36 replies to this topic

[Loomis]

Any theories, anyone? I mean, it's not as though they wouldn't sell.

[Genrewriter]

No theories, but I'd love to see them publioshed. If nothing else, a supplement on the next wave of dvds on the development history of each film would be cool.

[Qwerty]

I'd adore to see them, perhaps because the screenplays or more apart of EoN and MGM, therefore, IFP doesn't have as much say about them?

I really don't know alot about it, but I would buy them.

There is the Tomorrow Never Dies reprint script that came in a VHs box set, but that's not exactly what you mean.

[mccartney007]

I imagine that they aren't being published because the market for them would mainly include only hardcore fans -- and that isn't a large enough group to deem it worthwhile. If you really want the scripts you can find them online in the traditional script format, though (which is they way I'd prefer to have them).

[Agent 76]

for what?

[Qwerty]

What do you mean Agent76?

[Agent 76]

What do you mean Agent76?

to publish the screenplays...I don't see any reasons for that..sorry

[Qwerty]

Oh, I see.

Well, it all depends what kind of a Bond fan you are, and if you like to buy all the neat things, such as these screenplays, I'd love to get my hands on them, but mccartney007 has a very good point, in that probably only the hardcore Bond fans would purchase them.

[Agent 76]

Oh, I see.

Well, it all depends what kind of a Bond fan you are, and if you like to buy all the neat things, such as these screenplays, I'd love to get my hands on them, but mccartney007 has a very good point, in that probably only the hardcore Bond fans would purchase them.

yes you're right!

some screenplays I wouldn't mind to buy , for example From Russia With Love or GoldenEye & For Your Eyes Only!


let's wait and see...

[Qwerty]

Well, no, it probably won't happen any time real soon. It's a great idea though!

[IndyB007]

I consider myself a hardcore Bond fan, but I would only purchase two or three of them myself.....

don't know how much of a market there would be on these....

[Loomis]

I imagine that they aren't being published because the market for them would mainly include only hardcore fans -- and that isn't a large enough group to deem it worthwhile.

If I'm not mistaken, Faber & Faber publishes a wide selection of screenplays, of well-known and not so well-known films. I'm sure Bond scripts would sell better than most of them (I imagine that the only screenplays that have really sold truckloads in book form are RESERVOIR DOGS and PULP FICTION, and that's due only to the extraordinary personality cult of Tarantino back in the mid-90s). Sure, the market would be small, but, hey, people have still made money by catering to small markets. Heck, I reckon the Bond scripts, if they published them, would sell quite a bit more than the last few continuation novels.

[Tanger]

Script books are quite popular nowadays. An example of this is 'The Office - The Scripts'. They flew off the shelves. Mainly due to the programs popularity though.

I think Bond one's would sell though.

[Turn]

I too would love to see these in printed book form. In fact, I just rekindled my interest in possibly collecting screenplays. I lost a bid for a TB script on eBay just a week ago.

I've got DAF, TMWTGG, TLD, an early version of NSNA called Warhead, and an OHMSS continuity script. Also have the GE and TND scripts that were given with videos. Several scripts are available commercially, but FRWL, GF, YOLT, OHMSS and LALD never seem to be available outside of continuity scripts. Those are just the action and dialogue given verbatim for people who change the reels in the cinema.

Some places even have different drafts of scripts also.

[Qwerty]

I've got DAF, TMWTGG, TLD, an early version of NSNA called Warhead, and an OHMSS continuity script. Also have the GE and TND scripts that were given with videos. drafts of scripts also.

What video release of GoldenEye had a script with it, Turn? I'm very interested!

[Turn]

I've got DAF, TMWTGG, TLD, an early version of NSNA called Warhead, and an OHMSS continuity script. Also have the GE and TND scripts that were given with videos. drafts of scripts also.

What video release of GoldenEye had a script with it, Turn? I'm very interested!

