Ralph Fiennes Festival FEST. He filmed his version of Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" in the Serbian capital of Belgrade. Fiennes reunited with Kathryn Bigelow for her Iraq War film "The Hurt Locker," released in 2009, appearing as an English Private Military Contractor. They had previously worked together on "Strange Days" (1995). In April 2010, he played Hades in "Clash of the Titans", a remake of the 1981 film of the same name. In 2012, he starred in the twenty-third James Bond film, "Skyfall," directed by Sam Mendes. He will replace Dame Judi Dench as M in future Bond films. Dench had also starred alongside
Motifs in the James Bond film series Smith's "Writing's on the Wall" eventually winning the award. With the exception of the first two Daniel Craig films, "Casino Royale" and "Quantum of Solace", every Bond film has a sequence in which Bond interacts with Miss Moneypenny, the personal assistant to M, Bond's superior. Lois Maxwell was the first to portray Moneypenny and did so for fourteen Eon-produced Bond films from "Dr. No" in 1962 to "A View to a Kill" in 1985 opposite Connery, Lazenby, and Moore. She was followed by Caroline Bliss, Samantha Bond and Naomie Harris, who played opposite Dalton, Brosnan and Craig respectively. The four