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Never Say Never Again is the 2d James Bond theatrical flick not produced past EON Productions and the 2d film adaptation of the story Thunderball. Released in 1983, it stars Sean Connery in his seventh and last film performance equally British Surreptitious Service agent James Bond. It was released theatrically by Warner Bros.

The film is not considered part of the canon of the Bond moving-picture show franchise from EON Productions and United Artists and is not produced by Albert R. Broccoli, despite it currently being handled by the official moving-picture show series benefactor, MGM. MGM acquired the distribution rights in 1997 after their acquisition of Orion Pictures. The picture show also marks the culmination of a long legal battle between United Artists and Kevin McClory. Its release opposite the franchise Bond moving-picture show Octopussy (starring Roger Moore) chop-chop led the media to dub the state of affairs the "Battle of the Bonds".

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

Contents

  • 1 Plot summary
  • 2 Changes to the Bail universe
  • 3 Production
    • 3.ane Cast and crew
    • three.2 Filming
    • 3.iii Music
  • 4 Cast and Characters
  • 5 Coiffure
  • vi Comic Adaptation
  • 7 Trivia
  • 8 See also
  • 9 References
  • 10 External links

Plot summary

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

The film opens with a middle-aged, notwithstanding nonetheless athletic James Bond making his way through an armed military camp in society to rescue a girl who has been kidnapped. After killing the kidnappers, Bond lets his guard downwardly, forgetting that the girl might accept been subject area to Stockholm syndrome (in which a kidnapped person comes to identify with his/her kidnappers) and is stabbed to decease by her. Or so it seems.

In fact, the assail on the camp is nothing more than a field preparation exercise using blank armament and fake knives, and one Bond fails because he ends up "expressionless". A new M is now in office, 1 who sees little utilize for the 00-section. In fact, Bond has spent most of his recent time didactics, 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 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 accuse, an American Air Force airplane pilot named Jack Petachi, are in fact operatives of SPECTRE, a criminal organization run past Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Petachi has undergone an performance to alter one of his retinas to match the retinal blueprint of the American President. Using his position equally a pilot, and the president's center pattern to circumvent security, Petachi infiltrates an American military machine base of operations in England and orders the dummy warheads in two cruise missiles replaced with two alive nuclear warheads, which SPECTRE captures and uses to extort billions of dollars from the governments of the globe.

Chiliad reluctantly reactivates the 00 section, and Bail is assigned the task of tracking downwards the missing weapons, beginning with a rendezvous with Domino Petachi, the pilot's sister, who is kept a virtual prisoner by her lover, Maximillian Largo. Bond pursues Largo and his yacht to the Bahamas, where he engages Domino, Fatima Chroma, and Largo in a game of wits and resources as he attempts to derail SPECTRE's scheme.

Changes to the Bond universe

The film makes a few changes to the James Bond universe. MI6 is shown to exist underfunded and understaffed, particularly with regards to Q-Co-operative, and the character Q is referred to by the name "Algernon", and is presumably a different individual than the Q in the official Bond films (whose name is Major Boothroyd). The film too appears to accept identify in an "alternate universe" in which none of the events of You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty'southward Secret Service, Diamonds Are Forever and the opening sequence of For Your Eyes Only take occurred, since Blofeld is alive and apparently previously unknown to Bond and MI6. Despite sharing many bones similarities with Thunderball, the form of events throughout the picture show are dissimilar enough for it to exist more a direct remake, and the action clearly takes place at a much later on date (contemporary with the film'southward product).

The film is notable for depicting Felix Leiter, Bail's CIA colleague, as an African-American, something which would not occur in the EON serial until Casino Royale in 2006. The motion-picture show also 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 Secret Service, he is shown to be unsure of the decision and later 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 Bond to break the fourth wall virtually 15 years before when he told the audition, "This never happened to the other boyfriend" (referring to Connery, the man he had replaced as 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 Bail motion picture, to be chosen Longitude 78 West,[2] which was subsequently abandoned because of the costs involved.[three] Fleming, "always reluctant to permit a good idea lie idle",[3] turned this into the novel Thunderball, for which he did not credit either McClory or Whittingham;[iv] McClory then took Fleming to the High Court in London for breach of copyright[4] and the matter was settled in 1963.[ii] Afterwards Eon Productions started producing the Bond films, it after made a deal with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, and and so not make whatsoever 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 again started working on a projection to bring a Thunderball adaptation to production and, with the working title 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 projection had gone across copyright restrictions, which confined McClory to a film based on the Thunderball novel only, and over again the project was deferred.[5]

