![]() ![]() ![]() Ian Fleming’s big screen ambitionsįleming had long held the ambition of putting his hero on the big screen but his initial efforts proved fruitless. On numerous occasions in the years that followed Eon Productions/MGM was forced to fight their corner in court until finally reaching a settlement with Sony in 1999 that saw them awarded the rights to Casino Royale. Fleming himself suffered his first heart attack likely due to stress, while the result of the case complicated the rights to the film series that Harry Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli had believed they owned, with the exception of Casino Royale, in its entirety. The whole sorry story resulted in a string of complications after Fleming conceded the case when it came to court in November 1963. The court hearing took place on March 24 th, just a few days before publication on March 27 th, but while the judge ruled that the pair had a case, he ruled that publication should go ahead. McClory had read an advance copy of the novel in March 1961 and was infuriated to see that Fleming had based the story on a screenplay written by him, Whittingham and Fleming, who had used the material with neither acknowledgement nor permission. ![]()
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