All James Bond movies are now available on Prime Video – but two staples are missing

James Bond fans are inactive waiting to find retired who the adjacent 007 is going to be, but they did get 1 spot of bully quality astir the spy franchise this week.

That’s due to the fact that the full postulation of James Bond films is present disposable to watercourse successful 1 spot aft being added to Amazon Prime Video successful the past fewer days.

The legendary spy movie franchise, based connected the books by Ian Fleming, began backmost successful October 1962 with Dr. No, which starred Sean Connery arsenic the now-iconic MI6 agent.

Since then, 007 has been played by Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, and Daniel Craig crossed 25 films.

What the future holds for Bond is presently unknown, but portion waiting for further announcements connected that front, everything from Dr. No close done to 2021’s No Time to Die is disposable for fans to stream.

However, portion determination are 25 authoritative Bond films successful the authoritative Eon Productions collection, 2 cardinal films from the past of the franchise are not included connected Amazon.

Which James Bond films are not connected Amazon?

The 1967 spy parody movie Casino Royale, which starred David Niven arsenic the pb leader and was produced by Columbia Pictures, does not look successful the collection.

Largely panned by critics upon its release, the code of Casino Royale turned galore fans disconnected and it remains the slightest fashionable Bond movie of the past 62 years.

Despite its mediocre reception, however, the movie was a large commercialized occurrence and immoderate Bond completionists see it portion of the wide Bond communicative that’s been told connected the large screen.

The movie was remade respective years later, successful 2005, for Daniel Craig’s debut arsenic 007, with a much superior code – galore see it to beryllium the top Bond movie of each time.

Also missing from the Amazon postulation is 1983 movie Never Say Never Again, which was produced by Taliafilm alternatively of Eon but did prima Sean Connery.

Connery, 53 astatine the clip of the film’s release, played Bond successful the movie for the archetypal clip successful 12 years, since his past quality successful 1971 movie Diamonds Are Forever.

Directed by Irvin Kirshner, the movie is based connected the Ian Fleming caller Thunderball, which had already been adapted to surface 18 years earlier and had besides starred Connery.

The movie was besides a large commercialized occurrence and has been praised by fans and critics for being a much understated mentation of a emblematic James Bond story.

Both Casino Royale (1967) and Never Say Never Again person been omitted from erstwhile boxsets released by Warner Bros. crossed the past 20 years.

And it seems Amazon Prime person picked the perfect week to marque each the Bond films disposable to stream, with October 5 officially recognised arsenic James Bond Day worldwide.

Who volition beryllium the adjacent James Bond?

At the moment, the question of who volition play James Bond adjacent doesn’t person an answer, with respective large names touted arsenic being the antheral to instrumentality implicit from Daniel Craig.

Favourites with UK bookmakers are the likes of Fall Guy prima Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Happy Valley’s James Norton, The Witcher’s Henry Cavill, and Bridgerton’s Rege Jean Page.

Someone who won’t beryllium returning to the franchise is manager Sam Mendes, who has decided to measurement away aft directing Skyfall and Spectre successful 2012 and 2015.

‘Never accidental never, to punctuation the man, but I would uncertainty it,’ Mendes told Inverse. ‘[Bond] was precise bully for maine astatine that infinitesimal successful my life. I felt similar it changeable maine retired of immoderate aged habits. It made maine deliberation connected a bigger scale.

‘[But] they privation somewhat much malleable radical who are earlier successful their career, who possibly are going to usage it arsenic a stepping stone, and who are much controllable by the studio.‘

Watch each 25 James Bond films connected Amazon Prime Video.

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