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'James Bond' gets a musical twist
Los Angeles: The action, glitterati and the thrill from the “James Bond†film franchise will soon have get a musical version. Merry Saltzman, the daughter of the film's producer, Harry Saltzman, has reportedly secured the rights to a Bond stage show.
The project has been greenlit with 007 showing off his spying skills, while hitting high notes and insiders say if it is a success the musical will also come to London’s West End, reports mirror.co.uk.
A US production company is now hunting for a male lead to fill the most famous spy role for the show, which will launch in the US in 2017.
The working title for the production is simply “James Bond: The Musical†and it will have an original storyline, producers told American website Playbill.com, and will use “several Bond villains, plus some new onesâ€.
The films are based on Ian Fleming’s suave super spy James Bond which he created and wrote about over a series of 14 novels published from 1953 to 1966.
The latest Bond movie “Spectre†with actor Daniel Craig as the spy, will be released on November 6.