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Somewhere in my files though, I have an outline of my own version of a classic James Bond yarn: evil villain, exotic location, henchmen, minions, macguffin--everything. All fresh turf not yet trod on. It will never see light of day--I was simply pleased with myself that I was able to come up with 'one not done yet'.
After the celebrity triligy of Faulks, Deaver & Byd we get another great author to write a 007 novel will he fare better than the rest?I do like the Flemings and some of the Gardners and most certainly the two novelisations of Christopher wood. Most of the other 007 offspring is entertaining but no more.
The Moneypenny Diaries are however the best post Fleming novels IMHO and are closest to Flemings hero.
Is there really still a need for a literary 007 as the movies are doing alright on their own, even if I consider them going downhill since CR?
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Feliks wrote: "Thanks. Frankly, I've never heard of him. And also...I yearn for that movie series to die. Its beyond embarrassing now; with a blonde Bond who is a pantywaist in real life; can't swim; is afraid of..."Daniel Craig is the best thing about the last three movies, where the last two ones were more about style than story or logic.
This is about the amount of new Bond novels written since Flemings demise before 007 really took of in cinema.
Horowitz did a great Sherlock Holmes novel House of Silk and the next one Moriarty is on the horizon.
Anthony Horowitz is a first-rate talent in a middlebrow TV sense. (I do not sniff when I say this). He was an originator of the Midsomer Murders series, which fell into neglect but sadly not desuetude long ago, and did admirable pick and shovel work in the Miss Marple series before it too suffered the same ignominious fate of preposterousness, now in evidence in the current PBS episodes. Yet Horowitz will never be confused with William Boyd, the best English novelist writing today. If you like Martin Amis, you will love Boyd. Boyd was the most recent to be given a crack at the Fleming franchise, but failed utterly. His words lay lifeless on the page. The disappointing thing is he didn't need the money. I cast no stones, however. But think of it, Horowitz goes from Agatha Christie (a BILLIION books published) to the hottest writer since, if you don't count the authors like Nora Roberts that only women read. I think he will be up to the Fleming standard because he won't be contemptuous of what he is doing.
More from the BBC on Fleming's story idea.http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment...
"Set at the Nurburgring in Germany, Murder on Wheels would have seen 007 thwart a Russian plot to cause racing legend Stirling Moss to crash.
The treatment saw Moss appear as a character, with Bond's superior M and M's secretary Miss Moneypenny also featuring.
Horowitz, who resurrected Sherlock Holmes in his 2011 novel The House of Silk, is the latest in a series of high-profile authors to have penned new Bond novels.
Sebastian Faulks, Jeffery Deaver and William Boyd have also written "official" Bond novels, while Charlie Higson has penned a series of 'Young Bond' books about the character's teenage exploits.
While promoting his Sherlock Holmes novel The House of Silk in 2011, Horowitz suggested to the BBC News website he would be prepared to take on the task.
"I can't think of any other character in literature - except maybe James Bond - who would have tempted me," he said of Holmes, who will return later this year in his second Holmes novel, Moriarty."
I had forgotten the Conan Doyle connection (smacking his forehead). Well, there you have it, he has stuck an oar into the three greatest literary franchises in history.
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If they really wanted to keep my respect, when CR was re-booted it should have been done as a true period piece set in the early 60s. With period fashions, slang, cars, and guns. Would have been very easy to do; and it would have revived a deep and abiding interest in Bond.
Instead we got bupkes..low-hanging fruit with a Bond who can't swim and kisses other men in after-hours leather bars. Criminey, it almost couldn't get any worse; the only thing left for them to do is to cast Denzel Washington as Bond at this point. They've fumbled every other good aspect of Bond away; why not just drop his Scottish ancestry altogether?
Holy Crap ... AND I offered to send this guy my book for review.. Feliks :
As soon as the hard copy is out you will have one..
I have a feeling your review will be honest..:)
I think I've already written this one a couple of years ago, but set in Abu Dhabi!One question - why would the Russians want to kill Moss?
Still, having read most of the bond stuff, I'd probably read it. Quite enjoyed Solo and Devil May Care, but not Carte Blanche.
Didn't Horrowitz write the young Bond novels?
Looks like the book will be called Trigger Mortis.
Perhaps should have called it A Rolling Stone!
Horowitz is one of the UK’s most successful authors and has over forty books to his name including his recent Sherlock Holmes novel, The House of Silk, and his enormously successful teen spy series featuring Alex Rider. As a TV screenwriter he created both Midsomer Murders and the BAFTA-winning Foyle’s War, and is looking forward to taking on his next project:
‘It’s no secret that Ian Fleming’s extraordinary character has had a profound influence on my life, so when the Estate approached me to write a new James Bond novel how could I possibly refuse? It’s a huge challenge but having original, unpublished material by Fleming has been an inspiration. This is a book I had to write.’
Set in the 1950s, Horowitz’s story will be unique among the modern James Bond novels, in that a section will contain previously unseen material written by Ian Fleming. Fleming’s great niece, Jessie Grimond explains:
‘In the 1950s Ian Fleming wrote several episode treatments for a James Bond television series. But it never came to be made and he ended up turning most of the plots into the short stories that are now in the collections For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy and The Living Daylights. However, there are a few plot outlines which he never used and which, till now, have never been published, or aired. Given that Anthony is as brilliant a screenwriter as he is a novelist, we thought it would be exciting to see what he would do with one of them.’
The treatment which will act as a starting point for Anthony Horowitz’s Bond novel is titled Murder on Wheels, and follows Bond on a mission in the world of motor racing. Set at the Nurburgring in Germany, Murder on Wheels would have seen 007 thwart a Russian plot to cause racing legend Stirling Moss to crash.
The novel will be published in the UK and Commonwealth by Orion Publishing Group and simultaneously by HarperCollins Publishers in USA & Canada.
http://www.ianfleming.com/anthony-hor...