The New Zealand native and accomplished action director is the only person to ever helm the first chapters in two different actors’ tenure as Bond… James Bond.
In 2004, Campbell was tapped by veteran producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael W. Wilson to launch Daniel Craig’s first outing as James Bond, 2006’s Casino Royale. He accomplished this nine years after rejuvenating the then-dormant franchise with Pierce Brosnan’s first 007 film, 1995’s Goldeneye.
The latter — released Nov. 17, 1995 — saw Brosnan’s dashing Bond struggling to stop his former colleague and friend, 006/Alec Trevelyan (Sean Bean), from using a deadly Russian satellite’s Emp capabilities to throw the world back into the Stone Age. (Prior to Goldeneye, Brosnan famously inked a deal to play Bond in 1987’s The Living Daylights. But, at the last minute,…
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