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Never Say Never Again is the second James Bond theatrical film not produced by EON Productions and the second picture accommodation of the story Thunderball. Released in 1983, information technology stars Sean Connery in his 7th and final motion picture performance as British Secret Service amanuensis James Bond. It was released theatrically past Warner Bros.

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

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

Plot summary

Being the second adaptation of the novel Thunderball, Never Say Never Again follows a similar plotline to the earlier motion-picture show, but with some differences.

The moving picture opens with a heart-aged, yet still athletic James Bail making his mode through an armed camp in order to rescue a girl who has been kidnapped. After killing the kidnappers, Bail lets his baby-sit down, forgetting that the girl might accept been subject 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 attack on the campsite is zip more than a field training exercise using bare ammunition and faux knives, and one Bond fails because he ends upwardly "dead". A new M is now in office, 1 who sees little utilize for the 00-section. In fact, Bond has spent most of his contempo 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 health dispensary in gild 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 fifty-fifty farther when a thug (Lippe) tries to kill him.

Blush and her charge, an American Air Forcefulness 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 friction match the retinal pattern of the American President. Using his position as a pilot, and the president's centre pattern to circumvent security, Petachi infiltrates an American military base in England and orders the dummy warheads in 2 prowl missiles replaced with two alive 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, beginning with a rendezvous with Domino Petachi, the airplane pilot's sister, who is kept a virtual prisoner by her lover, Maximillian Largo. Bond pursues Largo and his yacht to the Commonwealth of the bahamas, where he engages Domino, Fatima Blush, and Largo in a game of wits and resource as he attempts to derail SPECTRE's scheme.

Changes to the Bail universe

The film makes a few changes to the James Bond universe. MI6 is shown to be underfunded and understaffed, specially 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 also appears to accept identify in an "alternate universe" in which none of the events of You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty'south 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 Bond and MI6. Despite sharing many basic similarities with Thunderball, the course of events throughout the flick are different enough for it to exist more than than a direct remake, and the action clearly takes place at a much later date (contemporary with the movie's product).

The moving-picture show is notable for depicting Felix Leiter, Bond's CIA colleague, as an African-American, something which would not occur in the EON series until Casino Royale in 2006. The movie as well makes a major deviation from official continuity past ending with Bond indicating his intention to retire from MI6 - while Bond had considered retirement in On Her Majesty'south Surreptitious Service, he is shown to be unsure of the decision and after 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 photographic camera; while this is incorrectly considered by many as existence unique to this film, George Lazenby was in fact the first Bond to break the 4th wall almost 15 years earlier when he told the audience, "This never happened to the other fellow" (referring to Connery, the human he had replaced every bit Bond).

Product

Never Say Never Again had its origins in the early 1960s, following the controversy over the 1961 Thunderball novel.[i] Fleming had worked with contained producer Kevin McClory and scriptwriter Jack Whittingham on a script for a potential Bond film, to exist called Longitude 78 West,[2] which was afterward abased because of the costs involved.[3] Fleming, "ever reluctant to let a good thought prevarication 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 High Court in London for breach of copyright[four] and the matter was settled in 1963.[2] After Eon Productions started producing the Bond films, information technology subsequently fabricated a deal with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, and so not make whatsoever farther version of the novel for a flow 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 bedchamber with a submarine, and a robot 'Hammerhead' shark hanging.

In the mid-1970s McClory again started working on a project to bring a Thunderball accommodation to production and, with the working title Warhead, he brought writer Len Deighton together with Sean Connery to work on a script.[six] The script ran into difficulties after accusations from Eon Productions that the project had gone beyond copyright restrictions, which confined McClory to a film based on the Thunderball novel simply, and once over again the project was deferred.[5]

Towards the end of the 1970s developments were reported on the projection under the name James Bond of the Secret Service,[five] but when producer Jack Schwartzman became involved and cleared a number of the legal bug that still 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 piece of work and asked Tom Mankiewicz, who had rewritten Diamonds Are Forever, to work on the script; however Mankiewicz declined as he felt he was nether a moral obligation to Cubby Broccoli.[8] Connery then hired British telly writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais[ix] to undertake re-writes, although they went uncredited for their efforts because of a brake by the Writers Guild of America.[6]

The picture show underwent one final change in title: afterwards Connery had finished filming Diamonds Are Forever he had pledged that he would "never" play Bail again.[6] Connery's married woman, Micheline, suggested the championship Never Say Never Over again, referring to her husband'due south vow[10] and the producers best-selling her contribution past list on the end credits "Title "Never Say Never Over again" by: Micheline Connery". A final attempt by Fleming's trustees to cake the motion-picture show was made in the High Court in London in the spring of 1983, simply this was thrown out by the court and Never Say Never Again was permitted to proceed.[five]

Cast and coiffure

When producer Kevin McClory had outset planned the moving picture in 1964 he held initial talks with Richard Burton for the part of Bond,[xi] although the project came to goose egg because of the legal issues involved. When the Warhead projection 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 M and Richard Attenborough as director.[half-dozen]

