Thunderball

Thunderball is the ninth novel by Ian Fleming based on the fictional British Secret Service agent Commander James Bond. Fleming wrote it intending to film it; it is officially credited as 'based on a screen treatment by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Ian Fleming', a controversial shared credit that was the result of a courtroom decision. The novel was first published on March 27, 1961, and is technically the first novelisation of a James Bo... more

Thunderball is the ninth novel by Ian Fleming based on the fictional British Secret Service agent Commander James Bond. Fleming wrote it intending to film it; it is officially credited as 'based on a screen treatment by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Ian Fleming', a controversial shared credit that was the result of a courtroom decision. The novel was first published on March 27, 1961, and is technically the first novelisation of a James Bond screenplay, though when written and published, the eponymous film had yet to be produced — and when it was, the screenplay was rewritten by others. The documentary tribute on Cubby Broccoli on the EON film franchise's 25th anniversary special edition DVDs shows wife Dana Broccoli explaining that the novel was the first Bond film project Cubby had hoped to make — only to have to delay it several times (and almost ten years) while the legal situation settled out. Despite the film rights and plagiarism dispute, the plot was serialised as a... less