Home  ›  Thunderball Vs Never Say Never Again

Thunderball Vs Never Say Never Again

Written By sábado, 19 de março de 2022 Add Comment Edit

1983 James Bond picture directed by Irvin Kershner

Never Say Never Again
A poster at the top of which are the words "SEAN CONNERY as JAMES BOND in". Below this is a head and shoulders image of man in a dinner suit. Inset either side of him, are smaller scale depictions of two women, one blonde and one brunette. Underneath the picture are the words "NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN"

British cinema poster past Renato Casaro
Directed by Irvin Kershner
Screenplay by Lorenzo Semple Jr.
Story by
  • Kevin McClory
  • Jack Whittingham
  • Ian Fleming
Based on Thunderball
by Ian Fleming
Produced by Jack Schwartzman
Starring
  • Sean Connery
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer
  • Max von Sydow
  • Barbara Carrera
  • Kim Basinger
  • Bernie Casey
  • Alec McCowen
  • Edward Fox
Cinematography Douglas Slocombe
Edited by Ian Crafford
Music by Michel Legrand

Production
company

Taliafilm
Distributed by
  • Warner Bros. (U.S.)
  • Columbia-EMI-Warner Distributors (U.K.)[1]

Release dates
  • seven October 1983 (1983-x-07) (U.S.)
  • 15 Dec 1983 (1983-12-xv) (U.K.)

Running time

 134 minutes
Countries
  • Great britain
  • U.s.a.
Language English
Budget $36 million
Box part $160 million[2]

Never Say Never Again is a 1983 spy movie directed past Irvin Kershner. The pic is based on the 1961 James Bond novel Thunderball by Ian Fleming, which in plough was based on an original story by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Fleming. The novel had been previously adapted in a 1965 pic of the same proper name. Never Say Never Over again was not produced by Eon Productions, but by Jack Schwartzman's Taliafilm. The film was executive produced by Kevin McClory, one of the original writers of the Thunderball storyline. McClory retained the filming rights of the novel following a long legal battle dating from the 1960s.

Sean Connery played the part of Bond for the seventh and final time, marking his return to the character 12 years after Diamonds Are Forever. The moving picture's title is a reference to Connery's reported announcement in 1971 that he would "never" play that part once more. As Connery was 52 at the fourth dimension of filming, although almost iii years younger than incumbent Bail Roger Moore, the storyline features an aging Bail who is brought back into activeness to investigate the theft of two nuclear weapons by SPECTRE. Filming locations included French republic, Spain, the Bahamas and Elstree Studios in the United Kingdom.

Never Say Never Once more was released past Warner Bros. on 7 October 1983, and opened to positive reviews, with the acting of Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer singled out for praise equally more emotionally resonant than the typical Bail films of the day. The film was a commercial success, grossing $160 million at the box office, although less overall than the Eon-produced Octopussy, released earlier the same year.

Plot [edit]

Afterward MI6 agent James Bond, 007, fails a routine training practice, his superior, M, orders Bond to a wellness clinic outside London to get back into shape. While there, Bond witnesses a mysterious nurse named Fatima Chroma giving a sadomasochistic beating to a patient in a nearby room. The man's face up is bandaged and after Blush finishes her beating, Bond sees the patient using a motorcar which scans his middle. Bond is seen past Blush, who sends an assassin, Lippe, to kill him in the clinic gym, but Bond manages to kill Lippe.

Chroma and her charge, a heroin-addicted U.s. Air Strength pilot named Jack Petachi, are operatives of SPECTRE, a criminal organisation run by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Petachi has undergone an operation on his right center to make it match the retinal pattern of the US President, which he uses to circumvent iris recognition security at RAF Station Swadley, an American war machine base in England. While doing so, he replaces the dummy warheads of 2 AGM-86B cruise missiles with live nuclear warheads; SPECTRE then steals the warheads, intending to extort billions of dollars from NATO governments. Chroma murders Petachi past causing his car to crash and explode, covering SPECTRE's tracks.

Foreign Secretary Lord Ambrose orders a reluctant M to reactivate the double-0 section, and Bail is tasked with tracking down the missing weapons. Bail follows a lead to the Bahamas where he meets Domino Petachi, the airplane pilot's sister, and her wealthy lover Maximillian Largo, who is SPECTRE'due south meridian agent.

Bond is informed by Nigel Small-Fawcett of the British High Committee that Largo's yacht is now heading for Nice, France. There, Bail joins forces with his French contact Nicole, and his CIA counterpart and friend, Felix Leiter. Bond goes to a wellness and dazzler centre where he poses as an employee and, while giving Domino a massage, is informed past her that Largo is hosting an result at a casino that evening. At the clemency event, Largo and Bond play a 3-D video game called Domination; the losing thespian of each plow receives a series of electric shocks of increasing intensity in proportion to the amount wagered. After losing a few games, Bond ultimately wins, and while dancing with Domino, he informs her that her brother had been killed on Largo's orders. Bond returns to his villa to find Nicole killed by Blush. After a vehicle hunt on his Q-branch motorbike, Bond finds himself in an deadfall and is eventually captured past Chroma. She admits that she is impressed with him, and forces Bail to declare in writing that she is his "Number One" sexual partner. Bond distracts her with promises, and then uses his Q-branch-issue fountain pen gun to impale Blush with an explosive sprint.

