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Never Say Never Again is the 2d James Bond theatrical pic non produced past EON Productions and the second film adaptation of the story Thunderball. Released in 1983, it stars Sean Connery in his seventh and final film performance as British Secret Service amanuensis James Bail. It was released theatrically by Warner Bros.

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

In November 2013, the McClory Estate and EON Productions reached an agreement transferring all rights to Fleming's Thunderball, the organisation of SPECTRE, and the character of Ernst Stavro Blofeld to EON.

Contents

  • 1 Plot summary
  • 2 Changes to the Bond universe
  • three Product
    • 3.1 Bandage and crew
    • 3.2 Filming
    • 3.3 Music
  • 4 Cast and Characters
  • 5 Crew
  • 6 Comic Adaptation
  • 7 Images
  • 8 Trivia
  • ix Run across also
  • x References
  • xi External links

Plot summary

Being the second adaptation of the novel Thunderball, Never Say Never Again follows a like plotline to the earlier film, simply with some differences.

The film opens with a eye-aged, notwithstanding still athletic James Bond making his way through an armed camp in society to rescue a girl who has been kidnapped. After killing the kidnappers, Bond lets his baby-sit downwards, forgetting that the girl might accept been subject field to Stockholm syndrome (in which a kidnapped person comes to identify with his/her kidnappers) and is stabbed to death past her. Or so it seems.

In fact, the assail on the camp is nothing more than a field preparation exercise using bare ammunition and false knives, and i Bail fails because he ends up "dead". A new Grand is now in office, one who sees little use for the 00-department. In fact, Bond has spent virtually of his contempo time educational activity, rather than doing, a fact he points out with some resentment.

Feeling that Bond is slipping, M orders him to enroll in a wellness clinic in order to "eliminate all those free radicals" and become back into shape. While there, Bond discovers a mysterious nurse, Fatima Blush, and her patient, who is wrapped in bandages. His suspicions are angry even further when a thug (Lippe) tries to kill 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 change one of his retinas to match the retinal design of the American President. Using his position equally a airplane pilot, and the president'due south eye pattern to circumvent security, Petachi infiltrates an American armed services base in England and orders the dummy warheads in two cruise missiles replaced with two live nuclear warheads, which SPECTRE captures and uses to extort billions of dollars from the governments of the earth.

Thousand reluctantly reactivates the 00 department, and Bond is assigned the task of tracking down the missing weapons, beginning with a rendezvous with Domino Petachi, the airplane pilot'southward sister, who is kept a virtual prisoner by her lover, Maximillian Largo. Bail pursues Largo and his yacht to the Bahamas, where he engages Domino, Fatima Blush, and Largo in a game of wits and resources every bit he attempts to derail SPECTRE'due south scheme.

Changes to the Bond universe

The film makes a few changes to the James Bond universe. MI6 is shown to be underfunded and understaffed, particularly with regards to Q-Branch, and the grapheme Q is referred to by the name "Algernon", and is presumably a unlike individual than the Q in the official Bail films (whose proper name is Major Boothroyd). The film likewise appears to take identify in an "alternate universe" in which none of the events of You Merely Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Underground Service, Diamonds Are Forever and the opening sequence of For Your Eyes Only have occurred, since Blofeld is alive and apparently previously unknown to Bond and MI6. Despite sharing many basic similarities with Thunderball, the form of events throughout the film are different enough for it to be more than than a direct remake, and the activity clearly takes place at a much later engagement (contemporary with the moving-picture show'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 motion-picture show also makes a major departure from official continuity by ending with Bail indicating his intention to retire from MI6 - while Bond had considered retirement in On Her Majesty'south Secret Service, he is shown to be unsure of the decision and after 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 photographic camera; while this is incorrectly considered by many as beingness unique to this film, George Lazenby was in fact the start Bail to interruption the fourth wall almost 15 years earlier when he told the audience, "This never happened to the other fellow" (referring to Connery, the man he had replaced as Bond).

Production

Never Say Never Once more had its origins in the early on 1960s, following the controversy over the 1961 Thunderball novel.[ane] 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 W,[2] which was subsequently abased because of the costs involved.[3] Fleming, "always reluctant to allow a adept idea prevarication idle",[3] turned this into the novel Thunderball, for which he did non credit either McClory or Whittingham;[4] McClory then 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 subsequently made a deal with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, and then not brand whatever farther 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 Freedom depicting docking bedchamber with a submarine, and a robot 'Hammerhead' shark hanging.

