Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a 1968 British musical adventure fantasy film, directed by Ken Hughes and written by Roald Dahl and Hughes, loosely based on Ian Fleming's 1964 novel "Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car". The film stars Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Adrian Hall, Heather Ripley, Lionel Jeffries, James Robertson Justice, Robert Helpmann and Gert Fröbe. The film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli, the regular co-producer of the James Bond series of films (also based on Ian Fleming novels). John Stears supervised the special effects. Irwin Kostal supervised and conducted the music, while the
Aston Martin DB5 seen once in the film, when the two main characters go to meet the parody of Q. In 2011, an Aston Martin DB5 appeared in heavily stylized form as "Finn McMissile", a British secret agent voiced by Michael Caine in the 2011 Pixar film "Cars 2". The car character was a homage to the Bond DB5, although it also bore a resemblance to the Volvo P1800, as used by the fictional British secret agent Simon Templar in "The Saint". In the same year, the car appeared in the sequel to Fleming's "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies