“We are concentrating on getting the books out there and established in their own right,” she said.īut according to the Guardian, this hardline strategy has not stopped film companies like Miramax and DreamWorks from making heavy pitches. Zoe Watkins of Ian Fleming Publications adds in The Sunday Herald that, “There has been a great deal of interest in the film rights across the board.” Watkins says she expects if the books sold well they would be turned into films, but there is no timescale at present. We wanted to go back to Ian’s original style." The estate has done other continuations of the Bond story in the past – Kingsley Amis wrote one, for example – but we wanted to see if we could take the story back in time.
The next Higson book will come out in January and we have the manuscript already. "We know Miramax, who are publishing the book in the United States, are very interested in the film rights too, and so are some of other big names, but we are holding off. Book buyers everywhere keep telling us they would buy the title even if it was nothing to do with a strong brand like Bond, simply because it is so well written," said Corinne Turner of the Fleming estate. "We are not doing a film deal yet because we are confident that the books can stand alone for a while.
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