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DiCaprio As James Bond ('s Creator) In A New Biopic?? Could Be...
Merrick here...
Leonardo DiCaprio's production company (Appian Way) has fallen into place as producer of FLEMING, Damian Stevenson's screenplay about the life of James Bond creator Ian Fleming. DiCaprio may take the title role.
latest version of the screenplay begins on the eve of Fleming's Jamaica wedding in 1952, just before his first Bond novel, "Casino Royale," was published (a wedding present to his new wife).
It then flashes back to Fleming's years as a Reuters journalist stationed in Moscow and then a Commander of Naval Intelligence (MI6 code name "17F") during World War II who devised innovative spying plots.
Fleming later drew from his own playboy life and his espionage contemporaries' to invent one of literature and film's most enduring characters.
...says THIS ARTICLE in the LA Times.
I'm a World War II nut and have heard about Fleming's time in the Naval Intelligence. This era alone should be incredibly fascinating...not to mention the perspective on Bond machniations.
This could be way cool...
For more on Ian Fleming's life, JUMP TO YOUTUBE and input his name. There's too much available material to present here.
It then flashes back to Fleming's years as a Reuters journalist stationed in Moscow and then a Commander of Naval Intelligence (MI6 code name "17F") during World War II who devised innovative spying plots.
Fleming later drew from his own playboy life and his espionage contemporaries' to invent one of literature and film's most enduring characters.
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or it could be, i guess.
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Man he gets some juicy parts.
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Young Sherlock Holmes! Nicholas Rowe, for it is he, was in an episode of Hotel Babylon recently here in the UK, and I was stunned at how much he looked like the younger, more dashing Ian Fleming. Do it! Do it now!
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DiCrapio is too young-looking for a lot of these roles he tackles.
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May 15, 2008 9:11:27 AM CDT
will they whitewash fleming's reported racism and antisemitism?
by captain_kirk
Or will they make this akin to Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story?
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he can continue his lifelong dream of having an accent in every movie he ever does!
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Source, Captain Kirk? Source?
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In one scene, Fleming will be played by George Lazenby.
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No matter how manly he wants to look, he's just the same old whiny wuss.
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Just to fuck with people's heads.
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You can stop the childish DiCaprio bashing now. He was EXCELLENT in The Aviator.
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What was George Lucas thinking!
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I nominate Jack Black.
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He's hobbled by his boyish looks and I think he's best when he's not playing a known character.
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May 15, 2008 9:35:57 AM CDT
Hope we get to see Richard Donner's cut of Superman II someday!
by henry jones sr
I'd love to see that long lost Marlon Brando footage! We can but dream.
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This movie will break the record for wire-fu nazi swordfighting. Jet Li to play Herman Goering, Hitler's right hand man and mastermind behind the "General Tso Chicken Solution"
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I mean what the hell? There are dozens of well known English actors who could do justice to the roll..
With all deference to Osmosis Jones, I don't think he's improved that much as an actor over the years... He was just "ok" in Catch Me if you Can, but his part was wasted in The Departed..
All that aside, Nicolas Rowe would be fantastic in the role, but I don't know if he's well known enough here in the States. Young Sherlock, while really enjoyable, was a long time ago... -
This film will surely have some fun moments and scenes but will be held down by boring emotion scenes between Flemming and his wife. They'll probably yell at each other real loud and flemming will smash a cocktail glass on the floor, then in a wide shot she'll leave the room and we stay on Flemming alone as he considers he may have just lost his wife. I've come to dislike biopics for this reason. I could watch Pulp Fiction where it's cool scene after cool scene after cool scene, or a bio pic. I just watched 'Blow' which could have been an awesome movie. But the fact that it was a bio meant that 50% of the scenes were unfun.
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OK, I admit it: I'm jealous of people who know how to get line breaks between paragraphs in their talkbacks (e.g.: Pondscum). Anyone care to divulge the secret?
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May 15, 2008 9:40:56 AM CDT
I wish Spielberg, Lucas and Ford would stop dithering and make I
by henry jones sr
All this talk about "we're waiting for a script" is doing my head in. How long are you guys going to make us wait?
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should i google; how to put spaces between sentences
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That TV appearence I mentioned is brand new, and he still looks young. He's just the right age to get away with playing both a younger and older version of Fleming. I wonder if there's a clip on YouTube somewhere?
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and that whole project not coming to light as was mooted, I'm all for it. Sadly I suspect that boat has sailed (and soon to be sunk). Iceberg dead ahead indeed.
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Just about all drank, screwed or fought themselves to death. I've read his biography, and what comes through in all the people is how much dread and despair they lived in. Spying ain't a happy business. Great for character development, though.
