Tangent 90

Goldeneye graphics with 'Useful Companies'

Back in 96, the guys behind today's Tangent 90 headed up the teams at production facilitator Useful Companies to create all of the on screen graphics for the James Bond movie Goldeneye.

Goldeneye marked the entrance of Pierce Brosnan as the new James Bond, and has been one of the most successful Bond movies ever made - though we suspect this was more due to Pierce Brosnan than to our on screen graphics!

We were set the task of creating all concepts and visual material throughout the six month production process, from early drafts and storyboards, through numerous re-writes and right up to final scripts. Often we would be working to complete scenes appearing near the end of the movie before we had started on the opening ones, which could get a little confusing at first!

In one of the final scenes the camera pans across the entire underground control room, it is in this single shot that over sixty of the screens we created appear! It was a great privilege and a huge enjoyment to be creatively involved with the Goldeneye project and we were greatly complimented to be asked back two years later to create screens for the follow up movie, Tomorrow Never Dies.