The Eon series currently has twenty-five films, with the most recent, No Time to Die, released in September 2021. Following its release in 1962, Broccoli and Saltzman created the holding company Danjaq to ensure future productions in the James Bond film series. No, directed by Terence Young and featuring Connery as Bond. They founded Eon Productions and, with financial backing by United Artists, produced Dr.
Broccoli and Harry Saltzman purchased the filming rights to Fleming's novels. Eon Productions, which now holds the adaptation rights to all of Fleming's Bond novels, made all but two films in the film series. A British secret agent working for MI6 under the codename 007, Bond has been portrayed on film in twenty-seven productions by actors Sean Connery, David Niven, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig. James Bond is a fictional character created by British novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. For the various portrayals of the character, see Portrayal of James Bond in film. For the production background of the films, see Production of the James Bond films. This article is about the Bond films themselves.
