Michael G. Wilson - Turner Classic Movies

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Writer/Producer Michael G. Wilson is best known for his work in James Bond films, alongside producer/stepfather Albert R. Broccoli, as well as his producer sister, Barbara Broccoli. Wilson started out with small acting roles in Bond films, working his way through EON Productions as a director's assistant, a writer, and later, producer. "Octopussy," the thirteenth Bond film, was one in wh...

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Casino Royale (2006)

Die Another Day (2002)

Licence to Kill (1989)

Licence to Kill (1989)

Licence to Kill (1989)

The Living Daylights (1987)

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Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) -- (Movie Clip) Queen And Country, James

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) -- (Movie Clip) I Didn't Realize You Knew Each Other

Biography

Writer/Producer Michael G. Wilson is best known for his work in James Bond films, alongside producer/stepfather Albert R. Broccoli, as well as his producer sister, Barbara Broccoli. Wilson started out with small acting roles in Bond films, working his way through EON Productions as a director's assistant, a writer, and later, producer. "Octopussy," the thirteenth Bond film, was one in which Wilson both wrote and co-executive produced. Wilson was forced to finish writing the script for the sixteenth Bond film, "Licence to Kill" when regular scriptwriter Richard Maibaum opted out due to a writer's strike. The film, which Wilson also produced, marked Timothy Dalton's second and final performance as James Bond. Wilson also produced "GoldenEye," this time with Pierce Brosnan debuting as Bond. Overall, it was received by audiences and critics as a much-needed re-boot to the franchise. Wilson produced "Die Another Day," featuring Halle Berry as a more modern sort of Bond girl, though she paid homage to legendary Bond girl Ursula Andress, by donning her iconic swimsuit in one scene. The film also marked Brosnan's last appearance as Bond before yet another series reboot with "Casino Royale." Wilson and his team cast Daniel Craig as Bond--a younger and more ruggedly physical version of the character, which was in line with the film's shift in emphasis to more action-based elements.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Casino Royale (2006)

Die Another Day (2002)

Writer (Feature Film)

Licence to Kill (1989)

Licence to Kill (1989)

Licence to Kill (1989)

The Living Daylights (1987)

A View To A Kill (1985)

Octopussy (1983)

For Your Eyes Only (1981)

Producer (Feature Film)

The Rhythm Section (2020)

No Time to Die (2020)

Executive Producer

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017)

Executive Producer

Quantum of Solace (2008)

Casino Royale (2006)

Die Another Day (2002)

The World Is Not Enough (1999)

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

Goldeneye (1995)

Licence to Kill (1989)

The Living Daylights (1987)

A View To A Kill (1985)

Octopussy (1983)

Executive Producer

For Your Eyes Only (1981)

Executive Producer

Moonraker (1979)

Executive Producer

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Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) -- (Movie Clip) Queen And Country, James The admiral (Geoffrey Palmer) and the defence minister (Julian Fellowes, best known now as the creator of Downton Abbey) tangle with M (Judi Dench, supported by her chief of staff, Colin Salmon) about the sinking of a British warship, blamed on China but actually staged by the evil media baron Carver, when Bond (Pierce Brosnan) arrives with still-worse (also contrived) news, and Moneypenny (Samantha Bond) attends as the mission is arranged, in Tomorrow Never Dies, 1997.

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) -- (Movie Clip) I Didn't Realize You Knew Each Other Now in Hamburg, posing as a banker but actually there to investigate global terror instigated by Carver (Jonathan Pryce) for the launch of his global news network, Bond (Pierce Brosnan) makes contact with Carver’s wife Paris (Teri Hatcher), his ex-lover, leading to smoldering conflict, Michelle Yeoh as mysterious Wai-Lin, in Tomorrow Never Dies, 1997.

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) -- (Movie Clip) They'll Print Anything These Days Having penetrated the Hamburg headquarters of an evil media empire, wielding a souped-up Ericsson phone provided by “Q,” Bond (Pierce Brosnan) gets into the safe of the chief “techno-terrorist,” detects trouble, and encounters Michelle Yeoh, who’s been posing as a Chinese journalist, in his vigorous escape, in Tomorrow Never Dies, 1997.

Goldeneye (1995) -- (Movie Clip) Call It Professional Courtesy In St. Petersburg we meet Robbie Coltrane as Russian KGB man-turned-gangster Zukovsky, pursued by Bond (Pierce Brosnan) looking into the Janus crime syndicate, wrapped around Minnie Driver’s kooky cameo as a girlfriend and country singer, performing the Tammy Wynette standard, in Goldeneye, 1995.

Goldeneye (1995) -- (Movie Clip) I Made It Easy This Time Neatly arrayed (presumably) enemies, at the ex-Soviet weapon center, we meet Izabella Scorupco as Natalya, and Alan Cumming as Boris, computer-espionage nerds, with provocative chat, their relation to James Bond’s activities unclear until Xenia (Famke Janssen) arrives with Ourumov (Gottfried John), in Goldeneye, 1995.

