"It was announced in 2010 that which American crime author was to write a new ""James Bond"" novel?"
"Bond novels, three novelizations and three short stories. After a gap of six years, Sebastian Faulks was commissioned by Ian Fleming Publications to write a new Bond novel, which was released on 28 May 2008, the 100th anniversary of Fleming's birth. The book—titled ""Devil May Care""—was published in the UK by Penguin Books and by Doubleday in the US. American writer Jeffery Deaver was then commissioned by Ian Fleming Publications to produce ""Carte Blanche"", which was published on 26 May 2011. The book updated Bond into a post-9/11 agent, independent of MI5 or MI6. On 26 September 2013 ""Solo"", written"
"era and was published on 28 May 2011. On 11 April 2012 it was announced that William Boyd would write the next James Bond novel, entitled ""Solo"", set at the end of the 1960s. The novel was released in the United Kingdom on 26 September 2013, and in the United States and Canada on 8 October 2013. Written by the pseudonymous R. D. Mascott, it was the first James Bond related book not written by Ian Fleming to be published after Fleming's death. To this day, Ian Fleming Publications has never disclosed or confirmed the author's identity. Written by Fleming's"
"James Bond The James Bond series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections. Since Fleming's death in 1964, eight other authors have written authorised Bond novels or novelizations: Kingsley Amis, Christopher Wood, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, Sebastian Faulks, Jeffery Deaver, William Boyd and Anthony Horowitz. The latest novel is ""Trigger Mortis"" by Anthony Horowitz, published in September 2015. Additionally Charlie Higson wrote a series on a young James Bond, and Kate Westbrook wrote three novels based on the diaries of a recurring"
"Young Bond Young Bond is a series of young adult spy novels featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent James Bond as a young teenage boy attending school at Eton College in the 1930s. The series, written by Charlie Higson, was originally planned to include only five novels; however, after the release of the fifth novel, Higson considered the possibility of a second series. In October 2013 it was confirmed that a second series of four novels was in development, with the first novel due for release in Q3 2014, but it would be penned by Steve Cole while Higson continued work"
"the project to direct ""Tower Heist"". In March 2010, Santa Monica confirmed that they have no creative control over the film. During the ""God of War – Game Directors Live"" documentary, filmed on September 1, 2010, Jaffe said the ""script went out a year and a half ago to Daniel Craig, who plays [James] Bond, but he turned it down"". He indicated an actor had since signed on for the role of Kratos, and said, ""this new person is pretty good, if that ends up true"". In July 2012, ""The Hollywood Reporter"" confirmed that the writers of ""Pacific Rim"", Patrick"
"the Bond saga played a great part in its development"". In the mid-1990s, after discovering he had esophageal cancer, Gardner officially retired from writing Bond novels and Glidrose Publications quickly chose Raymond Benson to continue the literary stories of James Bond. His break from writing lasted for five years, following the death of his wife, but after battling his illness he returned to print in 2000 with a new novel, ""Day of Absolution"". Gardner also began a series of books with a new character, Suzie Mountford, a 1930s police detective. ""The Globe and Mail"" crime critic Derrick Murdoch said, ""John"
"Reporter quoted Showtime CEO David Nevins as saying that after Craig's commitment to the 25th James Bond movie, the Purity adaptation was still on track. ""He's doing ""Bond"" first and I can't say anything about what I know or don't know about ""Bond"", [but] It's possible it may not shoot until 2019."" Purity (novel) Purity is a novel by American author Jonathan Franzen. His fifth novel, it was published on September 1, 2015, by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The novel is composed of six sections that focus on several different characters and tells the tale of Purity ""Pip"" Tyler and"
"Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, Charles Dance, and Joel Kinnaman. Smith's sequel to ""Child 44"", ""The Secret Speech"", was published in April 2009, and the final novel in the trilogy, ""Agent 6"", was published in July 2011. Smith's fourth book, a standalone novel entitled ""The Farm"", was published in February 2014. Smith also wrote a drama television series, ""London Spy"", which was first broadcast on BBC Two in November 2015. Smith was selected as executive producer and writer for season 3 of ""American Crime Story"", an FX true crime anthology series. It is titled """" and explores the murder"
