Why don't they...???

Sorry if this has been done before... but why doesn't someone make films of the James Bond books... I know Dr No and From Russia with Love were fairly close, but most of the others just used the titles... and some of the character's names... who else thinks that Moonraker the book would make a better film than Moonraker the film?

they can't now, I mean, there are stuff that don't translate that well on the tv and the problem is that if you do it NOW, the entire story that's been going on in the books and such is gonna be ruined

Oh, I've never read any JB books 🙁 So I dunno. I'll have to check that 😄

yeah, well, don't be surprised if it's not like in the movie

apparently I won't, books are not movies

and from time to time, they took two books to make one movie

oh, how did they combine two movies 😖

just elements from one and other elements from the others, dunno really, just read it

only have FYEO and never read it 😖

THUNDERBALL follows the book pretty well too as does DAF. I think Flemings novels are so old now that they would'nt translate onto modern film well at all. 🙁 Todays audiences seem to want less story and more "kiss kiss...bang bang..." 😉

I want more story 🙁

The reason Thunderball follows the book so well is that Fleming wrote it from the movie screenplay... Do todays audiences really eschew story so much?? Or do they just take whats on offer because thats what there is?

Ok, which of the movies are books as well?

it's that people want more action and such, like they will fall asleep when it has some story 🙄

Well, most of the movies have titles taken from the books or short stories... The first couple of movies (Dr NO and From Russia with Love) follow the plots fairly closely, but after that there are only small similarities... for instance, The Living Daylights is a short story in the Octopussy collection, which is simply about Bond lying in wait in a West berlin tower block waiting to kill a Russian assassin who is trying to prevent a defection.... thats it... and A View to a Kill does not contain seven foot women and lunatics in zeppelins....

and of course from the latest movies they had to make the stories themselves from time to time 😉