![]() ![]() It follows the new Bond novel by Sebastian Faulks, Devil May Care. Ian Flemings magical tale of a car saved from the scrapyard that takes the Pott family on a fantastic adventure. The new novel, to be illustrated by Joe Berger, will be published on 4 November. The book was published in 1964 and became even more famous when it was made into a 1968 film with Dick Van Dyke as Caractacus Potts. Broccoli Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a 1968 musical-fantasy film directed by Ken Hughes with a screenplay co-written by Roald Dahl and Hughes, loosely based on Ian Flemings novel Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car (1964). ![]() ![]() When the writer had a heart attack and his wife banned him from his typewriter, he wrote the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang stories out in longhand instead of working on his next Bond novel. Based on Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang by Ian Fleming Produced by Albert R. ![]() "I've had a lot of fun writing these books, but somewhere among all the fun I found it strangely emotional to revisit myself as a boy and ask if he could help me restore an old-fashioned contraption and make it fly again."įleming originally made up the Chitty tale, about a family whose car develops unusual powers, as a bedtime story for his son Caspar. Yoto says: The beloved classic from James Bond author Ian Fleming Crackpot is what everybody calls the Pott family. Cottrell Boyce, whose first book, Millions, was made into a film by Danny Boyle, said he had "no idea" why he had been asked: "I haven't asked them in case it's all a case of mistaken identity."īoyce has gone back to Fleming's book for the first time since he was a child and was delighted, he said, to conclude that it is crying out for a sequel. ![]()
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