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Post date: Jan 19, 2019 12:44:02 PM
"Never Say Never Again" is the only Bond Film not made by Eon Productions which owns all rights to Ian Fleming's stories. It was made because of a law suit filed in the 1960s where another writer who worked with Fleming on Thunderball claimed joint copy right.
The movie could be made with two restrictions. It could not use any copy righted material like the music and it had to stick very closely to the original Thunderball story.
Instead of opening with the copy righted Gun barrel, it jumped into the teaser. It is one of my favorite teasers of the Bond Series.
However I feel the movie suffers from the constraints of having to stick very closely to the "Thunderball" story. Instead of characters acting advancing the story forward, it felt like characters acting different just to be different. Like the main story didn't interest them and they wanted to tell another story. I felt this disappointing since normal Bond writers seemed to have run out of anything fresh.
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