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You Only Live Twice
No Time To Die (2021)
Many elements of Fleming’s final novel in his SPECTRE trilogy are repurposed in the final EON 007 film. Like the book, the film sees Bond seeking revenge for his loved ones by killing the main antagonist in his ‘garden of death’ on a private island between Russia and Japan. M reads Fleming’s eulogy for Bond at the end of the film, including the classic quote from the book, ‘I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time’.
You Only Live Twice (1967)
The book was adapted for the screen by Fleming’s friend Roald Dahl who says ‘I could retain only four or five of the original story’s ideas’. The novel gives the film its Japanese location, Blofeld as the central antagonist, Kissy Susuki and the concept of 007 going undercover as a Japanese local in a fishing community.