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Never Say Never Again is the second James Bond theatrical film not produced by EON Productions and the 2d film adaptation of the story Thunderball. Released in 1983, information technology stars Sean Connery in his 7th and final pic operation every bit British Secret Service agent James Bail. It was released theatrically by Warner Bros.

The film is not considered part of the canon of the Bond motion-picture show franchise from EON Productions and United Artists and is not produced by Albert R. Broccoli, despite it currently beingness handled by the official film serial benefactor, MGM. MGM caused the distribution rights in 1997 after their acquisition of Orion Pictures. The flick as well marks the culmination of a long legal boxing 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 organization of SPECTRE, and the grapheme of Ernst Stavro Blofeld to EON.

Plot summary

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

The movie opens with a middle-aged, notwithstanding still athletic James Bond making his fashion through an armed camp in order to rescue a girl who has been kidnapped. After killing the kidnappers, Bail lets his guard downwardly, forgetting that the girl might accept been subject area to Stockholm syndrome (in which a kidnapped person comes to place with his/her kidnappers) and is stabbed to death by her. Or then it seems.

In fact, the attack on the camp is zip more a field grooming exercise using blank ammunition and false knives, and one Bond fails because he ends upwardly "dead". A new M is at present 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 Bond is slipping, M orders him to enroll in a wellness clinic in gild to "eliminate all those free radicals" and go 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 impale him.

Blush and her accuse, an American Air Force pilot named Jack Petachi, are in fact operatives of SPECTRE, a criminal system run by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Petachi has undergone an operation to change one of his retinas to match the retinal pattern of the American President. Using his position as a airplane pilot, and the president's center 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.

M reluctantly reactivates the 00 department, and Bail is assigned the task of tracking downward the missing weapons, start with a rendezvous with Domino Petachi, the airplane pilot'south sis, who is kept a virtual prisoner by her lover, Maximillian Largo. Bond pursues Largo and his yacht to the Bahama islands, 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 flick makes a few changes to the James Bail universe. MI6 is shown to be underfunded and understaffed, especially with regards to Q-Branch, and the character Q is referred to by the proper noun "Algernon", and is presumably a unlike individual than the Q in the official Bond films (whose name is Major Boothroyd). The film also appears to take place in an "alternate universe" in which none of the events of Y'all Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Hush-hush Service, Diamonds Are Forever and the opening sequence of For Your Optics Only have occurred, since Blofeld is alive and apparently previously unknown to Bond and MI6. Despite sharing many bones similarities with Thunderball, the class of events throughout the moving-picture show are different plenty for it to be more than than a directly remake, and the action clearly takes identify at a much subsequently date (contemporary with the picture's production).

The film is notable for depicting Felix Leiter, Bail'south CIA colleague, every bit an African-American, something which would not occur in the EON series until Casino Royale in 2006. The film too makes a major difference from official continuity by catastrophe with Bond indicating his intention to retire from MI6 - while Bond had considered retirement in On Her Majesty'due south 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 4th wall past winking at the photographic camera; while this is incorrectly considered past many as beingness 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 audience, "This never happened to the other fellow" (referring to Connery, the man he had replaced as Bail).

Production

Never Say Never Again had its origins in the early 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 be called Longitude 78 West,[two] which was later on abandoned because of the costs involved.[iii] Fleming, "e'er reluctant to permit a good thought lie idle",[3] turned this into the novel Thunderball, for which he did not credit either McClory or Whittingham;[4] McClory so took Fleming to the High Court in London for breach of copyright[4] and the thing was settled in 1963.[two] After Eon Productions started producing the Bond films, it subsequently made a bargain with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, so not make 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 projection to bring a Thunderball adaptation to production and, with the working championship Warhead, he brought author Len Deighton together with Sean Connery to work on a script.[6] The script ran into difficulties later on accusations from Eon Productions that the projection had gone beyond copyright restrictions, which confined McClory to a film based on the Thunderball novel just, and over again the project was deferred.[v]

Towards the end of the 1970s developments were reported on the project under the proper noun James Bond of the Undercover 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 piece of 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.[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 Guild of America.[vi]

The flick underwent one final change in title: after Connery had finished filming Diamonds Are Forever he had pledged that he would "never" play Bond once again.[six] Connery'southward married woman, Micheline, suggested the title Never Say Never Again, referring to her hubby'south vow[x] and the producers acknowledged her contribution by list on the finish credits "Title "Never Say Never Over again" by: Micheline Connery". A final attempt by Fleming's trustees to block the film was made in the High Court in London in the spring of 1983, but this was thrown out by the court and Never Say Never Again was permitted to proceed.[five]

