![]() ![]() But, in early 1965, four years after the publication of Joseph Heller’s critically-acclaimed satire on military bureaucracy, Catch-22, he received a phone call from Feldman, who had obtained the film rights to Ian Fleming’s first Bond novel back in 1960. EON eventually acquired Feldman’s rights and made a serious version of Casino Royale with Daniel Craig as 007.Īs Duns noted in his article, ‘Catch 007’ (published in the London Times newspaper on April 20th), Heller is rarely mentioned in connection with the world of James Bond. Heller was invited to write a screen treatment for Feldman, the powerful Hollywood producer, but it remained for their eyes only (so to speak), and only a few elements from the Heller treatment were actually used in what eventually became the extravagant mess produced by Feldman in 1967 (which had, among others, major stars such as David Niven, Peter Sellers, Woody Allen and even former EON Bond woman Ursula Andress all playing ‘James Bond’). The treatment was written by the famous Catch-22 author Joseph Heller, who died in 1999. The espionage author and best-selling thriller writer Jeremy Duns, who is also a leading expert on the literary world of James Bond, has given a fascinating account of his re-discovery of a rare screenplay for the 1967 version of Casino Royale, the rogue non-EON movie produced by Charles K. ![]()
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