A James Bond fan furious that the spy was killed off in the latest film has admitted a hellish stalking campaign against franchise producer Barbara Broccoli.
Daniel Wilson, who shouted ‘James Bond cannot be dead’ during a court hearing last year, admitted one count of stalking and two counts of breaching a 2017 restraining order.
The 37-year-old left Ms Broccoli a series of voicemails on Valentine’s Day last year, prosecutors said.
And two days previously he had ‘threatened, harassed or intimidated’ the British-American producer.
Bond was killed off in a hail of missiles in the 2021 film No Time to Die, the final movie to star Daniel Craig as the fictional MI6 agent.
Wilson, who is detained under the Mental Health Act, appeared at Southwark Crown Court wearing a dark jacket with blue sleeves and was supported by his mother in court.
The 007 fan has shared numerous examples of Bond iconography on social media including an image of the franchise’s iconic gun barrel opening sequence, which appears in almost every film.
He had been accused of breaking the restraining order by contacting Ms Broccoli on 13 occasions since April 2022, but 11 charges relating to this offence will lie on file following his guilty pleas.
Arabella MacDonald, prosecuting, said an indefinite restraining order would be sought.
And judge Christopher Hehir told Wilson that he faced either a prison term or a hospital order when he is sentenced on a date yet to be fixed.
Ms Broccoli’s father, Albert ‘Cubby’ Broccoli, bought the rights to the fictional British MI6 agent from creator Ian Fleming in 1961.
He produced Dr No, starring Sean Connery, the following year and oversaw the hugely successful franchise until he passed it on to Barbara and her half-brother Michael G Wilson in 1995.
The pair retained creative control until last year, when Amazon Studios – owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos – controversially bought the rights for £770million.
This came despite Ms Broccoli being widely quoted as referring to the bosses of the streaming giant as ‘f***ing morons.’
There remains no script for the next instalment of the franchise, and no actor has been confirmed to play the martini-drinking secret agent.
But Broccoli said in 2024 that Craig’s successor ‘will be a man.’
She added: ‘He’ll likely be in his 30s. Whiteness is not a given.’
Among the leading contenders for the role is Aaron Pierre, 31, a Londoner who has Curacaoan, Jamaican and Sierra Leonean ancestry.
Ms Broccoli began working on the series at the age of 17 when she joined the publicity department for The Spy Who Loved me, starring Roger Moore as Bond, in 1977.
She progressed to the role of associate producer for 1987’s The Living Daylights starring Timothy Dalton, before taking over as producer for Goldeneye in 1995, with Pierce Brosnan cast as 007.
The 65-year-old was made an OBE in the 2008 New Year Honours and CBE in 2022 for services to film and drama.
She is said to be working on a film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Othello shot in Doha.
