![]() He said it was ‘an expansion of a film story I’ve had in my mind since the war’. Fleming wrote to him about his third novel – still to be written – which would be Moonraker. ![]() In 1954, he corresponded with producer Alexander Korda, who had read a proof of his second novel, Live and Let Die, and had praised it. Mentioning that Fleming saw the cinematic appeal of Bond early on, Lycett says: Screenplays for Bond films … are usually 100 pages. A true scriptwriter would have concentrated on the dialogue, with minimal directions: “That’s why it’s 150 pages. Gilbert said that his screenplay was fascinating, but “far too descriptive”. The Guardian has a piece about the screenplay with input from both Bond book expert Jon Gilbert of Adrian Harrington Rare Books and Fleming biographer Andrew Lycett. ![]() ![]() However it wasn’t until 2015 that it came to light that the script had even survived when it came to auction and was bought by a private seller. It’s long been known that Ian Fleming wrote a screenplay for a James Bond film for Rank, but only recently that the screenplay resurfaced.įleming wrote the film treatment in 1956, based on his book published the previous year, Moonraker. ![]()
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