Christopher Wood (writer)
Christopher Wood ( born November 5, 1935 in London, England ) is a British novelist and screenwriter who particularly for his screenplays for the two James Bond movies The Spy Who Loved Me (together with Richard Maibaum, 1977), and Moonraker ( 1979 ) are known.
Life and work
Christopher Wood finished his education in 1960 at the University of Cambridge with a degree in economics and law and began to work as a writer. He has published several novels, many of them under a pseudonym such as the Confessions series, for which filming of he who also worked on the scripts from 1974.
Christopher Wood wrote the screenplay for the 1977 film Royal Highness published in Japan (Seven Nights in Japan), in which Lewis Gilbert directed. Gilbert's next project was the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, and he offered Wood to write the screenplay for the film.
James Bond
As Christopher Wood began on The Spy Who Loved Me with the work you put him a screenplay before, the inventor had worked several authors. He developed from the final screenplay, for which he was in the credits with Richard Maibaum. The script for the following Bond Moonraker - Top Secret Wood wrote alone.
Christopher Wood was the first author, the novel versions of screenplays of the James Bond series wrote. In 1977, the novel version of The Spy Who Loved Me, under the title of James Bond and his biggest case. The plot had no resemblance to Ian Fleming's novel of the same title and was therefore published in the original as James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me. Even Woods 1979 published novel Moonraker - Top Secret (Original Title: James Bond And Moonraker ) has little resemblance to Fleming's novel Moonraker.
Other works
Wood also wrote the script for the action movie Remo - unarmed and dangerous ( 1985) with Fred Ward.
2006 saw Woods book James Bond, the Spy I Loved, his memories of working for the James Bond film series.