Fleming villians that have yet to be used by EON?

Verily I say unto thee..at one point SHATTERHAND was going to be the title of TOMORROW NEVER DIES until the decision was made to change the villain's name from Shatterhand to Carver. A shame as I think it would be a great title for a Bond film.

That would indeed have been an excellent title. Tomorrow turned out just fine though.

Maybe a future installment?

I doubt that there will ever be a Bond movie called SHATTERHAND (whatever Bap's fond feelings for that name). At the very least, it would create a bit of a marketing problem in Germany, which is one of the major markets for Bond films. Fleming apparently picked the name "Shatterhand" from German 19th century novelist Karl May, who still is incredibly famous over here and who wrote about 100 adventure novels, many of which played in the Wild West, with the first-person narrator (May's alter ego) being called "Old Shatterhand".

Why Fleming used that name to give, of all things, an alleged German impression for Blofeld's cover name is unclear. But we know that Fleming during his travels frequented a Berlin harbour pub called "Old Shatterhand". He also learned German (the Oberhauser story is influenced by his time at Kitzbühel, Austria), and it is highly unlikely that he never came across "Old Shatterhand", at a time when May was definitely still one of the most popular German-language authors ever.

When they translated YOLT (the novel, of course) into German, they changed the name to Dr. Guntram Martell, since using Shatterhand would have seemed ludicrous to a German reader. It may also be that there were still copyright problems since May hadn't been dead 70 years and the name was kind of unique.

Also, in the Sixties there was an immensely successful series of movies based on May's books, with Old Shatterhand being played by Lex Barker and creating a major hype for the character once more.

Anyway, use of the name would be very distracting even today. They might as well call the villain (and the movie) TARZAN. Or maybe JOHN CARTER, come to think of it.

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Verily I say unto thee..then I guess we aren't likely to get a Bond heroine named Pippi Longstocking either.

No, but maybe someone might suggest it, had Fleming ever spent extended time in Sweden?

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Well, I would imagine if they ever ponder Shatterhand as a title, they would simply do the "different name in Germany" thing again, as in Fleming's "For Your Eyes Only," rather than never consider doing it.

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You may be right, but that was a) a "Fleming title", b) in the days when movies were always renamed, rather than marketed under basically the same title (with or without additions) everywhere, c) an expression that could not be translated anyway without using its double (or non-existent) meaning and was therefore replaced by something non-descript ("On a deadly mission", cf. also "In the face of death" for AVTAK).

As for the OP's suggestion, still the villain involved would bear a name that would come across as a sort of travesty, since even the Fleming readers wouldn't know where it comes from. So why do it in the first place?

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So why do it in the first place? Because, outside of Germany at least, it sounds pretty cool?

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