I Wonder...
chrisisall
Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,061MI6 Agent
WHAT IF...
...Ian Fleming came back from the war and didn't decide to write a book featuring a fictitious character based loosely on himself & his comrades during his espionage escapades? Without OO7, what path would the movie & television spy world have taken, & where would it be today?
Danger Man premiered in 1960, but would the idea for it have existed without Fleming's novels? North By Northwest? Influenced I believe, but it may have been in the works independently... no Man From Uncle, no Get Smart, certainly no Wild Wild West or Flint...
John le Carré's first novel was in 1960... would he have written it without Fleming's more fantastic works blazing the literary trail? Would spy movies have been more serious all along like The Spy Who Came In From The Cold? IMO, the absurdity Fleming created around this serious character of Bond would have been sorely missed, and today we'd have no CHUCK or Bourne or even Jack Ryan to balance it out...
...Ian Fleming came back from the war and didn't decide to write a book featuring a fictitious character based loosely on himself & his comrades during his espionage escapades? Without OO7, what path would the movie & television spy world have taken, & where would it be today?
Danger Man premiered in 1960, but would the idea for it have existed without Fleming's novels? North By Northwest? Influenced I believe, but it may have been in the works independently... no Man From Uncle, no Get Smart, certainly no Wild Wild West or Flint...
John le Carré's first novel was in 1960... would he have written it without Fleming's more fantastic works blazing the literary trail? Would spy movies have been more serious all along like The Spy Who Came In From The Cold? IMO, the absurdity Fleming created around this serious character of Bond would have been sorely missed, and today we'd have no CHUCK or Bourne or even Jack Ryan to balance it out...
Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
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Possibly the only other outcome would have been authors embellishing their wartime accounts - but certainly without Fleming's panache or sophistication or inside knowledge.
That's a great piece of information. I have never heard of this character before:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSS_117
It would appear that there are about 180 books written by the original author, his wife & daughter.
Put the initials of the author & the code number together - JB 117 - spooky!
It makes me wonder if IF read any of these works.
If Harry Potter hadn't exploded in the way it did would there have been the follow up wizard/fantasy books & films cashing in on its success?
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