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Never Say Never Once more is the second James Bond theatrical picture not produced by EON Productions and the second movie accommodation of the story Thunderball. Released in 1983, it stars Sean Connery in his seventh and terminal pic operation equally British Secret Service amanuensis James Bond. It was released theatrically by Warner Bros.

The film is non considered part of the catechism of the Bond film franchise from EON Productions and United Artists and is not produced by Albert R. Broccoli, despite it currently being handled by the official film series distributor, MGM. MGM caused the distribution rights in 1997 afterward their acquisition of Orion Pictures. The film also marks the culmination of a long legal battle between United Artists and Kevin McClory. Its release reverse 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'southward Thunderball, the organization of SPECTRE, and the graphic symbol of Ernst Stavro Blofeld to EON.

Contents

  • 1 Plot summary
  • 2 Changes to the Bail universe
  • 3 Product
    • 3.i Cast and coiffure
    • three.ii Filming
    • iii.3 Music
  • 4 Cast and Characters
  • 5 Crew
  • 6 Comic Accommodation
  • vii Images
  • 8 Trivia
  • 9 Encounter also
  • ten References
  • 11 External links

Plot summary

Existence the second adaptation of the novel Thunderball, Never Say Never Again follows a similar plotline to the earlier film, but with some differences.

The moving-picture show opens with a middle-anile, nevertheless all the same athletic James Bail making his fashion through an armed army camp in order to rescue a girl who has been kidnapped. Afterwards killing the kidnappers, Bail lets his guard downwards, forgetting that the girl might have been subject to Stockholm syndrome (in which a kidnapped person comes to identify with his/her kidnappers) and is stabbed to expiry by her. Or and then it seems.

In fact, the attack on the camp is nothing more than than a field training do using blank ammunition and simulated knives, and one Bond fails because he ends up "expressionless". A new M is now in office, i 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, M orders him to enroll in a health clinic in order to "eliminate all those free radicals" and get 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.

Chroma 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 change one of his retinas to friction match the retinal pattern of the American President. Using his position as a pilot, and the president'due south eye pattern to circumvent security, Petachi infiltrates an American military base in England and orders the dummy warheads in two cruise missiles replaced with 2 alive nuclear warheads, which SPECTRE captures and uses to extort billions of dollars from the governments of the globe.

K reluctantly reactivates the 00 department, and Bail is assigned the task of tracking down the missing weapons, offset with a rendezvous with Domino Petachi, the pilot's 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 Chroma, and Largo in a game of wits and resource equally he attempts to derail SPECTRE's scheme.

Changes to the Bail universe

The film makes a few changes to the James Bail universe. MI6 is shown to be underfunded and understaffed, particularly with regards to Q-Branch, and the character Q is referred to by the proper name "Algernon", and is presumably a unlike individual than the Q in the official Bond films (whose proper name is Major Boothroyd). The film also appears to take place in an "alternate universe" in which none of the events of You Just Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Diamonds Are Forever and the opening sequence of For Your Eyes Only have occurred, since Blofeld is alive and apparently previously unknown to Bail and MI6. Despite sharing many bones similarities with Thunderball, the course of events throughout the pic are different plenty for information technology to exist more than a straight remake, and the action clearly takes identify at a much later date (contemporary with the movie's production).

The movie is notable for depicting Felix Leiter, Bond'south CIA colleague, every bit an African-American, something which would non occur in the EON series until Casino Royale in 2006. The motion-picture show likewise makes a major deviation from official continuity by catastrophe 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 exist unsure of the determination and afterward chooses to stay with the service. In the scene where Bail states his intention to quit, Connery breaks the 4th wall by winking at the camera; while this is incorrectly considered by many as being unique to this picture, George Lazenby was in fact the first Bond to break the fourth wall almost 15 years earlier when he told the audition, "This never happened to the other fellow" (referring to Connery, the man he had replaced equally Bond).

Production

Never Say Never Again had its origins in the early 1960s, post-obit 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 motion picture, to be chosen Longitude 78 West,[2] which was after abandoned because of the costs involved.[3] Fleming, "always reluctant to let a practiced idea lie idle",[3] turned this into the novel Thunderball, for which he did not credit either McClory or Whittingham;[4] McClory then took Fleming to the Loftier Court in London for breach of copyright[4] and the matter was settled in 1963.[2] After Eon Productions started producing the Bond films, it later fabricated a deal with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, and and so not make any further version of the novel for a period of x years following the release of the Eon-produced version in 1965.[v]

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 once more started working on a project to bring a Thunderball adaptation to production and, with the working championship Warhead, he brought writer Len Deighton together with Sean Connery to piece of work on a script.[6] The script ran into difficulties later on accusations from Eon Productions that the project had gone beyond copyright restrictions, which confined McClory to a film based on the Thunderball novel merely, and once again the project was deferred.[5]

Towards the finish of the 1970s developments were reported on the project under the proper noun James Bond of the Secret Service,[5] simply when producer Jack Schwartzman became involved and cleared a number of the legal issues that all the same surrounded the project[1] 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 boob tube 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 Gild of America.[6]

