"I've had this odd obsession with Ian Fleming, I've written about him, I've put him in one of my novels." "I'm really looking forward to tackling it," he said.Īccording to Boyd, he grew up reading Ian Fleming and is a big Bond fan. "It's a challenge, but a very exciting one," he said on the BBC's "Today" program. But 60-year-old author William Boyd says he welcomes it. With all that literary and cultural baggage, some writers might not covet the assignment. First there's the Bond music, and then the many famous catch-phrases, such as "Martini, shaken not stirred," or "The name is Bond: James Bond". Now the latest to get the Bond assignment is best-selling British author, William Boyd.īoyd's task is a daunting one: as soon as you hear the words "James Bond," clichés come to mind. In recent years Ian Fleming's estate has commissioned new 007 novels, first by writer Sebastian Faulks in 2008 and then by Jeffrey Deaver in 2011. Author Ian Fleming died in 1964, but his character James Bond lives on in popular imagination and through the hugely successful Bond film franchise.
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