New Bond film. Q ?

[Leekbrookgull]

Does anyone know ? Has 'Q' been replaced or dropped from the new bond film.

 

[dougdeep]

I hope so, he died on the A27.

 

[Josky]

No there is no Q in the new Bond film, nor a Miss Moneypenny.

Because of it's timeline - ie it's his first 00 misssion - he hasn't been introduced to either of those characters yet or at least doesn't know them.

 

[Curious Orange]

This is the first film to be based on one of the books for quite a while. I can't remember reading Casino Royale, but if Bond is introduced to a Major Boothroyd at any point, then that is 'Q' (Quartermaster).

 

[seagully]

I once met Q at Hastings station. Very nice and polite man. Didn't have any amazing gadgets with him though which was a disappointment.

 

[Fourteenth Eye]

Wasnt john Cleese playing Q in the last couple of films ??

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Wasnt john Cleese playing Q in the last couple of films ??

Yes. Actually he played his assistant and was then promoted by Die Another Day.

 

[jonny.rainbow]

Q isn't in the novel of Casino Royale.

Moneypenny, is however.

This new film doesn't really follow the book that closely by all accounts.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Q isn't in the novel of Casion Royale.

Moneypenny, is however.

This new film doesn't really follow the book that closely by all accounts.

To be fair hardly any of them do! In fact I believe the closest to the books is From Russia With Love.

 

[Josky]

I've not read the book, but apparently it does follow the book quite closely in terms of its main characters, apart from the fact that Le Chiffre doesn't work for Spectre or that M is a woman, minor stuff like that.

The time line is a little weird as well being Bond's first 00 mission, yet set post-9/11.

But the whole naked torture scene is in there.

 

[bhaexpress]

The original Cassino Royale was actually allegedly a comedy with David Niven as 007. It wasn't a Cubby Broccoli production.

 

[Man of Harveys]

I went to see Desmond Llewellyn at Borders in Brighton. He was good value, flogging a biography which did well to conceal a pretty poor spear-carrying acting career until the Bond gig came up and he dealt with the questions in a manner which suggested that he wasn't exactly method acting in order to portray the irascible Q. He died in that car crash about a week later.

 

[Josky]

The original Cassino Royale was actually allegedly a comedy with David Niven as 007. It wasn't a Cubby Broccoli production.

It was a spoof, but it had a great cast starring David Niven as 007, as well as Woody Allen as his nephew Jimmy Bond and Peter Sellers as another James Bond. Orson Welles starred as Le Chiffre and Ursula Andress as Vesper Lind.

Good soundtrack too - Oscar-nominated - and quite funny, but definitely not an 'official' Bond production as the novel was never sold to EON Productions which made the official Bond films. It came out the same year as You Only Live Twice.

 

[Jam The Man]

This is the first film to be based on one of the books for quite a while. I can't remember reading Casino Royale, but if Bond is introduced to a Major Boothroyd at any point, then that is 'Q' (Quartermaster).

That's very true... a name not commonly known to even your reasonably savvy Bond fan.

 

[Josky]

This is the first film to be based on one of the books for quite a while. I can't remember reading Casino Royale, but if Bond is introduced to a Major Boothroyd at any point, then that is 'Q' (Quartermaster).

He isn't. I don't think Major Boothroyd appeared in Flemings novels until the third or fourth one, but I could be wrong.

 

[Bry Nylon]

He died in that car crash about a week later.

Bully!

 

[jonny.rainbow]

He isn't. I don't think Major Boothroyd appeared in Flemings novels until the third or fourth one, but I could be wrong.

Q is mentioned in Live and Let Die, the second Bond novel.

Bond goes to him to have plastic surgery on his hand, where a Smersh operative had carved a symbol meaning spy in it, during Casino Royale.