Bond and Leiter attempt to board Largo's motor yacht, the Flying Saucer, in search of the missing nuclear warheads. Bond finds Domino. He attempts to brand Largo jealous past kissing Domino in forepart of a two-way mirror. Largo becomes enraged, traps Bond and takes him and Domino to Palmyra, Largo'southward base of operations in North Africa. Largo coldly punishes Domino for her betrayal by selling her to some passing Arabs. Bond subsequently escapes from his prison and rescues her.

Domino and Bond reunite with Leiter on a U.S. Navy submarine. After the starting time warhead is found and defused in Washington, D.C., they track Largo to a location known as the Tears of Allah, beneath a desert oasis on the Ethiopian coast. Bond and Leiter infiltrate the hugger-mugger facility and a gun battle erupts between Leiter'southward team and Largo'south men in the temple. In the confusion, Largo makes a getaway with the second warhead. Bond catches and fights Largo underwater. Merely equally Largo tries to use a spear gun to shoot Bond, he is shot with a spear gun past Domino, taking revenge for her brother's death. Bond then defuses the nuclear bomb underwater, saving the world. Bail retires from duty and returns to the Commonwealth of the bahamas with Domino, vowing never again to be a secret agent.

Cast [edit]

  • Sean Connery as James Bond, MI6 agent 007.
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo, a billionaire businessman and SPECTRE Number ane, SPECTRE's senior-nearly agent. He is based on the character Emilio Largo in Thunderball
  • Max von Sydow as Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE.
  • Barbara Carrera equally Fatima Blush; SPECTRE Number 12, assigned to hunt downwards and impale Bond. She is based on Fiona Volpe in Thunderball.
  • Kim Basinger as Domino Petachi, sister of Jack Petachi and girlfriend/mistress of Maximillian Largo. The surname was changed to Petrescu for the Italian release of the film.
  • Bernie Casey as Felix Leiter, Bond'due south CIA contact and friend.
  • Alec McCowen as "Q" Algy (Algernon), Double-0 section Quartermaster who issues specialised equipment to Bail.
  • Edward Flim-flam as "One thousand", Bond's superior at MI6.
  • Pamela Salem equally Miss Moneypenny, M's secretarial assistant.
  • Rowan Atkinson equally Nigel Small-Fawcett, Foreign Role representative in the Bahama islands.
  • Valerie Leon as Lady in Bahamas, whom Bond seduces.
  • Milow Kirek as Dr. Kovacs, a nuclear physicist working for SPECTRE.
  • Pat Roach as Lippe, a SPECTRE assassin who tries to kill Bond at the clinic.
  • Anthony Precipitous equally Lord Ambrose, Foreign Secretary who orders Thou to reactivate the Double-0 section.
  • Prunella Gee every bit Nurse Patricia Fearing, a physiotherapist at the dispensary.
  • Gavan O'Herlihy as Captain Jack Petachi, a USAF airplane pilot used past SPECTRE to steal the nuclear missiles, and Domino Petachi's blood brother.

Production [edit]

Never Say Never Again had its origins in the early 1960s, following the controversy over the 1961 Thunderball novel.[3] Fleming had worked with independent producer Kevin McClory and scriptwriter Jack Whittingham on a script for a potential Bond motion picture, to be called Longitude 78 W,[4] which was subsequently abandoned considering of the costs involved.[5] Fleming, "always reluctant to let a good thought lie idle",[5] turned this into the novel Thunderball, for which he did not credit either McClory or Whittingham;[6] McClory and so took Fleming to the High Courtroom in London for alienation of copyright[7] and the matter was settled in 1963.[four] Later Eon Productions started producing the Bail films, it after made a bargain with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, and 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.[8]

In the mid-1970s McClory again started working on a projection to bring a Thunderball accommodation to production and, with the working championship Warhead, he brought writer Len Deighton together with Sean Connery to work on a script.[ix] A lawsuit with Eon Productions concluded in a ruling that McClory owned the sole rights to SPECTRE and Blofeld, forcing Eon to remove them from The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).[10] The script initially focused on SPECTRE shooting down airplanes over the Bermuda Triangle before taking over Freedom Island and Ellis Isle as staging areas for an invasion of New York City through the sewers under Wall Street. The script was purchased by Paramount Pictures in 1978.[10] The script ran into difficulties after accusations from Danjaq and United Artists that the project had gone across copyright restrictions, which confined McClory to a film based merely on the novel Thunderball, and once again the project was deferred.[eight]