In the mid-1970s McClory once again started working on a project to bring a Thunderball accommodation to production and, with the working title Warhead, he brought author Len Deighton together with Sean Connery to work on a script.[6] The script ran into difficulties afterwards accusations from Eon Productions that the project had gone beyond copyright restrictions, which bars McClory to a film based on the Thunderball novel only, and once more the project was deferred.[five]

Towards the end of the 1970s developments were reported on the project under the proper name James Bond of the Secret Service,[5] but when producer Jack Schwartzman became involved and cleared a number of the legal problems that nonetheless surrounded the project[1] he brought on board scriptwriter Lorenzo Semple, Jr.[7] 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 then hired British television writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais[9] to undertake re-writes, although they went uncredited for their efforts because of a restriction by the Writers Order of America.[6]

The flick underwent ane final modify in title: after Connery had finished filming Diamonds Are Forever he had pledged that he would "never" play Bail again.[six] Connery's wife, Micheline, suggested the title Never Say Never Again, referring to her married man's vow[10] and the producers acknowledged her contribution by listing on the stop credits "Championship "Never Say Never Again" by: Micheline Connery". A last effort by Fleming'south trustees to cake the picture show was made in the High Courtroom in London in the spring of 1983, merely this was thrown out past the courtroom and Never Say Never Once more was permitted to proceed.[5]

Bandage and crew

When producer Kevin McClory had showtime planned the picture in 1964 he held initial talks with Richard Burton for the role of Bond,[11] although the project came to zippo considering of the legal issues involved. When the Warhead project was launched in the belatedly 1970s, a number of actors were mentioned in the trade press, including Orson Welles for the part of Blofeld, Trevor Howard to play Thou and Richard Attenborough as director.[6]

In 1978 the working title James Bond of the Hole-and-corner Service was being used and Connery was in the frame once more, potentially going caput-to-head with the next Eon Bond picture, Moonraker.[12] By 1980, with legal issues once more causing the project to founder,[six] Connery idea himself unlikely to play the role, as he stated in an interview in the Sun Express: "when I first worked on the script with Len I had no thought of really beingness in the moving-picture show".[xiii] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bond; Connery agreed, asking (and getting) a fee of $3 meg, ($seven million in 2022 dollars) a pct of the profits, as well as 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 time of filming[half dozen] – and academic Jeremy Blackness has pointed out that there are other aspects of historic period and disillusionment in the moving-picture show, such as the Shrubland'south porter referring to Bail'south auto ("They don't make them like that anymore."), the new M having no use for the 00 section and Q with his reduced budgets.[fourteen]

For the chief villain in the picture, Maximillian Largo, Connery suggested Klaus Maria Brandauer, the pb of the 1981 University Honour-winning Hungarian picture Mephisto.[seven] Through the aforementioned road came Max von Sydow equally 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 one of the early scripts of Thunderball.[half-dozen] Carrera's performance as Fatima Blush earned her a Golden Earth Award nomination for All-time Supporting Actress,[17] which she lost to Cher for her function in Silkwood.[18] 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.[6] For the role of Felix Leiter, Connery spoke with Bernie Casey, maxim that every bit the Leiter role was never remembered by audiences, using a blackness Leiter might brand him more memorable.[7] Others cast included comedian Rowan Atkinson, who would later parody Bail in his role of Johnny English language.[19]

Quondam Eon Productions' editor and director of On Her Majesty'due south Secret Service, Peter R. Hunt, was approached to direct the film but declined due to his previous work with Eon.[20] Irvin Kershner, who had achieved success in 1980 with The Empire Strikes Back was and so hired. A number of the crew from the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark were as well appointed, including first assistant director David Tomblin, director of photography Douglas Slocombe and production designers Philip Harrison and Stephen Grimes.[vii] [15]

Filming

A large, sleek ship is moored at a quayside

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

Filming for Never Say Never Once again began on 27 September 1982 on the French Riviera for two months[half dozen] before moving to Nassau, 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 Castilian urban center of Almería was as well used every bit a location.[21] Largo's Palmyran fortress was really celebrated Fort Carré in Antibes.[22] For Largo's ship, the Flying Saucer, the yacht Nabila, owned past Saudi billionaire, Adnan Khashoggi, was used. The gunkhole, now owned past Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, has subsequently been renamed the Kingdom 5KR.[23] Main photography finished at Elstree Studios where interior shots were filmed.[6] Elstree too housed the Tears of Allah underwater cave, which took 3 months to construct.[6] Most of the filming was completed in the spring of 1983, although there was some additional shooting during the summer of 1983.[7]

