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Never Say Never Again is the second James Bond theatrical picture non produced by EON Productions and the 2d flick adaptation of the story Thunderball. Released in 1983, it stars Sean Connery in his 7th and final film performance every bit British Secret Service amanuensis James Bond. It was released theatrically by Warner Bros.

The picture is not considered role of the catechism of the Bail film franchise from EON Productions and United Artists and is not produced by Albert R. Broccoli, despite it currently existence handled by the official film series benefactor, MGM. MGM acquired the distribution rights in 1997 after their conquering of Orion Pictures. The moving picture also marks the culmination of a long legal battle betwixt United Artists and Kevin McClory. Its release opposite the franchise Bond motion picture Octopussy (starring Roger Moore) quickly led the media to dub the situation the "Boxing 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 graphic symbol of Ernst Stavro Blofeld to EON.

Contents

  • 1 Plot summary
  • 2 Changes to the Bond universe
  • iii Production
    • 3.i Bandage and coiffure
    • iii.2 Filming
    • 3.iii Music
  • 4 Cast and Characters
  • 5 Crew
  • 6 Comic Adaptation
  • vii Images
  • 8 Trivia
  • 9 See also
  • 10 References
  • 11 External links

Plot summary

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

The moving picture opens with a center-aged, nevertheless all the same athletic James Bond making his manner through an armed military camp in order to rescue a daughter who has been kidnapped. Afterward killing the kidnappers, Bond lets his guard down, forgetting that the daughter might take been subject 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 attack on the camp is nil more than a field preparation exercise using blank armament and faux knives, and one Bond fails because he ends upwards "expressionless". A new M is now in office, one who sees little use for the 00-section. In fact, Bail has spent virtually of his recent time educational activity, 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 lodge to "eliminate all those free radicals" and become back into shape. While in that location, Bond discovers a mysterious nurse, Fatima Chroma, and her patient, who is wrapped in bandages. His suspicions are aroused even farther when a thug (Lippe) tries to kill him.

Chroma and her charge, an American Air Force airplane pilot named Jack Petachi, are in fact operatives of SPECTRE, a criminal system run by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Petachi has undergone an functioning to alter 1 of his retinas to match the retinal design of the American President. Using his position as a pilot, and the president'southward eye pattern to circumvent security, Petachi infiltrates an American military base in England and orders the dummy warheads in two prowl missiles replaced with two live nuclear warheads, which SPECTRE captures and uses to extort billions of dollars from the governments of the world.

M reluctantly reactivates the 00 section, and Bond is assigned the chore of tracking down the missing weapons, outset with a rendezvous with Domino Petachi, the pilot'southward 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 Blush, 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 be underfunded and understaffed, particularly with regards to Q-Branch, 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 as well appears to have place in an "alternate universe" in which none of the events of You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty'due south Undercover Service, Diamonds Are Forever and the opening sequence of For Your Eyes Only have occurred, since Blofeld is alive and patently previously unknown to Bail and MI6. Despite sharing many bones similarities with Thunderball, the course of events throughout the film are different enough for information technology to exist more a directly remake, and the activeness clearly takes place at a much later date (gimmicky with the film'south production).

The film is notable for depicting Felix Leiter, Bond's CIA colleague, as an African-American, something which would non occur in the EON serial until Casino Royale in 2006. The picture as well 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's Hush-hush 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 by winking at the photographic camera; while this is incorrectly considered past many as beingness unique to this movie, George Lazenby was in fact the first Bond to pause the quaternary wall almost 15 years earlier when he told the audience, "This never happened to the other beau" (referring to Connery, the man he had replaced as Bail).

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 film, to be called Longitude 78 West,[2] which was subsequently abased because of the costs involved.[3] Fleming, "always reluctant to permit a good idea lie idle",[iii] turned this into the novel Thunderball, for which he did non credit either McClory or Whittingham;[four] McClory then took Fleming to the High Court in London for breach of copyright[4] and the thing was settled in 1963.[ii] Later on Eon Productions started producing the Bond films, it subsequently made a deal with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, and then not brand any 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 project to bring a Thunderball adaptation to product and, with the working title Warhead, he brought writer Len Deighton together with Sean Connery to 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 confined McClory to a motion picture based on the Thunderball novel only, and once again the projection was deferred.[5]

Towards the terminate of the 1970s developments were reported on the project under the name James Bond of the Undercover Service,[5] merely when producer Jack Schwartzman became involved and cleared a number of the legal problems that nevertheless surrounded the project[i] 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; yet Mankiewicz declined equally he felt he was under a moral obligation to Cubby Broccoli.[8] Connery and then hired British tv set writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais[9] to undertake re-writes, although they went uncredited for their efforts because of a restriction past the Writers Guild of America.[6]

