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Never Say Never Again is the second James Bail theatrical film not produced by EON Productions and the second film adaptation of the story Thunderball. Released in 1983, it stars Sean Connery in his seventh and final film functioning as British Hole-and-corner Service amanuensis James Bail. It was released theatrically past Warner Bros.

The picture show is not considered office of the canon of the Bail flick franchise from EON Productions and United Artists and is not produced by Albert R. Broccoli, despite it currently being handled past the official pic series distributor, MGM. MGM acquired the distribution rights in 1997 afterward their acquisition of Orion Pictures. The motion-picture show also marks the culmination of a long legal boxing between United Artists and Kevin McClory. Its release reverse the franchise Bond film Octopussy (starring Roger Moore) speedily led the media to dub the situation the "Battle of the Bonds".

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

Contents

  • ane Plot summary
  • 2 Changes to the Bail universe
  • iii Product
    • iii.1 Bandage and coiffure
    • iii.ii Filming
    • three.3 Music
  • iv Cast and Characters
  • 5 Crew
  • 6 Comic Adaptation
  • 7 Images
  • 8 Trivia
  • ix See also
  • ten References
  • 11 External links

Plot summary

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

The film opens with a middle-aged, yet still athletic James Bail making his way through an armed army camp in order to rescue a girl who has been kidnapped. After killing the kidnappers, Bond lets his guard down, forgetting that the girl might have 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 and so it seems.

In fact, the attack on the camp is zilch more than than a field training exercise using blank ammunition and faux knives, and i Bond fails because he ends up "expressionless". A new M is now in function, one who sees little use for the 00-department. In fact, Bail has spent most of his recent fourth dimension teaching, 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 social club to "eliminate all those free radicals" and become dorsum into shape. While there, Bond discovers a mysterious nurse, Fatima Chroma, 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 Strength pilot named Jack Petachi, are in fact operatives of SPECTRE, a criminal arrangement run by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Petachi has undergone an operation to alter one of his retinas to match the retinal design of the American President. Using his position equally a pilot, and the president's heart pattern to circumvent security, Petachi infiltrates an American armed forces base of operations in England and orders the dummy warheads in 2 cruise missiles replaced with two alive nuclear warheads, which SPECTRE captures and uses to extort billions of dollars from the governments of the world.

Thousand 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'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 Bail universe

The moving-picture show 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 Bail films (whose proper name is Major Boothroyd). The film also appears to take identify in an "alternate universe" in which none of the events of You Just Live Twice, On Her Majesty'due south Clandestine Service, Diamonds Are Forever and the opening sequence of For Your Eyes Just have occurred, since Blofeld is alive and apparently previously unknown to Bond and MI6. Despite sharing many basic similarities with Thunderball, the course of events throughout the film are different enough for information technology to be more than than a directly remake, and the action clearly takes place at a much later date (gimmicky with the film's 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 film also makes a major difference from official continuity by ending with Bail 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 decision and later chooses to stay with the service. In the scene where Bond states his intention to quit, Connery breaks the 4th wall by winking at the camera; while this is incorrectly considered past many as being unique to this movie, George Lazenby was in fact the first Bond to suspension the quaternary wall almost 15 years earlier when he told the audience, "This never happened to the other young man" (referring to Connery, the human being 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 contained producer Kevin McClory and scriptwriter Jack Whittingham on a script for a potential Bond motion-picture show, to exist called Longitude 78 West,[2] which was afterwards abandoned considering of the costs involved.[3] 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;[4] McClory and so took Fleming to the High Court in London for alienation of copyright[4] and the thing was settled in 1963.[two] After Eon Productions started producing the Bond films, information technology subsequently fabricated a bargain with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, and so non make any farther version of the novel for a menstruum 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 production and, with the working title Warhead, he brought author Len Deighton together with Sean Connery to piece of work on a script.[6] The script ran into difficulties after accusations from Eon Productions that the project had gone across copyright restrictions, which confined McClory to a film based on the Thunderball novel but, and once more the project was deferred.[5]

Towards the end of the 1970s developments were reported on the project under the proper name James Bond of the Surreptitious Service,[v] but when producer Jack Schwartzman became involved and cleared a number of the legal problems that however 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; all the same Mankiewicz declined as he felt he was under a moral obligation to Cubby Broccoli.[8] Connery and then hired British television writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais[ix] to undertake re-writes, although they went uncredited for their efforts because of a restriction past the Writers Guild of America.[6]

The moving-picture show underwent i terminal change in championship: after Connery had finished filming Diamonds Are Forever he had pledged that he would "never" play Bond again.[half-dozen] Connery'southward wife, Micheline, suggested the title Never Say Never Once again, referring to her married man'due south vow[10] and the producers acknowledged her contribution by listing on the end credits "Title "Never Say Never Again" by: Micheline Connery". A final attempt past 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 go along.[5]

