h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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Kerr, please say that you are joking!!!!!!

How about remaking the James Bond films, but this time sticking to Ian Fleming's books a little more closely as regards plot, time period etc and not just using one or two character names? He writes such descriptive, evocative stories that a lot of the films fail to do any justice to. I think the closest one i've seen is 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' which usually gets a hammering from the critics, but is the only one that makes me cry, right at the end

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I heard that somebody is writing new James Bond Junior books. Tales of when he was growing up.

Oooh, I wonder if M, Q and Moneypenny will make an appearance

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0141318597/wwwyoungbonco-21/202-1803038-4625428?creative=6394&camp=1406&link_code=as1

I'm not sure if it's going to be made into a film.

Just catching up here, a while back someone was commenting on what the author thought of the film - about Roald Dahl, I think?

Authors should be kept away from films of their books. The baleful influence of JK Rowling all but ruined the filming of the first 2 books, which stuck slavishly to the texts...to the detriment of all. Sure, they made big box office, but they were *crap*. They could have been so good.

Yes, in some cases, film makers *do* know better than authors about what works on the screen. They know about pace and direction. Writers rarely do. What you end up with is a mishmash - see HP1 and 2. What books like that are crying out for is a treatment, in much the same way that LOTR was finally realised.

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Great link Footbacon ! Thanks a lot. Sounds all right

There's a remake of He-Man being made

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/news/cult/2004/10/05/14712.shtml