007 book you would like to see get adapted for cinema

All of them…

…Ok, they did CR and OHMSS justice, but the rest? Pfft…

I know, i know FRWL is a pretty near perfect movie and no i don’t want to see it remade. But how much greater it would’ve been if it had the nerve to stick to Fleming’s masterpiece with the first 3rd set in Russia and featuring Bond only via a dossier as the target. And of course having Rosa Klebb actually spike Bond with her Brother’s Grimm poison shoe and ending with Bond collapsing… Dead? To Be Continued.

Oh well! Top of my list has long been YOLT, followed by introducing Bond 7 with Fleming’s prologue for TMWTGG (Brainwashed Bond returns from being MIA the past year to MI6 and tries to assassinate Bond.

Perhaps they borrowed from this for SF, but only marginally - not enough to make the proper adaptation of this prologue moot.

Bond’s convalescence after failing to kill M is a perfect way to give the new actor a contextual device to enact the Bond tropes as he slowly recalls who he is. The audience would get a kick out of seeing this unfold - it’s too good an opportunity for a soft reboot to miss out on.

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