The Next Bond Movie and More...
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Question: Is the next James Bond movie going to be based on the next Ian Fleming Bond novel? I haven't heard anything yet and I'm dying to know! -- Kerri
FlickChick: Apparently not. Although there has been no official announcement from EON/MGM, rumors have leaked out that the next movie will be based on the short story
Risico, which first appeared in the 1960 short-story collection
For Your Eyes Only. To put that in context,
Ian Fleming's
Casino Royale was published in 1953 and followed by
Live and Let Die (1954),
Moonraker (1955),
Diamonds Are Forever (1956),
From Russia with Love (1957),
Dr. No (1958) and
Goldfinger (1959). The first Bond movies were
Dr. No (1962),
From Russia With Love (1963),
Goldfinger (1964),
Thunderball (1965) whose tortured history is too complicated to go into here, but you can read about it in
a previous column -- and
You Only Live Twice (1969);
Live and Let Die wasn't filmed until 1973. So starting at the beginning apparently doesn't mean working through the original Bond texts in order any more than the original films did.
The plot of
Risico involves a Russian-backed drug-smuggling operation based in Italy if that sounds familiar, it's because the screenplay of
For Your Eyes Only (1981) folded together the stories
Risico and
For Your Eyes Only. Assuming that the next film actually is
Risico, it will mark the story's first time as a stand-alone; clearly, because it's short, screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade will have to expand considerably on Fleming's text.
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Question: Please help me to find the movie that aired Friday, January 5 after 9PM, in which James Earl Jones played a Chicago policeman who befriended his half brother who was white. -- Charlene
FlickChick: You saw
A Family Thing (1996), with
Jones and
Robert Duvall as half brothers who were raised apart and manage to establish a relationship as adults.
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