The International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. explores the legacy of global espionage, making its history legible and compelling to a contemporary audience. So, it’s fitting that its latest exhibit displays a dozen-and-a-half vehicles associated with the person who may be, oxymorons aside, the world’s best-known fictitious super-spy.
This show, “Bond In Motion,” opens March 1 and features iconic cars from 007’s six decades. These include the self-cloaking Aston Martin Vanquish from Die Another Day, the remote-controlled BMW 750iL from Tomorrow Never Dies, the surface-to-air missile-firing BMW Z8 from The World is Not Enough, and, perhaps the world’s most famous car, the machine gun–concealing, oil slick–emitting, license plate–rotating, seat-ejecting Aston Martin DB5 used in Goldfinger.
But it also includes lesser-known Bond vehicles, like a snowmobile from Die Another Day, a three-wheeled, motorcycle-based Tuk-Tuk from Octopussy, a hang-glider from Moonraker, and a submarine from Diamonds are Forever,...
This show, “Bond In Motion,” opens March 1 and features iconic cars from 007’s six decades. These include the self-cloaking Aston Martin Vanquish from Die Another Day, the remote-controlled BMW 750iL from Tomorrow Never Dies, the surface-to-air missile-firing BMW Z8 from The World is Not Enough, and, perhaps the world’s most famous car, the machine gun–concealing, oil slick–emitting, license plate–rotating, seat-ejecting Aston Martin DB5 used in Goldfinger.
But it also includes lesser-known Bond vehicles, like a snowmobile from Die Another Day, a three-wheeled, motorcycle-based Tuk-Tuk from Octopussy, a hang-glider from Moonraker, and a submarine from Diamonds are Forever,...
- 3/1/2024
- by Brett Berk
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Netflix is hoping to solve the legend of D.B. Cooper, the mystery man who hijacked a Northwest Airlines passenger jet in November 1971 and escaped with 200,000, never to be seen again.
The streamer has ordered D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?! from Fulwell 73 Productions and director Marina Zenovich’s Pmz Pictures.
The four-part doc series, which launches on July 13, marks the first true-crime project for Fulwell 73, which is best known for producing The Late Late Show with James Corden and Hulu’s The Kardashians.
The series looks at the 50-year quest to find Cooper, whose identity remains one of the greatest mysteries of the 20th century and the only unsolved case of air piracy in commercial aviation history.
There have been multiple suspects in the case over the years including the possibility that Cooper was a Boeing employee, that he was former WWII paratrooper Kenneth Peter Christiansen, former leather worker...
The streamer has ordered D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?! from Fulwell 73 Productions and director Marina Zenovich’s Pmz Pictures.
The four-part doc series, which launches on July 13, marks the first true-crime project for Fulwell 73, which is best known for producing The Late Late Show with James Corden and Hulu’s The Kardashians.
The series looks at the 50-year quest to find Cooper, whose identity remains one of the greatest mysteries of the 20th century and the only unsolved case of air piracy in commercial aviation history.
There have been multiple suspects in the case over the years including the possibility that Cooper was a Boeing employee, that he was former WWII paratrooper Kenneth Peter Christiansen, former leather worker...
- 6/16/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Obviously, there’s more to being a counterintelligence operative than wearing a costume or hair dye. But even a professional agrees that those can be pretty helpful if done right, especially how they are portrayed in scripted shows like “Alias” or “The Americans.”
The latest episode of “Technique Critique,” the ongoing Wired series that asks real-life professionals to give their perspective on movie and TV scenes covering their area of expertise, set its sights on the world of spies. For this deep dive, the publication enlisted Jonna Mendez, the former Chief of Disguise for the CIA.
In the process of dissecting 30 scenes from the film and TV spy worlds, Mendez gave top marks to Jennifer Garner and Matthew Rhys’ respective undercover roles. Citing one particular “Alias” sequence where Sydney Bristow (Garner) really leans into one overwhelmingly red outfit, Mendez says with a chuckle that the CIA “could have used that as a training film.
The latest episode of “Technique Critique,” the ongoing Wired series that asks real-life professionals to give their perspective on movie and TV scenes covering their area of expertise, set its sights on the world of spies. For this deep dive, the publication enlisted Jonna Mendez, the former Chief of Disguise for the CIA.
In the process of dissecting 30 scenes from the film and TV spy worlds, Mendez gave top marks to Jennifer Garner and Matthew Rhys’ respective undercover roles. Citing one particular “Alias” sequence where Sydney Bristow (Garner) really leans into one overwhelmingly red outfit, Mendez says with a chuckle that the CIA “could have used that as a training film.
