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If I understand correctly, his commitment is to include the unpublished work in its entirety.
Quite a challenge when you think about it. Apart from synchronising his plot it will require him to match completely the style of the master.
Maybe he will use the short as a curtain raiser much in the same way as you have the pre-title sequence in the movies?
That would give him more freedom with his own story - of course, it depends on the nature of the short.
When I think of 'From A View To A Kill' from FYEO, it would have made a perfect curtain raiser for a bigger novel.
We shall see - exciting stuff!
That would be a great marketing coup — the first time that the great man's name has appeared on a new book since 1966!
This might be difficult for Anthony to swallow but the wonga from the extra sales would go a long way to smoothing all egos.
Wow, I knew the new book would be based on the Fleming material but had no idea it was going to actually include it. As you say, could be tricky for Horowitz to match it up with his stuff. Not impossible though.
Agree with your comment on the FAVTAK short story. I only recently read the FYEO collection for the first time and was amazed to find this story had no connection to any scene in the film. Surprised it hasn't been adapted in any way for the screen, must be one of the few unfilmed bits of Fleming.
Excellent ideas @Villiers53
I think a curtain raiser would work very well, but the pressure would be on henceforth to match it. Perhaps it will be a key set piece embedded in the novel?
FAVTAK is a masterpiece of a short story. I think that could be utilized in a Bond film (in the right hands of course)
Dual credits would also be fun and I think appropriate - credit where credit is due.
Thanks @007InVT.
Given lead times, doubtless the deal will already have been done but I hope IFP insisted - even if IF is given second billing to Anthony.
If nothing else, it would be excellent for the franchise and would give literary continuation Bond a much needed shot in the arm.
That said, when I attended the 'Moriarty' launch, Anthony just referred to including it.
We will see - the suspense is killing me.
We will see. I'm not too sure what an 'outline' is when it comes to Fleming.
Remember, he didn't write screenplays. That wasn't his métier. Legend has it that the shorts that comprise FYEO and O&TLDL are mostly from the same TV idea.
Indeed he did and the script for Fleming's Moonraker is surely the literary Bond's holy grail. All the more so for me as Moonraker is my favourite Bond novel and it was the first one I read at the age of twelve.
Yes, there is a great irony in that. :)
Not exactly. Talk of the Devil in 2008. And let's not forget Devil May Care, also 2008.
FYEO, mostly yes. But not O&TLD.
I kind of hope that it isn't just at the beginning and that it will be interwoven somewhere half way to three quarters along in the story. I wonder if AH will use some of Fleming's original words. Sorry, did F just write an outline merely with ideas or an actual narrative?
This is the six million dollar question?
Given his style of writing directly through his type writer, I hope it's narrative but I don't think it has been publicly stated?
Definitely. For all its invisible car, tsunami surfing, gene replacement therapy twaddle, the worse crime DAD committed in my book was the appalling misappropriation of the MR plot
That said, my one remaining dream is that MR should be produced as a period piece and remain completely faithful to the novel.
It won't be - Anthony Horowitz has already confirmed that.
"Best Bond novel", not to split hairs but I agonise over this (FRWL v OHMSS v MR).
Love San Jose though @ Birdelson. I used to visit it frequently when I lived in the US.
When I lived in the US we lived in Old Greenwich CT and I worked in NYC (love SF).
Today we are in the UK and live in Surrey (SW of London). Love it here too but it was a tough choice coming back after 20 years abroad (2 in Paris, 8 in Copenhagen and 10 in the US).
I would do them in the present day, but be perfectly faithful to the original stories.
Just tweek as necessary to account for passage of time, changed espionage landscape and modern tech etc, but do keep the stories, characters intact. Easily done I think.
I don't want periods pieces as DN OMHMSS GF FRWL TB were all done already, very close to the period. Maybe some selected period pieces down the road.
I think Eon needs to expand screen Bond into more formats.
This way we could get a proper telling of Moonraker, even in a 2015 context, it could be done, as well as FAVTAK, which would be awesome.
Bring Viv Michel to life, the real Sol Horror and Sluggsy. Good times!
Bond in the Seychelles with Krest and the very exotic Liz. Filmmakers could indugle some really engaging underwater shooting.
Bring the actual Quantum of Solace story to life. That drama would play out real nice on screen. Include Bond's little sabatoge mission as well, before he settles in for the story telling.
The HBO format would be perfect. We could dispense with the big action scenes that the feature films demand and take a Game of Thrones approach to set design and action pieces.
Anyway, upcoming book, does look very promising.