speaking about relevant social issues in a way that few Bond have done before and denied rumors that the role was written specially for him but added that when I came on board the role grew evolved and mutated 53 in addition to the principal cast alesandro Crona was cast as Marco Cyra Stephanie Sigman was cast as EST strella and deff both was cast as a villain for scenes shot in Austria 23661 in February 2015 over 1an 500 background artists were hired for the pre-title sequence set in Mexico though they were replicated in the film giving the effect of around 10,000 extras 62,63 wedding 664 filming men's revealed that production would begin on the 8th of December 2014 at Pinewood Studios with filming taking 7 months 65 men's also confirmed several filming locations including London Mexico City and Rome van Hua shot the film mostly on Kodak 35mm film stock in addition to digital cameras such as the 6K AR Alexa 65 m m66 in contrast to Skyfall being filmed solely on digital cameras 67 early filming took place at Pinewood Studios and around London with scenes variously featuring Craig and Harris at bonds flat and Craig and kenar traveling down the river temps 60 8 after being cancelled in 2012 the Jaguar cx75 was recommissioned to appear inspector the eston Martin db10 is driven by bond in the film The eston Martin DB5 reappears after reconstruction in Q's workshop at the film's ending with Bond driving away with it e with filming completed in Rome production moved to Mexico City in late March to shoot the film's open sequence with scenes to include the Day of the Dead Festival filmed in and around the zoko and the Central historico District 86 at the time no such Day of the Dead parade like the one from the film took place in Mexico City in 2016 due to the interest raised by Spectre and the government's desire to promote the prehispanic Mexican culture the federal and local authorities decided to organize an actual Dia de WTO parade through peso de la reforma and Centro historico on the 29th of October 2016 which was attended by 250,000 people 8788 the film opens with a long take that joins six shots seamlessly and was one of the few scenes that required Prov visualization through extensive planning filming did not require motion control cameras the scene joints were done in post- production through retiming and reprojections which even matched Mexico locations within Interiors filmed at Pinewood 73 filming of the Mexico City scenes revolving around a Day of the Dead parade the planned scenes required the city Square to be closed for filming a sequence involving a fight aboard a messers Schmid burow Blom B 105 CBS helicopter flown by stunt pilot Chuck Aaron 89 which called for modifications to be made to several buildings to prevent damage 90 this particular scene in Mexico required 1 500 extras 10 giant skeletons and 250,000 paper flowers 91 reports in the Mexican media added that the film's second unit would move to Pink in the state of chapus to film aerial maneuvers considered too dangerous to shoot in an urban area 92 these were pasted over a computer generated square and crowd below the helicopter with motion captured doubles fighting inside men's and the effects team felt that this approach would get believable composition and movement compared to adding a digital helicopter above the Mexico City location 93 following filming in Mexico and during a scheduled break Craig was flown to New York to undergo minor surgery to fix his knee injury it was reported that filming was not affected and he had returned to filming at Pinewood Studios as planned on the 22nd of April 94 nonetheless some parts of the Mexico scene were done with stunt doubles whose faces were digitally replaced with Craigs 73 on the 17th of May 2015 filming took place on the temps in London stunt scenes involving Craig and sidu on a speedboat as well as a low flying helicopter near Westminster Bridge were shot at night with filming temporarily closing both Westminster and lambath bridges scenes were also shot on the river near my 6's headquarters at Vox Hall cross 95 the crew returned to the river less than a week later to film scenes solely set on Westminster Bridge the London fire brigade was on set to simulate rain as well as monitor smoke used for filming Craig sidu and Waltz as well as Harris and fien were seen being filmed 96 prior to this scenes involving fien were shot at a restaurant in Cent Garden 97 blow folds helicopter crash was done with two full-sized helicopter shells which were rigged with steel work and an overhead track computer generated rotor blades and scenery damage were added in post production the my 6 building which in the film is vacated and scheduled for demolition following the terrorist attack from Skyfall was replaced in the production plates for a digital reconstruction when the building is detonated it is a combination of both a miniature and a breakaway version of the digital building 73 after wrapping up in England production traveled to Morocco in June with filming taking