"Raymond Benson Raymond Benson (born September 6, 1955) is an American author best known for being the official author of the James Bond novels from 1997 to 2003. Benson was born in Midland, Texas and graduated from Permian High School in Odessa in 1973. In primary school Benson took an interest in the piano which would later in his life develop into an interest in composing music (mostly for theatrical productions). Benson also took part in drama at school and became the vice president of his high school's drama department, an interest that he would later pursue by directing stage"
"to write the script for ""Bond 25"". In July 2017, it was initially reported they would write the script, but in May 2018, EON announced that director Danny Boyle was instead working with his regular collaborator John Hodge on a new script. In September 2018, following Boyle's departure from the project, Purvis and Wade were reportedly re-hired to write a new script. Wade and his wife live in West Sussex and have four children. Neal Purvis and Robert Wade Neal Purvis (born 9 September 1961) and Robert Wade (born 1962) are British screenwriters who co-wrote the six James Bond films"
"Littérature Européenne and was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2002. ""Restless"", the tale of a young woman who discovers that her mother had been recruited as a spy during World War II, was published in 2006 and won the Novel of the Year award in the 2006 Costa Book Awards. Boyd's novel ""Waiting for Sunrise: A Novel"" was published in early 2012. Following ""Solo"" in 2013 he published ""Sweet Caress"" in 2015, the fourth novel he has written from a woman's viewpoint. On 11 April 2012 Ian Fleming's estate announced that Boyd would write the next James Bond novel."
"by William Boyd, was published, set in 1969. In October 2014 it was announced that Anthony Horowitz was to write a ""Bond"" continuation novel. Set in the 1950s two weeks after the events of ""Goldfinger"", it contains material written, but previously unreleased, by Fleming. ""Trigger Mortis"" was released on 8 September 2015. The ""Young Bond"" series of novels was started by Charlie Higson and, between 2005 and 2009, five novels and one short story were published. The first Young Bond novel, ""SilverFin"" was also adapted and released as a graphic novel on 2 October 2008 by Puffin Books. In October"
"which was released in 2015. In 2013, Corleone was selected by the Estate of Robert Ludlum, creator of the Jason Bourne series, to continue Ludlum’s series of thrillers featuring ex-Navy SEAL and former government covert agent Paul Janson, who first appeared in the bestselling novel ""The Janson Directive"". Other books in the series include ""The Janson Command"" and ""The Janson Option"", both written by Paul Garrison. The fourth novel in the Paul Janson series, titled ""The Janson Equation"", was released in June 2015. Douglas Corleone Douglas Corleone (born 1975) is an American author of contemporary crime novels and international thrillers."
"of War"" was announced in 2005, but has remained in development hell. In 2010, Jaffe stated that the ""script went out a year and a half ago to Daniel Craig who plays [James] Bond, but he turned it down."" He also said that another actor had since been signed to the role of Kratos, and that ""this new person is pretty good, if that ends up true."" The film's new writers, Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan, were announced in July 2012, and in August 2012, the writers stated that they plan to humanize Kratos and explore his past. Two series"
"multiple authors that have continued Ian Fleming's James Bond series, including Kingsley Amis, William Boyd, Sebastian Faulks and others; and the 2014 Hercule Poirot continuation novel ""The Monogram Murders"" by Sophie Hannah, produced with the permission of the Agatha Christie estate. Some versatile authors have contributed to more than one continuation series, for instance Sebastian Faulks who in addition to James Bond has written the first ever official P.G. Wodehouse Jeeves and Wooster story, ""Jeeves and the Wedding Bells"", published in 2013. If not done well, the continuation novel poses risks to the reputation of the dead author but writing"
"Icebreaker (novel) Icebreaker, first published in 1983, was the third novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond. Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape and is the first Bond novel to be published in the United States by Putnam, beginning a long-standing association. Bond reluctantly finds himself recruited into a dangerous mission involving an equally dangerous and treacherous alliance of agents from the United States (CIA), the Soviet Union (KGB) and Israel (Mossad). The team, dubbed ""Icebreaker"", waste no time double-crossing each other. Ostensibly their job is"
