Why With A Mind to Kill Is The Perfect Source Material For The Next James Bond Movie.

I have been a fan of the James Bond franchise since I first saw Sean Connery in Goldfinger as an excitable eight-year-old. My UK readers no doubt remember the near constant Bond Movie marathons on ITV during the summers of the mid-90’s and early 2000s.

I grew up with Goldfinger, Live and Let Die and The Man With The Golden Gun, fell in love with the world, the cars, the gadgets and the villains, moved onto Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough and then then to Casino Royale, Skyfall and the rest of the Craig era.

One thing I never understood is why after Fleming’s death, MGM and Pinewood studios seemed either unwilling or unable to adapt more of the Bond books to film.

Ian Fleming created Bond and wrote 12 novels and 2 short story collections featuring the gentleman spy yet the Bond books did not stop because of the original author’s passing.

Bond has featured in 40+ stories not written by Fleming, which you can read in any order. In the modern world, literary Bond is much the same as his film counterpart in that you don’t have to see/read everything Bond to understand Britain’s Best Spy. Consumer’s can jump in and out of the film’s and books with no complaints, in fact unless a film is a direct sequel in a…