Though the next James Bond film, Skyfall, is due later this year, another kind of Bond films is already in the works.  It was announced that Duncan Jones (Moon) has signed on to direct “the action-packed” story of James Bond creator Ian Fleming.  Jones had this to say about the gig:

“Fleming lived through one of the most perilous periods in world history, in a position that allowed him a unique vantage point of all the players, all the stakes.  He witnesses true heroism first-hand.  And he saw the evil men could do.  Then, when the war ended, he went off to write fiction. The essential question for me is; where did Ian Fleming end and Bond begin?”

The author masterminded real-life secret operations before he created the James Bond book series, so there’s obviously quite a lot to draw from.  Hit the jump for more details.

Director Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity) has signed on to direct a drama based on the life of Morris Abraham “Two Gun” Cohen.  Cohen was a World War I veteran who move to China in 1922 and trained the army of Sun Yat-sen, a revolutionary who played an instrumental role in throwing over China’s last imperial dynasty.  Cohen taught Sun’s army boxing and shooting, which was impressive considering that Cohen didn’t speak Chinese.  He then went on to become Sun’s main bodyguards and later went on to fight for China against Japanese invaders in the 1930s.

Hit the jump for more on the project.