by Sean Egan
But will he? Every dog has its day. Can David V. Picker – so instrumental in guiding 007’s transition from book to screen, as well as a man who knows of the fluctuating fortunes of motion-picture properties – see a point where Bond pictures will cease being successful? Where they will dribble away in a manner once considered unthinkable for other colossally successful, long-running film series such as Sherlock Holmes, Andy Hardy and Tarzan? ‘No,’ he says simply. ‘There are just some things that work. Bond worked and I’m sure will continue to work. It may vary a little bit one way or the other, but the fact is that you can’t destroy a unique aspect of the film industry.’
Summing up, he says, ‘Tarzan had his time. Andy Hardy had his time. James Bond seems to me for all time.’
THE END. NOT QUITE THE END …
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
My grateful thanks to the following people for granting me interviews: Raymond Benson, Martin Campbell, Jeremy Duns, Sir Roger Moore, Monty Norman, John Pearson, David V. Picker and Norman Wanstall.
Additional thanks to Jeremy Duns for providing valuable advice and insight and to Fionn Morgan, who read through parts of the manuscript directly concerned with Ian Fleming’s life and family.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
BOOKS
Amis, Kingsley, The James Bond Dossier (Pan, 1966)
Broccoli; Albert R., and Zec, Donald, When The Snow Melts: The Autobiography of Cubby Broccoli (Boxtree, 1998)
Bryce, Ivar, You Only Live Once: Memories of Ian Fleming (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1975)
Burlingame, Jon, The Music of James Bond (Oxford University Press, USA, 2012)
Chancellor, Henry, James Bond: The Man and His World (John Murray, 2005)
Chapman, James, Licence To Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films (Tauris, 2007)
Christie, Thomas A., The James Bond Movies of the 1980s (Crescent Moon, 2013)
O’Connell, Mark, Catching Bullets (Splendid, 2012)
Cork, John, and Scivally, Bruce, James Bond – The Legacy (Boxtree, 2002)
Mankiewicz, Tom, and Crane, Robert, My Life as a Mankiewicz: An Insider’s Journey Through Hollywood (University Press of Kentucky, 2012)
Desowitz, Bill, James Bond Unmasked (Spies LLC, 2012)
Duns, Jeremy, Rogue Royale: The Lost Bond Film By The ‘Shakespeare of Hollywood’ (Kindle, 2014)
Fiegel, Eddi, John Barry: A Sixties Theme: From James Bond to Midnight Cowboy (Faber & Faber, 2012)
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Lycett, Andrew, Ian Fleming (Orion, 2009)
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Simmons, Bob, Nobody Does it Better (Javelin, 1987)
Simpson, Paul, The Rough Guide To James Bond (Rough Guides, 2002)
Stein, Ellin, That’s Not Funny, That’s Sick: The National Lampoon and the Comedy Insurgents Who Captured the Mainstream (W. W. Norton & Company, 2013)
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MAGAZINE ARTICLES
‘Richard Maibaum 007’s Puppetmaster’ by Lee Goldberg, Starlog, March 1983
‘Gardner’s World’ by Raymond Benson, 007 magazine, #28, October 1995 (as reproduced on http://www.john-gardner.com)
MISCELLANEOUS
History of James Bond Games (1983–2014) by Fat Mad (YouTube compilation)
Never To Be Disclosed: Government Secrecy in Britain 1945–1975 (thesis) by Christopher R. Moran BA, MA
Ian Fleming, James Bond’s convoluted creator.
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Hoagy Carmichael, the famous songwriter whom Fleming used as the visual basis for 007.
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Ornithologist James Bond, whose name was appropriated by Fleming for his hero.
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Partly because of President Kennedy’s endorsement, James Bond was a phenomenon in books before any 007 movie had been produced.
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David Niven was Fleming’s first choice to play James Bond, but only got to appear in the role in derided unofficial picture Casino Royale (1967).
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This iconic blurb, familiar from sixties Bond paperbacks published by Pan Books, was lifted from the pages of sixth 007 novel Dr No.
Fleming with the two movie producers who would ramp up the fame of his hero to levels he could never have imagined: Harry Saltzman (left) and Cubby Broccoli.
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Fleming with Sean Connery. The author’s opinion of the first man to play his creation in the cinemas was �
�� at least initially – not entirely favourable.
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Monty Norman, composer of the immortal ‘James Bond Theme’, with a rapt Vanessa Redgrave.
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A 1961 publicity shot of Lois Maxwell, soon to become the first filmic Miss Moneypenny.
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Terence Young directs Connery and Adolfo Celi (Emilio Largo) in Thunderball. Many felt that Young was something of a Bond figure himself.
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Corgi’s Aston Martin DB5. This most iconic of all items of Bond merchandise was the biggest-selling toy of all time.
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Kevin McClory attends the premiere of Thunderball. He would be a thorn in the side of the Bond movie producers.
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George Lazenby gets to grips with Diana Rigg in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Lazenby’s only Bond film is for many fans the best 007 picture of all.
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Sean Connery in classic Bond costume and pose. Many still regard him as the definitive 007.
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Third official movie Bond Roger Moore (right) prepares to do battle with Scaramanga, the Man with the Golden Gun (Christopher Lee).
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Timothy Dalton preparing to become the fourth movie Bond in the company of Maryam D’Abo.
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Pierce Brosnan with Michelle Yeoh in Tomorrow Never Dies, the second of his quartet of Bond films.
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Daniel Craig with his M, Judi Dench. They were promoting Skyfall, which was soon to become the most successful Bond film of all time.
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Martin Campbell, the director who twice ‘rebooted’ the cinema Bond.
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John Barry – co-composer of most of the best-known 007 movie themes – is congratulated by Bond producer Barbara Broccoli on his 2006 ‘Inspiration Award’ from GQ magazine.
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Craig was a much darker Bond, but that didn’t prevent him also being beefcake.
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