> Interesting that you should say so. Raymond
Benson, who wrote nine
> Bond pastiches for the Fleming estate after John
Gardner gave the gig
> up, has suggested that Bond is as tied to the Cold
War era as Sherlock
> Holmes is to the Victorian era, and he would have
liked to do his
> novels as historicals had the owners of the property
allowed him to.
>
you're preaching to the choir here. but sadly, movie studio
decisions are driven by marketing departments, and those
people believe that making a story period limits its mass
appeal. and if the Bond movie franchise is about anything, it
is about mass appeal
John Lau
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