Product on the film was troubled,[xv] with Connery taking on many of the production duties with assistant director David Tomblin.[half-dozen] Managing director Irvin Kershner was critical of producer Jack Schwartzman, maxim that whilst he was a expert businessman, "he didn't have the experience of a flick producer".[six] After the production ran out of money, Schwartzman had to fund further production out of his ain pocket and afterward admitted he had underestimated the amount the motion-picture show would cost to make.[fifteen]

Steven Seagal, who was the fight choreographer for this film, bankrupt Connery'south wrist while training. On an episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Connery revealed he did not know his wrist was broken until over a decade afterwards.[24]

Many of the elements of the Eon-produced Bond films were not present in Never Say Never Again for legal reasons. These included the gun butt sequence, where a screen full of 007 symbols appeared instead, and similarly there was no "James Bond Theme" to use, although no attempt was made to supply some other tune.[7] A pre-credits sequence was filmed but not used;[15] instead the flick opens with the credits run over the top of the opening sequence of Bond on a grooming mission.[half-dozen]

Music

The music for Never Say Never Again was written by Michel Legrand, who composed a score similar to his piece of work as a jazz pianist.[25] The score has been criticised as "anachronistic and misjudged",[6] "bizarrely intermittent"[fifteen] and "the most disappointing characteristic of the flick".[7] Legrand also wrote the chief theme "Never Say Never Over again", which featured lyrics past Alan and Marilyn Bergman—who had too worked with Legrand in the Academy Award winning song, "The Windmills of Your Listen"[26]—and was performed by Lani Hall[7] after Bonnie Tyler, who disliked the song, had reluctantly declined.[27]

Phyllis Hyman also recorded a potential theme vocal, 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]

Cast and Characters

Coiffure

MGM DVD comprehend.

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

Comic Adaptation

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

Images

Trivia

  • This is the just Bond movie to be directed by an American. The film'due south director, Irvin Kershner, had previously directed Sean Connery in A Fine Madness.
  • The motion picture championship comes from Sean Connery's statement when asked if he would ever play Bond again after Diamonds Are Forever, to which he replied "Never Again".
  • The Flying Saucer, Largo's transport, is a translation of "the Disco Volante", the proper noun of Largo's ship in Thunderball. In this film, 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 motion-picture show continuity. The Disco is yet the base of underwater operations by Largo. In real life, the transport used in long shots was known every bit the "Nabila" and was built for Saudi billionaire, Adnan Kashoggi.
  • The casino where Bond and Largo get 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 reckoner game over a LAN in Gardner's novel Part of Laurels. Bail was supposed to be playing a simulation of "The Battle of Waterloo", this was subsequently changed to a different type of game involving "The Battle of Bunker Colina". Interestingly, the Battle of Waterloo would also play a part in the afterwards official Bail 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 activeness regarding the "Battle of the Bonds". Ultimately, it was decided to separate the ii release dates.
  • McClory originally planned for the picture to open with some version of the famous "gunbarrel" opening as seen in the official Bail serial, just ultimately the film opens with a screenful of "007" symbols instead. When the soundtrack for the film was released on CD, it included a piece of music composed for the proposed opening.
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer, who played Largo, was originally bandage equally Marko Ramius in The Hunt for Red October; the role eventually went to Connery.
  • Rowan Atkinson made his film debut in this movie. Atkinson, who afterward became famous for the Mr. Bean one-act series, played a British agent in this movie, the bungling Nigel Pocket-size-Fawcett. Subsequently he would play a James Bond parody in Johnny English.

Run into also

  • The controversy over Thunderball.