Cast and crew

When producer Kevin McClory had offset planned the film in 1964 he held initial talks with Richard Burton for the part of Bond,[11] although the project came to zip because of the legal problems involved. When the Warhead projection was launched in the late 1970s, a number of actors were mentioned in the merchandise press, including Orson Welles for the part of Blofeld, Trevor Howard to play M and Richard Attenborough as director.[6]

In 1978 the working title James Bond of the Secret Service was being used and Connery was in the frame in one case 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,[vi] Connery thought himself unlikely to play the role, every bit he stated in an interview in the Sunday Express: "when I first worked on the script with Len I had no thought of actually beingness in the motion-picture show".[13] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bond; Connery agreed, asking (and getting) a fee of $3 one thousand thousand, ($7 million in 2016 dollars) a percentage of the profits, as well equally casting and script approval.[vi] Subsequent to Connery reprising the role, the script has several references to Bail's advancing years – playing on Connery being 52 at the time of filming[6] – and bookish Jeremy Black has pointed out that in that location are other aspects of age and disillusionment in the film, such equally the Shrubland's porter referring to Bail'due south automobile ("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 principal villain in the moving-picture show, Maximillian Largo, Connery suggested Klaus Maria Brandauer, the lead of the 1981 Academy Award-winning Hungarian film Mephisto.[7] Through the same route came Max von Sydow as Ernst Stavro Blofeld,[fifteen] although he still retained his Eon-originated white true cat in the film.[16] For the femme fatale, director Irvin Kershner selected former model and Playboy cover girl Barbara Carrera to play Fatima Chroma – the name coming from one of the early scripts of Thunderball.[half dozen] Carrera'southward functioning every bit Fatima Chroma earned her a Gilt Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress,[17] which she lost to Cher for her role in Silkwood.[eighteen] Micheline Connery, Sean's married woman, had met up-and-coming actress Kim Basinger at a hotel in London and suggested her to Connery, which he agreed upon.[six] For the role of Felix Leiter, Connery spoke with Bernie Casey, saying that as the Leiter role was never remembered past audiences, using a black Leiter might make him more memorable.[7] Others bandage included comedian Rowan Atkinson, who would later parody Bond in his function of Johnny English.[19]

Onetime Eon Productions' editor and director of On Her Majesty's Clandestine 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 Dorsum was so hired. A number of the crew from the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark were besides appointed, including kickoff assistant manager 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'south 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 Bahama islands in mid-November[7] where filming took identify at Clifton Pier, which was too i of the locations used in Thunderball.[6] The Spanish metropolis of Almería was also used as a location.[21] Largo's Palmyran fortress was actually historic Fort Carré in Antibes.[22] For Largo's 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] Main 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] About of the filming was completed in the leap of 1983, although in that location was some additional shooting during the summer of 1983.[7]

Production on the pic was troubled,[15] with Connery taking on many of the production duties with banana director David Tomblin.[6] Manager Irvin Kershner was critical of producer Jack Schwartzman, maxim that whilst he was a practiced businessman, "he didn't have the experience of a flick producer".[6] Afterwards the production ran out of coin, Schwartzman had to fund further product 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 grooming. 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 Bail 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 in that location was no "James Bond Theme" to use, although no effort was made to supply some other melody.[7] A pre-credits sequence was filmed simply not used;[15] instead the film 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 like to his piece of work as a jazz pianist.[25] The score has been criticised as "anachronistic and misjudged",[6] "bizarrely intermittent"[15] and "the most disappointing characteristic of the film".[7] Legrand as well wrote the master theme "Never Say Never Once more", which featured lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman—who had also worked with Legrand in the Academy Award winning song, "The Windmills of Your Listen"[26]—and was performed past Lani Hall[7] after Bonnie Tyler, who disliked the song, had reluctantly declined.[27]

Phyllis Hyman besides recorded a potential theme song, written by Stephen Forsyth and Jim Ryan, but the song—an unsolicited submission—was passed over given Legrand'southward 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 (acquaintance)
  • Cinematography by Douglas Slocombe
  • Music equanimous past: Michel Legrand

