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Never Say Never Once more is the second James Bond 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 operation as British Secret Service agent James Bond. It was released theatrically by Warner Bros.

The film is non considered part of the catechism of the Bond film franchise from EON Productions and United Artists and is not produced by Albert R. Broccoli, despite it currently being handled past the official film serial benefactor, MGM. MGM caused the distribution rights in 1997 after their acquisition of Orion Pictures. The picture show too marks the culmination of a long legal battle between United Artists and Kevin McClory. Its release opposite the franchise Bond film Octopussy (starring Roger Moore) speedily led the media to dub the state of affairs the "Battle of the Bonds".

In November 2013, the McClory Estate 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.

Contents

  • 1 Plot summary
  • 2 Changes to the Bail universe
  • 3 Production
    • 3.i Cast and crew
    • iii.ii Filming
    • 3.iii Music
  • 4 Cast and Characters
  • v Coiffure
  • 6 Comic Adaptation
  • 7 Images
  • 8 Trivia
  • 9 See besides
  • x References
  • xi External links

Plot summary

Beingness the 2nd adaptation of the novel Thunderball, Never Say Never Again follows a like plotline to the before moving-picture show, just with some differences.

The moving-picture show opens with a centre-aged, still still athletic James Bail making his manner through an armed military camp in club to rescue a daughter who has been kidnapped. After killing the kidnappers, Bond lets his guard down, forgetting that the girl might have been subject area 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 set on on the camp is nothing more than than a field grooming exercise using blank armament and fake knives, and one Bond fails because he ends up "dead". A new M is now in office, 1 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 health dispensary in order to "eliminate all those costless radicals" and get back into shape. While there, Bond discovers a mysterious nurse, Fatima Blush, and her patient, who is wrapped in bandages. His suspicions are aroused even further when a thug (Lippe) tries to kill him.

Chroma and her accuse, an American Air Forcefulness airplane pilot named Jack Petachi, are in fact operatives of SPECTRE, a criminal organization run by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Petachi has undergone an operation to alter 1 of his retinas to match the retinal pattern of the American President. Using his position as a pilot, and the president's middle pattern to circumvent security, Petachi infiltrates an American armed forces base in England and orders the dummy warheads in ii cruise missiles replaced with 2 live nuclear warheads, which SPECTRE captures and uses to extort billions of dollars from the governments of the earth.

G reluctantly reactivates the 00 department, and Bail is assigned the chore of tracking down the missing weapons, beginning with a rendezvous with Domino Petachi, the pilot'due south sis, 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 Chroma, and Largo in a game of wits and resources as he attempts to derail SPECTRE'due south scheme.

Changes to the Bond universe

The moving picture makes a few changes to the James Bond universe. MI6 is shown to exist underfunded and understaffed, particularly with regards to Q-Branch, and the graphic symbol 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 moving-picture show also appears to have place in an "alternating universe" in which none of the events of You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty'due south Secret Service, Diamonds Are Forever and the opening sequence of For Your Optics Only take occurred, since Blofeld is live and plain previously unknown to Bail and MI6. Despite sharing many basic similarities with Thunderball, the course of events throughout the picture show are different enough for it to be more than than a directly remake, and the action clearly takes identify at a much later engagement (gimmicky with the film'south product).

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

Production

Never Say Never Once 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 Bond film, to exist called Longitude 78 Due west,[two] which was subsequently abandoned because of the costs involved.[three] Fleming, "always reluctant to allow a expert idea lie idle",[iii] turned this into the novel Thunderball, for which he did not credit either McClory or Whittingham;[4] McClory then took Fleming to the High Courtroom in London for alienation of copyright[4] and the matter was settled in 1963.[2] After Eon Productions started producing the Bond films, it subsequently made a deal with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, so 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 Freedom 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 championship 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 film based on the Thunderball novel merely, and once again the project was deferred.[5]

Towards the end of the 1970s developments were reported on the project under the name James Bond of the Hugger-mugger Service,[5] merely when producer Jack Schwartzman became involved and cleared a number of the legal issues that yet surrounded the project[ane] he brought on lath 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 piece of work on the script; even so Mankiewicz declined as he felt he was nether a moral obligation to Cubby Broccoli.[8] Connery so hired British telly writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais[nine] to undertake re-writes, although they went uncredited for their efforts considering of a restriction by the Writers Guild of America.[half dozen]

The film underwent 1 terminal change in title: later on 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 title Never Say Never Again, referring to her husband's vow[ten] and the producers acknowledged her contribution past listing on the end credits "Title "Never Say Never Once more" past: Micheline Connery". A concluding attempt past Fleming'southward trustees to block the pic was fabricated in the High Courtroom in London in the leap of 1983, but this was thrown out past the court and Never Say Never Once more was permitted to keep.[5]