Back in 1995 or 96, when you signed up for a Bond video of the month club with the VHS sets, they gave the screenplay as a bonus. You got the screenplay at the end or something. Having bought them from a Best Buy, I never got it. But I found a used copy at a bookstore a few years ago.

[Righty007]

Arn't the novelizations for The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, Licence To Kill, GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day the screenplays in book form?

[Qwerty]

Oh, I see! Very cool! I got my Tomorrow Never Dies reprint from that early VHs box set release. I didn't know that had included a script for certain GoldenEye releases also.

Thanks for the information!

[DLibrasnow]

The screenplay for GOLDENEYE was published in book form and was part of a special MGM Home Entertainment marketing campaign in the mid-1990s. I have it at home, signed by Pierce Brosnan no less

[DLibrasnow]

I am assuming you are referring to the same thing Turn!

[Agent 76]

The screenplay for GOLDENEYE was published in book form and was part of a special MGM Home Entertainment marketing campaign in the mid-1990s. I have it at home, signed by Pierce Brosnan no less

cool man!

[Genrewriter]

Arn't the novelizations for The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, Licence To Kill, GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day the screenplays in book form?

They're more like adaptations than anything else and in the case of the Spy book, almost totally different from the movie. Usually the novelizations are adapted from early drafts in order to get the books out around the time the film is released.

[Righty007]

Thanks for clearing it up, G.

[Genrewriter]

No problem at all.

[SnakeEyes]

I'd love to get some of the scripts, in script form, nice to read and study.

[Triton]

I presume that the publishing companies don't think that they would sell very many copies.

I can think of only a few screenplays that have gotten a perfect bound printing from a major publishing company. Miniscule when compared to the number of movie novelization titles that are printed.

[Blofeld's Cat]

I wouldn't like published screenplays of Bond movies really. I'm a huge Michael Crichton fan and I'd have rather a novelisation of the movie Twister rather than the published screenplay. I have not bothered to buy it.

Of course, being a Bond fan I'd buy them anyway should they ever be published.

[mccartney007]

Like I said before, there isn't a market for the scripts.

For instance, Elvis has a huge following and yet you can't get all of his films on DVD because, while the hardcore fans would buy them, there isn't much of a market beyond that. That's exactly what Elvis Presley Enterprises says anyway, and I'm sure the James Bond scripts wouldn't be any different.

[Loomis]

Like I said before, there isn't a market for the scripts. 

There is. I've conceded that the market is small, but, nonetheless, the market exists.

Check out Faber & Faber's site (http://www.faber.co....re=5&subgenre=1) - you may be surprised by some of the screenplays that are out there in book form. If the scripts for (to give a couple of random examples) 28 DAYS LATER and WELCOME TO SARAJEVO were deemed sufficiently marketable to be published, why assume that there would be no demand for the script for, say, THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH or DIE ANOTHER DAY?

Granted, most of the screenplays published by Faber & Faber seem to be for established classics/works by critically-lauded, "serious" directors/written by famous names (for instance the novelist Alex Garland). Clearly, they are targeted at cineastes, who probably wouldn't be caught dead reading a Bond script when they might just as easily be caught dead reading the script for a Scorsese flick, or something by the Coens.

And yet.... aren't the likes of FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, GOLDFINGER and ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE taken pretty seriously by film buffs these days? Rightly or wrongly, they now have a classic status that other Bond outings don't. Wouldn't their screenplays be viewed as "acceptable" by the Faber & Faber crowd?

And as for Purvis and Wade, if their profile is sufficiently high for them to be invited to take part in a series of screenwriters' lectures in London, is it really inconceivable that their Bond scripts would sell in book form?

[NORK]

I imagine that they aren't being published because the market for them would mainly include only hardcore fans -- and that isn't a large enough group to deem it worthwhile. If you really want the scripts you can find them online in the traditional script format, though (which is they way I'd prefer to have them).

Where on the net?