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James Bond nightclubs, vodka, aftershave: 007 writer on the spy’s future with Amazon
As the Bond franchise heads to the online giant, thriller author William Boyd foresees a slew of spin-offs and says AI is not a threat to human screenwriters
The true defilers of the authentic Bond have been at work for decades, making films that bear little relation to creator Ian Fleming ’s original. The radio story, read by Ruth Everett, will see Mellmoth, now about 26, turn detective after she picks up a packet left on a tube train that seems to contain a valuable first edition of George Orwell’s book 1984. There was no water or electricity, so this public intellectual, who was very ill, was living this peasant life as he wrote 1984.” In The Jura Affair Mellmoth “stumbles across an elaborate scam”, Boyd explains, and even wonders if Orwell is haunting her.
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