The film underwent one last alter 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 more, referring to her husband's vow[10] and the producers acknowledged her contribution by listing on the terminate credits "Title "Never Say Never Again" by: Micheline Connery". A final attempt by Fleming'south trustees to cake the moving picture was made in the High Court in London in the leap of 1983, merely this was thrown out past the court and Never Say Never Again was permitted to keep.[5]

Cast and crew

When producer Kevin McClory had first planned the movie in 1964 he held initial talks with Richard Burton for the office of Bail,[11] although the project came to nothing considering of the legal problems involved. When the Warhead project was launched in the tardily 1970s, a number of actors were mentioned in the trade press, including Orson Welles for the role of Blofeld, Trevor Howard to play M and Richard Attenborough as director.[6]

In 1978 the working title James Bond of the Surreptitious Service was existence used and Connery was in the frame once again, potentially going head-to-head with the next Eon Bail movie, Moonraker.[12] By 1980, with legal issues again causing the project to founder,[6] Connery thought himself unlikely to play the part, 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 beingness in the film".[13] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bond; Connery agreed, asking (and getting) a fee of $three million, ($7 million in 2016 dollars) a per centum of the profits, as well as casting and script approval.[6] Subsequent to Connery reprising the function, the script has several references to Bond'south advancing years – playing on Connery being 52 at the fourth dimension of filming[6] – and bookish Jeremy Black has pointed out that there are other aspects of age and disillusionment in the film, such equally the Shrubland's porter referring to Bail's car ("They don't make them like that anymore."), the new One thousand 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 Honour-winning Hungarian film Mephisto.[7] Through the same route came Max von Sydow as Ernst Stavro Blofeld,[15] although he still retained his Eon-originated white cat in the film.[16] For the femme fatale, director Irvin Kershner selected former model and Playboy embrace girl Barbara Carrera to play Fatima Blush – the name coming from one of the early scripts of Thunderball.[six] Carrera's performance every bit Fatima Chroma 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's wife, had met upwardly-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 as the Leiter role was never remembered by audiences, using a black Leiter might brand him more memorable.[seven] Others cast included comedian Rowan Atkinson, who would afterwards parody Bond in his office of Johnny English language.[19]

Former Eon Productions' editor and director of On Her Majesty's Surreptitious Service, Peter R. Hunt, was approached to direct 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 Dorsum was then hired. A number of the coiffure from the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark were likewise appointed, including beginning assistant managing director David Tomblin, manager of photography Douglas Slocombe and product designers Philip Harrison and Stephen Grimes.[7] [15]

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 Again began on 27 September 1982 on the French Riviera for ii months[6] earlier moving to Nassau, the Bahama islands in mid-Nov[vii] where filming took place at Clifton Pier, which was also one of the locations used in Thunderball.[6] The Spanish city of Almería was as well used as a location.[21] Largo's Palmyran fortress was actually historic Fort Carré in Antibes.[22] For Largo'south ship, the Flight Saucer, the yacht Nabila, endemic by Saudi billionaire, Adnan Khashoggi, was used. The boat, now endemic by Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, has subsequently been renamed the Kingdom 5KR.[23] Chief photography finished at Elstree Studios where interior shots were filmed.[6] Elstree also housed the Tears of Allah underwater cave, which took three 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]

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

Steven Seagal, who was the fight choreographer for this film, broke Connery's wrist while training. On an episode of The This night 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 Bail 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 apply, although no try was made to supply another tune.[7] A pre-credits sequence was filmed but non used;[15] instead the picture show opens with the credits run over the summit of the opening sequence of Bond on a training mission.[6]

Music

The music for Never Say Never Again was written by Michel Legrand, who equanimous a score similar to his work as a jazz pianist.[25] The score has been criticised as "anachronistic and misjudged",[6] "bizarrely intermittent"[15] and "the most disappointing feature of the movie".[seven] Legrand besides wrote the main theme "Never Say Never Over again", which featured lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman—who had likewise worked with Legrand in the University Laurels winning song, "The Windmills of Your Mind"[26]—and was performed by Lani Hall[seven] after Bonnie Tyler, who disliked the vocal, had reluctantly declined.[27]

Phyllis Hyman also recorded a potential theme song, written past Stephen Forsyth and Jim Ryan, just 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 past: Jack Schwartzman, Kevin McClory (executive), Michael Dryhurst (associate)
  • Cinematography by Douglas Slocombe
  • Music equanimous past: Michel Legrand

Comic Adaptation

Argentinean publisher Editora Columba, who published several original Castilian-linguistic communication James Bond film adaptations in diverse D'artagnan comic magazines during the '60s and '70s, adapted Never Say Never Once again in 1984.

