Icons Unearthed: James Bond premieres on VICE TV in America

By: FSWL team

Published:
2023-09-07

Icons Unearthed, James Bond, VICE TV, premiere

The Nacelle Company in America has confirmed the release date for its highly anticipated new season of Icon Unearthed which focuses on the James Bond franchise. The James Bond series premieres on 4th October 2023 on VICE TV. FSWL can also confirm the talent from the James Bond franchise that will appear as interview subjects for the series, including one of the few James Bond actors that is still living.

Icons Unearthed: James Bond will include interviews with George Lazenby, who played James Bond just one time in 1969's On Her Majesty's Secret Service; Gloria Hendry, who played Rosie in 1973's Live and Let Die (and who will also narrate the series); Caroline Munro, who played femme fatale Naomi in 1977's The Spy Who Loved Me; Catherine Schell, who played Nancy in On Her Majesty's Secret Service; Terence Mountain, who played a henchman in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (and had an uncredited role in 1971's Diamonds Are Forever); Andreas Wisniewski, who played Necros in 1987's The Living Daylights; Trina Parks, who played Thumper in Diamonds Are Forever; stuntmen Paul Weston (10 Bond films between 1973 and 2015) and Vic Armstrong (nine Bond films between 1997 and 2002).

Official trailer for Icons Unearthed: James Bond:

Some behind-the-camera talent from the Bond franchise will also appear, including director John Glen (For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights, and Licence to Kill); screenwriter Jeffrey Caine (GoldenEye) and sound designer Norman Wanstall (Dr. No, Goldfinger, Thunderball).

FSWL can also confirm that a few members of our team has been interviewed for the series including Ajay Chowdhury, John Cork and Steven Jay Rubin as well as FSWL readers Lee Pfeiffer, Matt Sherman, Mark Edlitz and Matthew Field.

"It's one of the most successful, quotable, popular shows of all time... it's Bond... James Bond, for season five of Icons Unearthed!" said Nacelle Company CEO Brian Volk-Weiss in a statement. "This franchise is rich in its history, and we're honored to be telling this incredible story!"

The fifth installment to the Icons Unearthed documentary series is directed by Brian Volk-Weiss (The Toys That Made Us, The Movies That Made Us, Behind the Attraction), Alyssa Michek (Icons Unearthed), and Ben Frost (Icons Unearthed), and features exclusive, candid interviews with the people that helped make the franchise popular.

Icons Unearthed: James Bond is executive produced by Brian Volk-Weiss, Cisco Henson, Alyssa Michek and Ben Frost. Pete Gaffney, Falguni Lakhani-Adams, and Andrea Brakke oversee the project for Vice TV.

(Previous installments in the Icons Unearthed anthology focused on Star Wars, The Simpsons, Fast & Furious, and Marvel, the latter of which premiered on March 7th, 2023.)

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