Towards the end of the 1970s developments were reported on the project under the proper noun James Bond of the Undercover Service,[8] merely when producer Jack Schwartzman became involved in 1980 and cleared a number of the legal issues that still surrounded the project[ten] [three] he decided confronting using Deighton's script. The projection returned to the original nuclear terrorism plot of the original Thunderball in society to avoid some other lawsuit from Danjaq and after McClory saw Jimmy Carter mention the issue in a 1980 presidential debate with Ronald Reagan.[11] Schwartzman brought on board scriptwriter Lorenzo Semple, Jr.[12] to piece of work on the screenplay, who Schwartzman wanted to make the screenplay "somewhere in the middle" between his campier projects such as Batman and his more serious projects such as 3 Days of the Condor.[ten] 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; however, Mankiewicz declined as he felt he was nether a moral obligation to Eon'southward Albert R. Broccoli.[13] Semple Jr. ultimately left the project after Irvin Kershner was hired equally managing director and Schwartzman began cutting out the "big numbers" from his script to save on the upkeep.[10] Connery so hired British television writers Dick Cloudless and Ian La Frenais[xi] to undertake re-writes, although they went uncredited for their efforts despite much of the concluding shooting script being theirs. This was because of a restriction by the Writers Guild of America.[14] Clement and La Frenais continued rewriting during the production, often altering information technology from day to day.[ten]

The flick underwent one terminal alter in title: afterward Connery had finished filming Diamonds Are Forever he had pledged that he would "never" play Bond over again.[9] Connery's wife, Micheline, suggested the title Never Say Never Once more, referring to her hubby'south vow[15] and the producers acknowledged her contribution by listing on the cease credits "Title Never Say Never Again by Micheline Connery". A final attempt by Fleming's trustees to block the flick was made in the High Court in London in the bound of 1983, merely this was thrown out by the court and Never Say Never Again was permitted to continue.[16]

Cast and coiffure [edit]

When producer Kevin McClory had first planned the film in 1964, he held initial talks with Richard Burton for the part of Bond,[17] 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 part of Blofeld, Trevor Howard to play M and Richard Attenborough equally director.[nine]

In 1978, the working championship James Bail of the Hugger-mugger Service was being used and Connery was in the frame once again, potentially going caput-to-caput with the next Eon Bond moving picture, Moonraker.[18] By 1980, with legal issues once more causing the project to founder,[19] Connery thought himself unlikely to play the part, as he stated in an interview in the Sunday Express: "When I first worked on the script with Len I had no thought of really beingness in the film."[xx] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bond; Connery agreed, negotiating a fee of $iii 1000000 ($viii million in 2020 dollars[21]), casting and script approval, and a per centum of the profits.[22] Subsequent to Connery reprising the office, Semple contradistinct the script to include several references to Bond's advancing years – playing on Connery being 52 at the fourth dimension of filming[22] – and bookish Jeremy Black has pointed out that at that place are other aspects of age and disillusionment in the pic, such equally the Shrubland's porter referring to Bond'due south car ("They don't make them like that anymore"), the new 1000 having no use for the 00 section and Q with his reduced budgets.[23] Originally Semple wanted to emphasize Bond'due south age even further, writing the script to include him in semi-retirement working aboard a Scottish fishing trawler hunting Soviet Navy submarines in the Northward Sea.[10] Connery's casting was formally announced in March 1983. He trained with Steven Seagal to aid arrive shape for the product.[ten]

For the master villain in the film, Maximillian Largo, Connery suggested Klaus Maria Brandauer, the atomic number 82 of the 1981 University Award-winning Hungarian motion-picture show Mephisto.[24] Through the same road came Max von Sydow as Ernst Stavro Blofeld,[25] although he still retained his Eon-originated white true cat in the pic.[26] For the femme fatale, director Irvin Kershner selected onetime model and Playboy encompass girl Barbara Carrera to play Fatima Chroma – the name coming from one of the early scripts of Thunderball.[14] Carrera said she modeled her performance on the Hindu goddess Kali, and to "mix that in with a little bit of blackness widow and a footling chip of praying mantis."[10] Carrera'south performance as Fatima Blush earned her a Golden Earth Award nomination for Best Supporting Extra,[27] which she lost to Cher for her role in Silkwood.[28] Micheline Connery, Sean's wife, had met up-and-coming extra Kim Basinger at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London and suggested her to Connery, and he agreed after Dalila Di Lazzaro refused the Domino role. For the function of Felix Leiter, Connery spoke with Bernie Casey, saying that equally the Leiter role was never remembered by audiences, using a black Leiter might make him more memorable.[24] Others cast included comedian Rowan Atkinson, who would afterwards parody Bail in his office of Johnny English in 2003.[29] Atkinson's character was added by Clement and La Frenais later the production had already started in order to provide the film with a comic relief.[10] Edward Fox was cast as M in order to portray the character equally a young technocrat in contrast to the older portrayal by Bernard Lee, and to parody the Thatcher ministry's upkeep cuts to regime services.[ten]

Connery wanted to convince Richard Donner to direct the film, simply subsequently meeting Donner decided he disliked the script.[ten] Former Eon Productions' editor and director of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Peter R. Chase, was approached to direct the film but declined due to his previous work with Eon.[30] Irvin Kershner, who had previously worked with Connery on A Fine Madness (1966), and had achieved success in 1980 with The Empire Strikes Back was then hired. A number of the crew from the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark were as well appointed, including first banana manager David Tomblin, managing director of photography Douglas Slocombe, second unit of measurement director Mickey Moore and product designers Philip Harrison and Stephen Grimes.[24] [31]

