Skyfall is a 2012 spy film and the twenty-third in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. The film is the third to star Daniel Craig as fictional MI6 agent James Bond and features Javier Bardem as Raoul Silva, the villain, and Judi Dench as M. It was directed by Sam Mendes and written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and John Logan and features the theme song "Skyfall", written and performed by Adele. It was theatrically distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. The story centres on Bond investigating an attack on MI6 that leads to a wider plot by former agent Raoul Silva to discredit and kill M as revenge for abandoning him. It sees the return of two recurring characters after an absence of two films: Q, played by Ben Whishaw, and Miss Moneypenny, played by Naomie Harris. Mendes was approached to direct after the release of Quantum of Solace in 2008.
| Director | Sam Mendes |
| Produced by | Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli |
| Writer(s) | Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, John Logan |
| Starring | Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Bérénice Marlohe, Albert Finney, Judi Dench |
| Music | Thomas Newman |
| Cinematography | Roger Deakins |
| Edited by | Stuart Baird, Kate Baird |
| Production, company | Eon Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Columbia Pictures |
| Distributed by | Sony Pictures Releasing |
| Released | October 23, 2012 (London), October 26, 2012 (United Kingdom), November 9, 2012 (United States) |
| Running time | 143 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom, United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $150–200 million |
| Box office | $1.109 billion |
| Netflix ID | 70243459 |
About Skyfall
The third installment in the James Bond reboot finds secret agent James Bond as the only person that M can trust to take down an evil man from her past and save M16 from becoming fully compromised.
Achievement of Skyfall
The film grossed over $1.1 billion worldwide. Adele's song for the film of the same name won the Academy Award for Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song.
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