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Ooh Tiger would be cool, wouldn't he. I think I'd like the film version with his personal train and awesome hi-tech lairs everywhere. He's almost more like Derek Flint than he is like Bond, which I think would be supercool.
I would love to see Tiger get more time in adaptions. With these Bond Universe possibly starting in the books, I would like to write my own story on Goldfinger’s background, set in modern day. I know it sounds silly but I enjoy the writing process. As for the Felix Leiter comic, I would love to see it continued by Dynamite.
Leiter: The Pinkerton Years, in a hardboiled Raymond Chandler style. Yes please.
I'll give these books a chance, I think. They could be interesting.
November 11 - Armistice Day. According to John Pearson, Bond was supposed to have been born today in 1920. That would make him 101! Happy Birthday James!
An interview with Kim Sherwood, it’s not Bond related, but it’s interesting.
This is an interesting problem we haven't seen tackled yet: Bond up against recycling in the 21st century. They certainly could have gone there in Craig's films. When Moneypenny visits Bond's apartment in SP perhaps.
Bond crumples soda can and chucks it in with his garbage.
Moneypenny: "Aren't you going to recycle that?"
Bond stares blankly.
Bond: "No."
Moneypenny: "You know the world has changed, James. People recycle their soda cans."
Bond: "And what do you do?"
Moneypenny blinks.
Moneypenny: "I recycle my soda cans."
Bond: "Well then you're an idiot."
Moneypenny: "Excuse me?"
Bond: "I said you're a bloody idiot!" *smashes two champagne glasses, sweeps glass into garbage*
Moneypenny, turning to leave: "Bye, James. I'll see you at the office tomorrow..."
Bond, calling after: "You're all bloody idiots!" ... "Wait, don't go, I still have to show you Judi Dench!"
Complete freedom to act as one thinks best.
"You have a licence to kill, 007. Not to break the recycling guidelines."
‘James Moloney, analyse this’
It seems she’s going all out for Bond. The first person from my generation to write a James Bond novel!
Yes, I was thinking she's so far the first person born after me to write a Bond novel (of sorts) though admittedly I am getting older. She's 5 years younger than me in fact.
https://boundingintocomics.com/2021/11/05/kim-sherwood-tapped-to-write-new-james-bond-novels-without-007-will-reimagine-classic-characters/
https://www.amazon.com/Testament-Kim-Sherwood-author/dp/1786488671
Based on her comments about her love of Goldeneye, I still can't shake the feeling of Alec Trevelyan making a surprise comeback. I wonder if Barbara Broccoli had any say in her selecting.
John Logan said that Bond should always fight Blofeld, just before he wrote Spectre.
https://thefilmstage.com/john-logan-suggests-a-blofeld-presence-in-bond-23/
That would certainly be a first (apart from novelizations) for a character created in the films to cross over into the books. I don't think even Robinson (apart from TND, TWINE, or DAD) appeared in any of Benson's books. Somehow, I just can't see this happening, but that would be kinda crazy if it did.
Regardless I wouldn't expect it to happen just because they'd surely have to pay EON to use any original characters?
Fleming's twelve Bond novels are divisible by three. So are his nine short stories. Post Fleming there were three Bond novels in the late 60s/70s before Gardner took over (Colonel Sun, TSWLM, MR). Novels and short story combined, Charlie Higson wrote six Bond adventures, again divisible by three.
All signs point to John Gardner as the only Bond author not to conform to the rule of threes.
Coincidence?
I'd like to see TB from the point of view of all the agents who got sent to parts of the world where the stolen bomber turned out not to be.
:)) I love that! Yes please.
In some ways early on John Gardner did also conform to the rule of threes as his initial contract from Glidrose was for three Bond novels. Gardner then thought that that would be it and another author would get to have a go. However, once he had written those initial three Bond novels he was given a contract to write three more and so it continued. As Gardner wrote fourteen original Bond novels and two film novelisations the rule of three was obviously broken later on. I assume that some of the later novels or more likely the novelisations were more of the "one and done" variety, especially as the novelisations would have involved input from Eon as well as Glidrose. Gardner even stated in the introduction to the US Armchair Detective edition of his Licence to Kill novelisation, that as he had had truck with film screenplays in the past this would be his one and only foray into doing a Bond film novelisation. Of course, as we all know, he later reneged on this stance and went on to write the GoldenEye film novelisation as well.
I did not know that about Gardner. My comment was facetious, but it does seem there is something about the number three when it comes to contracts. I believe most Bond actors have been contracted for three, then negotiate on a film to film basis from there. (I do also recall Gardner’s surprisingly candid Licence to Kill introduction.)
Yes, I understood that you were joking but you did raise a very good point all the same and it triggered that fact about the Gardner novels in my mind. You could be right about the number three in contracts. I suppose it's a nice number. It allows for a beginning, a middle and an end if that is envisioned. I think Gardner must've negotiated some of his later books one by one after the contracts for three books were fulfilled. I recall Gardner saying somewhere that there was initially a get-out clause written into the contract for the first three books so that either Glidrose or he could pull out of the contract and not be in breach of it if they felt what he was producing wasn't up to scratch.