A Lasting Bond

Although Ian Fleming Publications is keeping mum on the details, the big picture is crystal clear: “Forty-two years after the last James Bond novel was published,” reports ABC News, “the world’s most-famous spy is set to go on a new literary adventure.”

When it’s published next May, The Devil May Care will become the 15th book in Ian Fleming’s series featuring the dashing British spy. And though insiders report that the new book reads precisely as though it had been penned by the late author, one can’t help but suspect that, with Sebastian Faulks (A Trick of the Light, Charlotte Gray) at the keyboard, The Devil May Care will be much better than Fleming’s original novels ever were.

Meanwhile, last month Reuters reported that Daniel Craig will again star as James Bond in the as-yet-untitled 22nd Bond film that will be released November 2008:

Filmmaker Marc Forster, the man behind such acclaimed movies as racial drama Monster’s Ball and [the] Peter Pan story Finding Neverland, was named on Tuesday as director of the next James Bond adventure.

Forster will direct the untitled 22nd Bond outing from a script he and Oscar-winning screenwriter Paul Haggis will develop from a draft by previous Bond collaborators Neil Purvis and Robert Wade, the studio and producers said.

You can read the full Reuters report here.