Cast and coiffure

When producer Kevin McClory had first planned the film in 1964 he held initial talks with Richard Burton for the part of Bond,[eleven] although the projection came to nothing 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 office of Blofeld, Trevor Howard to play G and Richard Attenborough equally director.[six]

In 1978 the working title James Bail of the Hush-hush Service was being used and Connery was in the frame again, potentially going head-to-head with the side by side Eon Bond film, Moonraker.[12] Past 1980, with legal bug again causing the project to founder,[six] Connery thought himself unlikely to play the role, equally he stated in an interview in the Sun Express: "when I get-go worked on the script with Len I had no thought of actually being in the film".[13] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bond; Connery agreed, request (and getting) a fee of $iii meg, ($7 1000000 in 2016 dollars) a percent of the profits, as well as casting and script approving.[6] Subsequent to Connery reprising the part, the script has several references to Bond'southward advancing years – playing on Connery being 52 at the time of filming[half dozen] – and academic Jeremy Black has pointed out that there are other aspects of age and disillusionment in the film, such as the Shrubland'due south porter referring to Bond's auto ("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 film, Maximillian Largo, Connery suggested Klaus Maria Brandauer, the lead of the 1981 Academy Award-winning Hungarian pic Mephisto.[7] Through the same road came Max von Sydow equally Ernst Stavro Blofeld,[fifteen] although he all the same retained his Eon-originated white cat in the film.[xvi] For the femme fatale, managing director Irvin Kershner selected onetime model and Playboy cover girl Barbara Carrera to play Fatima Blush – the name coming from 1 of the early on scripts of Thunderball.[six] Carrera'due south performance as Fatima Blush earned her a Gilt World Award nomination for Best Supporting Extra,[17] which she lost to Cher for her office in Silkwood.[18] 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 every bit the Leiter role was never remembered past audiences, using a blackness Leiter might make him more than memorable.[7] Others bandage included comedian Rowan Atkinson, who would later parody Bail in his office of Johnny English language.[xix]

Former Eon Productions' editor and director of On Her Majesty'south Secret Service, Peter R. Hunt, was approached to direct the motion-picture show 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 so hired. A number of the coiffure from the 1981 movie Raiders of the Lost Ark were also appointed, including first assistant director David Tomblin, director of photography Douglas Slocombe and production designers Philip Harrison and Stephen Grimes.[vii] [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 2 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 city of Almería was also used every bit a location.[21] Largo'due south Palmyran fortress was really 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 gunkhole, now endemic by Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, has subsequently been renamed the Kingdom 5KR.[23] Main photography finished at Elstree Studios where interior shots were filmed.[half-dozen] Elstree besides housed the Tears of Allah underwater cavern, which took three months to construct.[half-dozen] Most of the filming was completed in the spring of 1983, although there was some additional shooting during the summer of 1983.[vii]

Production on the film was troubled,[15] with Connery taking on many of the product duties with banana director David Tomblin.[half dozen] Manager Irvin Kershner was disquisitional of producer Jack Schwartzman, saying that whilst he was a good businessman, "he didn't have the experience of a flick producer".[six] After the production ran out of coin, Schwartzman had to fund further production out of his ain pocket and later admitted he had underestimated the amount the film would cost to make.[fifteen]

Steven Seagal, who was the fight choreographer for this film, broke Connery'south wrist while training. On an episode of The This evening Testify 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 Bond films were not nowadays in Never Say Never Again for legal reasons. These included the gun barrel sequence, where a screen total 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.[vii] A pre-credits sequence was filmed but non used;[15] instead the film opens with the credits run over the meridian of the opening sequence of Bail on a training mission.[six]

Music

The music for Never Say Never Once again was written by Michel Legrand, who equanimous a score like to his work as a jazz pianist.[25] The score has been criticised as "anachronistic and misjudged",[6] "bizarrely intermittent"[15] and "the well-nigh disappointing feature of the picture".[vii] Legrand likewise 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 Heed"[26]—and was performed by Lani Hall[7] 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, but the song—an unsolicited submission—was passed over given Legrand's contractual obligations with the music.[28]

Cast 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 pic adaptations in various D'artagnan comic magazines during the '60s and '70s, adjusted Never Say Never Over again in 1984.

