But the characters he created, including Bond himself, still bear some striking resemblances to the super spies and government sleuths that Fleming met in his time with British Naval Intelligence back in the mid 1900s. Today, the Bond canon extends far beyond the writing of Ian Fleming. They settled out of court, but Fleming was so mad he nearly changed the name to “Goldprick” in response. When the real Goldfinger found out he was the bad guy in Fleming’s novel, the architect tried to sue the book's publisher. The Guardian reports that Auric Goldfinger, for instance, was inspired by the well-known Hungarian architect Erno Goldfinger, who Fleming apparently disliked. The author drew influence from prominent ornithologists (yes, bird experts) and, of course, legendary spies from across the world. Many of the characters in Fleming’s stories are said to be based on his colleagues during the war–including Godfrey, who is widely speculated to have been the inspiration for the MI6 director in the series, M (and apparently, Godfrey wasn’t too happy about that, according to A Brief Guide to James Bond by Nigel Cawthorne ). The author was a personal assistant to Admiral John Godfrey, the director of the Naval Intelligence Division for the U.K. Before creating Bond in 1953, Fleming served as a commander in the British Naval Intelligence during WWII. Daniel Craig Says He's Stepping Down as Bond.

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