Andrew Lycett, author of the biography Ian Fleming: The Man Who Created James Bond, told the Observer: “Finding this screenplay is very exciting.
Just as in the novel, Bond is portrayed as a cold-hearted assassin, but Fleming makes some changes.
It is one of numerous outlandish scenes in the film that Ian Fleming never wrote in his original 007 novel.
Jon Gilbert, an expert in Fleming literature, told the Observer: “This is the very first screenplay written by Fleming imagining Bond for the big screen.