I only started it today and I'm still impressed with Wood's writing style.
The novel is slightly different from the movie reading more like a Fleming
Novel. Looking forward to the rest. {[]
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
Yup, EON has first refusal on the continuations. Have to pay if they use them, of course (look the other way now if you think they might have breached copyright by nicking from Gardner in the past)
Pity indeed, I really enjoyed his books , even Moonraker ( next month)
Is toned down slightly, to be a little more believable ( if it can be) than
The film. )
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
Dredging into my aged memory, I recall MGW saying on tv that they did have the rights to film them but it was unlikely that they would. That was sometime in the 90s, I think.
) I did laugh at his comment about the Moonraker novel as .....
... " not very exciting and very dated " 8-) it's one of the best
Of Fleming's stories. -{
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
And regarding the Continuation Writers, they are not as well know outside the Bond Circle as Fleming. So not a lot of casual Viewers People would realize that a Bond Film called License Renewed or Scorpius are in fact, Adaptations -{
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And regarding the Continuation Writers, they are not as well know outside the Bond Circle as Fleming. So not a lot of casual Viewers People would realize that a Bond Film called License Renewed or Scorpius are in fact, Adaptations -{
True, the continuation authors name's wouldn't add much, though it could be argued that some of the plots are no worse (and some much better) than EON's output since 1981.
And I could add - controversially - that a lot of "casual viewers" don't know who Ian Fleming is. And those that do might take a look at the recent films and suggest they couldn't see much from IF's original novels there anyway....
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And regarding the Continuation Writers, they are not as well know outside the Bond Circle as Fleming. So not a lot of casual Viewers People would realize that a Bond Film called License Renewed or Scorpius are in fact, Adaptations -{
Sir Kingsley Amis being the exception surely, though many young folk today would have no clue who he is as he died in 1995.
"The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
I haven't read Christopher Wood's novelisations since they came out but will dust them off!
I guess the producers must realise that, by now, they know what will and what won't work onscreen, so no longer need to purchase the rights to the continuation novels... Just to dispense with much of the un-filmable story lines. And if I was Raymond Benson, or represented the estate of John Gardner, I'd be asking for a lot of money for the rights.
No only us old intellectuals know Amis )
I too haven't read the Wood novels in years !
Still have my original copies bought from a School
Book club. )
The probably wouldn't be allowed to be sold in schools
These days .
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
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No only us old intellectuals know Amis )
I too haven't read the Wood novels in years !
Still have my original copies bought from a School
Book club. )
The probably wouldn't be allowed to be sold in schools
These days .
I was at a job interview last year and not one of the three people present (a man in his 20s, a woman in her 40s and a man in his 50s) knew who Kingsley Amis or Martin Amis even was when I mentioned them! )
"The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
I enjoyed the book very much, keeps pretty much to the film except for a few points. smersh is Back
after Bond, and the villain was called Sigmund. In all I think he did a great job in keeping a fanciful
film story into a slightly more believeable Book. Adding little touches as to how Bond smuggles his
gun through airport security.
Obviousley not in the same league as Fleming but I loved it as a schoolboy, and still do. now
for January and Moonraker.
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
I'm about halfway through it and have to say, I've forgotten how well written it is. Love the fact that Wood's description of Sergei Barzov is Fleming's own description of Bond ) . But it walks a perfect line between the film and Fleming - grittier but retaining the film's plot. Can't wait to finish it.
Started Chris Wood's Moonraker today. ( it's been years since I last read it )
So glad to see he kept Fleming's description of Drax. -{ and Bond's first
Meeting with Drax walking towards him across a long study speaking ?
Very like what Silva Did in the recent SF. He also gives a nod, to Fleming's
Back story for Drax.
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
Comments
The novel is slightly different from the movie reading more like a Fleming
Novel. Looking forward to the rest. {[]
But no one else can touch 'em
Pity indeed, I really enjoyed his books , even Moonraker ( next month)
Is toned down slightly, to be a little more believable ( if it can be) than
The film.
http://debrief.commanderbond.net/topic/51870-moonraker-by-gerry-anderson/
This is the supposed Gerry Anderson Version that was turned down.
And who was John Gardner? Writer of 60s creation Boyise Oakes, and reknown pisstaker out of IF.
... " not very exciting and very dated " 8-) it's one of the best
Of Fleming's stories. -{
And regarding the Continuation Writers, they are not as well know outside the Bond Circle as Fleming. So not a lot of casual Viewers People would realize that a Bond Film called License Renewed or Scorpius are in fact, Adaptations -{
True, the continuation authors name's wouldn't add much, though it could be argued that some of the plots are no worse (and some much better) than EON's output since 1981.
And I could add - controversially - that a lot of "casual viewers" don't know who Ian Fleming is. And those that do might take a look at the recent films and suggest they couldn't see much from IF's original novels there anyway....
Sir Kingsley Amis being the exception surely, though many young folk today would have no clue who he is as he died in 1995.
I guess the producers must realise that, by now, they know what will and what won't work onscreen, so no longer need to purchase the rights to the continuation novels... Just to dispense with much of the un-filmable story lines. And if I was Raymond Benson, or represented the estate of John Gardner, I'd be asking for a lot of money for the rights.
I too haven't read the Wood novels in years !
Still have my original copies bought from a School
Book club.
The probably wouldn't be allowed to be sold in schools
These days .
I was at a job interview last year and not one of the three people present (a man in his 20s, a woman in her 40s and a man in his 50s) knew who Kingsley Amis or Martin Amis even was when I mentioned them!
Mentioned Amis, they'd think I meant I said Aramis
( not the musketeer, the after shave )
Exactly my point!
I enjoyed the book very much, keeps pretty much to the film except for a few points. smersh is Back
after Bond, and the villain was called Sigmund. In all I think he did a great job in keeping a fanciful
film story into a slightly more believeable Book. Adding little touches as to how Bond smuggles his
gun through airport security.
Obviousley not in the same league as Fleming but I loved it as a schoolboy, and still do.
for January and Moonraker.
In SPY was also very good ( in my opinion) -{
Yes, it certainly was "shocking" in nature!
So glad to see he kept Fleming's description of Drax. -{ and Bond's first
Meeting with Drax walking towards him across a long study speaking ?
Very like what Silva Did in the recent SF.
Back story for Drax.
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Indeed it was - it cut out most of the film's needless silliness.
Believable, or at least a bit more grounded. -{