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Never Say Never Again is the 2nd James Bond theatrical picture show not produced by EON Productions and the second moving-picture show accommodation of the story Thunderball. Released in 1983, it stars Sean Connery in his 7th and final movie performance equally British Secret Service agent James Bond. It was released theatrically by Warner Bros.

The pic is not considered part of the canon of the Bond motion-picture show franchise from EON Productions and United Artists and is non produced past Albert R. Broccoli, despite it currently being handled past the official motion-picture show series benefactor, MGM. MGM acquired the distribution rights in 1997 later their conquering of Orion Pictures. The moving picture also marks the culmination of a long legal battle between United Artists and Kevin McClory. Its release contrary the franchise Bond motion picture 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 organization of SPECTRE, and the grapheme of Ernst Stavro Blofeld to EON.

Contents

  • 1 Plot summary
  • 2 Changes to the Bond universe
  • 3 Production
    • three.i Cast and crew
    • iii.ii Filming
    • 3.3 Music
  • 4 Bandage and Characters
  • 5 Crew
  • 6 Comic Adaptation
  • 7 Images
  • viii Trivia
  • 9 See besides
  • x References
  • eleven External links

Plot summary

Being the 2nd accommodation of the novel Thunderball, Never Say Never Again follows a similar plotline to the before film, merely with some differences.

The motion picture opens with a centre-anile, yet even so athletic James Bond making his mode through an armed camp in gild to rescue a girl who has been kidnapped. After killing the kidnappers, Bond lets his guard downward, forgetting that the daughter might accept been subject to Stockholm syndrome (in which a kidnapped person comes to place with his/her kidnappers) and is stabbed to death by her. Or so it seems.

In fact, the set on on the camp is zippo more than a field training exercise using blank armament and imitation knives, and 1 Bail fails because he ends upward "dead". A new Grand is now in office, one who sees little use for the 00-section. In fact, Bond has spent most of his recent time teaching, rather than doing, a fact he points out with some resentment.

Feeling that Bail is slipping, 1000 orders him to enroll in a health clinic in order to "eliminate all those free radicals" and go dorsum into shape. While there, Bond discovers a mysterious nurse, Fatima Blush, and her patient, who is wrapped in bandages. His suspicions are aroused even further when a thug (Lippe) tries to kill him.

Blush and her charge, an American Air Force pilot named Jack Petachi, are in fact operatives of SPECTRE, a criminal organization run by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Petachi has undergone an performance to alter one of his retinas to match the retinal pattern of the American President. Using his position equally 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 two live nuclear warheads, which SPECTRE captures and uses to extort billions of dollars from the governments of the world.

Yard reluctantly reactivates the 00 section, and Bond is assigned the chore of tracking down the missing weapons, showtime with a rendezvous with Domino Petachi, the pilot's sis, who is kept a virtual prisoner by her lover, Maximillian Largo. Bond pursues Largo and his yacht to the Commonwealth of the bahamas, where he engages Domino, Fatima Blush, and Largo in a game of wits and resource as he attempts to derail SPECTRE's scheme.

Changes to the Bond universe

The film makes a few changes to the James Bail universe. MI6 is shown to be underfunded and understaffed, peculiarly with regards to Q-Co-operative, and the character Q is referred to past the name "Algernon", and is presumably a different individual than the Q in the official Bail films (whose name is Major Boothroyd). The pic also appears to take place in an "alternating universe" in which none of the events of You Just Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Clandestine Service, Diamonds Are Forever and the opening sequence of For Your Eyes Only have occurred, since Blofeld is live and patently previously unknown to Bond and MI6. Despite sharing many basic similarities with Thunderball, the course of events throughout the picture show are different enough for it to be more a straight remake, and the action clearly takes place at a much later appointment (gimmicky with the film's production).

The moving picture 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 moving picture also makes a major divergence from official continuity by ending with Bond indicating his intention to retire from MI6 - while Bond had considered retirement in On Her Majesty'southward Undercover Service, he is shown to be unsure of the conclusion and subsequently 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 film, George Lazenby was in fact the get-go Bail to break 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 as Bond).