Towards the end of the 1970s developments were reported on the projection under the proper noun James Bond of the Secret Service,[5] only when producer Jack Schwartzman became involved and cleared a number of the legal issues that still surrounded the projection[ane] he brought on lath 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 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 motion-picture show underwent one final alter in championship: later on Connery had finished filming Diamonds Are Forever he had pledged that he would "never" play Bail again.[half-dozen] Connery'due south wife, Micheline, suggested the title Never Say Never Once more, referring to her husband's vow[ten] and the producers acknowledged her contribution by listing on the end credits "Championship "Never Say Never Again" by: Micheline Connery". A terminal attempt by Fleming'due south trustees to block the motion-picture show was fabricated in the High Court in London in the jump of 1983, but this was thrown out by the courtroom and Never Say Never Again was permitted to proceed.[5]

Cast and crew

When producer Kevin McClory had first planned the film in 1964 he held initial talks with Richard Burton for the function of Bond,[eleven] although the projection came to nothing because of the legal problems involved. When the Warhead project was launched in the tardily 1970s, a number of actors were mentioned in the merchandise press, including Orson Welles for the function of Blofeld, Trevor Howard to play K and Richard Attenborough as manager.[half-dozen]

In 1978 the working title James Bond of the Secret Service was being used and Connery was in the frame once over again, potentially going head-to-head with the adjacent Eon Bail film, Moonraker.[12] By 1980, with legal issues again causing the project to founder,[6] Connery thought himself unlikely to play the function, equally he stated in an interview in the Sunday Express: "when I starting time worked on the script with Len I had no idea of actually being in the flick".[thirteen] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bond; Connery agreed, asking (and getting) a fee of $3 meg, ($7 million in 2016 dollars) a pct of the profits, every bit well every bit casting and script approval.[6] Subsequent to Connery reprising the role, the script has several references to Bond'southward advancing years – playing on Connery being 52 at the time of filming[half-dozen] – and bookish Jeremy Black has pointed out that there are other aspects of age and disillusionment in the motion picture, such every bit the Shrubland's porter referring to Bail's car ("They don't brand them like that anymore."), the new 1000 having no utilise for the 00 department and Q with his reduced budgets.[xiv]

For the main villain in the motion-picture show, Maximillian Largo, Connery suggested Klaus Maria Brandauer, the lead of the 1981 Academy Award-winning Hungarian motion picture Mephisto.[7] Through the aforementioned route came Max von Sydow as Ernst Stavro Blofeld,[xv] although he still retained his Eon-originated white cat in the motion picture.[xvi] For the femme fatale, manager Irvin Kershner selected former model and Playboy cover daughter Barbara Carrera to play Fatima Blush – the name coming from one of the early scripts of Thunderball.[vi] Carrera's performance as Fatima Blush earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Extra,[17] which she lost to Cher for her office in Silkwood.[18] Micheline Connery, Sean'south 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 office of Felix Leiter, Connery spoke with Bernie Casey, saying that as 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 Bail in his office of Johnny English language.[19]

Sometime Eon Productions' editor and director of On Her Majesty's Hugger-mugger Service, Peter R. Chase, was approached to direct the moving-picture show simply declined due to his previous work with Eon.[xx] Irvin Kershner, who had achieved success in 1980 with The Empire Strikes Back was then hired. A number of the coiffure from the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark were also appointed, including offset assistant director David Tomblin, director of photography Douglas Slocombe and product 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[vi] before moving to Nassau, the Bahamas in mid-Nov[vii] where filming took identify at Clifton Pier, which was also one of the locations used in Thunderball.[half-dozen] The Spanish city of Almería was also used every bit a location.[21] Largo's Palmyran fortress was actually celebrated Fort Carré in Antibes.[22] For Largo'south ship, the Flying Saucer, the yacht Nabila, endemic by Saudi billionaire, Adnan Khashoggi, was used. The gunkhole, now endemic past Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, has later on been renamed the Kingdom 5KR.[23] Primary 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.[half-dozen] Most of the filming was completed in the leap of 1983, although at that place was some additional shooting during the summertime of 1983.[7]

