5/20/2023 0 Comments Chitty chitty bang bang novel![]() ![]() The book was published in 1964 and became even more famous when it was made into a 1968 film with Dick Van Dyke as Caractacus Potts. ![]() When the writer had a heart attack and his wife banned him from his typewriter, he wrote the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang stories out in longhand instead of working on his next Bond novel. "I've had a lot of fun writing these books, but somewhere among all the fun I found it strangely emotional to revisit myself as a boy and ask if he could help me restore an old-fashioned contraption and make it fly again."įleming originally made up the Chitty tale, about a family whose car develops unusual powers, as a bedtime story for his son Caspar. Cottrell Boyce, whose first book, Millions, was made into a film by Danny Boyle, said he had "no idea" why he had been asked: "I haven't asked them in case it's all a case of mistaken identity."īoyce has gone back to Fleming's book for the first time since he was a child and was delighted, he said, to conclude that it is crying out for a sequel. ![]()
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