Comic Adaptation

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

Trivia

  • This is the only Bond pic to exist directed by an American. The film'southward director, Irvin Kershner, had previously directed Sean Connery in A Fine Madness.
  • The movie title comes from Sean Connery'due south statement when asked if he would always play Bond again after Diamonds Are Forever, to which he replied "Never Over again".
  • The Flight Saucer, Largo's transport, is a translation of "the Disco Volante", the name of Largo'southward ship in Thunderball. In this film, the Disco Volante is a formidable vessel conspicuously based on a war machine cruiser hull, with a helipad and scale which dramatically dwarf the vessel present in the official film continuity. The Disco is nevertheless the base of underwater operations by Largo. In real life, the send used in long shots was known as the "Nabila" and was built for Saudi billionaire, Adnan Kashoggi.
  • The casino where Bond and Largo become 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 computer game over a LAN in Gardner'south novel Role of Accolade. Bond was supposed to be 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 role in the subsequently official Bail movie, The Living Daylights.
  • Originally, both this film and Octopussy were to be released to theatres simultaneously, which led to a cursory flurry of media activity regarding the "Battle of the Bonds". Ultimately, it was decided to split the ii release dates.
  • McClory originally planned for the picture show to open with some version of the famous "gunbarrel" opening as seen in the official Bond series, 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 slice of music equanimous for the proposed opening.
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer, who played Largo, was originally bandage as Marko Ramius in The Hunt for Blood-red October; the role eventually went to Connery.
  • Rowan Atkinson fabricated his flick debut in this film. Atkinson, who later became famous for the Mr. Bean comedy series, played a British agent in this movie, the bungling Nigel Small-Fawcett. After he would play a James Bond parody in Johnny English.

See besides

  • The controversy over Thunderball.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.one Pfeiffer, Lee; Worrall, Dave (1998). The Essential Bail. London: Boxtree Ltd, p.213. ISBN 978-0-7522-2477-0.
  2. ↑ two.0 2.i Poliakoff, Keith (2000). "License to Copyright – The Ongoing Dispute Over the Ownership of James Bond". Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal 18: 387–436. Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Retrieved on 3 September 2011. Cite mistake: Invalid <ref> tag; proper name "Poliakoff (2000)" defined multiple times with different content
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chancellor, Henry (2005). James Bail: The Man and His World. London: John Murray, pp.226. ISBN 978-0-7195-6815-two.
  4. ↑ 4.0 iv.1 Macintyre, Ben (2008). For Yours Eyes Only. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, p.198-99. ISBN 978-0-7475-9527-4.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 five.2 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-one-84511-515-ix.
  6. ↑ 6.00 half-dozen.01 6.02 half-dozen.03 vi.04 6.05 6.06 half dozen.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 half-dozen.eleven six.12 6.thirteen half dozen.14 6.15 half dozen.sixteen Barnes, Alan; Hearn, Marcus (2001). Kiss Kiss Blindside! Bang!: the Unofficial James Bond Film Companion. Batsford Books, pp.152-56. ISBN 978-0-7134-8182-2.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.three seven.iv vii.5 vii.half dozen 7.seven 7.8 Benson, Raymond (1988). The James Bond Bedside Companion. London: Boxtree Ltd, p.240-43. ISBN i-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 Cloudless, Dick (1937–). Screenonline. British Picture Institute. Retrieved on 3 September 2011.
  10. ↑ Dick, Sandra. "Eighty big facts y'all must know about Big Tam", 25 August 2010, p. 20.
  11. ↑ "A Rival 007 – It Looks Like Burton", 21 Feb 1964, p. 13.
  12. ↑ Davis, Victor. "Bond versus Bond", 29 July 1978, p. 4.
  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's Novel to the Large Screen. University of Nebraska Printing, p.58. ISBN 978-0-8032-6240-9.
  15. ↑ fifteen.0 15.1 15.2 fifteen.iii 15.iv 15.v 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 Bail Films. New York: I.B. Tauris, p.135. ISBN 978-1-84511-515-9.
  17. ↑ Barbara Carrera. Official Golden Globe Award Website. Hollywood Strange Press Association. Retrieved on two September 2011.
  18. ↑ Best Performance by an Extra in a Supporting Part in a Motion picture. Official Gold Globe Honor Website. Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Retrieved on 3 September 2011.
  19. ↑ Johnny English. Penguin Readers Factsheets (2003). Retrieved on 5 September 2011.
  20. ↑ "Manager Peter Hunt – "On Her Majesty'south Secret Service"", Retrovision. Retrieved on five September 2011.
  21. ↑ Armstrong, Vic (7 May 2011). I'g the real Indiana (when I'g non busy being James Bond or Superman). Daily Mail.
  22. ↑ Reeves, Tony (2001). The Worldwide Guide to Moving picture Locations. Chicago: A Cappella, p.134. ISBN 978-one-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 November 2015.
  25. ↑ Bettencourt, Scott (1998). "Bond Back in Action Again". Film score monthly .
  26. ↑ Error on telephone call to Template:cite web: Parameters url and title must be specified. University of Movement Picture Arts and Sciences.
  27. ↑ The Bat Segundo Show: Bonnie Tyler (12 September 2008). Tyler besides discusses this in the documentary James Bond'south 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 Over again (1983) at IMDb
  • MGM's page on the picture

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