Goldeneye (1995) -- (Movie Clip) Open, For England Just the beginning of the over ten-minute action prologue, boffo bungee jump (shot at Verzasca Dam, Switzerland) and Pierce Brosnan’s first appearance as Ian Fleming’s James Bond, 007, joined by Sean Bean as Alec Trevelyan, 006, in Goldeneye, 1995.

Goldeneye (1995) -- (Movie Clip) No Problem With Female Authority In his signature Aston Martin, on French mountain roads near Monaco, Pierce Brosnan as James Bond, six years after the death of a colleague in an anti-Soviet operation, is being evaluated by psychiatrist Caroline (Serena Gordon), then overtaken by Famke Janssen in a Ferrari, early in Goldeneye, 1995.

Goldeneye (1995) -- (Movie Clip) The Evil Queen Of Numbers First events in London, Bond (Pierce Brosnan, in his first feature as 007), jousts with Moneypenny (first appearance in the role for Samantha Bond), gets his suspicions confirmed by Tanner (Michael Kitchen, later the celebrated title character in TV’s Foyle’s War) then we meet Judi Dench, in her landmark introduction as the new “M,” in Goldeneye, 1995.

Living Daylights, The (1987) -- (Movie Clip) Open, A Matter Of Pride Robert Brown as “M,” and location shooting at Gibraltar, as the “Double-0 Section” undertakes an exercise, Glyn Baker as 002, Frederick Warder as 004, and Timothy Dalton in his first appearance as the fourth actor to portray Ian Fleming’s James Bond, Carl Rigg the interloper, opening the 15th 007 feature, The Living Daylights, 1987.

Living Daylights, The (1987) -- (Movie Clip) The Sniper Was A Woman Shooting around the Volksoper in Vienna, standing in for the Bratislava Opera House, Bond (Timothy Dalton) has been assigned to support the apparently fussy Saunders (Thomas Wheatley) executing the defection of a top Soviet general (Jeroen Krabbé), Maryam D’Abo the cellist and sniper opposing, early in The Living Daylights, 1987.

Licence To Kill (1989) -- (Movie Clip) A Farewell To Arms Working with Sharkey (Frank McRae), Bond (Timothy Dalton) is pretty much gone rogue in Key West over attacks on American friend Felix Leiter, so he’s intercepted by DEA man Hawkins (Grand L. Bush) and delivered to the Hemingway house where “M” (Robert Brown) waits to crack the whip, in Licence To Kill, 1989.

Licence To Kill (1989) -- (Movie Clip) It's Just A Manta Ray Krest (Anthony Zerbe), creepy ally of the drug-lord villain Sanchez, is looking to exploit his girlfriend Lupe (Talisa Soto) when Bond (Timothy Dalton), on a revenge mission having forsaken his MI6 duties, deploys an underwater trick, in Licence To Kill, 1989.

World Is Not Enough, The (1999) -- (Original Trailer) Trailer for the third Pierce Brosnan-James Bond feature, directed by Michael Apted, the 19th feature in the Eon Productions series, with Sophie Marceau, Robert Carlyle, Judi Dench as “M” and Desmond Llewelyn in his final appearance as “Q.”

Licence To Kill (1989) -- (Original Trailer) Trailer for Timothy Dalton’s second appearance as James Bond, in the 16th feature in series and the last produced by Albert R. Broccoli, who originated the franchise with Harry Saltzman, in Licence To Kill, 1989, with Robert Davi, Carey Lowell and Talisa Soto.

Living Daylights, The (1987) -- (Original Trailer) Original trailer introducing Timothy Dalton as the fourth James Bond in the original series, in the 15th feature, The Living Daylights, 1987, with Maryam d’Abo, Jeroen Krabbé and John Rhys-Davies.

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) -- (Original Trailer) Original trailer for Irishman Pierce Brosnan’s second appearance as James Bond, and the 18th feature in the series (which was tentatively titled Tomorrow Never Lies until a fortuitous typo caused all concerned to change their minds), Tomorrow Never Dies, 1997, with Jonathan Pryce, Teri Hatcher and Judi Dench as “M.”

For Your Eyes Only (1981) -- (Original Trailer) Trailer promoting the 12th James Bond feature from Eon productions, the fifth with Roger Moore, and the first of five directed by John Glen, For Your Eyes Only, 1981, with Carole Bouquet as the romantic interest and Chaim Topol as the primary villain Columbo.

Octopussy (1983) -- (Original Trailer) Original trailer for the 13th outing for James Bond and Roger Moore’s sixth in the title role, in the only feature named for the Bond “girl,” in this case, Maud Adams as Octopussy, 1983, with Louis Jourdan as the villain Kamak Khan, from two Ian Fleming short stories.

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