Thursday 8 April, 2010
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Hi
First
of all I'll give a quick plug for my friends at MI6
Declassified. The latest edition is now available online and I
can particularly recommend this edition - although I haven't received
my copy yet, I wrote one of the articles :) What more could you
want?
The magazine features in-depth coverage of "On Her Majesty's Secret
Service", as well as articles on writing "The World Is Not Enough"
and "Nightfire" from Electronic Arts - great for any Bond fan
to have their collection.
Go
to mi6magazine.com for more info
Bond 23 News
The sale of MGM seems
to be going on forever, and the bad news for Bond fans is that until the
fate of the studio is resolved it is unlikely that any serious work will
be done on Bond 23.
Screenwriter
Peter Morgan said back in December that he had been working on the script
but that it had been put on hold due to the auction of MGM.
The first round of bidding closed mid-January, as I reported in the previous
newsletter. A second round of bidding was initially supposed to close
on 19th March, but extended to the following Monday. This saw bids from
Lions Gate Entertainment, Time Warner and Access Industries.
However, as these were so low MGM's steering committee has presented a
plan to creditors to go it alone and the deadline for repayment of debt
- due in April - has been extended for the forth time. The new plan will
require the studio to raise a further $1 billion in order to make 6 to
8 films per year.
Recent articles
Last time I wrote to you we'd got up to Thunderball in our series on James
Bond soundtracks and since then we've added You
Only Live Twice and On
Her Majesty's Secret Service.
You might also like to read a recent article titled James
Bond's Library, which takes a look at the books and authors mentioned
by Ian Fleming throughout the James Bond series -
as usual you can let me know what YOU think by commenting on the
articles.
That's all for now, but if you would like to get in contact about this
newsletter - or for any other reason - please get in touch by emailing
me at m@thejamesbonddossier.com.
Speak soon!
M
The James Bond Dossier
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