Images

Trivia

  • This is the but Bond movie to exist directed past an American. The flick's manager, Irvin Kershner, had previously directed Sean Connery in A Fine Madness.
  • The picture show title comes from Sean Connery's argument when asked if he would ever play Bond again afterwards Diamonds Are Forever, to which he replied "Never Again".
  • The Flight Saucer, Largo'south transport, is a translation of "the Disco Volante", the name of Largo's send in Thunderball. In this motion-picture show, the Disco Volante is a formidable vessel clearly based on a armed forces cruiser hull, with a helipad and calibration which dramatically dwarf the vessel present in the official picture continuity. The Disco is still the base of operations of underwater operations by Largo. In existent life, the ship used in long shots was known equally 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 besides prevented writer John Gardner from having a somewhat similar scene involving Bond playing a figurer game over a LAN in Gardner'southward novel Role of Honour. Bond was supposed to be playing a simulation of "The Battle of Waterloo", this was later changed to a unlike type of game involving "The Battle of Bunker Colina". Interestingly, the Battle of Waterloo would as well play a part in the afterwards official Bond film, The Living Daylights.
  • Originally, both this film and Octopussy were to exist 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 split the two release dates.
  • McClory originally planned for the film to open up with some version of the famous "gunbarrel" opening as seen in the official Bail series, but 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 cast as Marko Ramius in The Hunt for Blood-red October; the role eventually went to Connery.
  • Rowan Atkinson made his motion picture debut in this pic. Atkinson, who afterward became famous for the Mr. Bean one-act serial, played a British amanuensis in this picture show, the bungling Nigel Small-Fawcett. Later he would play a James Bond parody in Johnny English.

Encounter as well

  • The controversy over Thunderball.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 i.1 Pfeiffer, Lee; Worrall, Dave (1998). The Essential Bond. London: Boxtree Ltd, p.213. ISBN 978-0-7522-2477-0.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Poliakoff, Keith (2000). "License to Copyright – The Ongoing Dispute Over the Ownership of James Bond". Cardozo Arts & Amusement Law Journal 18: 387–436. Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Retrieved on 3 September 2011. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "Poliakoff (2000)" defined multiple times with different content
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.one Chancellor, Henry (2005). James Bond: The Man and His Earth. London: John Murray, pp.226. ISBN 978-0-7195-6815-2.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.one Macintyre, Ben (2008). For Yours Eyes Only. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, p.198-99. ISBN 978-0-7475-9527-4.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.one 5.2 v.3 Chapman, James (2009). Licence to Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films. New York: I.B. Tauris, p.184. ISBN 978-ane-84511-515-9.
  6. ↑ 6.00 half dozen.01 half dozen.02 6.03 half-dozen.04 6.05 half-dozen.06 6.07 6.08 six.09 6.10 6.11 6.12 6.thirteen 6.14 6.15 vi.sixteen Barnes, Alan; Hearn, Marcus (2001). Kiss Osculation Bang! Blindside!: the Unofficial James Bond Film Companion. Batsford Books, pp.152-56. ISBN 978-0-7134-8182-2.
  7. ↑ 7.0 seven.1 7.ii seven.3 7.four seven.5 vii.6 vii.7 7.eight 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-ix.
  9. ↑ La Frenais, Ian (1936–) and Clement, Dick (1937–). Screenonline. British Film Plant. Retrieved on 3 September 2011.
  10. ↑ Dick, Sandra. "Eighty big facts you lot must know about Big 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 at present exist back as 007 ...", 23 March 1980, p. 23.
  14. ↑ Black, Jeremy (2005). The Politics of James Bond: from Fleming's Novel to the Large Screen. Academy of Nebraska Press, p.58. ISBN 978-0-8032-6240-9.
  15. ↑ 15.0 xv.one fifteen.2 15.iii 15.4 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 Bond Films. New York: I.B. Tauris, p.135. ISBN 978-i-84511-515-9.
  17. ↑ Barbara Carrera. Official Gilt Globe Award Website. Hollywood Strange Printing Association. Retrieved on 2 September 2011.
  18. ↑ Best Operation past an Extra in a Supporting Office in a Motion Pic. Official Aureate Globe Honor Website. Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Retrieved on three 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 busy existence James Bond or Superman). Daily Mail.
  22. ↑ Reeves, Tony (2001). The Worldwide Guide to Film 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 half dozen September 2011.
  24. ↑ Kurchak, Sarah (12 October 2015). Did Steven Seagal Break Sean Connery's Wrist with Aikido?. Vice.com. Retrieved on 24 Nov 2015.
  25. ↑ Bettencourt, Scott (1998). "Bond Dorsum in Activity Again". Movie score monthly .
  26. ↑ Error on call to Template:cite web: Parameters url and title must exist specified. University of Motion Motion-picture show Arts and Sciences.
  27. ↑ The Bat Segundo Show: Bonnie Tyler (12 September 2008). Tyler too discusses this in the documentary James Bond's Greatest Hits.
  28. ↑ Burlingame, Jon (2012). The Music of James Bail. Oxford: Oxford University Press, p.112. ISBN 978-0-19-986330-3.

External links

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

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