Filming [edit]

A large, sleek ship is moored at a quayside

The Kingdom 5KR which acted every bit Largo'southward ship, the Flying Saucer

Filming for Never Say Never Once again began on 27 September 1982 on the French Riviera for ii months[14] before moving to Nassau, the Commonwealth of the bahamas in mid-November[12] where filming took place at Clifton Pier, which was also i of the locations used in Thunderball.[32] Largo'due south Palmyran fortress was really historic Fort Carré in Antibes.[33] Largo'southward send, the Flying Saucer, was portrayed by the yacht Kingdom 5KR, and then owned by Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi and called the Nabila.[34] The underwater scenes were filmed past Ricou Browning, who had coordinated the underwater scenes in the original Thunderball.[x] Principal photography finished at Elstree Studios where interior shots were filmed.[32] Elstree also housed the Tears of Allah underwater cavern, which took three months to construct, while the Shrublands health spa was filmed at Luton Hoo.[32] [10] About of the filming was completed in the bound of 1983, although at that place was some additional shooting during the summer of 1983.[12]

Production on the motion-picture show was troubled,[35] with Connery taking on many of the production duties with assistant managing director David Tomblin.[32] Director Irvin Kershner was critical of producer Jack Schwartzman, saying that, while he was a good businessman, "he didn't have the experience of a flick producer".[32] After the production ran out of money, 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.[35] There was tension on set between Schwartzman and Connery, who at times barely spoke to each other. Connery was unimpressed with the perceived lack of professionalism behind the scenes and was on record every bit saying that the whole product was a "bloody Mickey Mouse operation!"[36]

Steven Seagal, who was a martial arts instructor for this film, bankrupt Connery's wrist while training. On an episode of The Tonight Bear witness with Jay Leno, Connery revealed he did not know his wrist was broken until over a decade later on.[37]

Music [edit]

James Horner was both Kershner'southward and Schwartzman's first choice to compose the score after being impressed with his piece of work on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Horner, who worked in London for most of the fourth dimension, wound up unavailable according to Kershner, though Schwartzman later claimed Sean Connery vetoed the American. Frequent Bond composer John Barry was invited, simply declined out of loyalty to Eon.[38] The music for Never Say Never Once more was written by Michel Legrand, who composed a score like to his piece of work as a jazz pianist.[39] The score has been criticised as "anachronistic and misjudged",[32] "bizarrely intermittent"[31] and "the most disappointing feature of the moving-picture show".[24] Legrand too wrote the main theme "Never Say Never Once more", which featured lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman — who had as well worked with Legrand on the University Accolade-winning song "The Windmills of Your Mind"[40] — and was performed by Lani Hall[24] after Bonnie Tyler, who disliked the song, had reluctantly declined.[41]

Phyllis Hyman also 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.[42]

Legal substitutions [edit]

The outlines of row upon row of "007 007 007 007 007" fill the screen. A view of countryside, heavily obstructed can be seen in through the gaps.

Many of the elements of the Eon-produced Bail 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 there was no "James Bond Theme" to use, although no attempt was made to supply another tune.[12] A pre-credits sequence was filmed merely not used;[43] instead the film opens with the credits run over the top of the opening sequence of Bond on a training mission.[32]

Release and reception [edit]

Never Say Never Again opened on 7 Oct 1983 in i,550 theatres grossing an Oct record $ten,958,157 over the four-day Columbus Day weekend[2] which was reported to exist "the all-time opening tape of whatsoever James Bond film" up to that point[44] surpassing Octopussy 's $8.9 million from June that yr. The film had its Britain premiere at the Warner West End cinema in Leicester Square on 14 December 1983.[32] Worldwide, Never Say Never Once more grossed $160 one thousand thousand,[45] which was a solid return on the budget of $36 million.[45] The picture show ultimately earned less than Octopussy which grossed $187.5 million.[46] [47] It was the beginning James Bond moving picture to exist officially released in the Soviet Union, premiering in the summer of 1990 with a gala in Moscow.[48]

Warner Bros. released Never Say Never Over again on VHS and Betamax in 1984,[49] and on laserdisc in 1995.[50] After Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer purchased the distribution rights in 1997 (see Legacy, below), the company has released the film on both VHS and DVD in 2001,[51] and on Blu-ray in 2009.[52]

Contemporary reviews [edit]

Never Say Never Again was broadly welcomed and praised by the critics: Ian Christie, writing in the Daily Express, said that Never Say Never Again was "ane of the amend Bonds",[53] finding the film "superbly witty and entertaining, ... the dialogue is crisp and the fight scenes imaginative".[53] Christie also idea that "Connery has lost none of his charm and, if anything, is more appealing than ever every bit the fashionable resolute hero".[53] David Robinson, writing in The Times besides concentrated on Connery, saying that: "Connery ... is back, looking hardly a day older or thicker, and still outclassing every other exponent of the part, in the goodnatured throwaway with which he parries all the sexual activity and violence on the way".[54] For Robinson, the presence of Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo "very well-nigh make it all worthwhile."[54] The reviewer for Time Out summed up Never Say Never Again saying "The activeness'south good, the photography first-class, the sets decent; just the real clincher is the fact that Bond is again played by a man with the right stuff."[55]