Production

Never Say Never Once 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 Bail moving picture, to be called Longitude 78 West,[two] which was later on abandoned because of the costs involved.[3] Fleming, "always reluctant to allow a good idea lie idle",[iii] turned this into the novel Thunderball, for which he did not credit either McClory or Whittingham;[four] McClory then took Fleming to the High Court in London for breach of copyright[four] and the thing 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 so not brand any further version of the novel for a menstruation of x years following the release of the Eon-produced version in 1965.[5]

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

In the mid-1970s McClory again started working on a project to bring a Thunderball adaptation to production and, with the working championship Warhead, he brought author Len Deighton together with Sean Connery to piece of work on a script.[half dozen] The script ran into difficulties after accusations from Eon Productions that the project had gone beyond copyright restrictions, which bars McClory to a pic based on the Thunderball novel just, and once over again 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 Hush-hush 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.[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; even so Mankiewicz declined as he felt he was under a moral obligation to Cubby Broccoli.[viii] Connery and so hired British goggle box 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 Guild of America.[6]

The film underwent one concluding change in title: afterwards Connery had finished filming Diamonds Are Forever he had pledged that he would "never" play Bail once more.[6] Connery's married woman, Micheline, suggested the title Never Say Never Again, referring to her husband'south vow[10] and the producers acknowledged her contribution by listing on the terminate credits "Championship "Never Say Never Once more" by: Micheline Connery". A concluding effort by Fleming's trustees to block the motion picture was made in the Loftier Courtroom in London in the spring of 1983, just this was thrown out by the court and Never Say Never Once again was permitted to proceed.[5]

Bandage and crew

When producer Kevin McClory had first planned the picture in 1964 he held initial talks with Richard Burton for the office of Bail,[eleven] although the project came to cipher because of the legal issues involved. When the Warhead projection was launched in the tardily 1970s, a number of actors were mentioned in the trade press, including Orson Welles for the part of Blofeld, Trevor Howard to play M and Richard Attenborough as director.[6]

In 1978 the working championship James Bail of the Secret Service was being used and Connery was in the frame once again, potentially going head-to-caput with the next Eon Bond motion picture, Moonraker.[12] By 1980, with legal problems again causing the project to founder,[6] Connery thought himself unlikely to play the role, as he stated in an interview in the Sunday Express: "when I first worked on the script with Len I had no idea of actually being in the film".[13] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bail; Connery agreed, asking (and getting) a fee of $3 million, ($7 meg 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 time of filming[6] – and academic Jeremy Black has pointed out that there are other aspects of age and disillusionment in the film, such as the Shrubland's porter referring to Bond's car ("They don't make them like that anymore."), the new M having no use for the 00 section and Q with his reduced budgets.[14]

For the primary villain in the pic, Maximillian Largo, Connery suggested Klaus Maria Brandauer, the atomic number 82 of the 1981 Academy Award-winning Hungarian film Mephisto.[seven] Through the same route came Max von Sydow every bit Ernst Stavro Blofeld,[xv] although he withal retained his Eon-originated white true cat in the film.[16] For the femme fatale, managing director Irvin Kershner selected sometime model and Playboy cover girl Barbara Carrera to play Fatima Blush – the name coming from one of the early scripts of Thunderball.[six] Carrera's performance as Fatima Blush earned her a Golden Earth Laurels nomination for Best Supporting Actress,[17] which she lost to Cher for her office in Silkwood.[18] Micheline Connery, Sean's married woman, had met up-and-coming extra 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, saying that equally the Leiter role was never remembered past audiences, using a black Leiter might brand him more memorable.[7] Others cast included comedian Rowan Atkinson, who would later parody Bond in his part of Johnny English.[19]

Quondam Eon Productions' editor and director of On Her Majesty's Underground Service, Peter R. Hunt, was approached to straight the moving-picture show but declined due to his previous work with Eon.[20] Irvin Kershner, who had achieved success in 1980 with The Empire Strikes Back was then hired. A number of the crew from the 1981 motion picture Raiders of the Lost Ark were also appointed, including first assistant manager David Tomblin, director of photography Douglas Slocombe and production designers Philip Harrison and Stephen Grimes.[7] [xv]

