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I think this is probably right but, as you allude to, a lot of the adaptation in the early films was done for good, cinematic reasons. There are some unadapted bits of Fleming - like the squid battle that @Wizard mentions - that are probably best left unadapted.
True. There was also budgetary reasons, I think, especially in the early ones.
Silva, anyone?
His Hispanic background maybe, not much else. I think some of TMWTGG got into Skyfall, but Silva is very different to Scaramanga as a character.
Randy
Except instead of just surviving with help from a doctor like in the books, the PTS of Bond 25 could pick up from there with a sequence similar to the CR poison sequence with Bond fighting for his life, except instead of using a defibrillator he has to make an antidote using everyday objects (if that's possible for any type of poison, I was crap at chemistry at school).
Make new & faithful adaptions of books like the recent CR!
Leave DN, FRWL, GF & TB out, and simply do the rest!
I guess I need to see it again....
That said, it's a story so obviously set in another time. Then again, so is CR, and they did a solid job of adapting it with DC.
A lot of "Risico" was used in FYEO, including the characters of Columbo and Kristatos.
@TheWizardofIce mentioned earlier the Rolex knuckleduster scene from On Her Majesty's Secret Service. I agree that it would be good to throw this in (substituting an Omega, of course), although every time I think of this scene, I find my gaze going down to my poor defenceless Rolex and inwardly shudder at the thought. It's a bit like imagining yourself as Bond in the circular saw episode from Goldfinger (crosses legs).
An aspect of the stories "Quantum of Solace" and "The Hildebrand Rarity" shows Bond with a more human side and a genuine compassion for the plight of his fellow man -- which is something that rarely, if ever, comes out in other stories or novels. It would be interesting to bring out this side of Bond in a movie.
It's been a few years since I read Moonraker, but I seem to recall a somewhat crestfallen Bond at the end who is left to think out his place in the world, so this would certainly be a first for a movie.
Why ?
Huh ?
They (sorta) name dropped THR which was nice
Because Fleming stipulated as part of the deal with EON that none of TSWLM could ever be adapted for the screen.
But it seems that Eon doesn't really want to pay more for literary Bond and instead wants to go with their own stories, even as they may have been inspired by Colonel Sun, License Renewed, etc.
Here's a British copyright law, or perhaps a contract law, question: does Eon have to pay more when crediting "in Ian Fleming's [name of novel]" as opposed to "as Ian Fleming's James Bond"? Does a novel cost more to use than a character?
I still fail to understand why MR is "Ian Fleming's Moonraker" and CR is not "Ian Fleming's Casino Royale."
It made me wonder if Bond 25 will be titled... The Hildebrand Rarity.
A very long shot I admit... But still.
It could work as a title.
At the start of the next film Bond and Madeline are living together and he has resigned the service and is living under the thumb - hence Property of a Lady
Then Ernst escapes and kills Madeline and Bond is forced to pull on the shoulder and realises there is he only one lady he is truly the property of - Her Majesty the Queen.
You can have that for free P&W.
The whole Bond/Drax dynamic has never really been done, and Blades would be an interesting venue for Fiennes 'M' character exploration...
Yes, though I'd also add TSWLM and YOLT to that list as well.
Yes but apart from the heroine's name what is really useable in TSWLM?
The villains names might have been ok in the 50s but they are appallingly cliched now as are the characters of Sluggsy and Horror.
The most you could make out of TSWLM is Bond and meets the girl at a motel and there's a fight.
Those people who advocate that this plot could be the basis for a whole film really don't seem to have the slightest grasp of the economics behind the film industry.
There's barely enough story in the novel to sustain a PTS - and a pretty dull one at that. There's no way EON would touch this with a bargepole.
Although it would be interesting to know if they even could if they wanted to? Does the Fleming ban on adapting it last forever? Do EON just own the title not the content? Does this mean IFP could sell the content to another Mcclory to adapt as long as they came up with a different title?
Can't see why EON would offer IFP a massive amount of money to get the rights to a story they will never adapt except if there's the spectre of a rival on the horizon.
Yes but can they really be used for a film? Spy and what's left of Yolt don't strike me as movie material.