Never Say Never Again, released in 1983 by Orion Pictures, is a remake of the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball. Unlike the majority of other Bond films it was not produced by EON Productions. The film stars Sean Connery as British Secret Service agent James Bond 007. Connery had been the first actor to portray Bond in a motion picture, in 1962's Dr No, but after a series of commercially successful films Connery left the franchise in 1971. For Nev...
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Never Say Never Again, released in 1983 by Orion Pictures, is a remake of the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball. Unlike the majority of other Bond films it was not produced by EON Productions. The film stars Sean Connery as British Secret Service agent James Bond 007. Connery had been the first actor to portray Bond in a motion picture, in 1962's Dr No, but after a series of commercially successful films Connery left the franchise in 1971. For Never Say Never Again he portrayed Bond for the seventh and final time on the screen, although he would reprise the character as a voice actor for the 2005 From Russia With Love video game.
Although the film was not part of EON's Bond film franchise, subsequent mergers and dealings mean that it is currently owned, like the rest of the series, by United Artists' parent, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer: MGM acquired the distribution rights in 1997 after its acquisition of Orion Pictures. The film also marks the culmination of a long legal battle between United...
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