In 1978 the working title James Bond of the Secret Service was being used and Connery was in the frame once more, potentially going caput-to-head with the next Eon Bond moving-picture show, Moonraker.[12] By 1980, with legal bug again causing the project to founder,[six] Connery thought himself unlikely to play the office, as he stated in an interview in the Sunday Express: "when I offset worked on the script with Len I had no idea of actually being in the motion picture".[thirteen] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bond; Connery agreed, asking (and getting) a fee of $3 1000000, ($7 one thousand thousand in 2016 dollars) a percentage of the profits, as well as casting and script approving.[6] Subsequent to Connery reprising the office, the script has several references to Bail'south advancing years – playing on Connery being 52 at the time of filming[half dozen] – and academic Jeremy Black has pointed out that at that place are other aspects of historic period and disillusionment in the moving picture, such as the Shrubland's porter referring to Bond's car ("They don't make them similar that anymore."), the new 1000 having no use for the 00 section and Q with his reduced budgets.[14]

For the master villain in the film, Maximillian Largo, Connery suggested Klaus Maria Brandauer, the pb of the 1981 Academy Award-winning Hungarian picture show Mephisto.[seven] Through the same route came Max von Sydow every bit Ernst Stavro Blofeld,[15] although he still retained his Eon-originated white cat in the film.[xvi] 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.[6] Carrera's performance as Fatima Blush earned her a Golden Earth Award nomination for All-time Supporting Actress,[17] which she lost to Cher for her role in Silkwood.[18] Micheline Connery, Sean's wife, had met up-and-coming extra Kim Basinger at a hotel in London and suggested her to Connery, which he agreed upon.[half dozen] For the role of Felix Leiter, Connery spoke with Bernie Casey, saying that as the Leiter role was never remembered by audiences, using a black Leiter might brand him more memorable.[7] Others cast included comedian Rowan Atkinson, who would later on parody Bond in his role of Johnny English.[19]

One-time Eon Productions' editor and director of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Peter R. Hunt, was approached to direct the movie merely declined due to his previous piece of work with Eon.[20] Irvin Kershner, who had achieved success in 1980 with The Empire Strikes Back was then hired. A number of the crew from the 1981 movie Raiders of the Lost Ark were also appointed, including first 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'southward transport, the Flight Saucer

Filming for Never Say Never Again began on 27 September 1982 on the French Riviera for 2 months[half-dozen] before moving to Nassau, the Bahamas in mid-November[7] where filming took place at Clifton Pier, which was also ane of the locations used in Thunderball.[6] 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's send, the Flying Saucer, the yacht Nabila, owned by Saudi billionaire, Adnan Khashoggi, was used. The boat, at present owned by Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, has afterward been renamed the Kingdom 5KR.[23] Principal 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.[six] Virtually of the filming was completed in the spring of 1983, although there was some boosted shooting during the summer of 1983.[vii]

Product on the pic was troubled,[15] with Connery taking on many of the production duties with assistant manager David Tomblin.[6] Director Irvin Kershner was critical of producer Jack Schwartzman, saying that whilst he was a proficient man of affairs, "he didn't have the experience of a film producer".[6] After the production ran out of money, Schwartzman had to fund further product out of his own pocket and later admitted he had underestimated the amount the motion-picture show would price to brand.[xv]

Steven Seagal, who was the fight choreographer for this movie, broke Connery'south wrist while training. On an episode of The Tonight Bear witness 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 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 some other melody.[seven] A pre-credits sequence was filmed simply not used;[fifteen] instead the pic opens with the credits run over the acme of the opening sequence of Bond on a training mission.[half-dozen]

Music

The music for Never Say Never Over again was written past Michel Legrand, who composed a score similar to his piece of work as a jazz pianist.[25] The score has been criticised every bit "anachronistic and misjudged",[6] "bizarrely intermittent"[15] and "the most disappointing feature of the film".[vii] Legrand also wrote the main theme "Never Say Never Once again", which featured lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman—who had also worked with Legrand in the Academy Award 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 by Stephen Forsyth and Jim Ryan, but the song—an unsolicited submission—was passed over given Legrand'south contractual obligations with the music.[28]

Bandage and Characters

Crew

MGM DVD embrace.

  • 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 film adaptations in various D'artagnan comic magazines during the '60s and '70s, adjusted Never Say Never Once more in 1984.

