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Full details of the forthcoming 60 minute television
biopic on James Bond 007's creator Ian Fleming...
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Ian Fleming: A Life In Pictures
24th March 2005
A treat is coming this summer for James Bond literary fans, as
the BBC are in production of an hour long biopic on 007's creator
Ian Fleming.
Wall To Wall Productions are behind the 60 minute special "Ian
Fleming: A Life in Pictures". The biopic will tell the extraordinary
true life story of Ian Fleming; the creator of James Bond, one
of the great icons of 20th century culture.
The producers have won awards for previous biopics on George
Orwell and Agatha Christie, and they claim "Ian Fleming:
A Life in Pictures" will take a bold and innovative approach
to dramatising the story of the author’s life, by using
Fleming’s own words.
It will be shot on location in the UK and Jamaica, and the film
will explore the relationship between Ian Fleming’s life
and the legend that is James Bond.
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Above: Ben Daniels (Ian Fleming),
Emily Wood (Ann Fleming), Pip Torrens (Noel Coward)
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Award-winning actor Ben Daniels (Cutting It, Conspiracy) brings
the author to life. The film also stars Emily Woof (The League
of Gentleman’s Apocalypse, School for Seduction, The Full
Monty) as Ian’s wife, Ann, and Pip Torrens (The Government
Inspector, The Rotters Club) as Ian’s close friend and Jamaican
neighbour, Noel Coward.
Unlike previous productions centred around the author, "Goldeneye:
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming" (1989) and "Spymaker:
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming" (1990), the script for this
production is based on historical fact and the team consulted
Fleming's family members, his biographer Andrew Lycett and John
Pearson, author of "James Bond: The Authorised Biography
of 007".
"Ian Fleming: A Life in Pictures" will be directed
by John Alexander and produced by Colette Flight and Leann Klein.
Post production is scheduled to complete in summer 2005. Ben Daniels
has just completed work on "Doom", a movie adaptation
of the famous videogame, with "Die Another Day" Bond
girl Rosamund Pike.
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