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n.p. [1959-60]. [James Bond typescript] The only recorded screenplay with Fleming's annotations. The earliest textual witness for the novel, bearing the Thunderball name and corrections by the author. The author's own copy of this abandoned film treatment contains his extensive revisions and the creation of the Thunderball title in his hand. This is one of only two known film scripts written or co-written by Fleming (the other being Moonraker, also catalogued by Jon Gilbert of this firm) and the only recorded screenplay with Fleming's annotations. This script features manuscript supplementary text, commentary on the script, an instance of cinematic direction, and suggestions for revision, together with numerous typographical and spelling corrections. It is noted as a "First Draft Screenplay" and "intended only to be distributed to Messrs. Ivar Bryce, Ian Fleming and Jack Whittingham, as a guide to the completion of the Final Screenplay". It is dated on the title page, "December…

Thunderball is the ninth book in the James Bond series, and the eighth full-length James Bond novel, written by Ian Fleming. It is famous for introducing the criminal organization SPECTRE and the character Ernst Stavro Blofeld.