QT's gonna hafta have a VERY tough sell to Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson (the daughter and stepson of Albert R. 'Cubby' Broccoli), who currently run Albert R. Broccoli's Eon Productions, Ltd. If he becomes successful in doing so, it's gonna be quite a bit different than the action-packed and gadget-filled spectacles we're used to seeing Our Favorite Man With The Licence To Kill.
(
From Russia, With Love and
On Her Majesty's Secret Service are the two James Bond films that rely on 007's wits instead of gadgets to save the world from SPECTRE's evil designs.)
Of all the original Ian Fleming books that were made into films, only
Thunderball and
Casino Royale were not picked up by Broccoli and Harry Saltzman in 1961. The film rights to
Casino Royale were sold by Ian Fleming in 1954 to Gregory Ratoff who later sold it to Charles K. Feldman. Feldman later made it into the 1967 spy-movie spoof of the same name.
Thunderball was in the middle of a lawsuit between Ian Fleming, Kevin McClory and Jack Whittingham over its authorship. (For details about the
Thunderball case, go to
http://www.ianfleming.org/mkkbb/maga...nside_tb.shtml)