Thirty years after its release on Nov 13, 1995, “GoldenEye” remains one of the most important films in the James Bond franchise. Much like today, the series stood at a crossroads ahead of “GoldenEye”— producers were turning over, a new Bond was being cast and the world around the super spy was moving in a direction that threatened to leave his particular brand of hedonistic heroism in the past.
The situation forced the creatives behind the franchise to adapt, to make critical decisions about what the character looked like in the modern world. They needed to determine what needed updating and what needed to remain the same and, most
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