Timothy Dalton entered the screen differently Pierce Brosnan's was computer-generated.
George Lazenby's James Bond kneeled down to fire Roger Moore's used two hands. The first barrel sequence used a stuntman, Bob Simmons, rather than Sean Connery, who made his debut in the opening sequence with Thunderball, and differences would continue with changes to costume, color, aspect ratio and more. The gun barrel sequence has remained ever-present throughout the James Bond franchise, though each era tends to put at lest a slightly new riff on it to reflect the change of actor playing 007. The blood drips over the screen, the barrel fades, and the action begins.
The white dots blink across and open up into a barrel, Bond strides into view as if watched by a would-be assassin, and shoots straight down the camera. Alongside James Bond's Martinis (shaken, not stirred, of course), Aston Martins, and the Walther PPK gun, the opening sequence has long been one of the series' most iconic elements. Warning: Contains SPOILERS for No Time To Die.ĭaniel Craig's James Bond era finds one more way to break tradition in his final outing, with no blood featured in No Time To Die's opening gun barrel sequence, which connects to both his arc and ending.
