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So much for Escapism !
Really only 25, with TLD being the last relevant Cold War story. Though if you want to include the books that bumps it to 34 years, so that’s close.
That's a relief. Cheers mate
My vote's for an adaptation of Moonraker set in 1955 and filmed in black and white. Even if it was only on streaming, to distinguish it from the films. Bezos could finance it out of pocket change tomorrow and not miss it. Probably.
All that would probably be what Tarantino would do, but it’s not what I’d want.
I wouldn't be interested in even that to be honest. The books are great to read, but the films add so much to make them good viewing experiences. The radio adaptations rather show to me how dry period adaptations without the Eon additives would be (and they even still added Q to one of them).
It's the one which makes the most sense as it's fairly low budget, but my goodness there's a lot of bridge to get through.
Seeing someone actually solve a problem is probably plenty of escapism from our reality.
Also, not to mention, the content of those novels. For example, if they did Live and Let Die? They'd have to take some creative licence, and therefore would probably end up adapting it just as the original adaptation did.
Does anybody really want that, or are they just saying that they do?
I don't see that as a forgone conclusion. CR '54 was a live, truncated, low-budget television production (though I do enjoy it in that context); not even in the same category. A novel like MR or YOLT can be adapted to look very sleek and stylish on screen, of course it need be in the right hands.
Even among us fans it's notable that on the front page of this website there are thirty threads and only two of them (that's not off topic from Bond) aren't talking about the Bond movies: and one of those is about the video game. Not a single one about Fleming's books.
We all like the films. And I would imagine the amount of fans who discovered the books before they saw the films are now a tiny, tiny minority. For most of us, the films are why we like Bond. We love the books too, they're great: but the films made us love Bond first, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Have you been to Dover? ;)