Elements of Gardner and Benson used in Bond Films (minor spoilers)

perdogg · October 2016

I am compiling a lists of items in novels by Benson and Gardner that appear to be in Bond films:

1. The newscast in "Nobody Lives Forever", which chronicles the apparent death of Bond and 'the Hook', is very reminiscent of the scene in TND where Bond is watching the tape of the newscast of the death of Paris Carver and is about to killed.

2. The trip in "No Deals, Mr Bond" where Bond and Ebbie Heritage are in the Sampan heading over to the island in Hong Kong bay is very reminiscent of the scene ine trip in "Skyfall" where Bond and Sévérine go to Silva's island. Except there is no shower sex.

3. Sévérine appears to be based on Veronica or Sunni Pei from "Zero Minus Ten".

Sir Miles · October 2016

The Bond/Necros fight on the cargo net whilst the plane is in flight is similar to the Bond/Caber fight in Licence Renewed. In the same book Murik cheats at horse racing, as does Zorin in AVTAK.

caractacus potts · October 2016

I think a View to a Kill uses elements from three of the first four Gardners
villains introduced at the high society racetrack event is from Licence Renewed
the elevator in the burning building is from For Special Services
high tech industrialist villain with his own blimp is from Role of Honour

I forgot which book is which, but didn't the war games room from Living Daylights and the Ice Palace in Die Another Day come from Gardners books? the triple crossing Miranda Frost could be easily be a character from Gardner book

superado · October 2016

Turning a key Bond ally into a traitor as done by Benson

to Marc Ange Draco,

is what was done in CR (2006) with Mathis, though they undid it later in QoS.

Barbel · October 2016

caractacus potts wrote:

I forgot which book is which, but didn't the war games room from Living Daylights and the Ice Palace in Die Another Day come from Gardners books?

War games room: "Role Of Honour". Ice Palace: "Icebreaker".

Barbel · July 2017

Today, Mr Benson kindly replied to a question I asked about the filming of the continuation novels and it may be of interest here:

"Danjaq has the film rights to all things Bond. IFP has the literary rights to all things Bond. Only IFP can publish Bond in print. Only Danjaq/EON can make Bond movies (and they have all merchandising rights, like toys, videogames, etc.) too. I am not privy to the current arrangement between Danjaq and IFP with regard to what the latter gets when a film is made, or how it would work if the former wants to do a continuation novel as a film. That's above my pay grade."

caractacus potts · March 2018

I was looking round the BookBond website and came across this huge list of perceived similarities:
http://www.thebookbond.com/2011/11/deja-vu-mr-bond-surprising-similarities.html

there's a bunch of stuff we haven't thought of
including a whole lot of plot elements in the World is Not Enough
and the Venice finale from Casino Royale

is the BookBond guy one of us? I sure like that site

Silhouette Man · March 2018

Yes, he's the member zencat but I don't think he's posted here for a good many years, sadly. His real name is John Cox and he used to be very active on CBn back in the day. He was a mod there but I don't think he bothers much with forums these days, preferring to focus on his excellent blog instead.

caractacus potts · March 2018

thanks Silhouette, that username looks familiar
I know quite a few of you have Blogs/websites I've probably looked at, but I admit I can never remember who is who

Elements of Gardner and Benson used in Bond Films (minor spoilers)

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