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Never Say Never Again is the 2nd James Bail theatrical film not produced past EON Productions and the second motion-picture show adaptation of the story Thunderball. Released in 1983, it stars Sean Connery in his seventh and final film operation every bit British Secret Service agent James Bond. Information technology was released theatrically by Warner Bros.

The film is not considered part of the canon of the Bail film franchise from EON Productions and United Artists and is non produced by Albert R. Broccoli, despite information technology currently being handled by the official film series distributor, MGM. MGM acquired the distribution rights in 1997 after their conquering of Orion Pictures. The film as well marks the culmination of a long legal boxing between United Artists and Kevin McClory. Its release opposite the franchise Bond film Octopussy (starring Roger Moore) quickly led the media to dub the situation the "Battle of the Bonds".

In November 2013, the McClory Manor and EON Productions reached an agreement transferring all rights to Fleming'due south Thunderball, the arrangement of SPECTRE, and the grapheme of Ernst Stavro Blofeld to EON.

Contents

  • 1 Plot summary
  • 2 Changes to the Bond universe
  • three Production
    • 3.1 Bandage and crew
    • iii.two Filming
    • 3.3 Music
  • 4 Bandage and Characters
  • 5 Crew
  • half-dozen Comic Accommodation
  • 7 Trivia
  • 8 See also
  • 9 References
  • ten External links

Plot summary

Being the 2nd adaptation of the novel Thunderball, Never Say Never Once again follows a similar plotline to the earlier moving picture, but with some differences.

The film opens with a middle-aged, nonetheless still athletic James Bail making his way through an armed army camp in order to rescue a daughter who has been kidnapped. Later killing the kidnappers, Bond lets his baby-sit downwardly, forgetting that the daughter might have been subject area to Stockholm syndrome (in which a kidnapped person comes to place with his/her kidnappers) and is stabbed to death past her. Or then it seems.

In fact, the attack on the camp is naught more than a field training exercise using blank ammunition and simulated knives, and one Bail fails because he ends up "dead". A new M is now in part, 1 who sees little apply for the 00-section. In fact, Bond has spent most of his recent fourth dimension teaching, rather than doing, a fact he points out with some resentment.

Feeling that Bond is slipping, M orders him to enroll in a health clinic in order to "eliminate all those free radicals" and get back into shape. While there, Bond discovers a mysterious nurse, Fatima Blush, and her patient, who is wrapped in bandages. His suspicions are aroused fifty-fifty further when a thug (Lippe) tries to impale him.

Blush and her charge, an American Air Force airplane pilot named Jack Petachi, are in fact operatives of SPECTRE, a criminal organization run by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Petachi has undergone an operation to alter one of his retinas to match the retinal pattern of the American President. Using his position as a pilot, and the president's eye pattern to circumvent security, Petachi infiltrates an American military base in England and orders the dummy warheads in two cruise missiles replaced with ii live nuclear warheads, which SPECTRE captures and uses to extort billions of dollars from the governments of the earth.

Chiliad reluctantly reactivates the 00 section, and Bond is assigned the task of tracking downwardly the missing weapons, beginning with a rendezvous with Domino Petachi, the pilot'due south sis, who is kept a virtual prisoner past her lover, Maximillian Largo. Bail pursues Largo and his yacht to the Bahama islands, where he engages Domino, Fatima Blush, and Largo in a game of wits and resources as he attempts to derail SPECTRE'due south scheme.

Changes to the Bail universe

The movie makes a few changes to the James Bond universe. MI6 is shown to exist underfunded and understaffed, especially with regards to Q-Branch, and the graphic symbol Q is referred to by the name "Algernon", and is presumably a different private than the Q in the official Bond films (whose name is Major Boothroyd). The movie as well appears to have identify in an "alternate universe" in which none of the events of You Only Alive Twice, On Her Majesty'due south Secret Service, Diamonds Are Forever and the opening sequence of For Your Eyes Simply accept occurred, since Blofeld is live and apparently previously unknown to Bond and MI6. Despite sharing many basic similarities with Thunderball, the course of events throughout the motion picture are different enough for information technology to be more than a directly remake, and the activity clearly takes place at a much later date (contemporary with the film's production).