Derek Malcolm in The Guardian showed himself to be a fan of Connery'south Bail, saying the film contains "the best Bond in the business",[56] but even so did non find Never Say Never Again any more enjoyable than the recently released Octopussy (starring Roger Moore), or "that either of them came very near to matching Dr. No or From Russia with Love".[56] Malcolm's main result with the film was that he had a "feeling that a constant struggle was going on betwixt a desire to make a huge box-office success and the try to make character as important as stunts".[56] Malcolm summed upwards that "the mix remains obstinately the same – up to scratch just not surpassing information technology".[56] Writing in The Observer, Philip French noted that "this curiously muted film ends upwards making no contribution of its ain and inviting damaging comparisons with the original, hyper-confident Thunderball".[57] French concluded that "like an hr-glass full of damp sand, the film moves with increasing slowness as it approaches a dislocated climax in the Persian Gulf".[57]

Writing for Newsweek, critic Jack Kroll thought the early part of the picture show was handled "with wit and style",[58] although he went on to say that the manager was "hamstrung by Lorenzo Semple'southward script".[58] Richard Schickel, writing in Fourth dimension magazine praised the moving-picture show and its bandage. He wrote that Klaus Maria Brandauer's character was "played with silky, neurotic charm",[59] while Barbara Carrera, playing Fatima Blush, "deftly parodies all the fatal femmes who have slithered through Bail's career".[59] Schickel's highest praise was saved for the return of Connery, observing "it is skillful to see Connery's grave stylishness in this role once again. It makes Bond's cynicism and opportunism seem the product of genuine worldliness (and world weariness) as opposed to Roger Moore's mere twirpishness."[59]

Janet Maslin, writing in The New York Times, was broadly praising of the film, saying she idea that Never Say Never Again "has noticeably more humor and graphic symbol than the Bond films usually provide. It has a marvelous villain in Largo."[60] Maslin also thought highly of Connery in the part, observing that "in Never Say Never Once again, the formula is broadened to accommodate an older, seasoned man of much greater stature, and Mr. Connery expertly fills the bill."[sixty] Writing in The Washington Post, Gary Arnold was fulsome in his praise, maxim that Never Say Never Again is "i of the best James Bail adventure thrillers e'er made",[61] going on to say that "this picture is probable to remain a cherished, savory instance of commercial filmmaking at its most astute and accomplished."[61] Arnold went further, saying that "Never Say Never Over again is the best acted Bond picture ever made, because it clearly surpasses any predecessors in the area of inventive and clever character depiction".[61]

The critic for The Globe and Mail, Jay Scott, also praised the film, saying that Never Say Never Again "may exist the only instalment of the long-running serial that has been helmed by a starting time-rate director."[62] According to Scott, the director, with high-quality support bandage, resulted in the "classiest of all the Bonds".[62] Roger Ebert gave the flick three½ out of 4 stars, and wrote that Never Say Never Again, while consisting of a basic "Bond plot", was different from other Bond films: "For one thing, there's more than of a human element in the motion picture, and it comes from Klaus Maria Brandauer, every bit Largo."[63] Ebert went on to add, "there was never a Beatles reunion ... only here, by God, is Sean Connery as Sir James Bond. Good piece of work, 007."[63] Gene Siskel of The Chicago Tribune also gave the film 3½ out of 4 stars, writing that the film was "one of the best 007 adventures ever fabricated".[64]

Colin Greenland reviewed Never Say Never Again for Imagine magazine, and stated that "Never Say Never Again is a complacent male sexist fantasy, where women tin can be only femmes fatales or passive victims."[65]

Retrospective reviews [edit]

Considering Never Say Never Again is not an Eon-produced film, it has not been included in a number of subsequent reviews. Norman Wilner of MSN said that 1967's Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again "be outside the 'official' continuity, [and] are excluded from this list, merely every bit they're absent from MGM'south megabox. But take my give-and-take for it; they're both pretty atrocious".[66] Retrospective reviews of the film remain positive. Rotten Tomatoes sampled 53 critics and judged seventy% of the reviews every bit positive, with an average rating of 5.sixty/10. The site's disquisitional consensus reads: "While the rehashed story feels rather uninspired and unnecessary, the return of both Sean Connery and a more understated Bond make Never Say Never Once again a watchable retread."[67] The score is still more positive than some of the Eon films, with Rotten Tomatoes ranking Never Say Never Once more 16th among all Bond films in 2008.[68] On Metacritic, the picture has a weighted boilerplate score of 68 out of 100 based on 15 critics, indicating more often than not favourable reviews.[69] Empire gives the film three of a possible five stars, observing that "Connery was perhaps wise to telephone call it quits the first fourth dimension round".[70] IGN gave Never Say Never Again a score of 5 out of 10, claiming that the film "is more than miss than hit".[71] The review also thought that the picture was "marred with too many clunky exposition scenes and not enough moments of Bail beingness Bond".[71]

