Scripting James Bond
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A very promising new book (1,300 pages long!) from the author of an excellent French website on Bond, available in English and French as a free download:
"You know the name, you know the number, but do you know… How it was planned to pit Bond against Goldfinger’s twin brother on several occasions? What exactly was in the script for the canceled spin-off about the character of Jinx, envisioned after Die Another Day? How Thunderball was first envisaged as a film, before becoming a novel, then a film, and yet another film later? What would Timothy Dalton’s third film look like? What is this action scene in the London postal railway network that was imagined for four films but never ended in any of them? How Max Zorin’s character original plan was to divert a comet and make it crash into Silicon Valley? In which adventure was Muammar Gaddafi briefly considered as one of the villains? How 007 was to confront SPECTRE again in The Spy Who Loved Me and Octopussy? What about this motorcycle chase on the Great Wall of China in a film project where the Bond Girl was inspired by Rambo? Which scenes from the scripts were filmed but cut in the edits? Or how The Living Daylights was first envisioned as a reboot presenting the very first mission of an inexperienced young James Bond?
"All the answers to these questions and more can be found in this new free e-book by Clément Feutry about the writing of the films, featuring the world’s most beloved secret agent. Discover 60 years’ history of the saga through the analysis of more than a hundred documents (scripts, treatments, interviews, correspondence, storyboards, etc.). See how the screenwriters created the plots for the Bond films. Who were these screenwriters? From what or from whom did certain storylines or characters originate? How different is the story of the film compared to the novel? How did the plots evolve from their initial concepts to the final edit? What ideas were abandoned along the way and sometimes re-used in subsequent films? What were the challenges? It’s up to you to discover it in this book."
Two sample pages, from chapters 2 and 14:
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This books sounds fascinating and may draw together many of the threads we have discussed over the years about script ideas / changes / origins on AJB. I just downloaded it as a PDF - it looks great. Thanks for this find @Revelator
Yes Read this Book it is from my friend Clement, Clement is from the website Commander007.
And he offer it for free !! That is answersome ! 1350 pages for Free !! Lot of amazing contents inside.
I help him for the front cover, and we used some props from my collection, on the table and my collection on the background, enjoy it !
Very interesting! Thank you @Revelator for positing and of course Clement for offering it without any charge!🍸️