Trivia

  • This is the merely Bond movie to be directed by an American. The film's director, Irvin Kershner, had previously directed Sean Connery in A Fine Madness.
  • The motion-picture show title comes from Sean Connery's statement when asked if he would e'er play Bond again after Diamonds Are Forever, to which he replied "Never Again".
  • The Flight Saucer, Largo's ship, is a translation of "the Disco Volante", the proper noun 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 present in the official film continuity. The Disco is still the base of underwater operations by Largo. In real life, the transport used in long shots was known equally the "Nabila" and was built for Saudi billionaire, Adnan Kashoggi.
  • The casino where Bail and Largo get head to caput in a videogame was called Casino Royale.
    • This scene likewise prevented writer John Gardner from having a somewhat similar scene involving Bond playing a computer game over a LAN in Gardner'due south novel Function of Honour. Bond was supposed to be playing a simulation of "The Battle of Waterloo", this was after inverse to a unlike type of game involving "The Battle of Bunker Hill". Interestingly, the Battle of Waterloo would as well play a function in the later official Bond film, The Living Daylights.
  • Originally, both this pic and Octopussy were to be released to theatres simultaneously, which led to a cursory flurry of media activity regarding the "Boxing of the Bonds". Ultimately, information technology was decided to separate the 2 release dates.
  • McClory originally planned for the film to open up with some version of the famous "gunbarrel" opening as seen in the official Bond series, only ultimately the film opens with a screenful of "007" symbols instead. When the soundtrack for the film was released on CD, information technology included a piece of music equanimous for the proposed opening.
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer, who played Largo, was originally cast as Marko Ramius in The Chase for Carmine October; the function eventually went to Connery.
  • Rowan Atkinson fabricated his pic debut in this moving picture. Atkinson, who after became famous for the Mr. Edible bean comedy 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. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Pfeiffer, Lee; Worrall, Dave (1998). The Essential Bail. London: Boxtree Ltd, p.213. ISBN 978-0-7522-2477-0.
  2. ↑ 2.0 two.ane Poliakoff, Keith (2000). "License to Copyright – The Ongoing Dispute Over the Ownership of James Bond". Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal 18: 387–436. Benjamin Due north. Cardozo School of Law. Retrieved on 3 September 2011. Cite fault: Invalid <ref> tag; name "Poliakoff (2000)" defined multiple times with different content
  3. ↑ 3.0 three.i Chancellor, Henry (2005). James Bond: The Homo and His Earth. London: John Murray, pp.226. ISBN 978-0-7195-6815-two.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Macintyre, Ben (2008). For Yours Optics Simply. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, p.198-99. ISBN 978-0-7475-9527-4.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.ane 5.ii 5.iii Chapman, James (2009). Licence to Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bail Films. New York: I.B. Tauris, p.184. ISBN 978-ane-84511-515-9.
  6. ↑ six.00 six.01 six.02 vi.03 6.04 vi.05 half-dozen.06 6.07 vi.08 half-dozen.09 6.10 6.eleven 6.12 six.xiii half-dozen.14 half dozen.15 6.16 Barnes, Alan; Hearn, Marcus (2001). Kiss Kiss Bang! Bang!: the Unofficial James Bail Motion picture Companion. Batsford Books, pp.152-56. ISBN 978-0-7134-8182-2.
  7. ↑ 7.0 vii.1 seven.2 7.3 7.4 7.five 7.6 7.seven 7.eight Benson, Raymond (1988). The James Bail Bedside Companion. London: Boxtree Ltd, p.240-43. ISBN 1-85283-234-7.
  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 Motion-picture show Institute. Retrieved on 3 September 2011.
  10. ↑ Dick, Sandra. "Eighty large facts you lot must know about Big Tam", 25 Baronial 2010, p. 20.
  11. ↑ "A Rival 007 – Information technology Looks Similar Burton", 21 February 1964, p. xiii.
  12. ↑ Davis, Victor. "Bond versus Bond", 29 July 1978, p. 4.
  13. ↑ Mann, Roderick. "Why Sean won't at present be back as 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 978-0-8032-6240-9.
  15. ↑ 15.0 xv.1 15.2 15.three 15.4 fifteen.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-one-84511-515-9.
  17. ↑ Barbara Carrera. Official Gilded World Award Website. Hollywood Foreign Press Clan. Retrieved on 2 September 2011.
  18. ↑ Best Performance past an Extra in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture. Official Golden World Award 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 Hole-and-corner Service"", Retrovision. Retrieved on five September 2011.
  21. ↑ Armstrong, Vic (7 May 2011). I'1000 the real Indiana (when I'm not busy existence James Bail or Superman). Daily Mail.
  22. ↑ Reeves, Tony (2001). The Worldwide Guide to Motion-picture show Locations. Chicago: A Cappella, p.134. ISBN 978-one-55652-432-5.
  23. ↑ Salmans, Sandra. "Lavish Lifestyle of a Wheeler-Dealer", 22 Feb 1985. Retrieved on 6 September 2011.
  24. ↑ Kurchak, Sarah (12 October 2015). Did Steven Seagal Intermission Sean Connery's Wrist with Aikido?. Vice.com. Retrieved on 24 Nov 2015.
  25. ↑ Bettencourt, Scott (1998). "Bond Dorsum in Action Once again". Picture show score monthly .
  26. ↑ Error on call to Template:cite web: Parameters url and title must be specified. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
  27. ↑ The Bat Segundo Evidence: Bonnie Tyler (12 September 2008). Tyler also discusses this in the documentary James Bond's Greatest Hits.
  28. ↑ Burlingame, Jon (2012). The Music of James Bond. Oxford: Oxford University Printing, p.112. ISBN 978-0-19-986330-iii.

External links

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

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