James Bond writers ‘had originally decided to make Dr No a monkey’!

The script of the first James Bond film had to be re written as the writers had initially decided to make ‘Dr No’ a monkey, according to an autobiography by late Albert R Broccoli and Donald Zec.

The producers of the film, Harry Saltzman and Albert R Broccoli were absolutely shocked when they came to know about the first draft, as they did not think a monkey, even with a high IQ, could in any circumstances be 007’s ‘merciless antagonist’. 

The autobiography also revealed that Ian Fleming, author of James Bond stories attended several meetings before the picture started.

After one of the meetings, Fleming had even sent Broccoli a fascinating memorandum, which was the definitive thesis on the way James Bond should be played, the Daily Mail reported.