The film is notable for depicting Felix Leiter, Bond's CIA colleague, as an African-American, something which would not occur in the EON series until Casino Royale in 2006. The film besides makes a major departure from official continuity by ending with Bond indicating his intention to retire from MI6 - while Bond had considered retirement in On Her Majesty's Clandestine Service, he is shown to exist unsure of the conclusion and afterward chooses to stay with the service. In the scene where Bond states his intention to quit, Connery breaks the fourth wall past winking at the camera; while this is incorrectly considered by many as being unique to this picture show, George Lazenby was in fact the starting time Bail to intermission the fourth wall almost fifteen years before when he told the audience, "This never happened to the other fellow" (referring to Connery, the man he had replaced equally Bond).

Product

Never Say Never Again had its origins in the early 1960s, following the controversy over the 1961 Thunderball novel.[1] Fleming had worked with independent producer Kevin McClory and scriptwriter Jack Whittingham on a script for a potential Bond film, to exist called Longitude 78 West,[ii] which was subsequently abandoned because of the costs involved.[three] Fleming, "always reluctant to permit a skillful idea lie idle",[3] turned this into the novel Thunderball, for which he did not credit either McClory or Whittingham;[4] McClory so took Fleming to the High Court in London for breach of copyright[four] and the matter was settled in 1963.[2] After Eon Productions started producing the Bond films, it afterward made a deal with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, and so not make whatever further version of the novel for a period of ten years following the release of the Eon-produced version in 1965.[5]

Warhead (1978) concept artwork - interior of the Statue of Liberty depicting docking chamber with a submarine, and a robot 'Hammerhead' shark hanging.

In the mid-1970s McClory over again started working on a project to bring a Thunderball adaptation to product and, with the working title Warhead, he brought writer Len Deighton together with Sean Connery to piece of work on a script.[6] The script ran into difficulties later accusations from Eon Productions that the project had gone beyond copyright restrictions, which confined McClory to a picture based on the Thunderball novel only, and in one case once more the project was deferred.[v]

Towards the end of the 1970s developments were reported on the project under the name James Bond of the Hugger-mugger Service,[5] but when producer Jack Schwartzman became involved and cleared a number of the legal issues that still surrounded the project[1] he brought on board scriptwriter Lorenzo Semple, Jr.[seven] to work on the screenplay. Connery was unhappy with some aspects of the work and asked Tom Mankiewicz, who had rewritten Diamonds Are Forever, to work on the script; however Mankiewicz declined as he felt he was under a moral obligation to Cubby Broccoli.[8] Connery and then hired British boob tube writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais[9] to undertake re-writes, although they went uncredited for their efforts considering of a restriction by the Writers Social club of America.[vi]

The film underwent one last change in title: after Connery had finished filming Diamonds Are Forever he had pledged that he would "never" play Bond again.[6] Connery's wife, Micheline, suggested the championship Never Say Never Once again, referring to her hubby's vow[10] and the producers acknowledged her contribution past listing on the end credits "Title "Never Say Never Again" past: Micheline Connery". A final attempt by Fleming'southward trustees to block the film was made in the Loftier Court in London in the spring of 1983, just this was thrown out past the court and Never Say Never Again was permitted to proceed.[5]

Cast and crew

When producer Kevin McClory had kickoff planned the film in 1964 he held initial talks with Richard Burton for the function of Bond,[xi] although the project came to nothing considering of the legal problems involved. When the Warhead project was launched in the late 1970s, a number of actors were mentioned in the trade printing, including Orson Welles for the office of Blofeld, Trevor Howard to play M and Richard Attenborough as director.[half-dozen]

In 1978 the working title James Bond of the Secret Service was beingness used and Connery was in the frame once once again, potentially going caput-to-head with the adjacent Eon Bond movie, Moonraker.[12] By 1980, with legal issues over again causing the projection to founder,[6] Connery thought himself unlikely to play the role, as he stated in an interview in the Dominicus Express: "when I commencement worked on the script with Len I had no thought of really being in the film".[xiii] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bond; Connery agreed, request (and getting) a fee of $3 million, ($7 million in 2022 dollars) a percentage of the profits, equally well every bit casting and script approval.[6] Subsequent to Connery reprising the role, the script has several references to Bond's advancing years – playing on Connery being 52 at the fourth dimension of filming[vi] – and academic Jeremy Black has pointed out that there are other aspects of historic period and disillusionment in the film, such as the Shrubland'south porter referring to Bond's car ("They don't make them similar that anymore."), the new 1000 having no use for the 00 section and Q with his reduced budgets.[14]

