The latest 007 novel "Devil May Care" which was released in May of this year may not be turned into a movie, this comes as Eon have passed on the opportunity to have the film rights to "Devil" acquired from author Sebastian Faulks.
Eon. have thus far backed 22 movies in the Bond franchise, and have controlled the copyrights and the trademarks for the Bond films since the 1950s. This means that no one else has been able to produce movies featuring the British spy, apart from the one exception of Warner Bros., "Never Say Never Again" in 1983. However even if a producer could acquire the rights to the film they wouldn't be able to use the famous James Bond features, such as his name, and the theme song etc.
The book contains all the regulars that you would expect from Bond, the wonderful exotic locations, martini's, the glamorous women and of course the arch villains.
However Barbara Broccoli and Micheal G. Wilson, producers of five Bond movies to date, have said that the book's 1960 setting means that it is less desirable as a Bond film in this modern age of high tech gadgets and gizmos.
Broccoli and Wilson told Daily Variety "We love the book, but because it is set in the 1960's, we haven't considered making it in to a film in the near future."