{"id":1268,"date":"2015-05-06T14:47:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T13:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2015-05-13T14:49:43","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T13:49:43","slug":"bond-writer-robert-wade-introduces-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2015\/05\/06\/bond-writer-robert-wade-introduces-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Bond writer Robert Wade introduces film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong class=\"lead\">University of Kent graduate and James Bond writer, Robert Wade is set to introduce a special screening of The Ipcress File at the Gulbenkian.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gulbenkian is delighted to welcome co-screenwriter of James Bond movies Casino Royale, Skyfall and the forthcoming new release Spectre, Robert Wade to introduce a special screening of The Ipcress File on Wednesday 20 May at 19.00.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Wade graduated from the University of Kent and along with fellow alumnus Neal Purvis have become one of Britain\u2019s most successful screenwriting partnerships.<\/p>\n<p>They wrote their first film, Let Him Have It, 15 years ago but they\u2019re best known for their Bond scripts.<\/p>\n<p>Originally hired to the Bond franchise off the back of their successful film Plunkett &amp; Mackleane (1999), Purvis and Wade have co-written scripts for The World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day and took up the challenge to create a new kind of Bond when Daniel Craig took on the James Bond role, resulting in the BAFTA Award nominated Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace and Skyfall.<\/p>\n<p>The Ipcress File is being screened at Gulbenkian as part of the University of Kent\u2019s Film65 season.<\/p>\n<p>The Ipcress File is a stylish sixties thriller, based on Len Deighton\u2019s novel, and was a landmark in spy films for its more realistic, lucid approach to espionage. Michael Caine \u2018showcasing his particular brand of unique, distinctive cool\u2019 stars as reluctant British spy Harry Palmer.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are \u00a38 (Concessions \u00a37, Student \u00a35).<\/p>\n<p>For more information and tickets please visit the <a title=\"Gulbenkian \" href=\"http:\/\/www.thegulbenkian.co.uk\/\">Gulbenkian website <i class=\"fa fa-external-link\"><\/i><\/a> or call 01227 769075.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Kent graduate and James Bond writer, Robert Wade is set to introduce a special screening of The Ipcress File at the Gulbenkian. Gulbenkian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2015\/05\/06\/bond-writer-robert-wade-introduces-film\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38580,"featured_media":1269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118122],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1271,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions\/1271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}