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Fleming: Mini Series [US Pace] Jan.29th, Feb 19th 2014
xander63
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Starts tonight! Anyone else looking forward to this one, looks like a quality production from the trailers. 
Plot: Look at the 007 creator, Ian Fleming, and his early life set against the permissive society of war-torn WWII London.
Stars: Dominic Cooper, Rupert Evans, Lara Pulver.
Plot: Look at the 007 creator, Ian Fleming, and his early life set against the permissive society of war-torn WWII London.
Stars: Dominic Cooper, Rupert Evans, Lara Pulver.
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It starts on Sky Atlantic on 12 February. BBC America is a co-producer on the project, but I am quite sure that they are the JUNIOR co-producer, so one would think Sky would insist on being able to air the show before their US partner.
Very Bond-esque in tone, even down to the music!
Fleming was quite the ladies man it seems, now we know where Bond got it from.
It looks great, and I like the cast.
What were peoples thoughts on it? There are several new shows coming up so i'm deciding which ones to give a go.
I agree about the opening music: reminiscent of John Barry but just different enough to avoid litigation.
During ww1 operation Haversack used the same ploy !
Much of what Fleming did in the Second World War remains classified. He also wrote the blueprint foe the setting up of the CIA in later years, for which the US government rewarded him with a gold-plated Colt revolver inscribed "For Special Services".
looking forward to the next installment
There is no drama that does not have this. Remarkable trope.
You're not really learning much about him because, historically, the show is b*llocks. That's not to say it isn't well done and Cooper has managed to capture Fleming's arrogant swagger. But this is the version of Fleming's life that Ian Fleming would like to tell. And somewhere, he's sitting on a cloud chuckling contentedly at the absurdity of it all. Don't get me wrong, I'm enjoying it enormously. But at odd moments where real events meet the script, they both nod politely and then run for it.
The best biography about Ian Fleming was published in the 60s by John Pearson. It's been reissued recently and is one of the best biographies I've ever read. Well worth a read.
I'm not sure about it being based on facts as i'm seeing it as a decent enough classy spy drama and that'll do me.