
Once an MI6 agent, Silva turned to cyberterrorism and orchestrated the attack on MI6. They travel to an abandoned island off the coast of Macau, where the crew captures and delivers them to Sévérine's employer, Raoul Silva. Bond thwarts the attack and joins Sévérine on her yacht, the Chimera. She warns him he is targeted by her bodyguards, but promises to help if Bond kills her employer. Recognising her tattoo, he concludes she was a sex slave "rescued" by a criminal who now employs her, a man Bond wishes to meet. There, Bond is approached by Sévérine, Patrice's accomplice. Bond finds a casino token Patrice intended to cash in for the assassination, leading him to a casino in Macau. Moneypenny joins Bond in his investigation on orders from Mallory. The two fight and Patrice falls to his death before Bond can learn his employer's identity. In Shanghai, Bond follows Patrice but is unable to prevent him killing a target. He meets Q, MI6's new quartermaster, who gives him a radio beacon and a Walther PPK pistol.

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He fails a series of physical, medical, and psychological examinations, but M approves his return to the field, ordering him to identify Patrice's employer, recover the hard drive, and kill Patrice. Bond, who used his presumed death to retire, learns of the attack and returns to service in London.


Although she claims she is still useful, MI6's servers are hacked, and M receives a taunting computer message moments before the MI6 building explodes. Three months later, due to a public inquiry into M's handling of the stolen hard drive, she is pressured to retire by Gareth Mallory, the chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament and a former SAS officer. Bond is presumed dead and Patrice escapes with the hard drive. As Bond and Patrice fight atop a moving train, M orders Moneypenny to shoot Patrice, despite not having a clear shot Moneypenny inadvertently hits Bond, who falls into a river. In Istanbul, MI6 agents James Bond and Eve Moneypenny pursue mercenary Patrice, who has stolen a hard drive containing details of undercover agents. The next film in the series, Spectre, was released in 2015. Skyfall grossed $1 billion worldwide, the fourteenth film to do so, and became the then- seventh-highest grossing film of all time, the highest-grossing James Bond film, the second-highest grossing film of 2012, and the then-highest grossing film released by Sony or MGM. The film was nominated for five awards at the 85th Academy Awards, winning two, and received numerous other accolades. Skyfall received praise for Mendes's direction, cast performances, action sequences, cinematography, and musical score. Skyfall premiered at the Royal Albert Hall on 23 October 2012, and was released theatrically in conventional and IMAX formats in the United Kingdom three days later and in the United States on 9 November, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the first James Bond film Dr. Principal photography began that November after the film's title was revealed and lasted until March 2012, with filming locations including London, Shanghai, Istanbul, and Scotland. Production resumed in December 2010 after Purvis, Wade, and Logan were hired and a November 2012 release date was announced in January 2011. Development of the film was suspended throughout 2010 after Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which caused screenwriter Peter Morgan to leave the project. Mendes was approached to direct after the release of Quantum of Solace in 2008.

Ralph Fiennes, Bérénice Marlohe and Albert Finney are among the supporting cast. It sees the return of two recurring characters, Miss Moneypenny (played by Naomie Harris) and Q (played by Ben Whishaw), after an absence of two films. Directed by Sam Mendes and written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and John Logan, the film has Bond investigating a series of targeted data leaks and co-ordinated attacks on MI6 led by Raoul Silva. The film is the third to star Daniel Craig as fictional MI6 agent James Bond and features Javier Bardem as Raoul Silva, the villain, with Judi Dench returning as M. Skyfall is a 2012 spy film and the twenty-third in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions.
