Spectre is based on an Ian Fleming novel.
 He drew from his wartime service and his career as a journalist for much of the background, detail, and depth of his James Bond novels
 The work had started in 1958 when Fleming's friend Ivar Bryce introduced him to a young Irish writer and director, Kevin McClory, and the three, together with Fleming and Bryce's friend Ernest Cuneo, worked on a script