In 1995 Michael Sauter of Entertainment Weekly rated Never Say Never Again equally the 9th best Bail movie to that point, later 17 films had been released. Sauter thought the picture show "is successful merely every bit a portrait of an over-the-hill superhero." He admitted that "fifty-fifty past his prime number, Connery proves that nobody does it improve".[72] James Berardinelli, in his review of Never Say Never Once again, thinks the re-writing of the Thunderball story has led to a film which has "a hokey, jokey feel, [it] is possibly the worst-written Bond script of all".[73] Berardinelli concludes that "it's a major disappointment that, having lured dorsum the original 007, the film makers couldn't offering him something amend than this drawn-out, hackneyed story."[73] Critic Danny Peary wrote that "information technology was great to run across Sean Connery return every bit James Bond after a dozen years".[74] He also idea the supporting bandage was skilful, maxim that Klaus Maria Brandauer's Largo was "neurotic, vulnerable ... 1 of the most complex of Bond's foes"[74] and that Barbara Carrera and Kim Basinger "brand lasting impressions."[74] Peary likewise wrote that the "flick is exotic, well acted, and stylishly directed ... Information technology would be 1 of the all-time Bond films if the finale weren't disappointing. When will filmmakers realize that underwater fight scenes don't piece of work considering viewers usually can't tell the hero and villain apart and they know doubles are being used?"[74]

Legacy [edit]

Originally Never Say Never Again was intended to start a series of Bail films produced by Schwartzman and starring Connery as James Bond, with McClory announcing the next planned film S.P.Eastward.C.T.R.E in a February 1984 result of Screen International.[75] When Connery announced that he would not reprise his role as Bail in some other motion picture produced by Schwartzman three weeks before the deadline to buy the rights to another moving picture for $v 1000000, Schwartzman said that he was unlikely to brand another film without a deal from MGM/UA and Danjaq.[48] [76]

In the 1990s, McClory announced plans to make another accommodation of the Thunderball story starring Timothy Dalton entitled Warhead 2000 AD, but the film was eventually scrapped.[77] In 1997 Sony Pictures acquired McClory's rights for an undisclosed amount,[4] and subsequently announced that it intended to make a serial of Bond films, every bit the company as well held the rights to Casino Royale.[78] This move prompted a round of litigation from MGM, which was settled out-of-court, forcing Sony to give up all claims on Bond; McClory still claimed he would continue with another Bail picture show,[79] and continued his instance against MGM and Danjaq;[80] On 27 August 2001 the court rejected McClory's suit.[81] McClory died in 2006;[77] MGM's acquisition of the rights to Casino Royale finally allowed Eon Productions to make a serious, non-satirical motion-picture show adaptation of that novel the same year with Daniel Craig as James Bail. Ultimately, McClory'southward heirs sold the Thunderball rights to Eon, assuasive the company to reintroduce Blofeld to the Eon series in the picture Spectre.

On four December 1997, MGM appear that the company had purchased the rights to Never Say Never Again from Schwartzman's company Taliafilm.[82] [83] The visitor has since handled the release of both the DVD and Blu-ray editions of the film.[84] [52]

Encounter also [edit]

  • Outline of James Bond

References [edit]

