Talia Shire Never Say Never Again

Trivia Tropes:

• Histrion-Inspired Element: The tiger print one-piece Domino wears in the final scene was a swimsuit Kim Basinger really owned. Information technology had been given to her by Playboy in 1981.
• California Doubling: Despite being set in Northward Africa, Largo'southward Palmyra fortress is in France. The fountain that Domino is tied to was an addition past the fine art department.
• Aqueduct Hop: It was originally released by Warner Bros., but official Bond distributor MGM purchased the rights to the film from its producers in 1997 (equally a prelude to winning the rights to Casino Royale along with the volume adaptation ones as a settlement of a lawsuit). Eventually, they obtained all remaining rights to Blofeld and SPECTRE, but only afterward Kevin McClory died and his sons took over. Fifty-fifty so, information technology appears equally though MGM doesn't want to acknowledge the fact that they ain the rights to this film. All video copies postal service-1997 practice not feature the studio's logo on the packaging, and this film now opens with the logo for Orion Pictures, which MGM owns, unlike the other Bond films which open with either a United Artists logo or Leo the Panthera leo (or both).
• Completely Different Title:
  • Never Say Never (Italy, Portugal, Deutschland, Greece, Czech Republic, Turkey).
  • Never Never Over again (or Never Always) (France).
  • Agent 007, Never Say Never (Italy).
  • 007 Never More Say Never (Portugal).
  • 007 - Never [Doing This] Once More (Brazil).
• Creator Killer: While he never went bankrupt (he was filthy rich), Kevin McClory's obsession with James Bail, his highly bitter and well publicized legal and possible personal feud with Albert R. Broccoli and so his daughter and stepson after Cubby died, forth with this film not impressing critics equally much as hoped, led to him never being visible in high level Hollywood once again. To this twenty-four hours, McClory is sometimes seen as a man who could have produced whatsoever number of great films but wasted his time in a footling rivalry with Eon Productions over the Bond franchise.
• Deleted Role: Most of Max von Sydow's scenes were deleted from the theatrical cut of the film. Marsha A. Hunt and Brenda Cowling had their roles deleted entirely.
• Dueling Works: With Eon Productions' Octopussy starring Roger Moore. Neither film particularly wowed critics (though Never's Rotten Tomatoes score is 67%, compared to Octopussy's 42%). In hindsight, Octopussy is usually considered the winner, with Never Say Never Again proving even more than polarizing among fans as the "unofficial" Bond film. Octopussy as well won the box office past a few meg dollars margin, and the serial connected to this day, while Kevin McClory's Bond picture projects savage into oblivion. McClory died in 2006 and his family sold the rights to Thunderball, Blofeld and SPECTRE to Eon Productions in 2013, and they were brought back in the official Bond series with Spectre.
• Hostility on the Set:
  • Kim Basinger did not get forth with Irvin Kershner at all and told Movieline mag this was the worst experience she had on a flick until The Marrying Homo.
  • Sean Connery and producer Jack Schwartzman barely spoke to each other with Connery unimpressed at the lack of professionalism behind the scenes. Irvin Kershner concurred with Connery stating Schwartzman "didn't accept the experience of a moving picture producer".
• Reality Subtext: The title of the picture refers to Sean Connery declaring he would never play Bond once again after Diamonds Are Forever. Lampshaded in the final lines.

  Small-Fawcett: Thou says that without y'all in the service, he fears for the security of the civilized globe.
  Bond: Never over again.
  Domino: Never?
  [the soundtrack begins, "Never, never say never again, never, never say never once again!" as Connery winks at the audience.]

• Existent Life Writes the Hairstyle: Kim Basinger had to article of clothing a wig during re-shoots because she had already cutting her hair for The Man Who Loved Women.
• Recycled Script: It's an updated remake of Thunderball. Check Wikipedia for more details.
• Role Reprise: Sean Connery as James Bond, twelve years after Diamonds Are Forever, although non equally part of the Eon Productions continuity. 22 years later, he would do it over again, for the last fourth dimension, in the video game 007: From Russia with Love.
• Stillborn Franchise: Producer Kevin McClory had long hoped to create a rival Bond series to go upward confronting the official Eon series of Albert R. Broccoli. This film was the commencement endeavour to achieve this, but a follow-upward he announced never took off. In the 90s, McClory tried again, even going one step further by partnering with Columbia, so both Thunderball and Casino Royale could exist done, which simply resulted in a lawsuit that gave Eon the rights to Bond'south debut (which came in handy to relaunch the franchise a couple years later). McClory connected to spite Eon a bit, start a Frivolous Lawsuit with the allegations that he was a co-creator of the cinematic Bail character and then this ad ◊ claiming to own all the James Bail rights, until he passed on in 2006. His family unit abased his longstanding feud, and eventually sold the remaining rights to Eon in 2013, with Spectre being the end effect.
• Troubled Production: The flick went off the rails to the extent of Sean Connery taking on many of the production duties with assistant managing director David Tomblin. Managing director Irvin Kershner was critical of producer Jack Schwartzman, saying that, while he was a good man of affairs, "he didn't accept the feel of a film producer." After the product ran out of money, Schwartzman had to fund farther product out of his ain pocket and afterwards admitted he had underestimated the amount the pic would cost to make. There was tension on set up betwixt 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 tape as saying that the whole product was a "bloody Mickey Mouse performance!" The delays mean that despite being by and large warmly received by critics (its Rotten Tomatoes score is 67% compared to the gimmicky Octopussy'due south 42%) it did not premiere until the autumn, a much weaker release time compared to Octopussy in the summer, which led to the Eon production outgrossing it.
• Uncredited Function:
  • Amy Irving was the vocalism of the computer when Captain Jack Petachi gets his middle scan.
  • Dick Cloudless and Ian Le Frenais did work on the script, although they went uncredited for their efforts despite much of the final shooting script being theirs. This was considering of a restriction past the Writers Guild of America.
  • According to the Bond reference book The Bond Files, Francis Ford Coppola (brother-in-law of producer Jack Schwartzman) also contributed uncredited to the script.
• Wag the Manager: Sean Connery had a lot of input over casting and crew choices, including vetoing the hiring of James Horner as the film'due south composer.
• What Could Have Been: Enough for its ain page.
• Working Championship: James Bond of the Surreptitious Service.
• Writing by the Seat of Your Pants: Writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais found themselves in the French metropolis of Dainty urgently redrafting the script at a twenty-four hour period's notice 3 weeks into production. Co-ordinate to Clement, when the duo felt that it wasn't explained why Bond was even in the Bahamas, Irvin Kershner stroked his beard and said, "That's true. On the other hand, we have a film crew there shooting, so you better come upward with something".

Miscellaneous Trivia:

• This pic was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Barbara Carrera [Fatima] for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture, but she lost out to Cher for Silkwood (1983). Carrera is the only extra to be nominated for portraying a Bail Girl at the Golden Globes, with no extra e'er nominated for playing a Bail Girl at the Oscars.
• Talia Shire was the wife of producer Jack Schwartzman at the time (and the female parent of Jason) and received a 'consultant to producer' credit.

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