The actor who played Villiers in Casino Royale is 34 years old today. CR threw away continuity on M’s staff by having Villiers replace Tanner, Moneypenny, or Robinson. Now QOS will throw out continuity by leaving Villiers behind. But hurrah! Tanner will return (not played by Michael Kitchen, though. I like Michael Kitchen.)

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In my request for post ideas, Jay asked about the idea of scaling the movies back up again. The process of scaling up and down is interesting one.
The first scale-up in the Bond franchise was the third movie: Goldfinger. Terence Young’s strong directorial stamp on the first two films gave us clean, relatively low-key spy [...]

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