 Venice is a major setting in this movie and its the third time for  it to do so in the EON Productions official James Bond series. The  others were _From Russia with Love (1963)_ (qv) and  _Moonraker (1979)_ (qv). However, it was never a setting in the  original Ian Fleming (I) (qv) novels of any of these three movies.  The only time it has been a setting in an Ian Fleming (I) (qv)  James Bond adventure was in the short story "Risico" from the "For  Your Eyes Only" collection.