More pointless Bowdlerising?
https://www.euronews.com/culture/202...ngs-007-novels
Is this more about trying to make money out of them or what? They are what they are. Not much relation to the films. Also applies to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang books vs Film. Roald Dahl was suppose to do the screenplay, but most of it was probably or allegedly by Ken Hughes, the Director. The Child Catcher is certainly not in Fleming's stories and is pure Dahl.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitty_Chitty_Bang_Bang (film)
The stories are in 3 parts on Fadedpage, published after Fleming's death:
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Fleming’s tales were about a flying car restored by Caractacus Potts, an inventor and retired naval commander. The title was later changed to Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, which was based on the real cars Chitty-Bang-Bang 1, 2, 3 and 4 built by the eccentric motor enthusiast Louis Zborowski in the 1920s.
Fleming suffered another heart attack on 11 August 1964, following a long lunch at Royal St George’s Golf Club in Kent. He died the next morning, on his son’s 12th birthday. Fleming never got to see the printed versions of his children’s stories, which came out in October that year.
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From
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...-a8680251.html
The film is now nearly 55 years old.
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The biggest bone of contention was how many of Dahl’s own creations remained in the film. Vulgaria, the place where kidnapped children are taken, and the character of the creepy, long-nosed, net-wielding Child Catcher do not appear in Fleming’s stories and were said to have been created by Dahl. In an article for Johns Hopkins University Press, however, the late Hughes was quoted as claiming he wrote “every f**king word” of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’s script on his portable typewriter.
“The Child Catcher was my invention – his cage and everything,” insisted Hughes.
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Make your own judgement if you've read Dahl and seen the film!
Article mentions Roald Dahl controversy.
As he died in 1964 they'd be long out of copyright if it wasn't for Disney and friends.
I've still a couple of books by his brother Peter Fleming.