When it’s published next May, The Devil May Care will become the 15th book in Ian Fleming’s series featuring the dashing British spy. And though insiders report that the new book reads precisely as though it had been penned by the late author, one can’t help but suspect that, with Sebastian Faulks (A Trick of the Light, Charlotte Gray) at the keyboard, The Devil May Care will be much better than Fleming’s original novels ever were.
Meanwhile, last month Reuters reported that Daniel Craig will again star as James Bond in the as-yet-untitled 22nd Bond film that will be released November 2008:
Filmmaker Marc Forster, the man behind such acclaimed movies as racial drama Monster’s Ball and [the] Peter Pan story Finding Neverland, was named on Tuesday as director of the next James Bond adventure.You can read the full Reuters report here.
Forster will direct the untitled 22nd Bond outing from a script he and Oscar-winning screenwriter Paul Haggis will develop from a draft by previous Bond collaborators Neil Purvis and Robert Wade, the studio and producers said.
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Actually, calling Devil May Care the 15th book is not quite accurate. John Gardner wrote 14 Bond novels himself after Fleming, not including two movie tie-ins, and Raymond Benson wrote 6 more novels after Gardner, plus Kingsley Amis wrote one.
Since these continuation novels were officially sanctioned by Ian Fleming Publications (formerly known as Glidrose Publications), Devil May Care would not be the 15th novel. It would be more like the 36th. That is, excluding the movie tie-ins and excluding the Young Bond series currently being written by Charlie Higson.
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