Should they make film versions of the Non - Flemming Bond Books?

AlphaOmegaSin

How would you all feel about some of the non - Flemming Bond Novels converted into Films?

Barbel

AlphaOmegaSin wrote:

How would you all feel about some of the non - Flemming Bond Novels converted into Films?

MGW once said that it would be unlikely. Still, small elements have crept in, sometimes intentionally (Colonel Sun gets a namecheck in DAD) and sometimes perhaps coincidentally (Gardner wrote a climactic scene on an airship in Role Of Honour a year before AVTAK did the same).

L Jones

I wish EON Productions would consider adapting the Gardner and Benson novels. I really do.

Dryden

I've read a few non EON books and, whilst I quite enjoyed them, none struck me as being a good basis for a stand alone film. That said there will be some elements worthy of inclusion.

superado

I agree with Dryden, I've always felt that the Gardner and Benson novels were patterned after the films as much as the literary character of Bond, intentionally or not, and that's a bad thing if that's true in large part. Unless there are any "worthy" aspects of the books like there were of course for the Fleming books, it would seem like an exercise of circular references and cross-influencing (or rather, cross rip-offs). More recently, Devil May Care was too much of a rehash of Fleming's stuff and similarly Carte Blanche felt too much of a direct lifting from the rebooted movie Bond.

The Higson Young Bond books are another thing, however, and it wouldn't be a bad strategy of piggy-backing from the current popularity of Harry Potter, Twilight and the Hunger Games by adapting a Young Bond film series totally independent from the current film continuity, with such a high degree of independence that the pre-WWII setting would be absolutely acceptable just as Sherlock Holmes is now being done in concurrent renditions, yet peacefully co-existing in the minds of fans.

Jimmy Bond

I still think Colonel Sun could've been made into a great Bond film. Its the only Bond novel outside of Fleming that feels like its Fleming's Bond starring in it. No hurt feelings or anything for Raymond Benson, but his Bond was more contemporary in a lot of ways.

Silhouette Man

Just a correction - the author is Ian Fleming, NOT Ian Flemming.

Aside from that, YES, I would like to see many of the Continuation Bonds to be filmed as I am deeply interested in them and how they relate back to the original Fleming Bond novels. But you already knew that....just see The Bondologist Blog.

AlphaOmegaSin

Silhouette Man wrote:

Just a correction - the author is Ian Fleming, NOT Ian Flemming.

Oops, I need punishing harshly

Silhouette Man

AlphaOmegaSin wrote:

Silhouette Man wrote:

Just a correction - the author is Ian Fleming, NOT Ian Flemming.

Oops, I need punishing harshly

It's OK - you see it a lot. It's just not a sign of great quality and I wanted you to nip it in the bud early on in your posting career. Section 26, Paragraph 5 I'm sure you understand!

L Jones

Dryden wrote:

I've read a few non EON books and, whilst I quite enjoyed them, none struck me as being a good basis for a stand alone film. That said there will be some elements worthy of inclusion.

I disagree with you. Mind you, I've only read the Gardner novels. But if EON Productions can make stand alone films from the Fleming novels, the production company can do the same with the non-Fleming novels. Certainly with the Gardner stories.

I'm sorry, but I refuse to accept this viewpoint that only the Fleming novels were worthy of being transformed into a Bond film. Fleming's writing was okay, but not that hot to me.