Cast and crew

When producer Kevin McClory had showtime planned the flick in 1964 he held initial talks with Richard Burton for the part of Bail,[11] although the project came to nothing because of the legal issues involved. When the Warhead project was launched in the late 1970s, a number of actors were mentioned in the trade printing, including Orson Welles for the part of Blofeld, Trevor Howard to play Chiliad and Richard Attenborough as manager.[6]

In 1978 the working title James Bond of the Secret Service was being used and Connery was in the frame over again, potentially going head-to-head with the next Eon Bond film, Moonraker.[12] By 1980, with legal bug over again causing the project to founder,[6] Connery idea himself unlikely to play the role, equally he stated in an interview in the Lord's day Express: "when I first worked on the script with Len I had no thought of actually beingness in the film".[thirteen] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bond; Connery agreed, asking (and getting) a fee of $3 million, ($7 meg in 2016 dollars) a per centum of the profits, as well as casting and script approval.[half dozen] 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 at that place are other aspects of age and disillusionment in the film, such as the Shrubland's porter referring to Bond's auto ("They don't brand them like that anymore."), the new G having no use for the 00 section and Q with his reduced budgets.[14]

For the main villain in the flick, Maximillian Largo, Connery suggested Klaus Maria Brandauer, the lead of the 1981 University Award-winning Hungarian flick Mephisto.[7] Through the same road came Max von Sydow as Ernst Stavro Blofeld,[fifteen] although he still retained his Eon-originated white true cat in the pic.[xvi] For the femme fatale, managing director Irvin Kershner selected former model and Playboy cover girl Barbara Carrera to play Fatima Chroma – the proper name coming from one of the early scripts of Thunderball.[6] Carrera's functioning as Fatima Blush earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination for All-time Supporting Actress,[17] which she lost to Cher for her office 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.[half-dozen] For the part of Felix Leiter, Connery spoke with Bernie Casey, proverb that as the Leiter function was never remembered past audiences, using a black Leiter might brand him more than memorable.[7] Others cast included comedian Rowan Atkinson, who would later parody Bond in his office of Johnny English.[19]

Quondam Eon Productions' editor and director of On Her Majesty'south Secret Service, Peter R. Hunt, was approached to direct the film but declined due to his previous work with Eon.[20] Irvin Kershner, who had achieved success in 1980 with The Empire Strikes Back was and then hired. A number of the crew from the 1981 motion-picture show Raiders of the Lost Ark were also appointed, including outset 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 Once more began on 27 September 1982 on the French Riviera for 2 months[six] before moving to Nassau, the Bahamas in mid-November[7] where filming took identify at Clifton Pier, which was also 1 of the locations used in Thunderball.[six] The Spanish city of Almería was also used as a location.[21] Largo's Palmyran fortress was actually historic Fort Carré in Antibes.[22] For Largo'southward ship, the Flying Saucer, the yacht Nabila, owned 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] Principal photography finished at Elstree Studios where interior shots were filmed.[vi] Elstree likewise housed the Tears of Allah underwater cavern, which took iii months to construct.[6] Nigh 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 picture was troubled,[15] with Connery taking on many of the production duties with assistant director David Tomblin.[vi] Director Irvin Kershner was critical of producer Jack Schwartzman, saying that whilst he was a practiced businessman, "he didn't have the experience of a film producer".[6] Later the product ran out of money, Schwartzman had to fund further production out of his own pocket and later admitted he had underestimated the amount the film would toll to make.[15]

Steven Seagal, who was the fight choreographer for this picture, bankrupt Connery'southward wrist while training. On an episode of The This evening Show with Jay Leno, Connery revealed he did non know his wrist was broken until over a decade later.[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 butt sequence, where a screen full of 007 symbols appeared instead, and similarly in that location was no "James Bond Theme" to use, although no try was fabricated to supply another melody.[7] A pre-credits sequence was filmed but not used;[fifteen] instead the moving-picture show opens with the credits run over the peak 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 every bit "anachronistic and misjudged",[vi] "bizarrely intermittent"[15] and "the near disappointing feature of the film".[7] Legrand also wrote the principal theme "Never Say Never Again", which featured lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman—who had also worked with Legrand in the Academy Laurels winning song, "The Windmills of Your Mind"[26]—and was performed by Lani Hall[7] after Bonnie Tyler, who disliked the vocal, had reluctantly declined.[27]

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

Bandage and Characters

Coiffure

MGM DVD embrace.

