If only someone would truly adapt Moonraker.
Yes, the rocket can’t be called Moonraker and the villain can’t be called Drax…Beyond that…
And a true, contemporary version of Gala Brand MUST be brought to the screen.
I have someone in mind personally.
Good thing I’m writing it. Not for Eon. Just an exercise in between final work on the next Bryce Fan-fic.
Part of my inspiration below. 
I know we’re all tired of spin-offs at this point, but I actually feel that a Gala Brand spin-off might be an interesting proposition.
We get a female protagonist who’s with MI5, so she is a female agent but not exactly a distaff counterpart of Bond. We also get stories within possibly the least explored part of the Bond-verse…England!
The way I’d do it is set it in the present-day, with the first novel introducing this new ‘modern’ take on Gala. I’d establish her as being part of some kind of special unit within MI5, and this is her first big investigation in the new job. Maybe at some point, her team needs to liase with MI6, and she’s one of the officers who pays a visit to M and Bill Tanner.
The second novel would be a modernized retelling of Moonraker from Gala’s perspective, and obviously featuring Bond.
And if these are successful enough, they can continue.
If they really wanted a list of 7 films that were better than the films, then it would be a list of 7 Fleming novels, and maybe Amis and an early Gardner novel. The novels on that list that were written after 1970 are just garbage.
IFP just kicked off their gift guide - a rerelease of Benson’s Zero Minus Ten amongst the items; a small batch to be had signed…
Those were released about a year ago, which makes me wonder, did the small batch not sell or did he sign more?
This is from the IFP mail:
Included in the above guide, the keen-eyed amongst you might have spotted something special from Agent Raymond Benson. Benson is visiting the UK on classified business, but will be making time to sign a small number of copies of his republished novel Zero Minus Ten.
Sounds to me as if that’s a - small-ish? - number of freshly signed ones. Probably. 
I don’t see why we couldn’t have a full and proper remake of Moonraker.
At this point, maybe going retro and adapting the novels might be the right call?
From SpyVibe:
On November 25th a new paperback was released by Kadokawa called Tiger Tanaka (part 1) by Keisuke Matsuoka. From the press release: “Japan’s first full-fledged 007 sequel! A sequel to Ian Fleming’s You Only Live Twice , this work resolves the mysteries and contradictions of the original. It also has the aspect of a modern history mystery set in Japan. James Bond, who has disappeared in Fukuoka, is pursued by Tiger Tanaka, the head of the public security, and his daughter Toran. This must-read epic thriller that has captured the attention of the whole world is here, depicting the entire mysterious six months of Bond’s life in a suspenseful manner!”
Keisuke Matsuoka seems to be an established mystery writer in Japan, whose work has also been adapted for film, tv and apparently manga. But it’s perhaps a bit optimistic claiming this has caught the attention of the world already. Matsuoka is known in Holmes circles for a pastiche concerning the gap years of the detective; this could turn out something similar.
It’s debatable though how much interest this can really attract. The only actual contradiction in You Only Live Twice I can immediately think of was Bond’s supposed judo class experience in his youth that never seems to have been a topic between him and Tanaka. Neither seems to have been Tanaka having a daughter - or any kind of family - although it’s probably only logical he’d keep her secret and as far away from Bond as possible.
The thing though is, with or without daughter, according to You Only Live Twice and The Man with the Golden Gun Tanaka searched the fisher village and its vicinity - but never found Bond. So unless Matsuoka massively rewrites that part there’s not going to be much new stuff his book will be able to add to Fleming’s. But I’d be interested to read it nonetheless, should it actually attract publishers outside Japan and be translated.
I also want this book. I know it’s technically public domain, but I wonder if IFP will truly say anything about it, or buy it for their own publication rights.
Hm, weird that they wouldn’t include the release of the final Sherwood book on that list. Hopefully it’s still inbound later this year.
“Some secret weapons still to be revealed”
I take this as a hint it’s not everything yet they’ve got on their schedule. I really wouldn’t worry, they announced a trilogy and they will in all likelihood publish a trilogy.
Well… Q… if you‘re a success @tdalton will be right.
Will still get the audiobooks I expect, even though I really don’t need them.
Talk of the Devil I will contemplate.
Rest of it looks like stocking fillers.
Amazing. “Bond” literary news that features just about nothing featuring “Bond”.
I’m almost certain now that Q will have a starring role in something for Amazon before Bond does. This is just the ultimate manifestation of that old sentiment that you can’t have a “James Bond” movie without Q or Moneypenny. Now, you can’t have one without Q or Moneypenny, but you can certainly have a “James Bond” film/novel without “James Bond”.
I haven’t seen anything about Dynamite for a while. No mention of it here either.
Book 3 is May '26
I was just looking into the third and final Double O novel. It seems that there is an expected publication date of August 14, 2025.
I think that IFP and Kim Sherwood will announce the title as it’s own thing. Same with a possible adult Bond novel.
…moved to May '26
