Other differences include the villain, Karl Stromberg, instead being named as Sigmund Stromberg. Members of SMERSH from the novelization include the Bond girl Anya Amasova and her lover Sergei Borzov, as well as Colonel-General Nikitin, a character from Fleming's novel From Russia, with Love who has since become head of the KGB. The revival of SMERSH goes against the latter half of Fleming's Bond novels, in which SMERSH is mentioned to have been put out of operation however, it is explained within the novel as being Colonel-General Nikitin's doing. His torture by SMERSH agents is reminiscent to that by Le Chiffre from Casino Royale, only here electricity is used to attack Bond's genitals rather than a carpet beater.
After the mysterious death of Fekkish, SMERSH appears yet again, this time capturing and torturing Bond for the whereabouts of the microfilm that retains plans for a submarine tracking system (Bond escapes after killing two of the interrogators). Their part in the novelization begins during the "pre-title credits" sequence, in which Bond is escaping from a cabin on the top of Aiguille du Mort, a mountain near the town of Chamonix. In the novelization SMERSH has been reactivated some time before the start of the novel, and is still after James Bond. The novelization and the screenplay, although both written by Wood, are somewhat different. Wood would also novelize the screenplay for the next Bond film, Moonraker in 1979.ĭifferences between novelization and screenplay Christopher Wood, himself a novelist, and who co-authored the screenplay with Richard Maibaum, was commissioned to write the book, which was given the title James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me. This would also be the first regular Bond novel published since Colonel Sun nearly a decade earlier. We got our instructions on that, but from then on, these books-of-the-films became like any other Bond novel-we controlled the publication rights." They chose Christopher Wood because he was one of the screenwriters at the time, and they decided what he would be paid. According to Ian Fleming's literary agent Peter Janson-Smith, "We had no hand in other than we told the film people that we were going to exert our legal right to handle the rights in the books. Since the screenplay for the film had nothing to do with Fleming's original novel, Eon Productions, for the first time, authorised that a novelization be written based upon the script. Broccoli, he only gave permission for the title The Spy Who Loved Me to be used. When Ian Fleming sold the film rights to the James Bond novels to Harry Saltzman and Albert R.
Main article: The Spy Who Loved Me (film) § Plot Background
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