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The New Zealand native and accomplished action director is the only person to ever helm the first chapters in two different actors\u2019 tenure as Bond\u2026 James Bond.<\/p>\n
In 2004, Campbell<\/a> was tapped by veteran producers Barbara Broccoli<\/a> and Michael W. Wilson<\/a> to launch Daniel Craig<\/a>\u2019s first outing as James Bond, 2006\u2019s Casino Royale<\/a>. He accomplished this nine years after rejuvenating the then-dormant franchise with Pierce Brosnan<\/a>\u2019s first 007<\/a> film, 1995\u2019s Goldeneye<\/a>.<\/p>\n The latter \u2014 released Nov. 17, 1995 \u2014 saw Brosnan\u2019s dashing Bond struggling to stop his former colleague and friend, 006\/Alec Trevelyan (Sean Bean<\/a>), from using a deadly Russian satellite\u2019s Emp capabilities to throw the world back into the Stone Age. (Prior to Goldeneye<\/a>, Brosnan famously inked a deal to play Bond in 1987\u2019s The Living Daylights<\/a>. But, at the last minute,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Few modern filmmakers can claim that they\u2019ve made movie history, but Martin Campbell can say he\u2019s done it twice. The New Zealand native and accomplished action director is the only person to ever helm the first chapters in two different actors\u2019 tenure as Bond\u2026 James Bond. In 2004, Campbell was tapped by veteran producers Barbara […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2162853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2162852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Was-Bond-Relevant-Anymore-How-\u2018GoldenEye-Revamped-the-Franchise.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2162852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2162854,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162852\/revisions\/2162854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2162853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2162852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2162852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2162852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}