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New James Bond too archaic for film
The new James Bond book, Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks (Penguin), is considered too old fashioned to be turned into a film, reports the Independent.
Eon Productions, the company behind the Bond film franchise, said it had no plans to make a film of the book, which was written to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Ian Fleming, the creator of Bond.
Barbara Broccoli, who co-produced recent Bond films, said Devil May Care's archaic 1960s setting would be out of keeping with the current penchant for supercars and state-of-the-art gadgetry. "Devil May Care is a period book which is set in the 1960s, and it really wouldn't fit as one of the films that Eon has been making recently," said Broccoli. A spokeswoman for the company added that a film version of Devil May Care was "not in discussion".
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