![]() “No monkey, d’you hear? It’s got to be the way the book is.” Cubby was outraged, in his usual good-natured way . . . There would be a villain who always had a marmoset monkey sitting on his shoulder, and the monkey would be Dr No. So, bright boys that we were, we decided that there would be no Dr No. It was 1961, and we felt that audiences wouldn’t stand for that kind of stuff any more. ![]() ![]() He was just Fu Manchu with two steel hooks. When Wolf and I began working on the script, we decided that Fleming’s Dr No was the most ludicrous character in the world. He quotes the screenwriter Richard Maibaum in support of this: In his autobiography, the James Bond producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli recalls that the original treatment of Dr No, the first James Bond book to be filmed, dispensed with Ian Fleming’s character of Julius No altogether because the screenwriters reckoned that the old-style melodramatic villains of clubland days would no longer work in the 1960s.
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