Images

Trivia

  • This is the only Bond movie to be directed by an American. The film'due south director, Irvin Kershner, had previously directed Sean Connery in A Fine Madness.
  • The movie title comes from Sean Connery's 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 send, is a translation of "the Disco Volante", the proper name of Largo's ship in Thunderball. In this picture, 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 still the base of underwater operations by Largo. In real life, the ship used in long shots was known as the "Nabila" and was built for Saudi billionaire, Adnan Kashoggi.
  • The casino where Bond and Largo go head to caput in a videogame was called Casino Royale.
    • This scene also prevented author John Gardner from having a somewhat like scene involving Bond playing a estimator game over a LAN in Gardner'south novel Part of Honour. Bond was supposed to exist playing a simulation of "The Boxing of Waterloo", this was later changed to a different blazon of game involving "The Battle of Bunker Hill". Interestingly, the Boxing of Waterloo would also play a office in the afterward official Bail film, The Living Daylights.
  • Originally, both this film and Octopussy were to exist 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 2 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 film opens with a screenful of "007" symbols instead. When the soundtrack for the motion picture 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 Hunt for Cherry October; the role eventually went to Connery.
  • Rowan Atkinson fabricated his film debut in this movie. Atkinson, who later became famous for the Mr. 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.

Run across also

  • The controversy over Thunderball.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Pfeiffer, Lee; Worrall, Dave (1998). The Essential Bond. London: Boxtree Ltd, p.213. ISBN 978-0-7522-2477-0.
  2. ↑ 2.0 two.1 Poliakoff, Keith (2000). "License to Copyright – The Ongoing Dispute Over the Ownership of James Bail". Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal eighteen: 387–436. Benjamin N. Cardozo Schoolhouse of Police force. Retrieved on 3 September 2011. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "Poliakoff (2000)" defined multiple times with different content
  3. ↑ 3.0 iii.ane Chancellor, Henry (2005). James Bail: The Man and His World. London: John Murray, pp.226. ISBN 978-0-7195-6815-2.
  4. ↑ iv.0 iv.1 Macintyre, Ben (2008). For Yours Optics Only. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, p.198-99. ISBN 978-0-7475-9527-4.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.ane v.ii 5.iii 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. ↑ 6.00 half-dozen.01 half dozen.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 half-dozen.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 half-dozen.10 6.11 6.12 vi.xiii 6.fourteen 6.xv 6.16 Barnes, Alan; Hearn, Marcus (2001). Kiss Kiss Bang! Bang!: the Unofficial James Bail Film Companion. Batsford Books, pp.152-56. ISBN 978-0-7134-8182-2.
  7. ↑ seven.0 7.1 seven.ii 7.3 vii.4 vii.5 7.6 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 as 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 Constitute. Retrieved on three September 2011.
  10. ↑ Dick, Sandra. "Eighty big facts you must know nigh Large Tam", 25 Baronial 2010, p. 20.
  11. ↑ "A Rival 007 – It Looks Like Burton", 21 February 1964, p. xiii.
  12. ↑ Davis, Victor. "Bond versus Bail", 29 July 1978, p. 4.
  13. ↑ Isle of mann, Roderick. "Why Sean won't now exist back equally 007 ...", 23 March 1980, p. 23.
  14. ↑ Black, Jeremy (2005). The Politics of James Bail: from Fleming'south Novel to the Big Screen. Academy of Nebraska Press, p.58. ISBN 978-0-8032-6240-9.
  15. ↑ 15.0 fifteen.i 15.ii 15.3 fifteen.four 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 Bail Films. New York: I.B. Tauris, p.135. ISBN 978-1-84511-515-ix.
  17. ↑ Barbara Carrera. Official Gilt Globe Award Website. Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Retrieved on 2 September 2011.
  18. ↑ Best Operation past an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Movie. 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's Secret Service"", Retrovision. Retrieved on five September 2011.
  21. ↑ Armstrong, Vic (seven May 2011). I'm the real Indiana (when I'chiliad non busy being James Bond or Superman). Daily Postal service.
  22. ↑ Reeves, Tony (2001). The Worldwide Guide to Picture show Locations. Chicago: A Cappella, p.134. ISBN 978-1-55652-432-five.
  23. ↑ Salmans, Sandra. "Lavish Lifestyle of a Wheeler-Dealer", 22 Feb 1985. Retrieved on 6 September 2011.
  24. ↑ Kurchak, Sarah (12 Oct 2015). Did Steven Seagal Break Sean Connery's Wrist with Aikido?. Vice.com. Retrieved on 24 November 2015.
  25. ↑ Bettencourt, Scott (1998). "Bond Dorsum in Action Once more". Picture score monthly .
  26. ↑ Error on call to Template:cite spider web: Parameters url and championship must exist specified. University of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
  27. ↑ The Bat Segundo Show: Bonnie Tyler (12 September 2008). Tyler likewise discusses this in the documentary James Bail's 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's page on the flick

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