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
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Thank you!
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I'm not much of a Di Caprio fan, but I greatly enjoyed the Fleming biopic staring Jason Connery and would love to see the story get a full Bond treatment. I'd prefer to see someone else cast as Fleming. If you wouldn't cast an American to play Bond, why would you cast one to play his creator? Of course, with Di Caprio attached to the project as producer, it wouldn't be out of the ordinary for him to play the lead. I just hope he has the sense not to do it!
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097446/
GoldenEye(1989) Charles Dance As Ian Fleming
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100567/
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (1990)
Jason(Son of Sean) Connery) as Flemming -
flaming exercise guru Richard Simmons will play Schwarzennegger in an Arnold biopic. If that happens, kill me.
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Merrick, enough already. Every article you post ends with a random YouTube link that either adds nothing to the news item you've posted, or "is no longer available" anyway. Every time I click on one of your articles I roll my eyes (not really, but still) because it's always just a paragraph copied from Variety, Hollywood Reporter or some other website, followed by a YouTube link. Lazy! YouTube links cheapen this site.
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I'd be a very interested in a thoughtful Arnulhd biopic focusing on his late 70's rise and 80's heyday to his 90's downturn before his rise to governor. A worthy subject matter. Agreed at running for the hills at Richard Simmons though.
Who could step up - Chuck Norris or Van-Damme? Heheh -
I really could not stand him before, but his recent performances really have showcased his talent.
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One for televison and the oter with Jason Connery as Fleming.
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Ian Fleming, that is.
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While there already is a movie about the life of Ian Fleming (Spymaker, starring Sean Connery's son Jason), no film has every really done credit to the creator of James Bond, 007. It's also very exciting, as DiCaprio will bring some real street-cred to the role and, perhaps, make it a very well-received and popular film. That in itself is exciting for us Bond fanatics, as most everyone knows who James Bond is, but very few know about the life of Ian Fleming, who actually based much of his original Bond novels on his own life.
Check out more about Ian Fleming at http://www.universalexports.net/Books/fleming.shtml -
Why do we need another Flemming bio-pic.
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The idea to start out the film at his Wedding is dead on perfect. This man had a very interesting life, and is worth the price of admission to watch.
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Ghostbusters!!!!!!
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It's nice that Dicaprio genuinely seems interested in the character. It's just too bad that Geoffrey Rush is too old for what they're trying to do. The man has an uncanny resemblance to Fleming.
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please. i dont get it. i dont get why he's miscast in all scorsese's last three films, and the director cant see it. miscast once, i can understand, but now i heard they're teaming up for the 4th project.
he looks like a kid. that's why no matter how tough or how mature the roles need him to be, it's still hard to take in. it's a kid playing howard hughes, a kid playing a cop, a kid playing mercenary. -
Can't be bothered to read the other tbers sop ... vaguely remember a moobie from the early 90s with Charles Dance (what the hell happened to him?) playing Ian Flemming. 'Master of Spies' or somesuch
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too pretty to play Flemming.
The role needs a manly looking man with some grrrr to him. Not the insipid looking Leo -
With James McAvoy as young Benny?
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With all the amazing British actors, many of whom resemble Ian Fleming far more than Leo, why cast him? He'd have to put on the accent, look like a man and convince us he's dashing. Sounds like too much work.
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Seriously.
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hope they dont screw this up.
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Can't wait.
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It's all speculation at this point, all converging on the usual AICN thing ; hating or not hating an actor. "Waah, waah. Me no like Leo D". Pfft.
In other news, someone with the temerity to call himself Captain Kirk turned up, threw shit at Ian Fleming, and then ran away. No source? No shit! -
That would be better.
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Ian Flemming was interesting to say the least. Read Double Occult Seven by Michael D'Antonio.
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Kind of like "Brother's Grim," where the protagonists encounter people who inspire them to caricaturize them in their fairy tales. Ian Fleming could encounter a megalomaniac (perhaps Stalin or Hitler) that inspires Blofeld, and an eccentric MI6 colleague who becomes Q. Perhaps a nymphomaniac who is the basis for Pussy Galore. All of Bond’s canonical motifs could be inspired by his creator’s real-life encounters.
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May 15, 2008 1:05:16 PM CDT
Isn't Flemming sort of known for embellishing parts of his life?
by blindambition238
I wonder how they'll handle that.
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we can blame 'shakespeare in love' being popular for that. a short film called 'george lucas in love' followed soon after. then the grims. whatever next?