For the main villain in the film, Maximillian Largo, Connery suggested Klaus Maria Brandauer, the lead of the 1981 Academy Laurels-winning Hungarian motion picture Mephisto.[7] Through the same route came Max von Sydow as Ernst Stavro Blofeld,[fifteen] although he still retained his Eon-originated white cat in the pic.[16] For the femme fatale, director Irvin Kershner selected former model and Playboy cover girl Barbara Carrera to play Fatima Blush – the name coming from ane of the early scripts of Thunderball.[half dozen] Carrera'south performance as Fatima Blush earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination for All-time Supporting Actress,[17] which she lost to Cher for her part in Silkwood.[xviii] Micheline Connery, Sean's wife, had met up-and-coming actress Kim Basinger at a hotel in London and suggested her to Connery, which he agreed upon.[vi] For the function of Felix Leiter, Connery spoke with Bernie Casey, saying that as the Leiter role was never remembered past audiences, using a black Leiter might make him more memorable.[7] Others bandage included comedian Rowan Atkinson, who would later parody Bond in his part of Johnny English language.[xix]

Former Eon Productions' editor and manager of On Her Majesty's Hole-and-corner Service, Peter R. Hunt, was approached to directly the film merely declined due to his previous work with Eon.[20] Irvin Kershner, who had achieved success in 1980 with The Empire Strikes Dorsum was then hired. A number of the crew from the 1981 moving-picture show Raiders of the Lost Ark were also appointed, including first banana director David Tomblin, managing director of photography Douglas Slocombe and product designers Philip Harrison and Stephen Grimes.[seven] [fifteen]

Filming

A large, sleek ship is moored at a quayside

The Kingdom 5KR which acted as Largo's ship, the Flying Saucer

Filming for Never Say Never Once more began on 27 September 1982 on the French Riviera for ii months[half-dozen] before moving to Nassau, the Commonwealth of the bahamas in mid-Nov[7] where filming took place at Clifton Pier, which was also one of the locations used in Thunderball.[half-dozen] The Spanish metropolis of Almería was likewise used as a location.[21] Largo's Palmyran fortress was actually historic Fort Carré in Antibes.[22] For Largo's send, the Flight Saucer, the yacht Nabila, owned by Saudi billionaire, Adnan Khashoggi, was used. The gunkhole, now owned by Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, has subsequently been renamed the Kingdom 5KR.[23] Main photography finished at Elstree Studios where interior shots were filmed.[vi] Elstree also housed the Tears of Allah underwater cave, which took three months to construct.[six] Well-nigh of the filming was completed in the spring of 1983, although at that place was some additional shooting during the summer of 1983.[7]

Production on the film was troubled,[15] with Connery taking on many of the production duties with assistant director David Tomblin.[6] Director Irvin Kershner was disquisitional of producer Jack Schwartzman, proverb that whilst he was a practiced man of affairs, "he didn't take the experience of a motion picture producer".[6] Afterwards the product ran out of money, Schwartzman had to fund further production out of his own pocket and later admitted he had underestimated the amount the film would cost to make.[fifteen]

Steven Seagal, who was the fight choreographer for this picture, bankrupt Connery'southward wrist while grooming. On an episode of The Tonight Testify with Jay Leno, Connery revealed he did non know his wrist was broken until over a decade later.[24]

Many of the elements of the Eon-produced Bail films were not present in Never Say Never Again for legal reasons. These included the gun barrel sequence, where a screen full of 007 symbols appeared instead, and similarly in that location was no "James Bond Theme" to use, although no effort was made to supply some other tune.[7] A pre-credits sequence was filmed but non used;[fifteen] instead the picture show opens with the credits run over the meridian of the opening sequence of Bond on a grooming mission.[6]