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 Over again began on 27 September 1982 on the French Riviera for two months[half dozen] earlier moving to Nassau, the Bahama islands in mid-November[vii] 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 also used every bit a location.[21] Largo'south Palmyran fortress was actually historic Fort Carré in Antibes.[22] For Largo'due south ship, the Flying Saucer, the yacht Nabila, owned by Saudi billionaire, Adnan Khashoggi, was used. The boat, now owned past Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, has subsequently been renamed the Kingdom 5KR.[23] Master photography finished at Elstree Studios where interior shots were filmed.[6] Elstree also housed the Tears of Allah underwater cavern, which took three months to construct.[6] Most of the filming was completed in the bound of 1983, although at that place was some boosted shooting during the summer of 1983.[seven]

Production on the film was troubled,[xv] with Connery taking on many of the production duties with assistant director David Tomblin.[vi] Managing director Irvin Kershner was critical of producer Jack Schwartzman, proverb that whilst he was a good businessman, "he didn't accept the experience of a film producer".[6] After the production ran out of money, Schwartzman had to fund farther production out of his ain pocket and afterward admitted he had underestimated the corporeality the film would cost to make.[15]

Steven Seagal, who was the fight choreographer for this pic, broke Connery's wrist while preparation. On an episode of The This evening Show with Jay Leno, Connery revealed he did not know his wrist was broken until over a decade subsequently.[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 barrel sequence, where a screen full of 007 symbols appeared instead, and similarly there 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 motion picture opens with the credits run over the top of the opening sequence of Bond on a preparation mission.[6]

Music

The music for Never Say Never Over 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"[xv] and "the most disappointing feature of the moving picture".[seven] Legrand besides wrote the master theme "Never Say Never Once again", which featured lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman—who had too worked with Legrand in the Academy Honour winning song, "The Windmills of Your Mind"[26]—and was performed past Lani Hall[vii] later Bonnie Tyler, who disliked the song, had reluctantly declined.[27]

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

Cast and Characters

Crew

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

Comic Adaptation

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

Images

Trivia

  • This is the only Bond movie to exist directed past an American. The flick's managing director, Irvin Kershner, had previously directed Sean Connery in A Fine Madness.
  • The motion picture championship comes from Sean Connery'southward statement when asked if he would e'er play Bond once again after Diamonds Are Forever, to which he replied "Never Again".
  • The Flying Saucer, Largo's send, is a translation of "the Disco Volante", the name of Largo's send in Thunderball. In this pic, the Disco Volante is a formidable vessel clearly based on a armed services cruiser hull, with a helipad and scale which dramatically dwarf the vessel nowadays in the official pic continuity. The Disco is still the base of underwater operations by Largo. In real life, the transport used in long shots was known as the "Nabila" and was built for Saudi billionaire, Adnan Kashoggi.
  • The casino where Bond and Largo go caput to head in a videogame was called Casino Royale.
    • This scene too prevented author John Gardner from having a somewhat similar scene involving Bond playing a reckoner game over a LAN in Gardner's novel Function of Award. Bond was supposed to exist playing a simulation of "The Battle of Waterloo", this was later changed to a different blazon of game involving "The Battle of Bunker Loma". Interestingly, the Battle of Waterloo would also play a part in the later official Bail motion picture, The Living Daylights.
  • Originally, both this movie and Octopussy were to be released to theatres simultaneously, which led to a brief flurry of media activity regarding the "Battle of the Bonds". Ultimately, information technology was decided to separate the two release dates.
  • McClory originally planned for the film to open with some version of the famous "gunbarrel" opening as seen in the official Bond series, but ultimately the moving picture 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 every bit Marko Ramius in The Chase for Crimson October; the function eventually went to Connery.
  • Rowan Atkinson made his film debut in this movie. Atkinson, who later became famous for the Mr. Bean comedy series, played a British agent in this film, the bungling Nigel Small-Fawcett. Afterwards he would play a James Bond parody in Johnny English language.

Come across too

  • The controversy over Thunderball.

