James Bond 24

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Sky Atlantic has released a teaser trailer for their upcoming mini-series Fleming, which is a co-production with BBC America.

Fleming [Sky Atlantic / BBC America]

Written by John Brownlow, Fleming will follow the infamous James Bond author from the outbreak of the second world war when a young Fleming was an unsuccessful stockbroker who already had a failed army career behind him and was living off his rich family whilst indulging his passions of alcohol, erotic literature and sexual conquests. But having been forced into Naval Intelligence through family connections, Fleming found a calling. Utilising his vivid imagination, charm and mischievous sense of humour he was responsible for some of the most outrageous counter intelligence missions against the Nazis, full of danger and intrigue, the experience of which would form the basis of the Bond books.

The mini-series is being produced by Ecosse Films and stars Dominic Cooper as Ian Fleming, Lara Pulver as Ann O’Neill, a wealthy London socialite; Annabelle Wallis as Muriel; a love interest for Fleming who would be the inspiration for the first Bond girl; Lesley Manville as Eve Fleming, Ian’s mother; Rupert Evans as Peter Fleming, Ian’s brother; Samuel West as Admiral John Godfrey; the Director of Naval Intelligence; and Anna Chancellor as Lieutenant Monday, Admiral Godfrey’s secretary, who Fleming would use as the inspiration for Moneypenny

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[Hyde]

Sky Atlantic has released a teaser trailer for their upcoming mini-series Fleming, which is a co-production with BBC America.

Fleming [Sky Atlantic / BBC America]



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Damn that looks awesome! Screw Fassy, Dominic Cooper for Bond

 

[Sawyer]

Damn that looks awesome! Screw Fassy, Dominic Cooper for Bond

You want this actor to play the writer AND the character he's famous for creating? Do you WANT a universe-ending paradox to take place?!

 

[Hyde]

You want this actor to play the writer AND the character he's famous for creating? Do you WANT a universe-ending paradox to take place?!

Yes.

 

[Airwings]

Should we have Brothers Spang in this film?

 

[ChickenScratch]

No. Why use them if not used right. Unless you know if Bond ends up in Vegas in the next movie.

 

[Airwings]

And how do you KNOW that the brothers won't be used right?

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

You haven't met CS yet, haven't you? If they're not used exactly like they're used in the books it's automatically a failure to him.

 

[ChickenScratch]

And how do you KNOW that the brothers won't be used right?

Question is, how do you come up with the Spang Brothers. Was there any news on Bond going to Vegas for the next movie? Desert? Facing casino guys? Be on a ranch?

 

[Marvolo]

The Spang Brothers could be used without Vegas or any of that stuff. They could run a crime organization anywhere in the world, and do a number of criminal things. Its the 21st century and with tech now a number of plots are possible. Gotta think outside the box.

 

[ChickenScratch]

It's a nice box. I(t's based upon knowledge of the character and the world. Any diamond smuggling in the next movie they could be used for?

 

[Marvolo]

It's a nice box. I(t's based upon knowledge of the character and the world. Any diamond smuggling in the next movie they could be used for?

Its an outdated restrictive box. They can be used for anything. Things more modern and entertaining than the vegas mafia and diamond smuggling.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Now now, Marvolo. You know that ChickenScratch is incapable of the term "adaptation," and sees us Bond fans as lesser beings for not being a big on the books as the movies. Let him live in his own world.

 

[ChickenScratch]

No, it's not that. Why use the Spang Brothers just to name check them when you can come up with new people. Why use them badly if not adapting their story?

 

[ChickenScratch]

Its an outdated restrictive box. They can be used for anything. Things more modern and entertaining than the vegas mafia and diamond smuggling.

So you are assuming the next Bond will be in Vegas? Based on what? Have you heard anything? Or is this just bringing up the Spang Brothers just to badly use something else from the novels.

 

[The Englishman]

How about Gala Brand, can they use her?

 

[Roose Bolton]

They were going to use her in Die Another Day originally.

 

[The Englishman]

They were going to use her in Die Another Day originally.

Yes I know Rosamund Pikes character was originally her, but they didn't use her thank god. So can we have her now please?...

 

[ChickenScratch]

How about Gala Brand, can they use her?

If it's Gala, sure. No point in people being the character in name only. It's disrespectful to the source and frankly lacks creativity. Come up with a new name/character if you wanna tell a new story.

 

[Roose Bolton]

It's funny, Skyfall was a better adaptation of The Man with the Golden Gun than it's actual film version.

 

[ChickenScratch]

How so? James a damaged agent given a last chance to got get a gangster in Jamaica at Frome sugar plantation?

You gotta draw out the parallels to me because I must have not been paying attention. Other than the him being thought dead then brought back into the fold.

 

[Roose Bolton]

Thematically.

James nearly dying, going off the grid while M believes him dead. Being a damaged agent with one last chance to prove himself. His inability to pull the trigger, the concept of the fading British empire (though in Skyfall it makes reference to the Hong Kong hand over rather than Jamaican independence)

It's only taking ideas from TMWTGG and altering them for modern setting, but I felt that it was closer to what Fleming intended than the Christopher Lee film.

 

[ChickenScratch]

You made some good points there.

Funny story, my mother and aunt were secretaries at Frome and my dad and uncle were cane truck drivers while in college. It's where they met.

 

[Marvolo]

So you are assuming the next Bond will be in Vegas? Based on what? Have you heard anything? Or is this just bringing up the Spang Brothers just to badly use something else from the novels.

Where the heck did you read that in my post? I said it shouldnt be in vegas. The Spang Brothers can be used any number of ways not requiring the inclusion of vegas nor diamonds.

 

[ChickenScratch]

Where the heck did you read that in my post? I said it shouldnt be in vegas. The Spang Brothers can be used any number of ways not requiring the inclusion of vegas nor diamonds.

Then why use them just for a name check. If you want two crime bosses who are brothers you can come up with two. They were created by Ian as a send up of Vegas mobsters with all the tropes intact. Use the Spang Brothers and their Spangled Mob toothless and it's disrespectful and uses them wrong. The name wasnt just their name, but everything they stood fore, "everything around them spangled," they got Bond's attention because of the diamonds, then the race horses, then the casinos, theirs is everything that was overwrought with Vegas at the time.