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[K1Bond007]

I've read of McClory's/Sony's plans for a rival Bond in the '90s.) Or were they allowed to make only one 007 flick?

MGM sued them and later Sony settled ceding any rights to making future (irony) James Bond films.

In 2001 McClory basically got shutout by the appelate court. So it's pretty much over. It doesn't really matter though. McClory only owned the film rights to Thunderball and like 9 or so alternative scripts, which were essentially all the same. McClory was sued in the 70's by EON for attempting to co-author an original James Bond script with Sean Connery. That got killed pretty fast.

[Blofeld's Cat]

I've heard that the Deighton script was a good one with some very interesting ideas.

If I get a chance, I'll dig it out of my archives and give it a read through and hit on some of the highlights.

In “The Len Deighton Companion” by Edward Milward-Oliver it notes in the ‘Bibliography: Non-Fiction 1954-1987’ chapter under the Screenplays sub-heading that Deighton was involved with early drafts of From Russia With Love and Never Say Never Again.

[CBN_Rules]

The original script had dolphins with laser beams attached to their heads (Mike Myers said this is where he actually got the idea of the sharks with laser beams) it also had mechanical aligators armed with nukes coming up through the sewers of NYC to try and set off a nuclear bomb.


There were some very interesting ideas on the title called Longitude 78 West, which was then called James Bond of The Secret Service.

This was back around 1976 or so, but then lawsuits blocked it all.

The result was Never Say Never Again was about all they were allowed to make.

Edited by CBN_Rules, 15 March 2005 - 08:59 PM.