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
Spectre (2015 film) 2020. Spectre (2015 film) Spectre is a 2015 British spy film, the twenty-fourth in the "James Bond" film series produced by Eon Productions for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Columbia Pictures. It is the fourth film to feature Daniel Craig as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond, and the second film in the series directed by Sam Mendes following "Skyfall." It was written by John Logan, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Jez Butterworth. It is the final "James Bond" film to be internationally distributed by Columbia Pictures, as Universal Pictures will become the international distributor of its future films. The story sees Bond