"producer for TNT's ""The Angel Of Darkness"", based on Caleb Carr's novel of the same name. On September 20, 2018, it was announced that Fukunaga would be the director of ""Bond 25"" (2020). He will be the first American filmmaker to direct an official Bond film (Irvin Kershner directed Never Say Never Again, a film that is not part of Eon cannon). Since 2016, it was reported that Fukunaga, alongside Spielberg, could finalize the long-sought epic film about Napoleon that Stanley Kubrick worked until the last days of his death. Two years later Fukunaga confirmed the reports, saying that he"
"an adventure. Shoot to Kill (Cole novel) Shoot to Kill is a novel written by Steve Cole, the first continuation entry in the Young Bond series. Cole took over from Charlie Higson who left the series in 2009 after his final instalment ""A Hard Man to Kill"". ""Shoot to Kill"" features Ian Fleming's spy, James Bond in his teenage years, finding himself troubled in the outskirts of Los Angeles, having recently been expelled from Eton. It was followed Heads You Die in May 2016. Before leaving, a new school friend discovers some shocking film footage which propels James Bond and"
"Deaver included a number of elements from the Fleming novels, including Bond's tastes for food and wine, his gadgets and ""the rather preposterous names of some of the female characters."" In 2013 the William Boyd-written continuation novel ""Solo"" was released; it ignored Deaver's new timeframe and was set in 1969. In October 2014 it was announced that Anthony Horowitz was to write a further Bond book. The book is due to be set in the 1950s, and it contains material written, but previously unreleased, by Fleming. In 2005 author and comedian Charlie Higson released ""SilverFin"", the first of five novels"
"John Gardner. After writing 14 Bond books, John Gardner retired in 1996, and Raymond Benson, controversially at first, the first American to write a James Bond novel, replaced him. It was during Benson's four-book run that the company owning the rights to the Bond characters changed names from Glidrose Publications to Ian Fleming Publications; the publisher's new name appeared first in the 1999 book ""High Time to Kill"". Benson stopped writing Bond books in 2002. On what would have been Fleming's 100th birthday—28 May 2008—the novel ""Devil May Care"", appeared. Its author, Sebastian Faulks, was true to Bond's original character"
"""James Bond 007: A View to a Kill"". He followed this in 1986 with work on a computer game version of ""Goldfinger"" and co-authoring the ""You Only Live Twice II"" module of the popular role-playing game ""James Bond 007"". In 1996, John Gardner resigned from writing Bond books. Glidrose Publications promptly chose Benson to replace him. As a James Bond novelist, Raymond Benson was initially controversial for being American, and for ignoring much of the continuity established by Gardner. The author did much to placate these concerns, however, and promptly embarked on regular tours to promote his novels in the"
"Herald"" film critic Dann Gire to present Dann & Raymond's Movie Club, a popular live program held at Chicago suburban libraries. Gire and Benson present evenings of various cinema history topics, show clips, relate anecdotes and trivia, and tell jokes. Raymond Benson Raymond Benson (born September 6, 1955) is an American author best known for being the official author of the James Bond novels from 1997 to 2003. Benson was born in Midland, Texas and graduated from Permian High School in Odessa in 1973. In primary school Benson took an interest in the piano which would later in his life"
"from the Past"", ""Midsummer Night's Doom"" & ""Live at Five"" by Raymond Benson, ""Your Deal, Mr. Bond"" by Phillip and Robert King, and ""Bond Strikes Camp"" by Cyril Connolly which are discussed below. In the late 1990s, Raymond Benson, who at the time was the official novelist of the James Bond literary franchise, became the first author since Bond's creator, Ian Fleming, to write officially sanctioned short stories featuring the superspy. Just before his sudden departure from writing Bond novels at the start of 2003, Benson had indicated his intention to write more short pieces and publish a short story"
"that Bond would be 14–15 years old in his novels and that the books would show how the adult Bond was formed. As part of the process for securing the position, Cole was tasked with creating a pitch for a story arc that would stretch across all four books. In May 2014, it was announced that Cole's book, titled ""Shoot to Kill"", and was released on 6 November 2014. In October 2015 at the Cheltenham Literature Festival in England, Cole revealed the cover art for his second novel in the series, titled ""Heads You Die"", which will be published by"
"be released on February 2019. Cameron became a fan of Tom Clancy from reading ""The Hunt for Red October"" as a rookie policeman. Later on, his friend and writer of the Jack Ryan series Mark Greaney suggested him to his editor Tom Colgan when he was planning to step away from the franchise. Greaney later said of the recommendation: ""His writing is both intelligent and action-packed, and Marc has an impressive personal resume that I am sure he will work into the novels to great effect.” The Real Book Spy announced Greaney's departure from the franchise on February 20, 2017,"