- 5/8/2019
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Tony Mendez, the the CIA officer played by Ben Affleck in 2012’s Argo that won the Best Picture Oscar, has died due to complications from Parkinson’s disease in an assisted-living center in Maryland. He was 78.
The news was confirmed by a family statement provided Saturday by his literary manager Christy Fletcher.
“Earlier this morning, Antonio (Tony) J. Mendez finally succumbed to the Parkinson’s Disease that he had been diagnosed with ten+ years ago,” the statement read. “He was surrounded with love from his family and will be sorely missed.”
The statement also said “the last thing he and his wife Jonna Mendez did was get their new book to the publisher and he died feeling he had completed writing the stories that he wanted to be told.” That book, The Moscow Rules: The Secret CIA Tactics that Helped America Win the Cold War, is due to be published in May.
The news was confirmed by a family statement provided Saturday by his literary manager Christy Fletcher.
“Earlier this morning, Antonio (Tony) J. Mendez finally succumbed to the Parkinson’s Disease that he had been diagnosed with ten+ years ago,” the statement read. “He was surrounded with love from his family and will be sorely missed.”
The statement also said “the last thing he and his wife Jonna Mendez did was get their new book to the publisher and he died feeling he had completed writing the stories that he wanted to be told.” That book, The Moscow Rules: The Secret CIA Tactics that Helped America Win the Cold War, is due to be published in May.
- 1/19/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Tony Mendez, the former CIA technical operations officer who orchestrated the 1980 rescue of six American diplomats from Iran and who was portrayed by Ben Affleck in the Academy Award winning film “Argo,” has died. He was 78.
Mendez’s book agent, Christy Fletcher, announced the news on Twitter Saturday morning.
“Early this morning, Antonio (Tony) J. Mendez finally succumbed to the Parkinson’s Disease that he had been diagnosed with ten+ years ago,” the statement reads. “He was surrounded with love from his family and will be sorely missed. The last thing he and his wife Jonna Mendez did was get their new book to the publisher and he died feeling he had completd writing the stories that he wanted to be told.”
The message states Mendez will be buried in a private ceremony at the family graveyard in Nevada.
Born on Nov. 15 1940, Mendez began his career as an artist after studying...
Mendez’s book agent, Christy Fletcher, announced the news on Twitter Saturday morning.
“Early this morning, Antonio (Tony) J. Mendez finally succumbed to the Parkinson’s Disease that he had been diagnosed with ten+ years ago,” the statement reads. “He was surrounded with love from his family and will be sorely missed. The last thing he and his wife Jonna Mendez did was get their new book to the publisher and he died feeling he had completd writing the stories that he wanted to be told.”
The message states Mendez will be buried in a private ceremony at the family graveyard in Nevada.
Born on Nov. 15 1940, Mendez began his career as an artist after studying...
- 1/19/2019
- by Erin Nyren
- Variety Film + TV
David Crow Dec 5, 2018
Our report after doing reconnaissance inside the International Spy Museum on behalf of Mission: Impossible's Imf.
When the International Spy Museum in Washington D.C. moves to its new location next year, the emphasis will be slightly different. In its current home of the last 16 years, the museum already does a tremendous service of documenting a century of espionage tradecraft—as well as the boom of spy movies that rose up in the 20th century alongside it, such as the James Bond films and Mission: Impossible. But in a new era, its centerpiece will be their most remarkable artifact: a letter from Gen. George Washington during the American Revolution. It’s also a letter by America’s first intelligence officer.
“He not only ensured Congress funded him to run an intelligence network but he was also essentially the nation’s first spymaster,” says Christopher P. Costa, executive...
Our report after doing reconnaissance inside the International Spy Museum on behalf of Mission: Impossible's Imf.
When the International Spy Museum in Washington D.C. moves to its new location next year, the emphasis will be slightly different. In its current home of the last 16 years, the museum already does a tremendous service of documenting a century of espionage tradecraft—as well as the boom of spy movies that rose up in the 20th century alongside it, such as the James Bond films and Mission: Impossible. But in a new era, its centerpiece will be their most remarkable artifact: a letter from Gen. George Washington during the American Revolution. It’s also a letter by America’s first intelligence officer.
“He not only ensured Congress funded him to run an intelligence network but he was also essentially the nation’s first spymaster,” says Christopher P. Costa, executive...
- 12/5/2018
- Den of Geek
To help get the word out about the impending Mission: Impossible – Fallout home video release, I had a chance to visit the International Spy Museum in Washington D.C., and speak with real-life former spies. Peter Earnest, a 35 year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency, and Jonna Mendez, a former Chief of Disguise in the CIA’s Office […]
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- 11/21/2018
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
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