Production on the flick was troubled,[fifteen] with Connery taking on many of the production duties with assistant managing director David Tomblin.[vi] Director Irvin Kershner was critical of producer Jack Schwartzman, saying that whilst he was a good man of affairs, "he didn't have the experience of a picture show producer".[half dozen] After the production ran out of coin, 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 motion picture, bankrupt Connery's wrist while training. On an episode of The Tonight Evidence with Jay Leno, Connery revealed he did not know his wrist was broken until over a decade later.[24]

Many of the elements of the Eon-produced Bond films were not nowadays 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 effort was made to supply another tune.[7] A pre-credits sequence was filmed only not used;[xv] instead the motion picture opens with the credits run over the meridian of the opening sequence of Bond on a training mission.[half-dozen]

Music

The music for Never Say Never Again was written by Michel Legrand, who composed a score similar to his work as a jazz pianist.[25] The score has been criticised as "anachronistic and misjudged",[half-dozen] "bizarrely intermittent"[15] and "the nearly disappointing feature of the moving picture".[7] Legrand also wrote the master theme "Never Say Never Again", which featured lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman—who had besides worked with Legrand in the Academy Award winning song, "The Windmills of Your Mind"[26]—and was performed by Lani Hall[7] after Bonnie Tyler, who disliked the song, had reluctantly declined.[27]

Phyllis Hyman as well recorded a potential theme song, written past 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

Crew

MGM DVD cover.

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

Comic Adaptation

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

Trivia

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

See also

  • The controversy over Thunderball.

References

  1. ↑ i.0 ane.i 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 & Entertainment Police force Journal 18: 387–436. Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Retrieved on 3 September 2011. Cite mistake: Invalid <ref> tag; proper noun "Poliakoff (2000)" divers multiple times with different content
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chancellor, Henry (2005). James Bond: The Man 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 Only. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, p.198-99. ISBN 978-0-7475-9527-iv.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.ane v.ii 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. ↑ vi.00 vi.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 half dozen.05 6.06 6.07 half-dozen.08 6.09 6.10 6.11 6.12 6.xiii six.xiv 6.fifteen 6.16 Barnes, Alan; Hearn, Marcus (2001). Kiss Kiss Blindside! Bang!: the Unofficial James Bond Picture show Companion. Batsford Books, pp.152-56. ISBN 978-0-7134-8182-ii.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 seven.3 7.4 vii.five 7.6 7.7 7.eight Benson, Raymond (1988). The James Bond Bedside Companion. London: Boxtree Ltd, p.240-43. ISBN i-85283-234-vii.
  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 Clement, Dick (1937–). Screenonline. British Moving picture Institute. Retrieved on 3 September 2011.
  10. ↑ Dick, Sandra. "Eighty big facts you must know nigh 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. iv.
  13. ↑ Mann, 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'due south Novel to the Big Screen. University of Nebraska Press, p.58. ISBN 978-0-8032-6240-9.
  15. ↑ fifteen.0 15.1 xv.ii fifteen.three 15.four 15.five 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-i-84511-515-9.
  17. ↑ Barbara Carrera. Official Golden Globe Honour Website. Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Retrieved on 2 September 2011.
  18. ↑ Best Performance by an Extra in a Supporting Office in a Motion Picture. Official Gilded World Accolade 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 5 September 2011.
  21. ↑ Armstrong, Vic (seven May 2011). I'g the real Indiana (when I'm not busy being James Bond or Superman). Daily Mail.
  22. ↑ Reeves, Tony (2001). The Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations. Chicago: A Cappella, p.134. ISBN 978-1-55652-432-five.
  23. ↑ Salmans, Sandra. "Lavish Lifestyle of a Wheeler-Dealer", 22 Feb 1985. Retrieved on 6 September 2011.
  24. ↑ Kurchak, Sarah (12 Oct 2015). Did Steven Seagal Interruption Sean Connery'southward Wrist with Aikido?. Vice.com. Retrieved on 24 November 2015.
  25. ↑ Bettencourt, Scott (1998). "Bond Dorsum in Activity Again". Picture show score monthly .
  26. ↑ Mistake on call to Template:cite web: Parameters url and title must be specified. Academy of Move Moving picture 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 978-0-19-986330-3.

External links

  • Never Say Never Once more (1983) at IMDb
  • MGM'southward page on the moving-picture show

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