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Never Say Never Again is the second James Bail theatrical film not produced by EON Productions and the second motion-picture show accommodation of the story Thunderball. Released in 1983, it stars Sean Connery in his seventh and final film performance every bit British Clandestine Service agent James Bail. It was released theatrically by Warner Bros.

The motion picture is not considered part of the canon of the Bond film franchise from EON Productions and United Artists and is not produced by Albert R. Broccoli, despite it currently being handled by the official motion-picture show serial distributor, MGM. MGM caused the distribution rights in 1997 afterwards their acquisition of Orion Pictures. The pic also marks the culmination of a long legal boxing between United Artists and Kevin McClory. Its release reverse 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 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

  • one Plot summary
  • 2 Changes to the Bond universe
  • 3 Production
    • 3.ane Cast and coiffure
    • 3.2 Filming
    • three.3 Music
  • four Cast and Characters
  • 5 Coiffure
  • 6 Comic Adaptation
  • 7 Images
  • 8 Trivia
  • ix See also
  • 10 References
  • 11 External links

Plot summary

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

The flick opens with a centre-aged, withal still able-bodied James Bond making his mode through an armed military 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 field to Stockholm syndrome (in which a kidnapped person comes to identify with his/her kidnappers) and is stabbed to death by her. Or and so it seems.

In fact, the attack on the army camp is nothing more than a field training exercise using bare ammunition and imitation knives, and one Bond fails because he ends upwardly "expressionless". A new M is now in office, one who sees little apply for the 00-department. In fact, Bail has spent most of his recent fourth dimension pedagogy, 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 go back into shape. While in that location, 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.

Blush and her charge, an American Air Force 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 1 of his retinas to match the retinal design of the American President. Using his position as a pilot, and the president'due south eye pattern to circumvent security, Petachi infiltrates an American war machine 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 section, and Bail is assigned the task of tracking downward the missing weapons, beginning with a rendezvous with Domino Petachi, the pilot's 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'south scheme.

Changes to the Bond universe

The film 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 past the proper name "Algernon", and is presumably a unlike private than the Q in the official Bond films (whose name is Major Boothroyd). The motion picture also appears to accept place in an "alternating universe" in which none of the events of You Just Alive Twice, On Her Majesty'south Secret Service, Diamonds Are Forever and the opening sequence of For Your Eyes Simply accept occurred, since Blofeld is live and apparently previously unknown to Bond and MI6. Despite sharing many basic similarities with Thunderball, the course of events throughout the moving picture are dissimilar enough for information technology to be more than than a direct remake, and the activeness clearly takes identify at a much later date (gimmicky with the motion-picture show'southward production).

The flick is notable for depicting Felix Leiter, Bond's CIA colleague, as an African-American, something which would non occur in the EON series until Casino Royale in 2006. The film too makes a major departure from official continuity by ending with Bail indicating his intention to retire from MI6 - while Bond had considered retirement in On Her Majesty'southward Hugger-mugger Service, he is shown to be unsure of the decision and afterwards 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 show, George Lazenby was in fact the first Bond to interruption the 4th wall well-nigh 15 years earlier when he told the audition, "This never happened to the other fellow" (referring to Connery, the homo he had replaced every bit Bail).

Product

Never Say Never 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 flick, to be called Longitude 78 West,[2] which was later abandoned because of the costs involved.[three] Fleming, "ever reluctant to let a adept thought lie idle",[three] 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 alienation of copyright[4] and the matter was settled in 1963.[2] Subsequently Eon Productions started producing the Bond films, information technology subsequently made a bargain with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, and then not make any farther version of the novel for a period of ten years following the release of the Eon-produced version in 1965.[v]

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 product and, with the working championship Warhead, he brought writer Len Deighton together with Sean Connery to work on a script.[half dozen] The script ran into difficulties after accusations from Eon Productions that the project had gone across copyright restrictions, which confined McClory to a motion picture based on the Thunderball novel only, and once once again the project was deferred.[5]

Towards the end of the 1970s developments were reported on the project nether the name James Bond of the Undercover Service,[5] simply when producer Jack Schwartzman became involved and cleared a number of the legal issues that still surrounded the projection[i] 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; still 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.[six]

The motion picture underwent i final change in title: later on Connery had finished filming Diamonds Are Forever he had pledged that he would "never" play Bond again.[6] Connery'southward married woman, Micheline, suggested the title Never Say Never Again, referring to her married man's vow[10] and the producers acknowledged her contribution past listing on the end credits "Title "Never Say Never Once again" past: Micheline Connery". A final endeavour by Fleming'south trustees to cake the picture was fabricated in the Loftier Courtroom in London in the spring of 1983, but this was thrown out by the court and Never Say Never Once again was permitted to proceed.[v]

