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I've always wanted to see the Union trilogy get adapted being filmed back to back to back. This way everyone has a solid 3 movies.
He also came up with good capers but I think many times they were tied to real world events like the Hong Kong changeover. Just detail to overcome or realign, mining what's useful.
Anyway, updating the Gardner novels and others in the style Casino Royale did so well could be a big winner.
I can't recall "Never Dream of Dying" or "Doubleshot". Might be a good time to go back and read those ones again.
I can see EON doing quite well by these continuation novels. I think it would set the series up for some new ideas and thoughts. Besides I think most of these missions the "this time it's personal" angle isn't always present.
I rather like a few of the titles that have been used in the continuation novels. Even though I found the book a tough read I liked Devil May Care has a book title.
I second that!
I would ideally like to see something like Licence Renewed set up and that is the double-0 section is disbanded but M transfers Bond to a different arm of the intelligence arena and we get a Bond operating somewhat outside of his parameters.
Pervis and Wade's speciality!
THE END
NOT QUITE THE END
IAN FLEMING'S JAMES BOND WILL RETURN
IN
JOHN GARDNER'S
LICENCE RENEWED
I quite like the sound of that! :-bd
OF
NO TIME TO DIE
BUT JAMES BOND WILL BE BACK
IN
ANTHONY HOROWITZ'S
FOREVER AND A DAY
What say you Mi6? What if EON decided to remake the classic adventures, updating them for today's audiences and with today's technology? Would you want them to all be remade? Are there certain ones you wouldn't want to be remade? What order would you like to see them remade?
The novels would be the way to go.
And let's not forget about the biggest remake of all - NSNA. Since so many of the films were classics to begin with, no need to remake them. Move on with the new and original and work in some classic stuff if anything is left from Fleming if possible. That would be tribute enough.
As we all know producer Charles Feldman had the movie rights to the book. I am unclear of all the timelines but it would appear that at some point Feldman was looking to make a serious version of CR. I believe director Howard Hawks was interested in directing. Feldman even approached Connery to see if he could entice him to play Bond in CR. Soon however Feldman abandoned the idea of a serious adaption and we got the campy CR 67!
Lets suppose Feldman had been successful in creating a serious CR movie. What effect would this have had on EON's series? Would it have created a rival for the Bond series? Do you think EON would have attempted to do what they did with McClory and make it under their series and then give Feldman remake rights?
What say you Mi6? What if Charles Feldman had been successful in making a serious CR in the sixties?
I'm not sure that there was, however you do wonder if Feldman got close to making his film would EON approach and try to bring him into the series. Competition is never a bad thing but with McClory it seemed that EON was happy to limit the competition when it comes to Bond.
Great points @bondsum I would have liked to have seen that film. A committed Connery out of the shadows of EON in his prime might have made for a great film. One can only hope they would still get Burt Bachrach to score the film.
The cited source link no longer works. If this is accurate, it’s a shame they couldn’t work it out. But I suppose after GF success EON would have taken a ton of liberties with the adaptation. Can’t imagine them sticking to Vesper’s story. I would have only been interested in a straight up adaptation. Being the genesis of all Bond, I demand no less.
Yes, that's the rub. Ben Hecht's last draft for Casino Royale was written between the release of FRWL and GF, which would have been the best time for a serious version of CR to have been released. Afterward, the chances of a faithful adaptation, especially following Hecht's death, grew exponentially worse each year. The idea of a faithful '68 CR with Connery is no more plausible than a faithful '69 OHMSS with him. Any producer who could perpetrate the abortive mess that was the '67 CR was obviously not invested in the original's story, whereas Hecht was.
According to one of the CR documentaries, Feldman wanted such a huge percentage, Cubby and Harry would have only received a something like a penny to the dollar to co produce. I wonder what might have occurred had Cubby and Harry agreed and produced the film after GF?
As much as I dig CR with Craig, I would have been perfectly happy with a CR set in the early 60s with Connery in his prime. I would hope it would remain faithful to the story, but who knows what EON would have done specifically. From what I read Broccoli offered to buy the rights to CR off Feldman but was declined. That’s too bad. I wonder if he had bought them that CR really would have been positioned as the first film instead of DN.
That said, the Bond actor I'd consider best-suited to play Bond in a faithful version of Casino Royale would have been Timothy Dalton, who was a close reader of the book and based his conception of Bond on it. Fleming's Bond changed over the course of time, but the noirish, ruthless, and mostly grim Bond of CR would have suited Dalton very well.