Ok I Understand Why This Film Was Made But Why Did Sean Do It?
Can Anybody Tell Me Why He Wanted To Remake Thunderball When He Stared In The Original? Seems Abit Daft To Me
Was It Just For Money?
Did He Not Like The Original Thunderball?
Whats The Story?
Only a cynic would suggest it was for anything other than the love of his art.
shareI started wondering if the fact that Moore would have been James Bond a total of 7 times and Connery only 6, unless he did this movie. I don't know if that even came into thought, but when I noticed the tie between them for number of times one played James Bond, this popped in my head as one of the reasons why Connery would come back.
It wouldn't matter if Moore did twice as many Bond films than Connery, Sean will always be regarded as the definition of James Bond for me.
I believe Moore actually wanted to finish after For Your Eyes Only though; he was only persuaded to return for Octopussy after Connery was confirmed for NSNA.
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The EON documentary is rather dishonest, historically. The truth of the matter is, EON tried systematically, day after day of NSNA's production, to shut it down. There was a time when cast members like Basinger and Carrera wondered if the film would be finished at all. Not to mention the climax had been re-written a record 16 times - 16! At the behest of EON's legion of lawyers who just did everything to harm the film.
Truth is, McClory had a valid claim to do the film, as it was part of his agreement with EON back on Thunderball. He asked Connery to do it with him because Connery was away from the role for a while and he promised him creative control - which he craved for. And over the course of eight years, NSNA eventually got made, partly thanks to Jack Schwarzman, who was a lawyer and managed to get McClory to have the film made through him.
And Connery really did want to come back, and depict the character at the older age. He largely enjoyed playing the character, but as someone with a stake at the production, he HATED dealing with the production problems caused by EON.
Its about time this was cleared up. Please seek out and read BATTLE FOR BOND by Robert Sellers, which details both the making of Thunderball and NSNA, along with the genesis of the novel and McClory's role in this story.
PS: Kevin McClory DIDN'T kill Ian Fleming. Which the documentary kinda obviously implies.
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It paid very well and he had creative control over the process. Two things he felt EON did not give him.
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