Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming Live Tweet
I’ve been saving this doozy for a rainy day. The dreary late-winter doldrums seems rainy enough. I bring you SPYMAKER: THE SECRET LIFE OF IAN FLEMING, a semi-biographical TV movie featuring Jason Connery as Ian Fleming that Warner Archive deemed fit enough for a DVD release. From a certain perspective one has to question their sanity. From another, THANK YOU, Warner Archive. If you doubt the inherent awesomefulness of this film, one needs to look no further than the trailer for inspired twatter fodder. Not only does Jason Connery trade on the good name of a certain Slouchy Bond, but Kristen Scott Thomas shows up to lend this shit some retroactive credibility. Even A View to a Kill Bond girl Fiona Fullerton pops in for a how’s your father. I should make it clear, before watching the trailer, that Spymaker is not necessarily a spoof… it just looks like one.
Join #Bond_age_ Wednesday, March 9th at 9pm EST for the SPYMAKER: THE SECRET LIFE OF IAN FLEMING live tweet. Follow #Bond_age_ hashtag. Embed will appear on this website just before 9pm EST.
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You old so and so. Technically we celebrated the special occasion #Bond_age_ style with the Layer Cake live tweet last week. We don’t know if Craigers is done with Bond. Hell, I don’t even know if Craigers knows if Craigers is done with Bond. Nonetheless, let’s take some time to wish our reigning Bond a happy 48th birthday and enjoy 10 fun facts about Craigers that you may or may not have known.
1. Craigers made his film debut in The Power of One (1992) as Jaapie Botha, an Afrikaner sergeant.
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In our never-ending quest to live tweet the bejesus out of random spy shit, we’ve barely scratched the surface of some of the more notable movies churned out by our Bond actors. In 2016, we here at #Bond_age_ aim to rectify that oversight. With Dear Craigers’ birthday coming up at the beginning of March, we figured, hey, why not kick things with with some early birthday wishes (Happy 48th, Craigers!) for our dear Daniel Craig. We’ll send him a nice big birthday card in the form of a riff on the movie that (more than likely) catapulted Craigers into the tuxedo in the first place — it’s 2004’s Layer Cake, directed by Matthew Vaughn, the man who would have directed seven Bond movies in the Interwebs had anything to do with it. He did, turn in the rather disappointing Kingsman this past year, however.
Now I realize that many of you might not own Layer Cake for a DVD watch party. Well, good news. The streaming service CRACKLE’s got you covered. Free to watch online or through the Crackle app on Roku. Free’s the best.
Join us Wednesday, February 24th @ 9pm EST for the Layer Cake Live Tweet! Follow #Bond_age_ hashtag.
Tonight #Bond_age_ offers the campy 1966 spy parody Kiss Kiss… Bang Bang, directed by Spaghetti Western godfather Duccio Tessari. Tessari wrote A Fistful of Dollars and launched the career of Italian stuntman, actor and artist Giuliano Gemma, who also happens to star as in our feature presentation tonight. Kirk Warren (Gemma) is a spy condemned to death because of a failed attempt to steal $1million dollars. Warren is given a reprieve in order to follow through on a covert mission to steal a secret formula for the powers that be. But who are the powers that be? And does Warren actually have any interest in following through on the mission?
Kiss Kiss’ pedigree extends well beyond just Duccio Tessari. The film is a veritable who’s who of the Italian genre film auteurs. Gialli maestro Luciano Ercoli (Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion) produces. Italo-crime auteur Fernando Di Leo provides second unit direction and a story credit. Since this IMPOSTOR! turns 50 this year, I felt it more than worthy of an evening of good #Bond_age_.
Since I can’t find the trailer online, you’ll have to be teased by the film’s Bond-inspired credit sequence.
Kiss Kiss… Bang Bang begins 9pm EST. Follow #Bond_age_ hashtag.
Let us never speak of that other Spectre song ever again. Never. I’m not joking. That that guy was chosen over Lana Del Rey’s “24” is one of the great crimes against humanity. I’m only slightly exaggerating. This is a Bond song. This could have been one of the great Bond songs. Lana Del Rey’s vocals on “24” remind of Nancy Sinatra’s in “You Only Live Twice” but Lana doesn’t need the lush string orchestration to bail her out of the tough bits. Fan of #Bond_age_, James Tracey has kindly placed Lana Del Rey in her rightful place over the Spectre title credits. And for that we thank him.
