By Lee Pfeiffer
It's that time of year: production has yet to start on the new James Bond film so fans are getting antsy and speculation is running wild. The latest rumor is that the new film will be titled Carte Blanche and that it might be based on the current 007 novel by Jeffrey Deaver. There is supposedly bits of circumstantial evidence that add up to this possibility. Our own view is to take all this with a grain of salt. The producers have studiously avoided adapting any novelist other than Ian Fleming's Bond stories to the big screen. Although Deaver is a big name novelist, it would seem highly unlikely that he is involved in the production- and there is no way producers would utilize his book title without him being involved. The web site Blic also says it has confirmed that Serbian cellist Jelena Mihailovic has been hired to write the "opening score" for the film, but this is also a long tradition: musical artists or their representatives float "confirmed" stories that they have been hired to score a Bond film. These turn out to be inaccurate but the artist succeeds in getting their name in the press. We don't know if that is the case here, but until Eon Productions confirms any rumor, it's just that- a rumor. Click here for more