'Fleming': Le Pacte To Co-Produce James Bond Creator Ian Fleming Biopic

 

Variety.com reported that Le Pacte has signed on to co-produce the upcoming film biography of the late great thriller writer Ian Fleming.

Le Pacte, the French distributor of Nicolas Winding Refn’s competition-preeming “Only God Forgives,” has boarded director Duncan Jones’ “Fleming,” turning on James Bond creator Ian Fleming. 

Jones has teamed with Roger Avary to write the script, based on author Andrew Lycett’s “Ian Fleming, the Man Behind James Bond.”

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

http://variety.com/2013/biz/news/ian-fleming-movie-le-pacte-1200481541/

Andrew Lycett's Ian Fleming, the Man Behind James Bond is a fine biography and I hope the film makers stick to it and don't try to turn Fleming into a James Bond character, like a previous Fleming biopic. 

Fleming was an interesting man and writer. He was a British naval intelligence officer during World War II and a journalist prior to and after the war. He was a world traveler, a womanizer like Bond and he wrote about crime, espionage other interesting subjects.

You can read my Counerterrorism magazine piece on Ian Fleming's wartime expierences via the below link:

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Duncan Jones To Direct Action Thriller Based On Ian Fleming's Fascinating Life

Stuart Kemp at the Hollywood Reporter reports that Duncan Jones is set to direct a film about Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, based on Andrew Lycett's Ian Fleming, The Man Behind James Bond.

Before becoming the best-selling author of the Bond books, Fleming traveled the globe and masterminded real-life top-secret operations, helping supply inspiration for this famous creation, before and during World War II as a naval intelligence officer.

... Jones said: "Fleming lived through one of the most perilous periods in world history, in a position that allowed him a unique vantage point of all the players, all the stakes. He witnesses true heroism first-hand. And he saw the evil men could do. Then, when the war ended, he went off to write fiction. The essential question for me is where did Ian Fleming end and Bond begin?"

You can read the rest of the story via the below link:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/duncan-jones-ian-fleming-biography-cannes-326633

You can also read my column on Ian Fleming and James Bond via the below link:

http://pauldavisoncrime.blogspot.com/2010/06/casino-royale-revisited-film-that.html