  1. ^ "Never Say Never Again (1983)". BBFC . Retrieved 13 June 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Never Say Never Again". Box Office Mojo . Retrieved xx September 2019.
  3. ^ a b Pfeiffer & Worrall 1998, p. 213.
  4. ^ a b c Poliakoff, Keith (2000). "License to Copyright – The Ongoing Dispute Over the Buying of James Bond" (PDF). Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal. Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. eighteen: 387–436. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 March 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2011.
  5. ^ a b Chancellor 2005, p. 226.
  6. ^ Macintyre 2008, p. 198.
  7. ^ Macintyre 2008, p. 199.
  8. ^ a b c Chapman 2009, p. 184.
  9. ^ a b c Barnes & Hearn 2001, p. 152.
  10. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m north Field, Matthew (2015). Some kind of hero : 007 : the remarkable story of the James Bond films. Ajay Chowdhury. Stroud, Gloucestershire. ISBN978-0-7509-6421-0. OCLC 930556527.
  11. ^ a b "La Frenais, Ian (1936–) and Clement, Dick (1937–)". Screenonline. British Film Constitute. Retrieved 3 September 2011.
  12. ^ a b c d Benson 1988, p. 240.
  13. ^ Mankiewicz & Crane 2012, p. 150.
  14. ^ a b c Barnes & Hearn 2001, p. 155.
  15. ^ Dick, Sandra (25 Baronial 2010). "Eighty big facts you must know virtually Big Tam". Edinburgh Evening News. p. xx.
  16. ^ Chapman 2009, p. 185.
  17. ^ "A Rival 007 – Information technology Looks Like Burton". Daily Express. 21 February 1964. p. thirteen.
  18. ^ Davis, Victor (29 July 1978). "Bond versus Bond". Daily Express. p. iv.
  19. ^ Barnes & Hearn 2001, p. 153.
  20. ^ Isle of man, Roderick (23 March 1980). "Why Sean won't now exist dorsum equally 007 ...". Sunday Express. p. 23.
  21. ^ 1634–1699: McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Coin? A Historical Cost Index for Utilize as a Deflator of Coin Values in the Economic system of the United states of america: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Existent Money? A Historical Price Index for Utilize as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the U.s.a. (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Banking company of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (approximate) 1800–". Retrieved one January 2020.
  22. ^ a b Barnes & Hearn 2001, p. 154.
  23. ^ Black 2004, p. 58.
  24. ^ a b c d e Benson 1988, p. 243.
  25. ^ Smith 2002, p. 195.
  26. ^ Chapman 2009, p. 135.
  27. ^ "Barbara Carrera". Official Golden Earth Honor Website. Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Retrieved two September 2011.
  28. ^ "Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Move Pic". Official Golden Globe Laurels Website. Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Retrieved 3 September 2011.
  29. ^ "Johnny English" (PDF). Penguin Readers Factsheets. 2003. Archived from the original (PDF) on thirty Oct 2006. Retrieved five September 2011.
  30. ^ "Manager Peter Hunt – "On Her Majesty'south Secret Service"". Retrovision. Archived from the original on 6 December 1998. Retrieved v September 2011.
  31. ^ a b Smith 2002, p. 197.
  32. ^ a b c d e f g h Barnes & Hearn 2001, p. 156.
  33. ^ Reeves 2001, p. 134.
  34. ^ Salmans, Sandra (22 Feb 1985). "Lavish Lifestyle of a Wheeler-Dealer". The New York Times . Retrieved half-dozen September 2011.
  35. ^ a b Smith 2002, p. 199.
  36. ^ "JAMES BOND 007 Magazine | THE Boxing FOR BOND". 007magazine.co.uk . Retrieved 9 July 2019.
  37. ^ Kurchak, Sarah (12 October 2015). "Did Steven Seagal Break Sean Connery's Wrist with Aikido?". Vice.com . Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  38. ^ Jon Burlingame, The Music of James Bond, p. 162, 172, 174. ISBN 978-0-19-935885-4
  39. ^ Bettencourt, Scott (1998). "Bond Back in Activeness Again". Film Score Monthly.
  40. ^ "The real James Bond is dorsum, and 007'southward a winner again "Academy Awards Database"". Academy of Motion Pic Arts and Sciences.
  41. ^ "The Bat Segundo Evidence: Bonnie Tyler". 12 September 2008. Tyler also discusses this in the documentary James Bond's Greatest Hits.
  42. ^ Burlingame 2012, p. 112.
  43. ^ Smith 2002, p. 193.
  44. ^ Hanauer, Joan (18 October 1983). "Connery Gnaw". United Press International.
  45. ^ a b "Never Say Never Once more". Nash Data Services, LLC. Retrieved 1 September 2011.
  46. ^ "Octopussy". The Numbers. Nash Information Services, LLC. Retrieved 8 Baronial 2011.
  47. ^ "James Bond Movies at the Box Office". Box Office Mojo . Retrieved 8 August 2011.
  48. ^ a b "Never Say Never Again". catalog.afi.com . Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  49. ^ Nielsen Concern Media, Inc (21 July 1984). "Billboard Videocassette Tiptop 40". Billboard. p. 35.
  50. ^ McGowan, Chris (xix November 1996). "Home Video: Laser Scans". Billboard. p. 96.
  51. ^ "Casino Royal and Never Say Never Again". Film Review (127). April 2001.
  52. ^ a b "Never Say Never Yet Again". IGN. 21 Jan 2009. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
  53. ^ a b c Christie, Ian (eighteen December 1988). "A Hero'south Return". Daily Express. p. 20.
  54. ^ a b Robinson, David (16 Dec 1983). "Never Say Never Again (PG)". The Times. p. x.
  55. ^ "Never Say Never Once again (1983)". Time Out . Retrieved xxx Baronial 2011.
  56. ^ a b c d Malcolm, Derek (15 December 1983). "True to his Bond". The Guardian. p. xvi.
  57. ^ a b French, Philip (18 December 1983). "Thunderball recycled". The Observer. p. 31.
  58. ^ a b Kroll, Jack (10 Oct 1983). "Back in the Bail Concern". Newsweek. p. 93.
  59. ^ a b c Schickel, Richard (17 October 1983). "Cinema: Raking Upwardly the Autumn Leavings". Time. Archived from the original on 22 Dec 2008. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
  60. ^ a b Maslin, Janet (7 Oct 1983). "Sean Connery is Seasoned James Bond". The New York Times. p. 13.
  61. ^ a b c Arnold, Gary (half-dozen October 1983). "'Never': Better Than Ever; Sean Connery Rides Again in the All-time of Bonds". The Washington Post. p. E1.
  62. ^ a b Scott, Jay (vii October 1983). "A get-go-rate managing director works wonders: The classiest Bond of all". The Globe and Mail.
  63. ^ a b Ebert, Roger (7 October 1983). "Never Say Never Once again". rogerebert.com. Retrieved eighteen October 2008.
  64. ^ Siskel, Gene (07 October 1983). "The existent James Bail is back, and 007'southward a winner again". The Chicago Tribune. p. 63. Retrieved 23 Feb 2021 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  65. ^ Greenland, Colin (March 1984). "Film Review". Imagine (review). TSR Hobbies (U.k.), Ltd. (12): 45.
  66. ^ Norman Wilner. "Rating the Spy Game". MSN. Archived from the original on xix January 2008. Retrieved 4 March 2008.
  67. ^ "Never Say Never Again (1983)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
  68. ^ Ryan, Tim (18 November 2008). "Total Call back: James Bond Countdown – Discover Out Where Quantum of Solace Fits In!". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved 5 September 2011.
  69. ^ "Never Say Never Again Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
  70. ^ "Never Say Never Again". Empire. Archived from the original on 24 Oct 2011. Retrieved 31 Baronial 2011.
  71. ^ a b Pirrello, Phil (26 March 2009). "Never Say Never Over again Blu-ray Review". IGN. Archived from the original on 8 October 2011. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
  72. ^ Sauter, Michael (1 July 2008). "Playing The Bond Market". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 29 September 2008. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
  73. ^ a b Berardinelli, James (1996). "Never Say Never Again". ReelViews. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
  74. ^ a b c d Peary 1986, p. 296.
  75. ^ Aceved, Violet (29 October 2015). "James Bail'south abandoned 'SPECTRE' mission from 1984". Screen . Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  76. ^ London, Michael (18 January 1984). "Film Clips: 'White Dog' Volition Have its Day on NBC". Los Angeles Times.
  77. ^ a b Rye, Graham (7 Dec 2006). "Kevin McClory". The Contained . Retrieved 5 September 2011.
  78. ^ Elliott, Christopher (23 October 1997). "Never say never over again when James Bail is involved". The Guardian. p. 10.
  79. ^ Shprintz, Janet (29 March 1999). "Large Bond-holder". Variety . Retrieved x March 2021.
  80. ^ Cork, John; Scivally, Bruce (11 November 2002). "Reeling through the years". Variety. p. A15.
  81. ^ James, Meg (28 August 2001). "U.South. Court Rejects Claim to James Bond". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 4 October 2021.
  82. ^ "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. announces acquisition of Never Say Never Again James Bond assets" (Press release). Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. four December 1997. Archived from the original on 5 May 2008. Retrieved xvi March 2008.
  83. ^ DiOrio, Carl (4 December 1997). "Mgm, 007 Say 'never' Again". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved five September 2011.
  84. ^ Pratt 2005, p. 851.

