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Never Say Never Once again is the second James Bond theatrical motion-picture show non produced by EON Productions and the second pic adaptation of the story Thunderball. Released in 1983, it stars Sean Connery in his seventh and terminal film operation as British Clandestine Service agent James Bond. 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 existence handled by the official flick series distributor, MGM. MGM acquired the distribution rights in 1997 after their conquering of Orion Pictures. The flick besides marks the culmination of a long legal battle between United Artists and Kevin McClory. Its release opposite the franchise Bail film Octopussy (starring Roger Moore) quickly led the media to dub the state of affairs the "Battle of the Bonds".

In Nov 2013, the McClory Estate 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
  • ii Changes to the Bond universe
  • 3 Production
    • 3.1 Cast and coiffure
    • iii.2 Filming
    • 3.three Music
  • 4 Cast and Characters
  • five Crew
  • six Comic Accommodation
  • seven Images
  • 8 Trivia
  • nine See as well
  • ten References
  • 11 External links

Plot summary

Being the second adaptation of the novel Thunderball, Never Say Never Again follows a like plotline to the earlier pic, just with some differences.

The film opens with a middle-aged, yet still athletic James Bond making his way through an armed camp in order to rescue a daughter who has been kidnapped. After killing the kidnappers, Bail lets his guard down, forgetting that the girl might have been subject area to Stockholm syndrome (in which a kidnapped person comes to place with his/her kidnappers) and is stabbed to expiry by her. Or so it seems.

In fact, the attack on the camp is nothing more than a field grooming exercise using bare ammunition and imitation knives, and 1 Bond fails because he ends up "expressionless". A new M is now in office, ane who sees little use for the 00-section. In fact, Bond has spent about of his recent time pedagogy, rather than doing, a fact he points out with some resentment.

Feeling that Bail is slipping, G orders him to enroll in a health clinic in social club to "eliminate all those free radicals" and become back into shape. While there, Bond discovers a mysterious nurse, Fatima Chroma, and her patient, who is wrapped in bandages. His suspicions are angry even farther when a thug (Lippe) tries to impale him.

Chroma and her charge, an American Air Forcefulness airplane pilot named Jack Petachi, are in fact operatives of SPECTRE, a criminal organisation run by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Petachi has undergone an operation to change one of his retinas to lucifer the retinal pattern of the American President. Using his position every bit a pilot, and the president's eye design to circumvent security, Petachi infiltrates an American military base in England and orders the dummy warheads in two cruise missiles replaced with 2 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, commencement 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 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 film makes a few changes to the James Bond universe. MI6 is shown to be underfunded and understaffed, especially 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 take place in an "alternate universe" in which none of the events of You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Surreptitious Service, Diamonds Are Forever and the opening sequence of For Your Eyes Just have occurred, since Blofeld is alive and plain previously unknown to Bond and MI6. Despite sharing many basic similarities with Thunderball, the course of events throughout the film are different enough for it to be more than a directly remake, and the activeness clearly takes place at a much later date (contemporary with the film's production).

The moving picture is notable for depicting Felix Leiter, Bail's CIA colleague, as an African-American, something which would not occur in the EON series until Casino Royale in 2006. The flick also makes a major departure from official continuity past ending with Bond indicating his intention to retire from MI6 - while Bond had considered retirement in On Her Majesty's Clandestine Service, he is shown to be unsure of the decision and later chooses to stay with the service. In the scene where Bail states his intention to quit, Connery breaks the fourth wall by winking at the camera; while this is incorrectly considered by many as being unique to this film, George Lazenby was in fact the outset Bail 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 Over 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 show, to be called Longitude 78 W,[2] which was subsequently abased because of the costs involved.[3] Fleming, "always reluctant to let a proficient idea lie idle",[3] turned this into the novel Thunderball, for which he did non credit either McClory or Whittingham;[four] McClory so took Fleming to the High Court in London for alienation of copyright[4] and the matter was settled in 1963.[ii] Later on Eon Productions started producing the Bail films, it afterwards made a bargain with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, then not make any further version of the novel for a period of ten years post-obit the release of the Eon-produced version in 1965.[5]

Warhead (1978) concept artwork - interior of the Statue of Liberty depicting docking bedroom 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 writer Len Deighton together with Sean Connery to work on a script.[6] The script ran into difficulties after accusations from Eon Productions that the project had gone beyond copyright restrictions, which confined McClory to a flick based on the Thunderball novel only, and once again the project was deferred.[5]

Towards the end of the 1970s developments were reported on the project nether the proper noun James Bail of the Secret Service,[five] but when producer Jack Schwartzman became involved and cleared a number of the legal bug that even so surrounded the projection[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; even so Mankiewicz declined as he felt he was under a moral obligation to Cubby Broccoli.[viii] Connery then hired British boob tube writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais[nine] to undertake re-writes, although they went uncredited for their efforts because of a brake past the Writers Guild of America.[6]

