Lucy Fleming: If I Reveal The James Bond Skyfall Plot I Might Be Shot

Nick Curtis at the British newspaper the Evening Standard interviews Lucy Fleming, the niece of James Bond creator Ian Fleming.

Lucy Fleming hasn’t seen the new James Bond film, Skyfall, which has been shrouded in as much secrecy as a royal wedding dress. But she has read the script. She had to, as Ian Fleming’s niece and one of the controllers of his literary estate. “We look at the things about Bond that might be inaccurate, but the film-makers generally know as much as we do,” says the elegant 65-year-old actress. “If there’s a glaring thing, such as that Bond loves tea, we point it out — Bond hates tea.”

So there’s no tea-drinking in Skyfall, I say? Obviously I’m fishing for details, especially after she tells me the producers wanted to clarify something in Bond’s past. Possibly, we will learn something about Bond’s family. Very probably, Bond will learn something awful about his spymaster, M. Almost certainly, Sam Mendes’s movie, released on the 50th anniversary of the first film, Dr No, will complete the revisionist arc that began with Casino Royale in 2006, taking Bond back to his literary roots, not just as a ruthless assassin but as an emotional man capable of love, loss and feelings of betrayal. Won’t it?

“I think you’re right, but I’d rather not comment. I might be shot,” Fleming says pertly.

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http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/lucy-fleming-if-i-reveal-the-james-bond-skyfall-plot-i-might-be-shot-8195413.html   

John Wayne's Winchester and Other Favorite Movie Guns

As The American Rifleman notes, guns have been part of the movies since The Great Train Robbery  in 1903.

The magazine's web page has complied a list of the 10 most favorite movie guns, which includes John Wayne's Winchester Model 1892 (seen in the above photo), which appeared in the film True Grit.

You can see the rest of the favorite movie guns via the below link:

http://www.americanrifleman.org/GalleryItem.aspx?cid=22&gid=90&id=608