Roald Dahl wrote the screenplay and brought new elements – the Child Catcher for instance – to the story. The film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, made in 1968, was based on Ian Fleming's book. Sadly Ian Fleming never saw the finished books as he died of a heart attack a couple of months before publication. When Ian Fleming wasnt dreaming up missions for 007, he kicked back and relaxed with this childrens story about the eccentric inventor who transforms a. He wrote Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car in 1962. Ian Fleming was born in 1908 and died in 1964. It must have created a deep impression on the young Ian Fleming because when, forty years later, he decided that he would write a story for his small son Caspar about a car that could fly, he described a magnificent green car with 'rows and rows of gleaming knobs on the dashboard', 'a cream-coloured collapsible roof' and huge exhaust pipes of 'glistening silver'. (The movie was also produced by Albert Cubby Broccoli, the man behind the Bond films.

The story was also adapted as a stage musical under the same name. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, a fanciful musical children’s movie based on the book of the same name, sprung from the mind of author Ian Fleming, the mastermind behind the James Bond novels. It belonged to an eccentric racing driver called Count Louis Zborowski. Broccoli, co-producer of the James Bond film series. When he was still a boy at school he had been to visit a house in Kent where there was a very fast and very noisy racing car. Evans has said that he plans to produce a new Chitty Chitty Bang Bang film, as well as a stage musical. The original 1968 film was directed by Ken Hughes and starred Dick Van Dyke and Sally Ann Howes.

Ian Fleming had a passion for cars, and in the James Bond books he wrote wonderful descriptions of cars such as a Bentley Continental and an Aston Martin. The story of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was written by Ian Fleming, the author of the James Bond novels.

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