GoldenEye is a spy film from 1995, the seventeenth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, and the first to feature Pierce Brosnan in the lead role as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It was directed by Martin Campbell and was the first in the series not to use any story elements from the works of novelist Ian Fleming. GoldenEye was also the first James Bond film not produced by Albert R. Broccoli, after he stepped down from Eon Productions and was succeeded by his daughter, Barbara Broccoli (along with Michael G. Wilson, although Broccoli remained involved as a consulting producer; it was his last film project before his death in 1996). The story was created and written by Michael France, with later contributions from other writers. In the film, Bond fights to prevent a villainous ex-MI6 agent (Sean Bean) from using a satellite weapon against London to trigger a global financial meltdown.