Bibliography [edit]

  • Barnes, Alan; Hearn, Marcus (2001). Kiss Buss Bang! Blindside!: the Unofficial James Bond Film Companion. Batsford Books. ISBN978-0-7134-8182-two.
  • Benson, Raymond (1988). The James Bond Bedside Companion. London: Boxtree Ltd. ISBNone-85283-234-7.
  • Black, Jeremy (2004). United kingdom Since the Seventies: Politics and Guild in the Consumer Age. Guilford: Biddles Ltd. ISBN978-1-86189-201-0.
  • Black, Jeremy (2005). The Politics of James Bond: from Fleming'due south Novel to the Big Screen . Academy of Nebraska Press. ISBN978-0-8032-6240-nine.
  • Burlingame, Jon (2012). The Music of James Bond. Oxford: Oxford University Printing. ISBN978-0-19-986330-iii.
  • Chancellor, Henry (2005). James Bond: The Man and His Globe. London: John Murray. ISBN978-0-7195-6815-two.
  • Chapman, James (2009). Licence to Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films. New York: I.B. Tauris. ISBN978-1-84511-515-9.
  • Lindner, Christoph (2003). The James Bond Phenomenon: a Disquisitional Reader. Manchester University Press. ISBN978-0-7190-6541-five.
  • Macintyre, Ben (2008). For Yours Eyes Only. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN978-0-7475-9527-4.
  • Mankiewicz, Tom; Crane, Robert (2012). My Life as a Mankiewicz. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN978-0-8131-3605-ix.
  • Peary, Danny (1986). Guide for the Motion-picture show Fanatic. Simon & Schuster. ISBN978-0-671-61081-four.
  • Pfeiffer, Lee; Worrall, Dave (1998). The Essential Bond. London: Boxtree Ltd. ISBN978-0-7522-2477-0.
  • Pratt, Douglas (2005). Doug Pratt's DVD: Movies, Television, Music, Art, Adult, and More!. London: UNET 2 Corporation. ISBN978-one-932916-01-0.
  • Reeves, Tony (2001). The Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations . Chicago: A Cappella. ISBN978-i-55652-432-five.
  • Smith, Jim (2002). Bond Films . London: Virgin Books. ISBN978-0-7535-0709-4.

External links [edit]

  • Never Say Never Over again at IMDb
  • Never Say Never Again at AllMovie
  • Never Say Never Again at Rotten Tomatoes
  • Never Say Never Over again at Box Office Mojo
  • Never Say Never Again at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

crispouressee1946.blogspot.com

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Say_Never_Again

0 Response to "Thunderball Vs Never Say Never Again"

Postar um comentário

Assinar: Postar comentários (Atom)

Iklan Atas Artikel

Iklan Tengah Artikel 1

Iklan Tengah Artikel 2

Iklan Bawah Artikel