The pic underwent i terminal alter in championship: after Connery had finished filming Diamonds Are Forever he had pledged that he would "never" play Bond once more.[6] Connery's wife, Micheline, suggested the title Never Say Never Again, referring to her hubby's vow[10] and the producers acknowledged her contribution by listing on the end credits "Title "Never Say Never Again" by: Micheline Connery". A final endeavor by Fleming's trustees to block the movie was made in the Loftier Court in London in the spring of 1983, only this was thrown out by the courtroom and Never Say Never Again was permitted to go along.[5]

Bandage and crew

When producer Kevin McClory had first planned the film in 1964 he held initial talks with Richard Burton for the role of Bond,[11] although the projection came to zero considering of the legal issues involved. When the Warhead project was launched in the late 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 managing director.[6]

In 1978 the working title James Bond of the Clandestine Service was being used and Connery was in the frame once more, potentially going caput-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 role, as he stated in an interview in the Lord's day Express: "when I outset worked on the script with Len I had no idea of really existence in the picture".[xiii] 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 percent of the profits, equally well as casting and script approval.[6] Subsequent to Connery reprising the office, the script has several references to Bail'south advancing years – playing on Connery existence 52 at the time of filming[6] – and academic Jeremy Black has pointed out that there are other aspects of historic period and disillusionment in the flick, such as the Shrubland's porter referring to Bond'due south machine ("They don't brand them like that anymore."), the new M 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 Award-winning Hungarian moving picture Mephisto.[seven] Through the same route came Max von Sydow every bit Ernst Stavro Blofeld,[15] although he still retained his Eon-originated white true cat in the film.[16] For the femme fatale, director Irvin Kershner selected quondam 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 as Fatima Chroma earned her a Golden Earth Honor nomination for All-time Supporting Actress,[17] which she lost to Cher for her function in Silkwood.[eighteen] 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, saying that as the Leiter role was never remembered by audiences, using a blackness Leiter might make him more memorable.[vii] Others bandage included comedian Rowan Atkinson, who would later parody Bail in his role of Johnny English.[19]

Former Eon Productions' editor and manager of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Peter R. Hunt, was approached to direct the moving picture merely declined due to his previous work with Eon.[twenty] Irvin Kershner, who had accomplished success in 1980 with The Empire Strikes Back was then hired. A number of the crew from the 1981 motion-picture show 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.[7] [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 Again began on 27 September 1982 on the French Riviera for two months[half dozen] before moving to Nassau, the Bahamas in mid-November[7] where filming took place at Clifton Pier, which was also one of the locations used in Thunderball.[6] The Castilian metropolis of Almería was besides used every bit a location.[21] Largo'southward Palmyran fortress was actually historic Fort Carré in Antibes.[22] For Largo's ship, the Flight Saucer, the yacht Nabila, endemic by Saudi billionaire, Adnan Khashoggi, was used. The boat, at present endemic by Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, has subsequently been renamed the Kingdom 5KR.[23] Primary photography finished at Elstree Studios where interior shots were filmed.[6] Elstree as well housed the Tears of Allah underwater cave, which took three months to construct.[6] Most of the filming was completed in the jump of 1983, although there was some additional shooting during the summer of 1983.[7]

Production on the film was troubled,[15] with Connery taking on many of the product duties with assistant manager David Tomblin.[6] 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".[6] Afterwards the production ran out of money, Schwartzman had to fund further production out of his own pocket and later admitted he had underestimated the amount the motion picture would cost to make.[15]

Steven Seagal, who was the fight choreographer for this film, bankrupt Connery's wrist while grooming. On an episode of The Tonight Bear witness with Jay Leno, Connery revealed he did not know his wrist was cleaved until over a decade later.[24]

Many of the elements of the Eon-produced Bail films were not nowadays 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 another tune.[7] A pre-credits sequence was filmed but not used;[15] instead the movie opens with the credits run over the top of the opening sequence of Bail 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 every bit a jazz pianist.[25] The score has been criticised as "anachronistic and misjudged",[6] "bizarrely intermittent"[15] and "the near disappointing feature of the film".[7] Legrand also wrote the principal theme "Never Say Never Over again", which featured lyrics past 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[seven] later on 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, 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 past: 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-linguistic communication James Bond film adaptations in diverse D'artagnan comic magazines during the '60s and '70s, adjusted Never Say Never Once more in 1984.

