Spectre

Spectre Movie Details:

Based on	James Bond by Ian Fleming
Countries	United Kingdom, United States
Language	English
Genre	Action, Adventure, Thriller
Release dates	October 26, 2015 (United Kingdom) November 6, 2015 (United States)
Running time	2hr 28min
Age rating	PG-13
Starring	Daniel Craig Christoph Waltz Léa Seydoux Ben Whishaw Naomie Harris Dave Bautista Monica Bellucci
Directed by	Sam Mendes
Written by	Screenplay: John Logan Neal Purvis Robert Wade Jez Butterworth Story: John Logan Neal Purvis Robert Wade
Produced by	Michael G. Wilson Barbara Broccoli
Cinematography by	Hoyte van Hoytema
Edited by	Lee Smith
Music by	Thomas Newman
Production Companies	Eon Productions Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Columbia Pictures B24 Danjaq
Distributor	Sony Pictures Releasing

Spectre Movie Cast & Characters:

• Daniel Craig as James Bond, agent 007.
• Christoph Waltz as Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Bond’s nemesis and the mysterious mastermind behind Spectre, as well as the puppeteer responsible for a series of recent events in Bond’s life.
• Léa Seydoux as Madeleine Swann, a psychiatrist working at a private medical clinic in the Austrian Alps, and the daughter of Mr White.
• Ben Whishaw as Q, MI6 quartermaster who outfits Bond with equipment for use in the field.
• Naomie Harris as Eve Moneypenny, a former agent who left the field to become M’s assistant.
• Dave Bautista as Mr. Hinx, Spectre’s top assassin.
• Andrew Scott as Max Denbigh “C”, head of the new joint intelligence service and an agent for Spectre.
• Rory Kinnear as Bill Tanner, M’s chief of staff.
• Jesper Christensen as Mr. White, a fugitive from MI6 and a former senior figure in Spectre’s Quantum subsidiary.
• Monica Bellucci as Lucia Sciarra, the Italian wife of assassin Marco Sciarra.
• Ralph Fiennes as M, head of MI6.
• Stephanie Sigman as Estrella, a Mexican agent who accompanies Bond on his mission to assassinate Marco Sciarra.
• Alessandro Cremona as Marco Sciarra, an Italian Spectre agent.
• Judi Dench as Mallory’s predecessor M, who posthumously gives Bond his mission.

Storyline:

A cryptic message from James Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the Secret Service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.

About Spectre Movie:

Spectre is an action-adventure spy thriller film and the twenty-fourth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. The film stars Daniel Craig as Bond, alongside Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Dave Bautista, Monica Bellucci, and Ralph Fiennes.

It was directed by Sam Mendes and written by John Logan, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and Jez Butterworth from a story conceived by Logan, Purvis, and Wade.

The title of this movie was announced to the public in late 2014, which is the same year as the 50th anniversary of the death of James Bond creator Ian Fleming, who died in 1964.

Principal photography began in December 2014 and lasted until July 2015, with filming locations including Austria, the United Kingdom, Italy, Morocco, and Mexico.

Spectre premiered at the Royal Albert Hall on October 26, 2015, and was theatrically released in conventional and IMAX formats in the United Kingdom that day, and in the United States on November 6. The film received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the action sequences, cast performances (particularly Daniel Craig’s and Dave Bautista’s), and the musical score, but criticised the pacing and formulaic narrative decisions.

The film grossed $880 million worldwide, making it the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2015 and the second-highest-grossing James Bond film after Skyfall, unadjusted for inflation (fourth when adjusted). The film’s theme song, “Writing’s on the Wall”, won an Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Original Song.

Spectre was released for Digital HD on January 22, 2016, and on DVD and Blu-ray on February 9 and 22, 2016, in the US and UK, respectively. It was later released on Ultra HD Blu-ray on October 22, 2019, by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, alongside the previous three films, and as a standalone on February 25, 2020, in the US and March 23, 2020, in the UK.

Approximately 1,500 people were hired as extras for the pre-opening titles sequence in Mexico, which included the Day of the Dead festival. CGI effects meant the number would be able to be multiplied to represent an estimated crowd scene totalling around 10,000 people.

Before her audition, Léa Seydoux said she drank some alcohol, forgot some of her lines, and basically botched up her reading. Seydoux asked if she could come back another day, which the filmmakers allowed, and was, in the end, successful in landing the lead Bond Girl role of Dr. Madeleine Swann.

The third James Bond movie featuring Jesper Christensen, who appeared in Casino Royale (2006) and Quantum of Solace (2008). Skyfall (2012) is the only Daniel Craig Bond movie in which Christensen has not appeared.

The next film in the James Bond series, No Time to Die, was released in 2021.

Spectre Movie Budget & Box Office Collection:

Budget	$245–300 million
Domestic Collection	$200 million
International Collection	$680 million
Worldwide Collection	$880.7 million