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The Writing King Your Ethical Ghostwriter. Your Story, Done Right.

Writer: Tom Mankiewicz

Tom Mankiewicz, son of Joseph L Mankiewicz, wrote three Bond films in the early 1970s and is largely responsible for the shift toward humour that defined the Roger Moore era. Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die and The Man with the Golden Gun are his.

He then did substantial uncredited work on Superman, receiving a creative consultant credit after a Writers Guild dispute, and the film’s balance of sincerity and wit is generally attributed to him.

He also wrote Ladyhawke and directed Dragnet. His memoir is unusually candid about how much studio screenwriting is repair work on someone else’s draft.

The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) film poster

Richard Maibaum

The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)

1974 Guy Hamilton Bond film with Moore facing Christopher Lee's Scaramanga. Far East setting, energy-crisis MacGuffin, solar weapon.

The Eagle Has Landed (1976) film poster

The Eagle Has Landed (1976)

1976 John Sturges WWII thriller with Michael Caine as a German paratrooper colonel sent to kidnap Churchill from rural England. The Eagle Has Landed is John Sturges's 1976 British WWII thriller adapting Jack Higgins's 1975 novel.

Live and Let Die (1973) film poster

Live and Let Die (1973)

1973 Guy Hamilton Bond film with Roger Moore's debut. Voodoo, blaxploitation tropes, Jane Seymour as Solitaire.

Diamonds Are Forever (1971) film poster

Richard Maibaum

Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

1971 Guy Hamilton Bond film with Connery returning. Las Vegas setting, diamond smuggling, Blofeld as Howard Hughes pastiche.