Never Say Never Again

James Bond & Friends – Episode 0109: Watchalong with Never Say Never Again

October 30th, 2021 by

The latest episode of James Bond & Friends is now available on Apple Podcasts and elsewhere. Join us as we watch 1983’s Never Say Never Again together as a group experience. For this episode, don your dungarees, grab an exploding fountain pen, and cue up your copy of Never Say Never Again as the panel […]

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Never Say Never Again composer Michel Legrand dies aged 86

January 28th, 2019 by

The Frenchman died on Saturday morning at his home in Paris. Composer Michel Legrand died early on Saturday with his wife, the French actress Macha Meril, at his side. Legrand’s publicist confirmed the details to AFP according to Variety . Legrand was extraordinarily prolific as a film composer with more than 200 film and television scores […]

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Never Say Never Again screenwriter dies

March 29th, 2014 by

Lorenzo Semple Jr, the Hollywood screenwriter responsible for Thunderball remake Never Say Never Again, has died at the age of 91, it was reported yesterday. Semple is best known for the 1960s Batman television series staring Adam West. For more details about his life follow the link below. Source: Digital Spy To keep up to […]

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James Bond holiday locations #12 – The Bahamas

July 25th, 2013 by

Sean Connery so much loved The Bahamas when filming Thunderball that he decided to move there and still has a house at Lyford Cay. The territory, which until 1973 was part of the British Empire, is comprised of 700 islands of varying sizes and most of them uninhabited, spread over 650 miles from the east […]

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Impact of the Thunderball plagiarism case

April 10th, 2013 by

Just a few days prior to the publication of Thunderball Ian Fleming received the shock news that Kevin McClory and Jack Whittingham sought an injunction preventing publication. McClory had read an advance copy of the novel in March 1961 and was infuriated to see that Fleming had based the story on a screenplay written by […]

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