No poster art on U.S. tie-in novel

zencat · September 2006

This might only be of interest to obsessive Bond book collectors like me, but...

No Poster Art on U.S. Casino Royale Tie-In Novel

But there's still hope for a UK tie-in edition with poster art.

Sir Miles · September 2006

Seems a very strange decision, they could have gone with the teaser poster art at least.
Any news of the cover for the hardback version, zencat ?

zencat · September 2006

That's what I was thinking, Sir Miles. Why not go with the teaser art?

As far as I know, there's no hardback in the works.

royalmile · September 2006

Do you think there's any chance that a new cover (with a movie still or poster) will come out after Nov 17th?

zencat · September 2006

I think that's a long shot, at least in the U.S. But never say never...

And, as I said, there's still a chance we will see a movie poster cover in the UK.

Hardyboy · September 2006

O, what an opportunity Penguin is losing! All the Bond fans who'd buy yet another edition of CR just for the tie-in. . . Seems I missed my calling: any marketing gigs available for a Hardyboy?

Sir Miles · September 2006

zencat wrote:

As far as I know, there's no hardback in the works.

Now that is a missed opportunity !

What chance of a large-print version now ?

superado · September 2006

Maybe the powers that be in Bond literature doesn't want a direct association with the film if the story has become significantly different from the novel?

A case in point is the MR novel, for which I don't recall any cover art using the film, which may have been reserved for the novelization. OHMSS used images of Lazenby, but perhaps because the movie was still within an acceptable margin of the novel's story and plot, pratically like a novelization.

Other coverart that used film images seemed more prevalent in foreign language editions, where there may be a greater need perceived to visually promote a Fleming novel with the more popular films, and where the concern of too close of an association is not as great as in the English language markets.

Golrush007 · October 2006

Yesterday I saw a CR novel with the French poster art. i.e. Craig in foreground with sillhouette of Vesper in background. How long has this edition been out? I have not heard about it until I saw it.

EDIT: I have just found this edition of CR on amazon.co.uk. It is still only available for pre order there. Has anybody else seen this book out and about?

blueman · October 2006

That's weird, usually they'll use a film to promote the book. Oh well.

caractacus potts · October 2006

superado wrote:

Maybe the powers that be in Bond literature doesn't want a direct association with the film if the story has become significantly different from the novel?
A case in point is the MR novel, for which I don't recall any cover art using the film, which may have been reserved for the novelization.

for Moonraker they put out an entirely new novel by Christopher Wood, adapting the screenplay, same as with The Spy Who Loved Me
that had the picture of Roger Moore in a spacesuit on the cover
I think every movie up til tSWLM had a moviecover, certainly The Man With The Golden Gun did, as that was the only one available when i started collecting: thaat was the era of the messy desk covers, and tMwtGG was the only one not available in that format - and that one of course had as little to do with the movie as did MR
Im not sure about LaLD, PAN published Roger Moores on-set diary and thats the closest I thing I can remember

theres a site somewhere with scans of almost every cover for every book, if I remember where it is Ill link to it later

Barry Nelson · October 2006

At least the woman on the cover of the book resembles Vesper more than Eva does.

glidrose · October 2006

caractacus potts wrote:

superado wrote:

Maybe the powers that be in Bond literature doesn't want a direct association with the film if the story has become significantly different from the novel?
A case in point is the MR novel, for which I don't recall any cover art using the film, which may have been reserved for the novelization.

for Moonraker they put out an entirely new novel by Christopher Wood, adapting the screenplay, same as with The Spy Who Loved Me
that had the picture of Roger Moore in a spacesuit on the cover
I think every movie up til tSWLM had a moviecover, certainly The Man With The Golden Gun did, as that was the only one available when i started collecting: thaat was the era of the messy desk covers, and tMwtGG was the only one not available in that format - and that one of course had as little to do with the movie as did MR
Im not sure about LaLD, PAN published Roger Moores on-set diary and thats the closest I thing I can remember

theres a site somewhere with scans of almost every cover for every book, if I remember where it is Ill link to it later

I cannot remember a film tie-in for DAF either.
The last one they did was OHMSS from what I have seen of the old Pan books. The only others I recall are GF, FRWL and TB. Did they do one for YOLT??

caractacus potts · October 2006

heres that site that has many of the bookcovers scanned
its not quite complete but theres most of them
I wonder if I can get the images to draw in this post? (Im never sure if the HTML tag thingies are working)

IMAGES REMOVED. Sorry, CP, but those are official EON-owned images, and we can't post 'em here. People may use the link you provided, though. HB

I was wrong, there was a LaLD movie cover
(and a tMwtGG messy desk cover: Ive never seen that one in real life)
so I think it was tSWLM they stopped doing them for

Barbel · October 2006

FYEO had a sort-of film tie in cover. It didn't use the film artwork, having a drawing of a very young looking Bond next to a sultry Miss Havelock over a boat. There was a triangle in the bottom right hand corner proclaiming the relationship to the film.

caractacus potts · October 2006

Hardyboy wrote:

IMAGES REMOVED. Sorry, CP, but those are official EON-owned images, and we can't post 'em here. People may use the link you provided, though. HB

sorry about that Chief
gotta admit they looked pretty cool all lined up like that

Hardyboy · October 2006

caractacus potts wrote:

Hardyboy wrote:

IMAGES REMOVED. Sorry, CP, but those are official EON-owned images, and we can't post 'em here. People may use the link you provided, though. HB

sorry about that Chief
gotta admit they looked pretty cool all lined up like that

Yes, they did. It's the pits that we have to do this, but it's the price we pay for being allowed to stay online. And I wonder why I still support this series. . .

glidrose · October 2006

caractacus potts wrote:

heres that site that has many of the bookcovers scanned
its not quite complete but theres most of them
I wonder if I can get the images to draw in this post? (Im never sure if the HTML tag thingies are working)

IMAGES REMOVED. Sorry, CP, but those are official EON-owned images, and we can't post 'em here. People may use the link you provided, though. HB

I was wrong, there was a LaLD movie cover
(and a tMwtGG messy desk cover: Ive never seen that one in real life)
so I think it was tSWLM they stopped doing them for

Thanks for this. And it certainly puts to bed any theories about CR not being close enough to the novel to warrant a film tie-in cover.

TMWTGG and YOLT are absolutely nothing remotely like the novels. At least LALD and DAF attempted to have a few scenes from the books, yet all of them still had covers.

From the sounds of it, CR will be the closest tie-in to a Bond novel since OHMSS.

No poster art on U.S. tie-in novel

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