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- SPECTRE ("Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion") is a fictional organisation featured in the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, as well as films and video games based in the same universe.
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Spectre is a 2015 spy film and the twenty-fourth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. Directed by Sam Mendes and written by John Logan, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and Jez Butterworth from a story conceived by Logan, Purvis, and Wade, it stars Daniel Craig as Bond, alongside Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, Naomie ...
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Nov 6, 2015 · With Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux, Ralph Fiennes. A cryptic message from James Bond's past sends him on a trail to uncover the existence of a sinister organisation named SPECTRE. With a new threat dawning, Bond learns the terrible truth about the author of all his pain in his most recent missions.
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In Ian Fleming's novels, SPECTRE was primarily a commercial enterprise led by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Their top-level members were 21 individuals, 18 of whom handled day-to-day affairs and were drawn in groups of three from six of the world's greatest criminal organisations—the Gestapo, SMERSH, Marshal Josip Broz Tito's secret police, the Mafia, the ...
In both the novel and film adaptation of Thunderball, the physical headquarters of the organisation were located in Paris, France, operating behind a front organisation aiding refugees ("Firco" in the novels; "International Brotherhood for the Assistance of Stateless Persons" in the films). Similarly, in the non-EON 1983 film Never Say Never Again,...
Novels
In the original Bond novel series, SPECTRE's first and last appearance as a worldwide power is in the novel Thunderball, published in 1961. In the novel, SPECTRE, headed by Blofeld, attempts to conduct nuclear blackmail against NATO. Temporarily weakened in the story's aftermath, SPECTRE is said to be active again in the next book, The Spy Who Loved Me, where Bond describes investigating their activities in Toronto before the story begins. In On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the second chapte...
Classic film continuity
In the EON Productions James Bond series, which began in 1962 with Dr. No, SPECTRE plays a more prominent role. The organisation is first mentioned in Dr. No as the organisation for which Dr. Julius No works. This was changed from Fleming's novels, which had Dr. No working for the USSR. In the films, SPECTRE usually replaced SMERSH as the main villains, although there is a brief reference to SMERSH in the second EON Bond film, From Russia with Love. The film adaptation of From Russia with Lov...
Non-EON Productions film
In 1963 the producers of EON Productions, Albert R. Broccoli, and Harry Saltzman had made an agreement with McClory to adapt the novel into the fourth James Bond film. The agreement also stipulated that McClory would not be allowed to make further adaptations of Thunderball for at least ten years after its release. In autumn 1983, after almost a decade of development and complications, Warner Bros. finally released Kevin McClory's James Bond film Never Say Never Again. The film retells the st...
When Ian Fleming first conceived of SPECTREin a 1959 memo, it stood for "Special Executive for Terrorism, Revolution and Espionage."SPECTREis often miswritten as S.P.E.C.T.R.E., even in some of the Bond movie publicity material. The 'P' though, does not stand for a word, and therefore, periods after each letter are inappropriate.The James Bond spinoff animated series, James Bond Jr., featured a clone of SPECTREcalled "SCUM".In the mid-80s, a highly successful James Bond tabletop RPG was released. With the films as inspirations, the stories were adapted for players. Minor changes to plots and villains were made. For ex...The controversy over ThunderballSpectre is the twenty-fourth film in the James Bond series produced by EON Productions. Like the previous film Skyfall, Spectre was written by John Logan, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade is directed by Sam Mendes and features Daniel Craig in his fourth performance as James Bond.
Daniel Craig. James Bond. Christoph Waltz. Franz Oberhauser / Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Léa Seydoux. Dr. Madeleine Swann. Ralph Fiennes. Monica Bellucci. Lucia Sciarra. Ben Whishaw. Q. Naomie Harris....
Mar 7, 2021 · Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux, Ralph Fiennes, Monica Bellucci, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Dave Bautista, Andrew Scott, Rory Kinnear, Jesper Christensen. Producers. Michael G. Wilson. Barbara Broccoli. Director. Sam Mendes. Release Date. 26 October 2015 (UK) 6 November 2015 (USA) World Premiere.
