had finished a script by, as noted in that day’s NYT however, he was replaced by children’s author Roald Dahl the following year. Later figures in the DV and NYT cited a final budget of $10 million, and $12 million, respectively. The DV stated that United Artists (UA) would back the picture, then budgeted at $8 million, according to an DV item. Broccoli was initially uninterested in adapting the book, but changed his mind after the tremendous success of the children’s musical comedy Mary Poppins (1964, see entry). Fleming, who died the year the book was published, had based the work on bedtime stories he had made up for his son, Caspar, involving a magical car named after Count Louis Zborowski’s 1920s racing car, “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.” According to a NYT article, Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, known for co-producing the James Bond series of motion pictures based on Ian Fleming’s novels, planned to produce a film adaptation of Fleming’s 1964 children’s novel, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
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