But its his two nieces by his brother Peter Fleming who are on the board of Glidrose and see to the business as far as the Bond stuff goes. CC - Most of Fleming s novels were written before the films existed. Well, I don't intentionally. The film people are a separate entity. They kind of go their own way and do what they want and the books kind of go their own way and do what they want.
Bond are two different characters, really.
I have no idea what they ll do about mine. They do have the rights to make my books into movies, so its really up to them. John Gardner did that too, for a couple of their films. In Zero Minus Ten , the so-called gadgets are very simple, very low tech. Thats the way Fleming did it.