Skyfall is a 2012 spy film and the twenty-third in the James Bond series. The film is the third to star Daniel Craig as fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It features Javier Bardem as Raoul Silva, the villain, and Judi Dench as M. It was directed by Sam Mendes and written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and John Logan.
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Skyfall is a 2012 spy film and the twenty-third in the James Bond series. The film is the third to star Daniel Craig as fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It features Javier Bardem as Raoul Silva, the villain, and Judi Dench as M. It was directed by Sam Mendes and written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and John Logan. It premiered at the Royal Albert Hall, London, on 23 October 2012 and was released in the UK on 26 October and in North America on 9 November. It became the seventh-highest-grossing film of all time, the highest-grossed film in the. UK, and the second- Highest- Grossing Film of 2012. It is the fourteenth film to gross over USD 1 billion worldwide. It won several accolades, including two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards and two Grammy Awards. The next film, Spectre, was released in November 2015, with Craig reprising his role, Sony Pictures returning to distribute, and Mendes returning to direct. It sees the return of two recurring characters after an absence of two films: Q, played by Ben Whishaw, and Miss Moneypenny played by Naomie Harris. The story centres on Bond investigating an attack on MI6 that leads to a wider plot by former agent Raoul. Silva to discredit and kill M as revenge for abandoning him. The release coincided with the 50th anniversary of the series, which began with Dr. No in 1962. The movie was the first James Bond film to be screened in IMAX venues, although it was not filmed with IMAX cameras.
It also became the fourth highest- grossing film worldwide, with over $1 billion in box office sales. It has been the only James Bond movie to do so, as well as the only Bond film ever to win a Golden Globe. The soundtrack was written and performed by Adele and features the theme song \”Skyfall\”, written and sung by the British singer-songwriter. The final version of the film was written by John Logan, Neal PurVIS, and Robert Wade and was filmed in November 2011, with smaller portions shot in China and Turkey. The last version was shot in October 2012. The ending of the final version was filmed on October 31, 2013, in Shanghai, China, with scenes shot in Istanbul, Turkey, Shanghai, and Macau, where Bond and Q meet Patrice, a mercenary who has stolen a hard drive containing details of undercover agents. Bond and Patrice fight atop a moving train, and Bond is presumed dead, but Patrice escapes with the hard drive. Three months later, due to a public inquiry into M’s handling of the stolen hard drive, she is pressured to retire by Gareth Mallory, the chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament and a former SAS officer. Although she claims she is still useful, MI6’s servers are hacked, and M receives a taunting computer message moments before the MI6 building explodes. Bond learns of the attack and returns to service in London.
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