The James Bond series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two collections of short stories. Since Fleming’s death in 1964, eight other authors have written authorized Bond novels or novelizations: Kingsley Amis, Christopher Wood, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, Sebastian Faulks, Jeffery Deaver, William Boyd and Anthony Horowitz. The latest novel is With a Mind to Kill by Anthony Horowitz, published in May 2022. Additionally, Charlie Higson wrote a series about a young James Bond and Kate Westbrook wrote three novels based on the diaries of a recurring character in the series, Moneypenny.

The character, also known by the code number 007 (pronounced “double-oh-seven”), has also been adapted for television, radio, comics, video games, and film. The films are one of the longest-running film series and have grossed over $7.04 billion in total at the box office, making it the fifth highest-grossing film series to date, beginning in 1962 with Dr. No, starring Sean Connery. as a link. As of 2021, there have been twenty-five films in the Eon Productions series. The most recent Bond film, No Time to Die (2021), stars Daniel Craig in his fifth Bond portrayal; He is the 𝑠e𝑥th actor to play Bond in the Eon series. There have also been two independent productions of Bond films: Casino Royale (a 1967 spoof starring David Niven) and Never Say Never Again (a 1983 remake of an earlier Eon-produced film, 1965’s Thunderball, both starring Connery ). In 2015, the series was estimated to be worth $19.9 billion in total (based on box office grosses, DVD sales, and merchandise tie-ins),[1] making James Bond one of the biggest media franchises highest grossing of all time.