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please dont let DiCaprio star in it, the idea for a film about Flemmings days as a spy isfantastick and frankly WELL past do-(the previous films not withstanding) but starting Leo? he's as bad as Tom Cruise every film hes in its heres Leo as.....i've never bought him as any of the characters he has played, in fact seeing him takes me right out of the film....
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seriously...he would have knocked this one out of the park...
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Casting DiCaprio as Fleming would be a humungous mistake. I just don't hitnk he's a good enough actor to pull this off. I did a good enough job in BLOOD DIAMOND and THE DEPARTED, but he isn't right for this. At this point, I'm not sure who would be a good fit for the role, but it sure as hell ain't DiCaprio.
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If it happens it would be an awesome link to Catch Me If You Can.
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until I read the 2nd half. Those names should never, EVER be put that close together in a sentense.
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Gotta have that.
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Damn You Michael Bay
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leo needs to FUCK OFF and eat SHIT that cocksucking cocksucker. he doesnt look remotely llke Fleming. if he does this i'll personally hunt him down and make him eat his own SHIT over and over.
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I love James Bond... but Ian Flemming is a writer. Was his life that interesting? By the way there's a great new blog on blogspot called "thebitterproducer" check it!
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*Sigh* so it's OK for Leo to play an Irish immigrant, a white South African, and Ian Flemming, but Akira needs to be Americanized, because we Americans need to Americanize everything for an American audience, right? Goddam America, yes!
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May 15, 2008 6:04:02 PM CDT
Yeah, they've already done two versions of this already...
by sledge hammer
...but they were done by the british, in english, so clearly that just won't do. Flemming clearly has to be played by an american in an american film, or else it just doesn't count. Especially given that Flemming was british and all. Yep, an american with a bad fake accent, much better. And Flemming was a tall, thin man, which means that DiCaprio is absolutely perfect for the role, what with him being rather short and increasingly pudgy. This is like the most perfect idea EVER!
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I think Russell Crowe would be a better fit. Or Ralph Fiennes
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Its not a Bond movie unless he's using a jetpack.
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Funny that he bought James Bond's suit under the alias of "Mr. Fleming" and now he might actually be playing him.
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If dicaprio is found in a mound of shit and gagged with a turd whose door do you think the POs will be knocking on?
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watch this, it's pretty interesting.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vJWxZjL3q4&feature=related
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I heard they are filming that now right now...
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Like this?
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Hello Guys - Im sure everyone is getting hard-ons for this project - I am! I have waited ages for this movie to be made, since I saw Casino Royales on DVD last year. Fleming was such a great man to have invented James Bond, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and lots of othr things. a note to the producers - HERE ARE SOME FLEMING FACTS!
1. Ian Fleming was British, do not fall into the trap of thinking he was an american man.
2. He wrote most of the Bond books.
3. He liked a drink or two.
4. Good actors to play him include: Michael Keaton, Stacey Keach, Dan Shanks (a good 007), Sean Connery, Eilio De Quirez, Vanto Sanchez, Dr Who.
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Damn you!
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Show Ian Fleming the blueprints.
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I hate it when a english gentleman tries being all cool and try to sound like a yankee "O excuse me? But could you pass the rum - Asshole Muthafucka". I remeber when I was a boy an englishmans boy was in our school for a year, he was always so clever and bright 'excuse me' this - 'would you mind' that - a real pain in the ass. For a joke my papa took him up to the mountain in his wheelchair and left him there. Man that was so funny. Apparently my papa was saying 'would you mind if I leave you here!' So funny man. When he come down he see the funny side and his family moved to Brazil.
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I hate it when a english gentleman tries being all cool and try to sound like a yankee "O excuse me? But could you pass the rum - Asshole Muthafucka". I remeber when I was a boy an englishmans boy was in our school for a year, he was always so clever and bright 'excuse me' this - 'would you mind' that - a real pain in the ass. For a joke my papa took him up to the mountain in his wheelchair and left him there. Man that was so funny. Apparently my papa was saying 'would you mind if I leave you here!' So funny man. When he come down he see the funny side and his family moved to Brazil.
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ill take em on! youll never catch me coppers!
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Geoffrey Rush is the only person who should be playing Fleming. I mean, shit, look at pictures of them side-by-side; he looks just like him! Also, he's not a bad actor.
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"In contrast to the hard, slow-moving brown eyes, the mouth, with its thick, rather down-curled lips, belonged to a satyr ... the muscles bulged under the exquisitely cut shark-skin jacket. An aid to his athletic prowess were his hands. They were almost twice the normal size ... Largo was an adventurer, a predator on the herd."
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