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Can somebody explain the position of power of the bond franchise weighing between the Fleming Estate and EON ? For instance the Fleming family estate chose Deaver for the last book, and now William Boyd. But I'm assuming EON has no say in who writes the books and how they are written?
and I'm also assuming the Fleming family estate has no say in the films interpretation of Bond?
but what is both sides powers over Bond is what I am simply asking
and I'm also assuming the Fleming family estate has no say in the films interpretation of Bond?
but what is both sides powers over Bond is what I am simply asking
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eon_Productions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Fleming_Publications
When in doubt google and wikipedia are your friends
Does anyone out there know?
I'd love to see these to brought to either the small or big screen.
I imagine its a tad frustrating for the likes of Higson and the studio as with Harry Potter now out of the picture theres a nice gap in the market. They must be gagging to film the Young Bond stories especially with SF so big at the moment. But I don't think EON will want to risk anything impacting on Craig's tenure.
One day I suppose it might happen but then is one of the reasons they have never done any of Gardners books because they would have to pay more in royalties? If you own the sole film rights to the character there's no need to adapt these books. If they could reboot Bond in CR theres nothing to stop them rebooting him again and making him a kid as long as they didnt use any of Higsons characters or titles.
I think a TV show might be a better option for the Young Bond books.
I haven't read them but I'm assuming that they're like the Fleming books more than anything else? I think TV would allow them to be more faithful to the books, if they were made as films then they might feel pressured into making them more like the film series.
Also, putting them on the big screen and it could impact on the film series.
Presumably, it costs less to license characters (a la SF) than to pay the fees associated with adapting an entire book or using a title.
Very insightful!
Presumably there is a fairly fast approaching point where the literary character becomes public property and anyone can write a Bond story or republish them?
Neither of these Wikipedia entries actually tells us very much at all.
In most countries the rights expire 70 years after the creators death. In Britain and USA (as well as most european countries) Ian Flemings works will therefore become public property in 2034, and there's nothing to do about it. It's already public property in Canada, where they have
50 years copyright.
What happens with the rest of the novels I don't know, but I guess EON own the rights to those until their creators deaths. Amis passed away in 1995 and Gardner in 2007 (so the rights expire in 2065 and 2077 respectively).
Has EON ever commented on this publicly? With less than two decades to go until Bond becomes public domain, there is potentially not much time left for EON before rival Bond franchises and spin offs start cropping up everywhere.
Of course not.
Once the literary character enters public domain, everybody will be able to make James Bond movies, as long as the character is based on Fleming's Bond. Movie James Bond will still be under copyright.
And I can't wait for that. There will be lots of trash but also someone who will finally make a Bond movie with no "slide whistle", invisible cars or step-brother nonsense and faithfully based on Bond books.
I wonder whether SPECTRE and Blofeld will enter public domain, though.
I agree that it would be great to have some wonderful new period Bond films. But what's concerning is whether there be the financial incentive to make any films if there's basically a free for all on the character?
Everything else that is copyrighted within the EON franchise will of course not enter public domain, like the gunbarrel and the James Bond theme. EON can keep control of everything that is copyrighted and, I suppose, everything that is written in the recent scripts(?).
I don't know the whole story, but I always thought that the court proceedings around Thunderball led to that McClory got the producing rights and Fleming got sole writing credits. I could be wrong though, McClory might also be a co-creator and therefore Thunderball wouldn't enter public domain at the same time as the rest of the novels.
Yes, I was going to post something like that. It'll be a free-for-all and quality control will be out the window!
I feel quality control been out the window since '97. I only see possibilities with this!
- Fleming kept the copyright of everything Bond
- The Thunderball novel must show the story is based on the screenplay developed by McClory's, Whittingham and Fleming
- McClory got the screen rights based on the Thunderball story, only. He planned often to start a rival series but he could only use the characters when the story is based on Thunderball and nothing else.
EoN purchased those disturbing rights from the McClory estate so for now nobody else could do anything besides them. There is nothing left that's not under EoNs control for movie adaptions. But once the novels enter public domain, everybody can use those stories and characters ... including Spectre and Blofeld. At least that's my understanding.
Yes, that's another way of looking at it!
I'm in as long as it will be titled Wave-Link and will star John Travolta as the villain.