![]() Sir James Bond 007 (David Niven) is a legend. Typically a producer of madcap comedies, such as the Peter Sellers and Peter O’Toole success What’s New, Pussycat? (notable also as Woody Allen’s film debut and first produced script), Feldman decided to make Casino Royale in the same vein. Eon, who had already had a bunch of problems with the rights to Thunderball (we’ll get to that in our next installment), turned him down, leaving him a script he didn’t really want to make. Feldman, who tried to sell them back to Eon. Those rights were then sold off to producer Charles K. You see, Fleming’s first novel Casino Royale, was purchased years ago for a CBS television episode. But unfortunately, some people beat them to the punch. They went and bought all the rights to the Bond novels, and had a pretty great career adapting them into the various movies we’ve covered all year. You see, we went and did all the movies by Eon Productions, established by producers Albert R. It was great fun, but we eventually ran out of Bond movies to talk about. ![]() Wait, what? How did we find ourselves here again? If you’ve been following my nearly year-long biweekly series thus far, you know that we spend a good amount of time every other Friday taking a look at the Bond movies in chronological order, mostly complaining about a lot of missed potential and how we wish Roger Moore would jump off a cliff.
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