Motifs in the James Bond film series that is central to the spy film genre. The gun barrel imagery sometimes carried over to the film posters used to promote Bond films, including as a familiarising element on the introduction of Timothy Dalton for "The Living Daylights". The sequence was traditionally placed at the start of each film until the 2006 instalment "Casino Royale", where it appears after the cold open and is incorporated into the plot; in the 2008 film, "Quantum of Solace", the sequence was placed at the end of the film and incorporates the film's title in its design. For Skyfall, director Sam Mendes had
Sam Mendes and Miles Anderson as Bill Sikes. Mendes, Pryce and Dexter received Olivier Award nominations for their work on "Oliver!". He has also directed productions of Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie", Stephen Sondheim's "Company" (which had the first ever African American Bobby), Alan Bennett's "Habeas Corpus" and his farewell duo of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" and "Twelfth Night", which transferred to the Brooklyn Academy of Music. In 2003 Mendes directed a revival of the musical "Gypsy". Originally, he planned to stage this production in London's West End with an eventual Broadway transfer, but when negotiations fell through, he brought it to New