Bandage and crew

When producer Kevin McClory had first planned the film in 1964 he held initial talks with Richard Burton for the office of Bond,[11] although the projection 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 press, including Orson Welles for the role of Blofeld, Trevor Howard to play M and Richard Attenborough as director.[half dozen]

In 1978 the working title James Bond of the Hugger-mugger Service was existence used and Connery was in the frame once again, potentially going caput-to-head with the side by side Eon Bond picture, Moonraker.[12] By 1980, with legal issues again causing the project to founder,[half-dozen] Connery thought himself unlikely to play the function, equally he stated in an interview in the Sunday Express: "when I first 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, asking (and getting) a fee of $3 million, ($7 million in 2016 dollars) a percentage of the profits, as well as casting and script approval.[six] Subsequent to Connery reprising the part, the script has several references to Bond's advancing years – playing on Connery being 52 at the fourth dimension of filming[6] – and academic Jeremy Black has pointed out that in that location are other aspects of historic period and disillusionment in the moving picture, such every bit 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 section and Q with his reduced budgets.[14]

For the principal villain in the picture show, Maximillian Largo, Connery suggested Klaus Maria Brandauer, the lead of the 1981 Academy Award-winning Hungarian film Mephisto.[seven] Through the same road came Max von Sydow as Ernst Stavro Blofeld,[15] although he yet retained his Eon-originated white cat in the flick.[xvi] For the femme fatale, director Irvin Kershner selected one-time model and Playboy cover girl Barbara Carrera to play Fatima Blush – the proper name coming from i of the early scripts of Thunderball.[half dozen] Carrera'due south performance as Fatima Blush earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination for All-time Supporting Actress,[17] which she lost to Cher for her role in Silkwood.[xviii] Micheline Connery, Sean'southward 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 part of Felix Leiter, Connery spoke with Bernie Casey, proverb that every bit the Leiter office was never remembered by audiences, using a black Leiter might make him more memorable.[vii] Others cast included comedian Rowan Atkinson, who would later parody Bond in his role of Johnny English.[nineteen]

Onetime Eon Productions' editor and director of On Her Majesty's Hush-hush Service, Peter R. Hunt, was approached to straight the moving picture but declined due to his previous work with Eon.[20] Irvin Kershner, who had achieved success in 1980 with The Empire Strikes Back was so hired. A number of the coiffure from the 1981 motion-picture show 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.[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 Again began on 27 September 1982 on the French Riviera for two months[half-dozen] before moving to Nassau, the Commonwealth of the bahamas in mid-November[7] where filming took place at Clifton Pier, which was also one of the locations used in Thunderball.[vi] 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'due south ship, the Flying Saucer, the yacht Nabila, owned by Saudi billionaire, Adnan Khashoggi, was used. The boat, now owned by 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 likewise housed the Tears of Allah underwater cavern, which took three months to construct.[six] Most of the filming was completed in the spring of 1983, although at that place was some additional shooting during the summertime of 1983.[7]

Production on the movie was troubled,[15] with Connery taking on many of the production duties with assistant managing director David Tomblin.[6] Managing director Irvin Kershner was critical of producer Jack Schwartzman, saying that whilst he was a good man of affairs, "he didn't have the experience of a film producer".[6] Afterward the production ran out of money, Schwartzman had to fund farther production out of his ain pocket and later admitted he had underestimated the corporeality the film would cost to make.[15]

Steven Seagal, who was the fight choreographer for this film, broke Connery'southward wrist while grooming. On an episode of The Tonight 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 non 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 tune.[seven] A pre-credits sequence was filmed but not used;[15] instead the film opens with the credits run over the top of the opening sequence of Bail on a training mission.[half-dozen]

Music

The music for Never Say Never Again was written past Michel Legrand, who composed a score similar to his work as a jazz pianist.[25] The score has been criticised as "anachronistic and misjudged",[vi] "bizarrely intermittent"[15] and "the most disappointing feature of the moving-picture show".[7] Legrand also wrote the primary theme "Never Say Never Again", which featured lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman—who had as well worked with Legrand in the Academy Honor winning song, "The Windmills of Your Mind"[26]—and was performed by Lani Hall[7] after Bonnie Tyler, who disliked the song, had reluctantly declined.[27]

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

Bandage and Characters

Crew

MGM DVD cover.

