He wrote the book at his holiday home in Jamaica, inspired by some of his own experiences and memories of the Second World War. The film was a commercial and critical triumph, but it wasn’t the first attempt to adapt the novel-in fact, it was the third, and the book had had a rocky journey at the hands of screenwriters and producers over several decades.įleming had started writing the story in January 1952, by his own account to counter his ‘hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of forty-three’. In 2006, audiences around the world flocked to see Daniel Craig play James Bond for the first time, in an adaptation of Ian Fleming’s first novel, Casino Royale.
