Quote Originally Posted by SteyrAUG View Post
Yep, I would "Mad Men" the entire atmosphere of every film. That would be a winner.
The Gardner novels were set in the '80s-'90s, with an older near-retirement and later semi-retired Bond who unfortunately still has the curse of getting every woman he ever actually loves killed. Interestingly, in the Gardner books the DB5 "Silver Beast" was sold off as MI6 surplus and is now Bond's personal ride. If you could find a pair of actors to pass for young/old versions of each other the way Mark and Sean Harmon do, maybe stagger them so you have a Fleming and Gardner movie interleaved for side-by-side production and staggered releases so you get Casino Royale first, then License Renewed, then progress down the two parts of the storyline in parallel.