References

  1. ↑ one.0 i.ane Pfeiffer, Lee; Worrall, Dave (1998). The Essential Bond. London: Boxtree Ltd, p.213. ISBN 978-0-7522-2477-0.
  2. ↑ 2.0 two.1 Poliakoff, Keith (2000). "License to Copyright – The Ongoing Dispute Over the Ownership of James Bond". Cardozo Arts & Amusement Law Journal 18: 387–436. Benjamin Northward. 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. ↑ three.0 iii.1 Chancellor, Henry (2005). James Bond: The Homo and His World. London: John Murray, pp.226. ISBN 978-0-7195-6815-2.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Macintyre, Ben (2008). For Yours Eyes Just. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, p.198-99. ISBN 978-0-7475-9527-4.
  5. ↑ 5.0 v.1 v.two 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-one-84511-515-9.
  6. ↑ 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 six.05 half dozen.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 6.xi 6.12 6.xiii 6.xiv half dozen.15 six.xvi Barnes, Alan; Hearn, Marcus (2001). Osculation Kiss Bang! Bang!: the Unofficial James Bond Film Companion. Batsford Books, pp.152-56. ISBN 978-0-7134-8182-2.
  7. ↑ 7.0 vii.1 seven.2 7.3 seven.4 7.5 vii.half-dozen 7.7 7.viii 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: University Press of Kentucky, p.150. ISBN 978-0-8131-3605-9.
  9. ↑ La Frenais, Ian (1936–) and Clement, Dick (1937–). Screenonline. British Film Institute. Retrieved on 3 September 2011.
  10. ↑ Dick, Sandra. "Fourscore large facts you must know about Big Tam", 25 August 2010, p. twenty.
  11. ↑ "A Rival 007 – It Looks Like Burton", 21 February 1964, p. 13.
  12. ↑ Davis, Victor. "Bond versus Bond", 29 July 1978, p. four.
  13. ↑ Mann, Roderick. "Why Sean won't now be dorsum equally 007 ...", 23 March 1980, p. 23.
  14. ↑ Black, Jeremy (2005). The Politics of James Bond: from Fleming's Novel to the Big Screen. University of Nebraska Press, p.58. ISBN 978-0-8032-6240-9.
  15. ↑ xv.0 15.1 xv.two xv.3 15.4 15.5 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-ane-84511-515-9.
  17. ↑ Barbara Carrera. Official Golden Globe Award Website. Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Retrieved on 2 September 2011.
  18. ↑ All-time Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Function in a Movement Film. Official Golden Globe Award Website. Hollywood Foreign Press Clan. Retrieved on 3 September 2011.
  19. ↑ Johnny English. Penguin Readers Factsheets (2003). Retrieved on 5 September 2011.
  20. ↑ "Director Peter Hunt – "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"", Retrovision. Retrieved on five September 2011.
  21. ↑ Armstrong, Vic (vii May 2011). I'm the real Indiana (when I'm not decorated being James Bond or Superman). Daily Mail.
  22. ↑ Reeves, Tony (2001). The Worldwide Guide to Picture show Locations. Chicago: A Cappella, p.134. ISBN 978-1-55652-432-5.
  23. ↑ Salmans, Sandra. "Lavish Lifestyle of a Wheeler-Dealer", 22 February 1985. Retrieved on six September 2011.
  24. ↑ Kurchak, Sarah (12 October 2015). Did Steven Seagal Break Sean Connery's Wrist with Aikido?. Vice.com. Retrieved on 24 November 2015.
  25. ↑ Bettencourt, Scott (1998). "Bond Back in Activeness Again". Movie score monthly .
  26. ↑ Fault on call to Template:cite web: Parameters url and title must be specified. Academy of Motility Moving-picture show Arts and Sciences.
  27. ↑ The Bat Segundo Show: Bonnie Tyler (12 September 2008). Tyler also discusses this in the documentary James Bond'southward Greatest Hits.
  28. ↑ Burlingame, Jon (2012). The Music of James Bond. Oxford: Oxford University Press, p.112. ISBN 978-0-nineteen-986330-iii.

External links

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

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