Makes sense to me. 1) It differentiates Felix from Bond. 2) It's where Felix was after Live and Let Die.
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Makes sense to me. 1) It differentiates Felix from Bond. 2) It's where Felix was after Live and Let Die.
I wasn’t sure if it was meant to be post-shark attack or not.
I take the point about distinguishing from Bond. But I think it could’ve been done by the fact that Felix is CIA, not British intelligence and is probably more of a journeyman agent, rather than the killer playboy type that 007 is. The character is something of a blank slate, this could’ve been (and of course could still be) the writer’s chance to flesh him out and put his own stamp on Leiter.
Still, as @Starkers says, it could well end with FL being drawn back into spy service and there’s not really much point trying to judge it all on the basis of the blurb.
Dynamite Entertainment did a Felix Leiter comic book some time ago, and that had a modern day Felix as a post-CIA private security expert on a case in Japan.
The problem with Leiter as CIA is that such a spin-off wouldn't just have to distinguish itself from Bond, but from other recent and current spy-fi like the Amazon Jack Ryan series.
The problem with Leiter as CIA is that such a spin-off wouldn't just have to distinguish itself from Bond, but from other recent and current spy-fi like the Amazon Jack Ryan series.
I figured the name "The Hook and the..." was referring to Felix.
I haven't read these books in 25 years. I don't remember what he CIA status was in the later books. Did he go back?
That’s a good point about the hook.
I haven’t read any of the Fleming ones, but I think it was Sebastian Faulk’s Devil May Care, set in 1967, that had a post-maiming Felix still in the CIA. Not sure how closely he followed the Fleming timeline or continuity, though it was billed as Faulks “writing as Ian Fleming.”
Double post: in Bond non-news, it doesn’t look like Alfonso Cuaron will direct the next 007 movie
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If we are going to blow up (the) canon with Bond, this sorta resonated with me when I read it...
Go back a bit, and chronical the beginnings of the 00 Branch: how it evolved, why it came to be...the failures and successes....the Politics and Power involved...plus, Q Branch!
Potential?
Go back a bit, and chronical the beginnings of the 00 Branch: how it evolved, why it came to be...the failures and successes....the Politics and Power involved...plus, Q Branch!
Potential?
Double post: in Bond non-news, it doesn’t look like Alfonso Cuaron will direct the next 007 movie
007: New James Bond Movie Gets Disappointing Director Update
The next James Bond movie received a disappointing update as it may have lost its rumored Oscar-winning director.
In related news I can confirm I won't be directing the next Bond film either.
Which would you rather have first - director, script or actor?
I would probably start with a script first, get that locked down, then get your director and your actor.
That way you can get a director to help cast an actor best suited to the role, then mold the script and performance around that.
I would probably start with a script first, get that locked down, then get your director and your actor.
That way you can get a director to help cast an actor best suited to the role, then mold the script and performance around that.
FFS, I bet £10 on you
If they really were looking at Cuarón to direct the next film, then that very well could have locked in a script as well; more often than not he writes, edits, and produces the films he directs.
Sorry
The canon?
I mean, there was no way they were going to continue the Craig continuity anyway, unless they finally adopted the “it’s a codename from now on” model, which they almost certainly wouldn’t. And “canon” got repeatedly partially blown up periodically even before that era. So over the long haul, there basically wasn’t one.
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