Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond
4 x 60 minute episodes for Sky Atlantic and BBC Worldwide
Transmission date: 2014
Production Credits
Director: Matt Whitecross
Writers: John Brownlow, Don McPherson
Executive Producers: Michael Parke, Douglas Rae,
Producer: Sarah Curtis
Cast
Dominic Cooper
Lara Pulver
Rupert Evans
Samuel West
Anna Chancellor
Lesley Manville
Synopsis
Ian Fleming is a privileged but directionless, angry young man full of imagination and ambition but living life as a philandering, sub-standard stockbroker in the shadow of his successful author brother. As war breaks out, Fleming manages to get himself a job in Naval Intelligence and soon that wild imagination takes him to the top of his field, running action-packed, covert missions into war-torn Europe. Through the wartime years, he wrestles for success and for the love of wealthy, connected socialite Anne O’Neill. What he learns of himself leads to the creation of the ultimate fictional hero.
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