Streama serien Fleming - The Man Who Would Be Bond (2014-). Med Dominic Cooper, Lara Pulver och Samuel West.
London, 1939. Ian Fleming är en oansvarig playboy som lever i skuggan av sin döde far, som var krigshjälte, den framgångsrike författarbrodern och sin despotiska mamma. Ian är fast i ett trist kontorsjobb och betraktas allmänt som en besvikelse, men han drömmer ändå om att bli det yttersta inom manlighet – en hjälte, en älskare, ett riktigt råskinn, den som alltid, i slutänden, får flickan. När andra världskriget bryter ut får Ian plötsligt en möjlighet att glänsa. För att bevisa att han är värd något tar han ett jobb inom flottans underrättelsetjänst. Först behandlar Ian sitt nya jobba som ett enda stort äventyr men när de hemska konsekvenserna och utmaningarna som hör kriget till blir allt tydligare för honom, börjar han inse inom vilka områden han faktiskt är begåvad och vad som krävs för att vara en riktig man. I förbluffande eskapader både på hemmaplan och utomlands riskerar Ian livhanken. Men kommer han någonsin att riskera att få sitt hjärta krossat? Den här fascinerande berättelsen som är full av lust, romans, humor, faror och explosiv aktion utspelar sig i Storbritannien, Frankrike, Tyskland och Jamaica, och är sagan om mannen vars eget liv och äventyr låg till grund för en av de mest ikoniska spionerna i den moderna litteraturen: James Bond.
In London, 1938, Ian Fleming is a dissolute playboy, eclipsed by his dead war hero father and successful brother. While propping up the bar at a jazz club, he meets Ann O'Neill, an alluring socialite. Unlike many of his conquests, Ann is more than a match for him. She already has a husband and a lover, Esmond Rothermere. Fleming finds solace in the arms of a beautiful dispatch rider named Muriel. Following a frosty morning-after encounter with Muriel, Fleming's domineering mother secures him a job assisting Naval Intelligence's Admiral John Godfrey. He quickly incurs Godfrey's wrath when he cooks up an unorthodox scheme to get information from two captured German submariners. However, Fleming's valuable findings make it apparent that an imaginative approach could be just what the war effort requires.
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A mischievous Ann invites Fleming to Esmond's birthday party, and although Fleming has brought Muriel as his date, sexual chemistry sizzles between them. Meanwhile, France is looking like it's about to crumble against Nazi forces. Office bound and desperate to be a man of action, Fleming urgently tries to persuade Godfrey to send him to France to oversee the destruction of secret files at one of their bureaus. To his surprise, Godfrey accepts. Fleming sets-off on his mission, but when unexpected obstacles arise, how will he handle the dangerous consequences?
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While training at a camp in Canada (Camp X), the Americans ask Fleming to use his talents to write a blueprint for a Central Intelligence Agency. On his return to London, Fleming persuades Godfrey to form the 30 Assault Unit - a group of the toughest soldiers prepared to play dirty, with Fleming serving as commanding officer. He believes the new unit of Intelligence Commandos is the key to beating the Nazis. Meanwhile, Fleming continues his relationship with Ann, but refuses to consider taking it to the next level, while Rothermere makes it clear he intends to win her over once and for all.
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The war is nearly over, but Fleming is convinced the Nazis are hiding nuclear plans and that the British need to find them before the Russians. Finally, Fleming is granted permission to go to Germany to attempt to retrieve the plans. He succeeds in tracking down the documents, but comes face to face with The Werewolves (renegade German soldiers who will die before giving up the cause). Back in London, celebrations are underway, but the arrival of peace also means wartime relationships will have to be reassessed. Will Fleming and Ann finally find a way to be together? Moreover, with the war in its final throes, Fleming's days in Naval Intelligence are numbered - what other ways will he find to channel his ingenuity and imagination?