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

Comic Accommodation

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

Images

Trivia

  • This is the only Bond movie to be directed by an American. The moving-picture show's director, Irvin Kershner, had previously directed Sean Connery in A Fine Madness.
  • The moving-picture show title comes from Sean Connery'southward statement when asked if he would ever play Bond again after Diamonds Are Forever, to which he replied "Never Once again".
  • The Flying Saucer, Largo's ship, is a translation of "the Disco Volante", the proper noun of Largo's ship in Thunderball. In this pic, the Disco Volante is a formidable vessel conspicuously based on a military machine cruiser hull, with a helipad and calibration which dramatically dwarf the vessel present in the official film continuity. The Disco is still the base of underwater operations by Largo. In existent 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 besides prevented author John Gardner from having a somewhat similar scene involving Bail playing a reckoner game over a LAN in Gardner's novel Part of Honour. Bond was supposed to be playing a simulation of "The Battle of Waterloo", this was afterwards inverse to a dissimilar blazon of game involving "The Boxing of Bunker Hill". Interestingly, the Battle of Waterloo would also play a part in the after official Bond movie, The Living Daylights.
  • Originally, both this picture show 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, it 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 serial, but ultimately the motion-picture show 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 equally Marko Ramius in The Chase for Red October; the role somewhen went to Connery.
  • Rowan Atkinson made his moving-picture show debut in this movie. Atkinson, who later became famous for the Mr. Bean comedy series, played a British agent in this pic, the bungling Nigel Small-Fawcett. Later he would play a James Bond parody in Johnny English.

Encounter also

  • The controversy over Thunderball.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Pfeiffer, Lee; Worrall, Dave (1998). The Essential Bail. London: Boxtree Ltd, p.213. ISBN 978-0-7522-2477-0.
  2. ↑ ii.0 2.1 Poliakoff, Keith (2000). "License to Copyright – The Ongoing Dispute Over the Ownership of James Bond". Cardozo Arts & Amusement Law Periodical eighteen: 387–436. Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Police. Retrieved on 3 September 2011. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "Poliakoff (2000)" defined multiple times with different content
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chancellor, Henry (2005). James Bond: The Human being and His World. London: John Murray, pp.226. ISBN 978-0-7195-6815-2.
  4. ↑ four.0 four.i Macintyre, Ben (2008). For Yours Eyes But. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, p.198-99. ISBN 978-0-7475-9527-four.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 five.2 v.three 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. ↑ 6.00 vi.01 6.02 vi.03 half dozen.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 half dozen.08 six.09 6.10 six.eleven six.12 half-dozen.13 6.xiv vi.fifteen half-dozen.16 Barnes, Alan; Hearn, Marcus (2001). Osculation Kiss Bang! Bang!: the Unofficial James Bond Flick Companion. Batsford Books, pp.152-56. ISBN 978-0-7134-8182-2.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.i vii.2 vii.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 7.8 Benson, Raymond (1988). The James Bond Bedside Companion. London: Boxtree Ltd, p.240-43. ISBN 1-85283-234-seven.
  8. ↑ Mankiewicz, Tom; Crane, Robert (2012). My Life equally 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 show Constitute. Retrieved on 3 September 2011.
  10. ↑ Dick, Sandra. "Lxxx large facts you must know nigh Big Tam", 25 August 2010, p. 20.
  11. ↑ "A Rival 007 – It Looks Similar Burton", 21 Feb 1964, p. 13.
  12. ↑ Davis, Victor. "Bail versus Bond", 29 July 1978, p. 4.
  13. ↑ Isle of mann, Roderick. "Why Sean won't now exist back every bit 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-ix.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.three xv.4 fifteen.five Smith, Jim (2002). Bond Films. London: Virgin Books, pp.193-99. ISBN 978-0-7535-0709-four.
  16. ↑ Chapman, James (2009). Licence to Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films. New York: I.B. Tauris, p.135. ISBN 978-one-84511-515-ix.
  17. ↑ Barbara Carrera. Official Golden Globe Laurels Website. Hollywood Strange Printing Association. Retrieved on 2 September 2011.
  18. ↑ All-time Performance past an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Picture show. Official Golden Globe Award Website. Hollywood Strange Press Association. 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 Hole-and-corner Service"", Retrovision. Retrieved on 5 September 2011.
  21. ↑ Armstrong, Vic (7 May 2011). I'thousand the real Indiana (when I'1000 not busy being James Bail or Superman). Daily Mail.
  22. ↑ Reeves, Tony (2001). The Worldwide Guide to Movie 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 November 2015.
  25. ↑ Bettencourt, Scott (1998). "Bond Back in Activeness Again". Flick score monthly .
  26. ↑ Mistake on telephone call to Template:cite web: Parameters url and title must be specified. University of Motion Film Arts and Sciences.
  27. ↑ The Bat Segundo Show: Bonnie Tyler (12 September 2008). Tyler also discusses this in the documentary James Bail'due south Greatest Hits.
  28. ↑ Burlingame, Jon (2012). The Music of James Bond. Oxford: Oxford Academy Press, p.112. ISBN 978-0-19-986330-3.

External links

  • Never Say Never Again (1983) at IMDb
  • MGM'southward page on the film

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