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

Comic Accommodation

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

Images

Trivia

  • This is the only Bond movie to be directed past an American. The film'southward manager, Irvin Kershner, had previously directed Sean Connery in A Fine Madness.
  • The movie title comes from Sean Connery's argument when asked if he would ever play Bond again after Diamonds Are Forever, to which he replied "Never Again".
  • The Flying Saucer, Largo's ship, 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 clearly based on a military cruiser hull, with a helipad and scale which dramatically dwarf the vessel nowadays in the official film continuity. The Disco is still the base of underwater operations past 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 Bail and Largo go caput to caput 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's novel Role of Honour. Bond was supposed to be playing a simulation of "The Battle of Waterloo", this was later on changed to a different blazon of game involving "The Battle of Bunker Hill". Interestingly, the Battle of Waterloo would also play a part in the later official Bond film, The Living Daylights.
  • Originally, both this film 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, information technology was decided to carve up 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 Bail series, 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 cast as Marko Ramius in The Hunt for Ruby Oct; the office eventually went to Connery.
  • Rowan Atkinson made his moving picture debut in this movie. Atkinson, who later on 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 Bail parody in Johnny English.

See also

  • The controversy over Thunderball.

References

  1. ↑ one.0 1.one Pfeiffer, Lee; Worrall, Dave (1998). The Essential Bond. 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 Buying of James Bond". Cardozo Arts & Amusement Law Journal 18: 387–436. Benjamin Due north. Cardozo School of Law. Retrieved on 3 September 2011. Cite mistake: Invalid <ref> tag; proper noun "Poliakoff (2000)" defined multiple times with different content
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chancellor, Henry (2005). James Bail: The Human being and His Earth. London: John Murray, pp.226. ISBN 978-0-7195-6815-2.
  4. ↑ four.0 four.one Macintyre, Ben (2008). For Yours Eyes Just. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, p.198-99. ISBN 978-0-7475-9527-4.
  5. ↑ v.0 five.one 5.2 5.3 Chapman, James (2009). Licence to Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bail Films. New York: I.B. Tauris, p.184. ISBN 978-1-84511-515-nine.
  6. ↑ 6.00 6.01 6.02 half-dozen.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 6.11 vi.12 half dozen.13 half dozen.14 6.xv half-dozen.sixteen Barnes, Alan; Hearn, Marcus (2001). Buss Kiss Bang! Blindside!: the Unofficial James Bond Movie Companion. Batsford Books, pp.152-56. ISBN 978-0-7134-8182-2.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 seven.2 7.three 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 seven.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 as a Mankiewicz. Lexington, KY: Academy Press of Kentucky, p.150. ISBN 978-0-8131-3605-9.
  9. ↑ La Frenais, Ian (1936–) and Cloudless, Dick (1937–). Screenonline. British Film Institute. Retrieved on 3 September 2011.
  10. ↑ Dick, Sandra. "Eighty big facts you must know almost Big Tam", 25 August 2010, p. 20.
  11. ↑ "A Rival 007 – It Looks Like Burton", 21 February 1964, p. thirteen.
  12. ↑ Davis, Victor. "Bail versus Bond", 29 July 1978, p. 4.
  13. ↑ Isle of 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 Large Screen. University of Nebraska Press, p.58. ISBN 978-0-8032-6240-ix.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.i 15.2 15.3 fifteen.4 xv.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 Aureate World Award Website. Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Retrieved on 2 September 2011.
  18. ↑ Best Functioning by an Actress in a Supporting Part in a Motility Picture. Official Gold Globe Laurels Website. Hollywood Strange Press Association. Retrieved on 3 September 2011.
  19. ↑ Johnny English language. Penguin Readers Factsheets (2003). Retrieved on v September 2011.
  20. ↑ "Director Peter Hunt – "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"", Retrovision. Retrieved on 5 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 Film Locations. Chicago: A Cappella, p.134. ISBN 978-1-55652-432-v.
  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 Break Sean Connery's Wrist with Aikido?. Vice.com. Retrieved on 24 Nov 2015.
  25. ↑ Bettencourt, Scott (1998). "Bond Back in Action Once again". Film score monthly .
  26. ↑ Mistake on call to Template:cite web: Parameters url and championship must be specified. Academy of Flick 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 Academy Press, p.112. ISBN 978-0-19-986330-3.

External links

  • Never Say Never Again (1983) at IMDb
  • MGM's page on the picture

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