Will Higson write the novelisations?
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Posted 05 April 2004 - 05:42 PM
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Posted 05 April 2004 - 05:44 PM
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Posted 05 April 2004 - 05:50 PM
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Posted 05 April 2004 - 05:50 PM
Wait...
Broccoli, Wilson, Puvis, Wade
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Posted 05 April 2004 - 05:53 PM
The novelisations began when they no longer had a Fleming book with the same title to tie into. One would assume that Eon and MGM will want a book to help sell the film.Probably but not necessarily. After all John Gardner started writing 007 novels in 1981 but he didn't pen a novelisation until 1989.
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Posted 05 April 2004 - 05:55 PM
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Posted 05 April 2004 - 06:38 PM
Good point....I would have been interested to see a John Gardner penned A View To A Kill considering that EON stole -- sorry lifted - so many of his ideas for that movieThe novelisations began when they no longer had a Fleming book with the same title to tie into. One would assume that Eon and MGM will want a book to help sell the film.Probably but not necessarily. After all John Gardner started writing 007 novels in 1981 but he didn't pen a novelisation until 1989.
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Posted 05 April 2004 - 06:46 PM
INT. EON OFFICEWho says there'll be any more Bond films to write novelisations for?
MICKY G (to BABS): Geez, IFP are going to stuff up OUR product if we don't do something about it!
BABS: Oh Well, Bond 21 here we come then.
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Posted 05 April 2004 - 06:50 PM
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Posted 05 April 2004 - 06:54 PM
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Posted 05 April 2004 - 06:57 PM
Not on the boards Brett.,...but if you are MSN in about 6 hours I might let something slip.Care to elaborate, Darren?
#12
Posted 05 April 2004 - 07:56 PM
Isn't that a sad thought.Puvis, Wade
Perhaps they'll have the author write completely oblivious to the 'young' James Bond if and when he writes the continuation novels. Doesn't make much sense, but I really don't see any other paths that make much more.
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Posted 05 April 2004 - 08:08 PM
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Posted 05 April 2004 - 08:13 PM
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Posted 05 April 2004 - 08:45 PM
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Posted 05 April 2004 - 08:47 PM
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Posted 05 April 2004 - 08:55 PM
I prefer to be surprised in the movie theater.Then you're missing out DLibrasnow, as some of them are quite good and definitely need many readings if you're an avid fan, well worth checking them out, and always looked forward to when there is a new Bond film. I would sorely miss not having them.
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Posted 05 April 2004 - 08:57 PM
I heartily agree, that's why I buy the continuation novels when they come out and then see the movie first, then go and read the novel, so not to spoila anything. Benson and Gardner especially did some very good work on all of them.I prefer to be surprised in the movie theater.Then you're missing out DLibrasnow, as some of them are quite good and definitely need many readings if you're an avid fan, well worth checking them out, and always looked forward to when there is a new Bond film. I would sorely miss not having them.
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Posted 05 April 2004 - 09:01 PM
Fair enough.....but I'm not a huge fan of Bensons anyway.I heartily agree, that's why I buy the continuation novels when they come out and then see the movie first, then go and read the novel, so not to spoila anything. Benson and Gardner especially did some very good work on all of them.
I prefer to be surprised in the movie theater.Then you're missing out DLibrasnow, as some of them are quite good and definitely need many readings if you're an avid fan, well worth checking them out, and always looked forward to when there is a new Bond film. I would sorely miss not having them.
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Posted 05 April 2004 - 09:03 PM
Then you might enjoy the Gardner's, as I recently read that some think Gardner could write a much more convincing and envoloping novel, when he was given the storyline and was left to give it the creativity he chose. Goldeneye is a very fine novel by him, and one that took me a while to track down, but is very well woth the effort.Fair enough.....but I'm not a huge fan of Bensons anyway.
I heartily agree, that's why I buy the continuation novels when they come out and then see the movie first, then go and read the novel, so not to spoila anything. Benson and Gardner especially did some very good work on all of them.
I prefer to be surprised in the movie theater.Then you're missing out DLibrasnow, as some of them are quite good and definitely need many readings if you're an avid fan, well worth checking them out, and always looked forward to when there is a new Bond film. I would sorely miss not having them.
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Posted 05 April 2004 - 09:06 PM
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Posted 05 April 2004 - 09:09 PM
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Posted 06 April 2004 - 04:07 AM
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Posted 06 April 2004 - 10:36 AM
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Posted 26 April 2004 - 04:17 AM
Christopher Wood's novelizations are terrific. I'd go so far as to rate his The Spy Who Loved Me novelization as the best non-Fleming Bond book ever.What I can compare about the Wood and Gardner novelizations, is that they both add little changes and twists here and there, but both stay relatively close to the storyline, which makes them good reading.
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Posted 26 April 2004 - 09:16 AM
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Posted 26 April 2004 - 09:44 PM
The Die Another Day novel ruined everything up to the swordfight for me. The only decent parts of that whole movie!Then you're missing out DLibrasnow, as some of them are quite good and definitely need many readings if you're an avid fan, well worth checking them out, and always looked forward to when there is a new Bond film. I would sorely miss not having them.
We just didn't realize that MGM/UA wanted to appeal to the nine and twelve year olds by wanting to cast a thirteen year old James Bond
15, to be exact, and 16 when filming begins
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Posted 26 April 2004 - 09:46 PM
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Posted 26 April 2004 - 11:30 PM
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Posted 26 April 2004 - 11:34 PM