James Bond Actors You May Not Have Known Passed Away
James Bond Actors You May Not Have Known Passed Away MGM/United Artists
By Tim Lammers/May 19, 2021 7:17 pm EDT
Without question, Eon Productions James Bond film series has been one of the most successful franchises in cinematic history, with 25 films produced to date, including the upcoming, long-delayed No Time to Die. The series kicked off, of course, with Dr. No in 1962, with Sean Connery playing the dashing British secret agent who goes by the code name 007. Over the years the Bond mantle has been taken up by five other actors: George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig.
Luke Skywalker Rumored To Show Up In Multiple Disney Plus Projects
The Mandalorian season 2, there’s hope that the character will return in other
Star Wars projects in the near future.
While Lucasfilm is keeping its plans for that galaxy far, far away under tight wraps, it’s clear that with the introduction of several Disney Plus series, including
The Book of Boba Fett, and
Rangers of the New Republic, George Lucas’ science fantasy world is pushing to embrace the Marvel formula of an interconnected narrative that spans multiple flicks and TV shows.
After all, this blueprint has already proven its efficiency in the cinematic domain, whereas Disney’s own
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Time and hindsight has not been kind to these movies.
With the internet having lost its collective mind at the idea that Shrek might not be a certified classic (note: it isn t, it s good, but it is by no means a masterpiece), you might be surprised to find out that there have been plenty of bad movies that critics were overly positive about when they were first released.
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Sure, history is laced with examples of great movies that were simply misunderstood when they hit the cinemas, but what about the other way around? Critics aren t perfect, opinions aren t shared by everyone, but modern consensus on these ten films tell us that. well. the critics were wrong.
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What happens to a dystopia that never comes to be? Does a story’s inaccuracy in predicting the future make it kitsch, a curio with no value beyond historic curiosity? Is an unrealized world the science fiction equivalent of a doomsday prophet after doomsday comes and goes? Or is there still something to be gleaned from a dark vision that might have gotten some particulars spectacularly wrong, but still taps into a broader understanding of how the future might go awry, and suggests what we might do to keep that from happening?
The 1972 science fiction film
Z.P.G.: Zero Population Growth imagines a world destined to die not by fire, but by overcrowding. Set sometime in the early years of the 21st century, it takes place in a world undone by a population explosion, a development that has led to skies choked with smog and the mass extinction of virtually every animal and plant species. Those disasters have led the World Federation Council to impose a 30-year ban on childbirth. The W