Michael G Wilson (b. 1943) is the stepson of the late James Bond producer Albert R Broccoli and half brother to current James Bond co-producer, Barbara Broccoli. Actor Lewis Wilson is his father.
In 1972, Wilson joined EON Productions, the production company responsible for the official James Bond film series dating back to 1962 that began with his stepfather Albert R Broccoli and Harry Saltzman. Wilson specifically worked in EON Productions’s legal department until taking a more active role as an assistant to Cubby Broccoli for the film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). In 1979, Wilson became executive producer of the film Moonraker and since has been an executive producer or producer in every James Bond film, currently co-producing with stepsister Barbara.
Wilson collaborated five times with veteran Bond screenwriter Richard Maibaum starting in 1981 with For Your Eyes Only. In 1989, Wilson was forced to finish the screenplay to Licence to Kill alone due to a strike by the Writers Guild of America which prevented Maibaum from having any further involvement. For both, this was their final James Bond script, as Maibaum died in 1991 and Wilson ceased writing, although Wilson technically went on to outline the next film in the series with Alfonse Ruggiero that was eventually scrapped due to internal legal wranglings between EON Productions and MGM (the following film, GoldenEye being a completely different story written by Michael France).
In addition to his production duties, Wilson also has the distinction of making many cameo appearances (speaking and non-speaking) in the Bond films. His first appearance, long before becoming a producer, was in Goldfinger in which he appeared as a soldier. Wilson has made cameo appearances in every Bond film produced since 1977 with the exception of A View to a Kill and the unofficial Bond film Never Say Never Again.
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