The film underwent ane concluding alter in championship: afterwards Connery had finished filming Diamonds Are Forever he had pledged that he would "never" play Bail over again.[6] Connery'due south wife, Micheline, suggested the title Never Say Never Again, referring to her husband's vow[x] and the producers acknowledged her contribution past list on the end credits "Title "Never Say Never Again" by: Micheline Connery". A final attempt by Fleming's trustees to block the picture show 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 keep.[5]

Cast and crew

When producer Kevin McClory had commencement planned the pic in 1964 he held initial talks with Richard Burton for the role of Bond,[xi] although the project came to nothing 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 press, including Orson Welles for the function of Blofeld, Trevor Howard to play One thousand and Richard Attenborough every bit managing director.[6]

In 1978 the working championship James Bail of the Secret Service was beingness used and Connery was in the frame in one case over again, potentially going head-to-caput with the next Eon Bond film, Moonraker.[12] By 1980, with legal issues again causing the project to founder,[6] Connery thought himself unlikely to play the function, 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 existence in the film".[13] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bail; Connery agreed, request (and getting) a fee of $three million, ($7 million in 2016 dollars) a percent of the profits, as well as casting and script approving.[6] Subsequent to Connery reprising the office, the script has several references to Bond'south advancing years – playing on Connery being 52 at the time of filming[vi] – and academic Jeremy Black has pointed out that there are other aspects of age and disillusionment in the picture, such as the Shrubland's porter referring to Bond's car ("They don't make them like that anymore."), the new M having no use for the 00 department and Q with his reduced budgets.[xiv]

For the main villain in the moving picture, Maximillian Largo, Connery suggested Klaus Maria Brandauer, the pb of the 1981 Academy Award-winning Hungarian film Mephisto.[7] Through the same route came Max von Sydow every bit Ernst Stavro Blofeld,[15] although he yet retained his Eon-originated white true cat in the film.[16] For the femme fatale, director Irvin Kershner selected sometime model and Playboy encompass girl Barbara Carrera to play Fatima Blush – the name coming from one of the early scripts of Thunderball.[6] Carrera's operation as Fatima Blush earned her a Gold Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress,[17] which she lost to Cher for her part in Silkwood.[18] Micheline Connery, Sean'south wife, had met upwards-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, maxim that as the Leiter role was never remembered by audiences, using a black Leiter might make him more than memorable.[7] Others cast included comedian Rowan Atkinson, who would later on parody Bond in his role of Johnny English.[nineteen]

Former Eon Productions' editor and director of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Peter R. Hunt, was approached to directly 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 then hired. A number of the coiffure from the 1981 pic Raiders of the Lost Ark were also appointed, including get-go assistant director David Tomblin, manager of photography Douglas Slocombe and production 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'due south send, the Flying Saucer

Filming for Never Say Never Again began on 27 September 1982 on the French Riviera for ii months[vi] earlier moving to Nassau, the Bahama islands in mid-Nov[7] where filming took place at Clifton Pier, which was also ane of the locations used in Thunderball.[six] The Spanish metropolis of Almería was also used equally 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, endemic by Saudi billionaire, Adnan Khashoggi, was used. The boat, now owned past Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, has after been renamed the Kingdom 5KR.[23] Principal photography finished at Elstree Studios where interior shots were filmed.[6] Elstree besides housed the Tears of Allah underwater cave, which took 3 months to construct.[6] Near of the filming was completed in the leap of 1983, although there was some boosted shooting during the summer of 1983.[7]

Production on the flick was troubled,[15] with Connery taking on many of the production duties with assistant director David Tomblin.[vi] Managing director Irvin Kershner was disquisitional of producer Jack Schwartzman, maxim that whilst he was a adept businessman, "he didn't have the feel of a film producer".[6] Subsequently the production ran out of money, Schwartzman had to fund further production out of his own pocket and later on admitted he had underestimated the corporeality the flick would toll 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 Prove 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 Bond films were not present in Never Say Never Once 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 tune.[7] A pre-credits sequence was filmed simply not used;[15] instead the film opens with the credits run over the top of the opening sequence of Bond on a training mission.[six]

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 about disappointing characteristic of the flick".[7] 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 University Award winning song, "The Windmills of Your Mind"[26]—and was performed past Lani Hall[7] after Bonnie Tyler, who disliked the song, had reluctantly declined.[27]

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

Bandage and Characters

Crew

MGM DVD cover.