"expanding on Bond's life prior to the events of Fleming's first novel involving his secret agent character, which was officially announced by Dynamite at the 2017 Diamond Summit event, set during World War II with Bond at the beginning of his spy career, originally aimed for release sometime during Fall 2017. On 18 June 2018, ""James Bond Origin"" was officially unveiled by Dynamite as an ongoing series, of which the first issue will be making its debut in September later in the year, with the first story arc being delivered by Jeff Parker and Bob Q. On 3 October 2016,"
"James Bond (Dynamite Entertainment) James Bond is an ongoing spy thriller comic book series by Dynamite Entertainment featuring the eponymous character originally created by Ian Fleming. It is licensed by Ian Fleming Publications and debuted in November 2015. Additional series and graphic novels are planned. In October 2014, Dynamite Entertainment announced plans to publish monthly James Bond comics as part of a ten-year licensing deal with Ian Fleming Publications in 2015. Warren Ellis was asked by the Fleming Estate to be the writer, and he requested Jason Masters be the artist. Their first six issue story, ""VARGR"", was announced July"
"entry likewise, entitled ""Kill Chain"" which is set to debut in July 2017. James Bond 007: Hammerhead James Bond 007: Hammerhead is a spy thriller comic book miniseries featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond in the central role of the plot, written by Andy Diggle and illustrated by Luca Casalanguida. It is a standalone story arc that spun off from the ongoing ""James Bond"" series published by Dynamite Entertainment and licensed by Ian Fleming Publications, making its debut in October 2016 and finished the course of its storyline in March 2017. A collected edition of all the issues was"
"in the attic, come over and I'll lend you mine."" The ""Los Angeles Times"" critic claimed that Ian Fleming ""would have cringed at the writing to be found in this book."" Despite this, Wood's novel became a bestseller, remaining on ""The Times"" bestseller list for some time. After the release of the novel, Eon Productions chose not to commission novelizations of the next few Bond films; not until ""Licence to Kill"" ten years later in 1989. James Bond and Moonraker James Bond and Moonraker is a novelization by Christopher Wood of the James Bond film ""Moonraker"". Its name was changed"
"""Licence to Kill"" and ""GoldenEye"" – were novelizations of Eon Productions films of the same name. Gardner moved the Bond series into the 1980s, although he retained the ages of the characters as they were when Fleming had left them. In 1996 Gardner retired from writing James Bond books due to ill health. In 1996 the American author Raymond Benson became the author of the Bond novels. Benson had previously been the author of ""The James Bond Bedside Companion"", first published in 1984. By the time he moved on to other, non-Bond related projects in 2002, Benson had written six"
"1930s. In 2005 the company launched another series of Bond-related spin-off books, ""The Moneypenny Diaries"" by Samantha Weinberg, writing as 'Kate Westbrook'. Young Bond returned in 2013 with ""Shoot to Kill"" by Steve Cole. Written by Kingsley Amis under the pseudonym Robert Markham. The novel by Sebastian Faulks is a one-off adult Bond novel that follows ""The Man with the Golden Gun"" in the 1960s. The book was written to celebrate Ian Fleming's centenary and was released on Fleming's birthday, 28 May 2008. The novel by Jeffery Deaver, ""Carte Blanche"", previously known as ""Project X"", is set in the present"
"James must travel through Havana and brave Caribbean waters to stop a countdown to mass murder. Fates will be decided with the flip of a coin. Heads or tails. Live or die. Heads You Die Heads You Die is a novel written by Steve Cole, which is the second book by the author in the ""Young Bond"" series, and the seventh chronological novel overall. The book will be published by Red Fox, which is an imprint of Random House that publishes a wide range of paperback books for various age groups. The book was released on May 5, 2016. James's"
"of Bond in a different way. James Bond (literary character) Commander James Bond, CMG, RNVR, is a fictional character created by the British journalist and novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. He is the protagonist of the ""James Bond"" series of novels, films, comics and video games. Fleming wrote twelve Bond novels and two short story collections. His final two books—""The Man with the Golden Gun"" (1965) and ""Octopussy and The Living Daylights"" (1966)—were published posthumously. The Bond character is a Secret Service agent, code number 007, residing in London but active internationally. Bond was a composite character who was based"