James Bond 26: Are There Any 007 Books Left To Adapt?
The ending of No Time To Die included the required "James Bond will return" title card that all James Bond movies end with, but there is little of Ian Fleming's books left to adapt for Bond 26. Over the course of Bond's 60-year cinematic history, the spy series has used a combination of both Fleming's source material and original plots to keep James Bond relevant to a contemporary audience. With No Time To Die concluding Daniel Craig's tenure as James Bond, Bond 26 will reboot the series once again, and the 007 producers will have to decide where the story for the next adventure will come from.
Ian Fleming wrote fourteen James Bond books (including two volumes of short stories), which were published between 1953 and 1966. The 007 book series started with Casino Royale which was adapted for television in 1954. The James Bond movie series then began with Dr. No in 1962, and since then has been one of the most consistent and reliable movie franchises ever, with twenty-five official James Bond movies released. Bond 26 doesn’t have any writers attached yet, and producer Barbara Broccoli still needs to find the next actor to play James Bond.
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Given the number of James Bond movies compared to the number of Fleming novels, it is no surprise that there are no Fleming book titles that haven't been used. During Timothy Dalton's tenure as 007 in the 1980s, the James Bond movies had used all the Fleming Bond book titles bar Casino Royale (which finally reached the screen in 2006). The James Bond movies though have always had a carefree approach to the adaptations of the novels. Some of the movies such as From Russia With Love, or On Her Majesty's Secret Service stay
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