John Gardner 1993 Interview on Euro Disney NSF location?
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I've also posted this question on CBn to no avail, so I thought that I would try my friends here on AJB as well:
Quoting CBn stalwart zencat in the 2003 "OO7 in Disneyland?" CBn thread:
"Posted 09 December 2003 - 09:35 PM
You know, I could swear I read an interview with John Gardner where he talks about working with Disney on NSF. I can remember him saying he was a big fan (not surprising in that Gardner is an amateur magician, movie buff, theater buff, etc) and that he said Disney would only let him stage the climactic action/gunplay in a closed park (Gardner wanted to do it during operating hours). He also talked about being taken down into the huge tunnel system below the park. I don't know where I'm remembering all this from so I could be wrong. But this is sticking in my head.
Does anyone else remember reading this?"
My question is the same as zencat's: does anyone here remember reading this interview Gardner supposedly gave? Does anyone here have any interesting cuttings, articles, interviews by Gardner on Never Send Flowers. I'm currently researching this at the moment for a lengthy article - a lot of which is already written.
Quoting CBn stalwart zencat in the 2003 "OO7 in Disneyland?" CBn thread:
"Posted 09 December 2003 - 09:35 PM
You know, I could swear I read an interview with John Gardner where he talks about working with Disney on NSF. I can remember him saying he was a big fan (not surprising in that Gardner is an amateur magician, movie buff, theater buff, etc) and that he said Disney would only let him stage the climactic action/gunplay in a closed park (Gardner wanted to do it during operating hours). He also talked about being taken down into the huge tunnel system below the park. I don't know where I'm remembering all this from so I could be wrong. But this is sticking in my head.
Does anyone else remember reading this?"
My question is the same as zencat's: does anyone here remember reading this interview Gardner supposedly gave? Does anyone here have any interesting cuttings, articles, interviews by Gardner on Never Send Flowers. I'm currently researching this at the moment for a lengthy article - a lot of which is already written.
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I vaguely remember reading this too...can't remember where from either...I'd say it's probably from a Fanzine, but I guess you have checked all the obvious ones...
But it does seem familiar...especially the part about him being allowed/shown around the tunnel system...
Thanks for your confirmation of zencat's contention that Gardner spoke about the Euro Disney NSF location in an interview somewhere: I believe said interview does in fact exist and is not just some figment of zencart's imagination but that it is just a matter of finding out where it was published. I iontend to publish an article somewhere on NSF and Euro Disney location next year to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the novel's publication in July 1993. Perhaps writing to some of the publishers of these magazines will uncover the location of this article/interview. I did PM zencat back in 2009 about the location of the interview, but he said that he never did find out where it was.
If you have still got copies of these magazines/fanzines in question, I would really appreciate you taking the time to look through them and try to uncover this excellent-sounding Gardner source for the interesting experimental NSF Bond novel.
I think JG DID get access to Euro Disney, before it opened(?), and used the research for the climax of NSF.
And has been pointed out, I'm pretty sure its in a 007 Mag interview that Zen's got it from.
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Thanks David and Sir Miles - I will try to get in contact with Graham Rye at the JBIFC - does anyone have the current address, email and phione number for the club as it seems to have recently chaged address from the ones I've got on my files?
It does exist...I certainly remember the bit David Schofield brings up about JG getting a tour of the underground tunnels of EuroDisney before it opened...
Don't worry....I already am B-)
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