Music

The music for Never Say Never Again was written by Michel Legrand, who composed a score similar to his work equally a jazz pianist.[25] The score has been criticised as "anachronistic and misjudged",[half-dozen] "bizarrely intermittent"[fifteen] and "the nearly disappointing characteristic of the film".[seven] Legrand as well wrote the main theme "Never Say Never Again", which featured lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman—who had too worked with Legrand in the University Honour winning song, "The Windmills of Your Mind"[26]—and was performed by Lani Hall[7] afterwards Bonnie Tyler, who disliked the song, had reluctantly declined.[27]

Phyllis Hyman also recorded a potential theme song, written by Stephen Forsyth and Jim Ryan, but the song—an unsolicited submission—was passed over given Legrand's contractual obligations with the music.[28]

Bandage and Characters

Crew

MGM DVD cover.

  • Directed by: Irvin Kershner
  • Screenplay past: Lorenzo Semple Jr.
  • Produced past: Jack Schwartzman, Kevin McClory (executive), Michael Dryhurst (associate)
  • Cinematography by Douglas Slocombe
  • Music equanimous by: Michel Legrand

Comic Accommodation

Argentinean publisher Editora Columba, who published several original Spanish-language James Bond film adaptations in various D'artagnan comic magazines during the '60s and '70s, adjusted Never Say Never Again in 1984.

Trivia

  • This is the merely Bail movie to be directed by an American. The moving-picture show's director, Irvin Kershner, had previously directed Sean Connery in A Fine Madness.
  • The movie championship comes from Sean Connery's statement when asked if he would ever play Bond once again later Diamonds Are Forever, to which he replied "Never Again".
  • The Flight Saucer, Largo'due south ship, is a translation of "the Disco Volante", the name of Largo'due south ship in Thunderball. In this picture, the Disco Volante is a formidable vessel clearly based on a military cruiser hull, with a helipad and calibration which dramatically dwarf the vessel nowadays in the official film continuity. The Disco is still the base of operations of underwater operations by Largo. In real life, the ship used in long shots was known every bit the "Nabila" and was built for Saudi billionaire, Adnan Kashoggi.
  • The casino where Bond and Largo go head to head in a videogame was called Casino Royale.
    • This scene also prevented author John Gardner from having a somewhat like scene involving Bond playing a computer game over a LAN in Gardner'south novel Role of Honour. Bail was supposed to exist playing a simulation of "The Battle of Waterloo", this was later inverse to a different type of game involving "The Battle of Bunker Hill". Interestingly, the Battle of Waterloo would besides play a part in the after official Bond film, The Living Daylights.
  • Originally, both this picture show and Octopussy were to be released to theatres simultaneously, which led to a brief flurry of media action regarding the "Boxing of the Bonds". Ultimately, it was decided to separate the 2 release dates.
  • McClory originally planned for the film to open with some version of the famous "gunbarrel" opening equally seen in the official Bond series, but ultimately the motion picture opens with a screenful of "007" symbols instead. When the soundtrack for the flick was released on CD, it included a slice of music composed for the proposed opening.
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer, who played Largo, was originally cast as Marko Ramius in The Chase for Red Oct; the role somewhen went to Connery.
  • Rowan Atkinson fabricated his film debut in this movie. Atkinson, who later became famous for the Mr. Edible bean one-act series, played a British amanuensis in this movie, the bungling Nigel Small-Fawcett. Later he would play a James Bond parody in Johnny English.