Images

Trivia

  • This is the only Bond movie to be directed by an American. The film's director, Irvin Kershner, had previously directed Sean Connery in A Fine Madness.
  • The movie championship comes from Sean Connery's argument when asked if he would ever play Bond over again after Diamonds Are Forever, to which he replied "Never Again".
  • The Flying Saucer, Largo'due south ship, is a translation of "the Disco Volante", the name of Largo'southward ship in Thunderball. In this flick, the Disco Volante is a formidable vessel conspicuously based on a armed forces 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 underwater operations past Largo. In real life, the ship used in long shots was known as the "Nabila" and was congenital 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 writer John Gardner from having a somewhat similar scene involving Bail playing a calculator game over a LAN in Gardner'south novel Role of Honour. Bond was supposed to exist playing a simulation of "The Battle of Waterloo", this was later changed to a different type of game involving "The Battle of Bunker Hill". Interestingly, the Battle of Waterloo would too play a part in the later official Bond picture show, The Living Daylights.
  • Originally, both this film and Octopussy were to exist released to theatres simultaneously, which led to a brief flurry of media activeness regarding the "Battle of the Bonds". Ultimately, it was decided to split the two release dates.
  • McClory originally planned for the picture show to open with some version of the famous "gunbarrel" opening every bit seen in the official Bond series, but ultimately the 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 equanimous for the proposed opening.
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer, who played Largo, was originally cast equally Marko Ramius in The Hunt for Crimson October; the part eventually went to Connery.
  • Rowan Atkinson made his moving-picture show debut in this flick. Atkinson, who later became famous for the Mr. Edible bean comedy series, played a British amanuensis in this motion-picture show, the bungling Nigel Small-Fawcett. Afterwards he would play a James Bond parody in Johnny English.

Run into also

  • The controversy over Thunderball.

References

  1. ↑ one.0 ane.1 Pfeiffer, Lee; Worrall, Dave (1998). The Essential Bond. London: Boxtree Ltd, p.213. ISBN 978-0-7522-2477-0.
  2. ↑ two.0 2.one Poliakoff, Keith (2000). "License to Copyright – The Ongoing Dispute Over the Buying of James Bond". Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Constabulary Journal 18: 387–436. Benjamin Due north. Cardozo Schoolhouse 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.ane 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.one Macintyre, Ben (2008). For Yours Eyes Just. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, p.198-99. ISBN 978-0-7475-9527-4.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.i 5.two five.iii Chapman, James (2009). Licence to Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bail Films. New York: I.B. Tauris, p.184. ISBN 978-i-84511-515-9.
  6. ↑ half-dozen.00 six.01 6.02 six.03 6.04 six.05 half-dozen.06 6.07 6.08 six.09 vi.x 6.11 6.12 6.13 six.fourteen six.xv half-dozen.16 Barnes, Alan; Hearn, Marcus (2001). Osculation Kiss Blindside! Blindside!: the Unofficial James Bond Movie Companion. Batsford Books, pp.152-56. ISBN 978-0-7134-8182-2.
  7. ↑ seven.0 7.ane 7.2 vii.three 7.4 seven.5 vii.vi seven.7 7.8 Benson, Raymond (1988). The James Bond Bedside Companion. London: Boxtree Ltd, p.240-43. ISBN ane-85283-234-7.
  8. ↑ Mankiewicz, Tom; Crane, Robert (2012). My Life every bit 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 Plant. Retrieved on 3 September 2011.
  10. ↑ Dick, Sandra. "80 big facts you must know about Big Tam", 25 Baronial 2010, p. 20.
  11. ↑ "A Rival 007 – It Looks Like Burton", 21 February 1964, p. thirteen.
  12. ↑ Davis, Victor. "Bond versus Bail", 29 July 1978, p. 4.
  13. ↑ Isle of man, Roderick. "Why Sean won't at present exist dorsum as 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 Printing, p.58. ISBN 978-0-8032-6240-9.
  15. ↑ 15.0 xv.i xv.2 15.3 15.4 fifteen.v Smith, Jim (2002). Bond Films. London: Virgin Books, pp.193-99. ISBN 978-0-7535-0709-iv.
  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-ix.
  17. ↑ Barbara Carrera. Official Gold Earth Honour Website. Hollywood Strange Press Association. Retrieved on 2 September 2011.
  18. ↑ Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Function in a Movement Picture. Official Golden Globe Honour Website. Hollywood Strange Printing Clan. Retrieved on 3 September 2011.
  19. ↑ Johnny English. Penguin Readers Factsheets (2003). Retrieved on v 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 non decorated being James Bond or Superman). Daily Postal service.
  22. ↑ Reeves, Tony (2001). The Worldwide Guide to Picture Locations. Chicago: A Cappella, p.134. ISBN 978-i-55652-432-5.
  23. ↑ Salmans, Sandra. "Lavish Lifestyle of a Wheeler-Dealer", 22 Feb 1985. Retrieved on half dozen September 2011.
  24. ↑ Kurchak, Sarah (12 October 2015). Did Steven Seagal Break Sean Connery'south Wrist with Aikido?. Vice.com. Retrieved on 24 November 2015.
  25. ↑ Bettencourt, Scott (1998). "Bond Dorsum in Action Again". Moving picture score monthly .
  26. ↑ Error on telephone call to Template:cite web: Parameters url and championship must be specified. University of Motility Motion 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 Bail. Oxford: Oxford University Press, p.112. ISBN 978-0-19-986330-3.

External links

  • Never Say Never Again (1983) at IMDb
  • MGM'due south folio on the motion picture

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