References

  1. ↑ ane.0 1.1 Pfeiffer, Lee; Worrall, Dave (1998). The Essential Bond. London: Boxtree Ltd, p.213. ISBN 978-0-7522-2477-0.
  2. ↑ two.0 two.1 Poliakoff, Keith (2000). "License to Copyright – The Ongoing Dispute Over the Ownership of James Bail". Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal 18: 387–436. Benjamin North. Cardozo School of Constabulary. Retrieved on 3 September 2011. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "Poliakoff (2000)" divers multiple times with dissimilar content
  3. ↑ three.0 3.one Chancellor, Henry (2005). James Bond: The Homo and His World. London: John Murray, pp.226. ISBN 978-0-7195-6815-ii.
  4. ↑ 4.0 iv.1 Macintyre, Ben (2008). For Yours Eyes But. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, p.198-99. ISBN 978-0-7475-9527-4.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.one 5.2 5.3 Chapman, James (2009). Licence to Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bail Films. New York: I.B. Tauris, p.184. ISBN 978-i-84511-515-ix.
  6. ↑ 6.00 vi.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 half dozen.08 6.09 6.10 six.11 vi.12 vi.13 6.14 6.xv 6.16 Barnes, Alan; Hearn, Marcus (2001). Kiss Osculation Bang! Blindside!: the Unofficial James Bail Flick Companion. Batsford Books, pp.152-56. ISBN 978-0-7134-8182-2.
  7. ↑ 7.0 vii.1 seven.2 7.3 7.4 vii.5 7.6 seven.7 7.8 Benson, Raymond (1988). The James Bond Bedside Companion. London: Boxtree Ltd, p.240-43. ISBN 1-85283-234-vii.
  8. ↑ Mankiewicz, Tom; Crane, Robert (2012). My Life equally a Mankiewicz. Lexington, KY: Academy Printing of Kentucky, p.150. ISBN 978-0-8131-3605-nine.
  9. ↑ La Frenais, Ian (1936–) and Clement, Dick (1937–). Screenonline. British Motion-picture show Institute. Retrieved on three September 2011.
  10. ↑ Dick, Sandra. "Eighty big facts you must know about Large Tam", 25 August 2010, p. 20.
  11. ↑ "A Rival 007 – It Looks Like Burton", 21 February 1964, p. 13.
  12. ↑ Davis, Victor. "Bond versus Bond", 29 July 1978, p. 4.
  13. ↑ Isle of man, Roderick. "Why Sean won't now be back as 007 ...", 23 March 1980, p. 23.
  14. ↑ Blackness, Jeremy (2005). The Politics of James Bond: from Fleming's Novel to the Large Screen. University of Nebraska Press, p.58. ISBN 978-0-8032-6240-9.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.two fifteen.3 15.four xv.5 Smith, Jim (2002). Bail 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 Bail Films. New York: I.B. Tauris, p.135. ISBN 978-1-84511-515-9.
  17. ↑ Barbara Carrera. Official Golden Globe Award Website. Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Retrieved on 2 September 2011.
  18. ↑ Best Functioning by an Actress in a Supporting Office in a Motion Picture. Official Golden Globe Award Website. Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Retrieved on iii September 2011.
  19. ↑ Johnny English. Penguin Readers Factsheets (2003). Retrieved on v September 2011.
  20. ↑ "Manager Peter Hunt – "On Her Majesty's Cloak-and-dagger Service"", Retrovision. Retrieved on five September 2011.
  21. ↑ Armstrong, Vic (7 May 2011). I'grand the real Indiana (when I'chiliad not busy beingness James Bond or Superman). Daily Mail.
  22. ↑ Reeves, Tony (2001). The Worldwide Guide to Flick Locations. Chicago: A Cappella, p.134. ISBN 978-1-55652-432-v.
  23. ↑ Salmans, Sandra. "Lavish Lifestyle of a Wheeler-Dealer", 22 February 1985. Retrieved on 6 September 2011.
  24. ↑ Kurchak, Sarah (12 Oct 2015). Did Steven Seagal Suspension Sean Connery's Wrist with Aikido?. Vice.com. Retrieved on 24 November 2015.
  25. ↑ Bettencourt, Scott (1998). "Bond Dorsum in Action Again". Film score monthly .
  26. ↑ Error on call to Template:cite web: Parameters url and title must be specified. Academy of Motion Motion picture Arts and Sciences.
  27. ↑ The Bat Segundo Evidence: Bonnie Tyler (12 September 2008). Tyler also discusses this in the documentary James Bond's Greatest Hits.
  28. ↑ Burlingame, Jon (2012). The Music of James Bond. Oxford: Oxford University Press, p.112. ISBN 978-0-19-986330-iii.

External links

  • Never Say Never Once more (1983) at IMDb
  • MGM's page on the film

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