The final, fifth section, "His Future" examines the literary and cinematic possibilities for the Bond character in 1964 - when Fleming was still writing.

"But, because of its truly literary qualities, people may have missed its extraordinary cinematic possibilities."

However, Hughes, a former filmmaker and studio chief, conceded that the saga had cinematic possibilities.

Here, perhaps, the cinematic possibilities become a little more obvious.

Verne's 1864 fantasy, thrusting staid Victorians into mystery and adventure, is rich with cinematic possibility (and far better realized in the spirited 1959 film with James Mason).

Brooding, adventurous and effectively unattached, they present both sexual and cinematic possibilities that "Loaded" only loosely explores.

Like "Get Shorty," "Out of Sight" and "Hombre," "Tishomingo Blues" has immense cinematic possibilities.

Though neither Ms. Fonda nor Mr. Puenzo yet knew it, Mr. Peck was also aware of the book and impressed by the cinematic possibilities it seemed to offer.

We are a young continent, and the countries are in movement, in the process of defining ourselves, and this process creates extraordinary cinematic possibilities.

With the French actors, there was a profound sense of cinematic possibility, a chance to mint a new sort of leading man.