See besides

  • The controversy over Thunderball.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Pfeiffer, Lee; Worrall, Dave (1998). The Essential Bail. London: Boxtree Ltd, p.213. ISBN 978-0-7522-2477-0.
  2. ↑ ii.0 2.1 Poliakoff, Keith (2000). "License to Copyright – The Ongoing Dispute Over the Ownership of James Bail". Cardozo Arts & Amusement Law Journal 18: 387–436. Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Retrieved on three September 2011. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; proper noun "Poliakoff (2000)" defined multiple times with different content
  3. ↑ iii.0 3.1 Chancellor, Henry (2005). James Bond: The Man and His Globe. London: John Murray, pp.226. ISBN 978-0-7195-6815-two.
  4. ↑ four.0 4.ane Macintyre, Ben (2008). For Yours Eyes Just. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, p.198-99. ISBN 978-0-7475-9527-4.
  5. ↑ five.0 v.1 5.2 5.3 Chapman, James (2009). Licence to Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films. New York: I.B. Tauris, p.184. ISBN 978-1-84511-515-9.
  6. ↑ 6.00 half-dozen.01 6.02 half-dozen.03 6.04 6.05 half-dozen.06 half dozen.07 vi.08 half dozen.09 six.10 6.11 6.12 half-dozen.13 six.14 six.15 6.16 Barnes, Alan; Hearn, Marcus (2001). Kiss Kiss Bang! Blindside!: the Unofficial James Bail Moving-picture show Companion. Batsford Books, pp.152-56. ISBN 978-0-7134-8182-2.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.three 7.four 7.5 7.half dozen vii.7 7.8 Benson, Raymond (1988). The James Bond Bedside Companion. London: Boxtree Ltd, p.240-43. ISBN 1-85283-234-7.
  8. ↑ Mankiewicz, Tom; Crane, Robert (2012). My Life as a Mankiewicz. Lexington, KY: Academy Press of Kentucky, p.150. ISBN 978-0-8131-3605-9.
  9. ↑ La Frenais, Ian (1936–) and Cloudless, Dick (1937–). Screenonline. British Motion-picture show Institute. Retrieved on 3 September 2011.
  10. ↑ Dick, Sandra. "Eighty big facts you must know about Big Tam", 25 Baronial 2010, p. 20.
  11. ↑ "A Rival 007 – Information technology Looks Like Burton", 21 February 1964, p. 13.
  12. ↑ Davis, Victor. "Bond versus Bond", 29 July 1978, p. 4.
  13. ↑ Mann, Roderick. "Why Sean won't now be back every bit 007 ...", 23 March 1980, p. 23.
  14. ↑ Black, Jeremy (2005). The Politics of James Bail: from Fleming's Novel to the Big Screen. University of Nebraska Press, p.58. ISBN 978-0-8032-6240-9.
  15. ↑ 15.0 fifteen.1 xv.ii fifteen.iii xv.iv xv.5 Smith, Jim (2002). Bond Films. London: Virgin Books, pp.193-99. ISBN 978-0-7535-0709-4.
  16. ↑ Chapman, James (2009). Licence to Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films. New York: I.B. Tauris, p.135. ISBN 978-one-84511-515-9.
  17. ↑ Barbara Carrera. Official Gilded Globe Award Website. Hollywood Foreign Press Clan. Retrieved on two September 2011.
  18. ↑ Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Moving-picture show. Official Gilt World Award Website. Hollywood Strange Press Clan. Retrieved on three September 2011.
  19. ↑ Johnny English. Penguin Readers Factsheets (2003). Retrieved on 5 September 2011.
  20. ↑ "Director Peter Hunt – "On Her Majesty'southward Clandestine Service"", Retrovision. Retrieved on 5 September 2011.
  21. ↑ Armstrong, Vic (seven May 2011). I'one thousand the real Indiana (when I'1000 not busy being James Bail or Superman). Daily Mail service.
  22. ↑ Reeves, Tony (2001). The Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations. Chicago: A Cappella, p.134. ISBN 978-i-55652-432-5.
  23. ↑ Salmans, Sandra. "Lavish Lifestyle of a Wheeler-Dealer", 22 February 1985. Retrieved on 6 September 2011.
  24. ↑ Kurchak, Sarah (12 October 2015). Did Steven Seagal Interruption Sean Connery's Wrist with Aikido?. Vice.com. Retrieved on 24 November 2015.
  25. ↑ Bettencourt, Scott (1998). "Bond Back in Activity Again". Motion picture score monthly .
  26. ↑ Error on phone call to Template:cite spider web: Parameters url and championship must be specified. University of Move Movie Arts and Sciences.
  27. ↑ The Bat Segundo Show: Bonnie Tyler (12 September 2008). Tyler as well discusses this in the documentary James Bond'southward Greatest Hits.
  28. ↑ Burlingame, Jon (2012). The Music of James Bail. Oxford: Oxford University Printing, p.112. ISBN 978-0-xix-986330-3.

External links

  • Never Say Never Once again (1983) at IMDb
  • MGM'south page on the flick

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