place in AA Tanger and ow after preliminary work was completed by the Productions second unit 98 the headquarters of Spectre in Morocco was located in garir which is a crater caused by erosion and of neither volcanic nor impact origin 99 an explosion filmed in Morocco holds a Guinness world record for the largest film stunt explosion in cinematic history involving 18 140 L of kerosene and 24 charges each with a kilogram of high explosives 100 the outside shots of a train in a desert featured the Oriental Desert Express 101 principal photography concluded on the 5th of July 2015 a wrap-up party for Spectre was held in commemoration before entering post- production 102 filming took 128 days 3 whilst filming in Mexico City speculation in the media claimed that the script had been altered to accommodate the demands of Mexican authorities reportedly influencing details of the scene and characters casting choices and modifying the script to portray the country in a positive light to secure tax concessions and financial support worth up to $20 million for the film 104 this was denied by producer Michael G Wilson 104 who stated that the scene had always been intended to be shot in Mexico as production had been attracted to the imagery of the Day of the Dead and that the script had been developed from there 105 production of Skyfall had previously faced similar problems while attempting to secure permits to shoot the film's pre-title sequence in India before moving to Istanbul 16017 five companies did the visual effects industrial Light and Magic double negative moving picture company cite and Peerless under the supervision of Steve beg the computer generated effects included set extensions digital touches on the vehicles and crumbling buildings 7393 a 6 one Fram store handled the title sequence the seventh in the series designed by Daniel Clayman it took four months to complete and centered on an octopus Motif reminiscent of the Spectre logo along with images of love and relationships 108 soundtrack main article Spectre soundtrack Thomas Newman returned as spectre's composer 30 rather than composing the score once the film had moved into post-production Newman worked during filming 64 the theatrical trailer released in July 2015 contained a rendition of John berri's On Her Majesty's Secret Service theme 190 110 men's stated that the final film would have more than 100 minutes of Music 32 the soundtrack album was released on the 23rd of October 2015 in the UK and the 6th of November 2015 in the US on Decker records 111 112 the English band radio head were commissioned to write the title song and submitted man of war an unreleased song written in the 1990s 113 it was rejected as it had not been written for the film and so was ineligible for the Academy Award for best original song 114 radio head recorded another song for the film Spectre but this was also rejected as too Melancholy 115 in 14 at the 2024 Ivor nollo Awards Lana Del re told BBC news that she wrote her song 24 in for the film but had it rejected by producers 116 in September 2015 on announced that Sam Smith had recorded the title theme writings on the wall 117 Smith reported writing the song in a single session with regular collaborator Jimmy napes in under half an hour before recording a demo satisfied with the quality the filmmakers used the demo in the final release 118 writings on the wall was released as a download on the 25th of September 2015 119 it received mixed reviews from critics and fans particularly in comparison to Adele's Skyfall 120 billion 121 million2 23 leading to Shirley bossi trending on Twitter on the day it was released 161 on 24 despite the mixed reception it became the first Bond theme to reach number one in the UK singles chart 125 the second to win the Academy Award for best original song 126 and the fifth to be nominated 127a winner 28 and5 it also won the Golden Globe Award for best original song at the 73rd Golden Globe awards Spectre is a 2015 spy film and the 24th in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions directed by Sam mens and written by John Logan Neil pervis Robert Wade and jez Butterworth from a story conceived by Logan pervis and Wade it stars Daniel Craig as Bon alongside Kristoff Waltz Leia sedu Ben Wishaw Naomi Harris Dave bista Monica beluchi and Ralph Fen it was distributed by Sony Pictures releasing in the film Bond battles Spectre an international crime organization led by France oberhauser Waltz despite initially stating he would not direct Spectre men's confirmed his return in 2014 after Nicolas winding refen declined to direct men's became the first to direct successive James Bond films since John Glenn the inclusion of Spectre and its Associated characters marked the end of the Thunderball controversy in which Kevin mccl and Fleming were embroiled in lengthy legal disputes over the film writs to the novel Spectre is the first film to feature these elements since diamonds are forever 1971 following the Sony Pictures hack it was revealed Sony and Eon clashed regarding Finance stunts and filming locations Spectre is estimated to have a final budget of $245 300 million principal photography began in December 2014 and lasted until July 2015 with filming locations including Austria the United Kingdom Italy Morocco and Mexico Spectre premiered at the Royal Albert Hall on the 26th of October 2015 and was theatrically released in conventional and a Max formats in the in the United Kingdom that day and in the United States on the 6th of November the film received mixed reviews from critics who praised the action sequences cast performances particularly Craigs and bodas and the musical score but criticized the pacing and formulaic narrative decisions it grossed $880 million worldwide making it the sixth highest grossing film of 2015 and the second highest grossing James Bond film after die fall unadjusted for inflation fourth when adjusted the film's theme song writings on the wall one in Academy Award and Golden Globe for best original song the next film in the series no time to die was released in 2021 a postumus message from the previous M leads my six agent James Bond to carry out a mission in Mexico City foiling a bombing attempt on a stadium during the day of the dead Festival Bond obtains a ring stylized with an octopus from the deceased attacker Marco Cyra and uncovers his connection to a secret organization in London Gareth mallerie the current M suspends bond for his unauthorized action m is engaged in a power struggle with Max Denby whom Bond dubs C the director general of the new privately backed joint intelligence Service formed by the merger of my five and my 6 see campaigns for Britain to join the global surveillance and intelligence initiative 9 eyes and shut down the zeros in section Bond who was operating on a mission postumus assigned by the previous M to eliminate CRA and track down his employers goes Rogue from my six with Eve monip peny and Q agreeing to Aid Bond covertly following the previous M's instructions Bond attends cyra's funeral in Rome and rescues his widow Lucia from assassins Lucia reveals cyra's association with a terrorist Network run by France oberhauser who has been presumed dead for 20 years using cra's ring Bond infiltrates a meeting where oberhauser targets The Pale King for assassination oberhauser recognizes Bond who flees across the city in a modified ason Martin db10 pursued by the Network's top assassin HS money Penney identifies The Pale King as Mr White a former member of the organiz A's subsidiary Quantum Bond tracks white down to Aly where he is dying of thalium poisoning Bond offers to protect white's daughter mateline Swan a psychiatrist who possesses knowledge about luran white commits suicide Bond finds Swan who is reluctant to trust him until hins and his forces abduct her bond rescues Swan earning him her trust Q reveals Le chiffer Dominic green and r Silva as agents of oberhauser organization which Swan reveals is named Spectre Swan takes bond to luran a hotel in Tanger where a secret room directs them to oberhauser base in the Sahara hinx ambushes them on route to the base but they fight him off and defeat him arriving at the base Bond and Swan confront oberhauser who reveals spectre's involvement in the joint intelligence service and the nine eyes program C complicit inspector's scheme plans to give Spectre unrestricted access to intelligence gathered by nine eyes after showing Swan a distressing recording of her father's suicide oberhauser subjects bond to Neurosurgical torture he discusses his shared past with Bon to Swan revealing that they became adoptive Brothers after Bon's parents died believing that his father loved Bond more than him oberhauser killed him and staged his death as well say since then he founded Spectre intending to Target Bond and adopted the name Ernst Stavro blof fold Bond and Swan Break Free stun blow fold with an explosive wristwatch and destroy the base before fleeing to London to prevent nine eyes from going online in London Bond Swan m q Bill Tanner and MIP peny gather to arrest C but Swan and bond are separately abducted by Spectre operatives while the others proceed with a plan after Q stops nine eyes from going online a fatal struggle between M and C results in C's death bond is taken to the ruins of the old my 6 building scheduled for demolition after Silva's bombing and two where Swan is held captive blof fold who survived the base's destruction with heavy scarring to his face gives Bond a three-minute ultimatum to abandon Swan or attempt a rescue and risk death Bond finds Swan and they escape as the building collapses Bon shoots down blof fold's helicopter which crashes onto Westminster Bridge blof fold survives and is arrested by him later Bond receives his restored Aon Martin DB5 from q and drives off with swan in March 2013 men said he would not return to direct the next film in the series then known as Bond 24 25 to 26 he later recanted and announced that would return as he found the script and the plans for the long-term future of the franch