  • 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 Accommodation

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

Images

Trivia

  • This is the but Bail movie to be directed by an American. The film's manager, Irvin Kershner, had previously directed Sean Connery in A Fine Madness.
  • The movie title comes from Sean Connery'south statement when asked if he would ever play Bond again after Diamonds Are Forever, to which he replied "Never Once more".
  • The Flight Saucer, Largo'due south ship, is a translation of "the Disco Volante", the proper noun of Largo's transport in Thunderball. In this film, the Disco Volante is a formidable vessel clearly based on a military cruiser hull, with a helipad and scale which dramatically dwarf the vessel present in the official film continuity. The Disco is nonetheless the base of underwater operations past Largo. In existent life, the ship used in long shots was known as the "Nabila" and was built for Saudi billionaire, Adnan Kashoggi.
  • The casino where Bail and Largo go head to caput in a videogame was called Casino Royale.
    • This scene also 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. Bail was supposed to be playing a simulation of "The Boxing of Waterloo", this was later changed to a unlike blazon of game involving "The Battle of Bunker Loma". Interestingly, the Battle of Waterloo would likewise play a office in the later official Bond film, The Living Daylights.
  • Originally, both this flick and Octopussy were to be released to theatres simultaneously, which led to a brief flurry of media action regarding the "Boxing of the Bonds". Ultimately, it was decided to separate the ii 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 moving picture opens with a screenful of "007" symbols instead. When the soundtrack for the movie 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 Chase for Red Oct; the office eventually went to Connery.
  • Rowan Atkinson made his picture debut in this movie. Atkinson, who later became famous for the Mr. Bean one-act series, played a British agent in this motion picture, the bungling Nigel Small-Fawcett. After he would play a James Bond parody in Johnny English.

Meet likewise

  • The controversy over Thunderball.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 i.1 Pfeiffer, Lee; Worrall, Dave (1998). The Essential Bail. 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 Bail". Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal 18: 387–436. Benjamin Due north. Cardozo Schoolhouse of Police. Retrieved on 3 September 2011. Cite mistake: Invalid <ref> tag; name "Poliakoff (2000)" divers 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 978-0-7195-6815-2.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Macintyre, Ben (2008). For Yours Eyes Only. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, p.198-99. ISBN 978-0-7475-9527-4.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 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-ane-84511-515-9.
  6. ↑ half dozen.00 6.01 6.02 half dozen.03 half dozen.04 vi.05 6.06 half-dozen.07 half-dozen.08 6.09 vi.10 half dozen.eleven 6.12 half-dozen.13 6.14 vi.15 half-dozen.16 Barnes, Alan; Hearn, Marcus (2001). Kiss Buss Bang! Bang!: the Unofficial James Bond Film Companion. Batsford Books, pp.152-56. ISBN 978-0-7134-8182-2.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 seven.2 7.3 7.iv 7.v 7.half-dozen 7.vii 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: University Printing of Kentucky, p.150. ISBN 978-0-8131-3605-9.
  9. ↑ La Frenais, Ian (1936–) and Clement, Dick (1937–). Screenonline. British Moving-picture show Plant. Retrieved on 3 September 2011.
  10. ↑ Dick, Sandra. "Fourscore big facts y'all must know nearly Large Tam", 25 August 2010, p. 20.
  11. ↑ "A Rival 007 – It Looks Like Burton", 21 February 1964, p. 13.
  12. ↑ Davis, Victor. "Bail versus Bond", 29 July 1978, p. 4.
  13. ↑ Mann, Roderick. "Why Sean won't at present be back equally 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-nine.
  15. ↑ 15.0 fifteen.ane xv.two fifteen.3 xv.iv 15.5 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 Golden Globe Honor Website. Hollywood Strange Press Association. Retrieved on ii September 2011.
  18. ↑ Best Performance past an Extra in a Supporting Role in a Move Motion picture. Official Golden Globe Honour Website. Hollywood Strange 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'southward Hole-and-corner Service"", Retrovision. Retrieved on v September 2011.
  21. ↑ Armstrong, Vic (seven May 2011). I'm the real Indiana (when I'grand non decorated being James Bond or Superman). Daily Post.
  22. ↑ Reeves, Tony (2001). The Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations. Chicago: A Cappella, p.134. ISBN 978-ane-55652-432-5.
  23. ↑ Salmans, Sandra. "Lavish Lifestyle of a Wheeler-Dealer", 22 February 1985. Retrieved on 6 September 2011.
  24. ↑ Kurchak, Sarah (12 Oct 2015). Did Steven Seagal Interruption Sean Connery's Wrist with Aikido?. Vice.com. Retrieved on 24 November 2015.
  25. ↑ Bettencourt, Scott (1998). "Bail Dorsum in Action Once more". Movie score monthly .
  26. ↑ Error on call to Template:cite web: Parameters url and title must be specified. University of Moving picture Arts and Sciences.
  27. ↑ The Bat Segundo Show: 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 Press, p.112. ISBN 978-0-19-986330-3.

External links

  • Never Say Never Again (1983) at IMDb
  • MGM'due south page on the movie

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