SPECTRE SPECTRE SPECTRE (SPecial Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion) is a fictional organization featured in the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, the films based on those novels, and James Bond video games. Led by evil genius and supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the international organization first formally appeared in the novel "Thunderball" (1961) and in the film "Dr. No" (1962). SPECTRE is not aligned to any nation or political ideology, enabling the later Bond books and Bond films to be regarded as somewhat apolitical, though the presence of former Gestapo members in the organization are a clear sign of
Spectre (2015 film) Spectre (2015 film) Spectre is a 2015 British spy film, the twenty-fourth in the "James Bond" film series produced by Eon Productions for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Columbia Pictures. It is the fourth film to feature Daniel Craig as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond, and the second film in the series directed by Sam Mendes following "Skyfall." It was written by John Logan, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Jez Butterworth. It is the final "James Bond" film to be internationally distributed by Columbia Pictures, as Universal Pictures will become the international distributor of its future films. The story sees Bond pitted