Tuesday, July 17, 2007

A Lasting Bond

Although Ian Fleming Publications is keeping mum on the details, the big picture is crystal clear: “Forty-two years after the last James Bond novel was published,” reports ABC News, “the world’s most-famous spy is set to go on a new literary adventure.”

When it’s published next May, The Devil May Care will become the 15th book in Ian Fleming’s series featuring the dashing British spy. And though insiders report that the new book reads precisely as though it had been penned by the late author, one can’t help but suspect that, with Sebastian Faulks (A Trick of the Light, Charlotte Gray) at the keyboard, The Devil May Care will be much better than Fleming’s original novels ever were.

Meanwhile, last month Reuters reported that Daniel Craig will again star as James Bond in the as-yet-untitled 22nd Bond film that will be released November 2008:
Filmmaker Marc Forster, the man behind such acclaimed movies as racial drama Monster’s Ball and [the] Peter Pan story Finding Neverland, was named on Tuesday as director of the next James Bond adventure.

Forster will direct the untitled 22nd Bond outing from a script he and Oscar-winning screenwriter Paul Haggis will develop from a draft by previous Bond collaborators Neil Purvis and Robert Wade, the studio and producers said.
You can read the full Reuters report here.

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Better than Fleming? I doubt that, Faulks is a stunningly boring writer.

Tuesday, July 17, 2007 at 9:19:00 PM PDT  
Blogger Linda L. Richards said...

That's what I love about books and our discussion of them: both "stunning" and "boring" are so in the eye of the beholder.

Tuesday, July 17, 2007 at 10:29:00 PM PDT  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I broke out my thesaurus with stunning. I am a lyrical gangsta.

Wednesday, July 18, 2007 at 12:03:00 AM PDT  

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