Making James Bond a Woman Was Pitched Before 1962’s ‘Dr. No’ Got Made; Ian Fleming Met Sean Connery and Said: ‘I Want an Elegant Man, Not This Roughneck’ ...

In their heyday, the Beatles and Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels marked the United Kingdom’s greatest exports. In 1964 alone, the Fab Four sold 25 million records in the United States.

Maybe we can put it like this: Ian Fleming wrote the poetry, and James Bond—that bastard, that black daffodil—burned it.

Lashana Lynch became the first woman to own the 007 title in the 2021 James Bond tentpole “No Time to Die,” but it turns out a plan to make James Bond a woman was actually pitched over 60 ...

James Bond’s creator lived a life to rival the spy’s By Marc Weingarten April 4, 2024 3 AM PT Book Review Ian Fleming: The Complete Man By Nicholas Shakespeare Harper: 864 pages, $45 ...

Fleming died in 1964, but Bond has outlived him as a movie character, a global brand, and an icon. You know his lines: “Shaken, not stirred”; “Bond. James Bond.” ...

Sean Connery as James Bond lights the cigarette of his SPECTRE captor Fiona Kelly (Luciana Paluzzi) in “Thunderball.” 007 creator Ian Fleming researched the book and the character with the ...

Ian Fleming wrote 14 James Bond novels over his career, and that ended up spawning 25 movies with no end in sight.

NEW YORK — “James Bond” creator Ian Fleming didn't need to write about Cold War intrigue to consider the ways people scheme against each other. “The Shameful Dream,” a rare Fleming work ...

Lashana Lynch became the first woman to own the 007 title in the 2021 James Bond tentpole “No Time to Die,” but it turns out a plan to make James Bond a woman was actually pitched over 60 ...