the club has not been on the best of terms with the film company for reasons about which Schenkman can only speculate. In Bondage No. 5, he published an interview with George Lazenby. In Bondage No. 6, he published an interview with Kevin McClory. Neither article probably pleased the film producer. Nevertheless, the club is thriving, and the magazine is member-supported. At the back of this book is an address to write for more information about the James Bond 007 Fan Club.
In December of 1974, United Artists released The Man With the Golden Gun ,starring Roger Moore again as Bond, and Christopher Lee as Scaramanga. The film, one of the weaker of the series, did fairly well internationally, but it had a poor reception in America and in England. Around this time, it was reported, Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman were not on the best of terms. They had more or less taken turns producing the last two films. Saltzman had gone on location for most of Live and Let Die, and Broccoli had taken more control of Golden Gun. Now that the new film was out, Harry Saltzman decided to leave. It was rumored that he needed capital for a private venture, and he sold his share in Danjaq, S.A. (the Swiss company made up of Eon Productions and United Artists) to United Artists. Danjaq, S.A., then, became Albert R. Broccoli (Eon Productions) and United Artists.
I n January of 1976, the THUNDERBALL film rights reverted back to Kevin McClory. He was also supposedly free to make further pictures based on "The Film Scripts." He therefore began planning to make his own Bond series. He contacted Len Deighton, author of such thrillers as The Ipcress File and Funeral in Berlin. McClory took "The Film Scripts" and built a new screenplay. The men collaborated on the script, which was provisionally called James Bond of the Se cret Service, one of the original titles from "The Film Scripts." One day, McClory was visiting Sean Connery and asked if he might be interested in also collaborating on the script Connery had always expressed an interest in writing and directing, and surprisingly agreed to the offer. Together, McClory, Deighton, and Connery came up with a screenplay which McClory retitled Warhead. It was reported that during the writing of the script, Sean Connery became interested in not only directing the film, but starring as James Bond again as well.
Meanwhile, Eon Productions was preparing production on its latest, The Spy Who Loved Me , again featuring Roger Moore. When Broccoli learned of McClory's plans to make Warhead , he wasn't too pleased. As reported by John Brosnan in James Bond in the Cinema, further friction was caused when McClory and Sean Connery learned that some of the plot details of The Spy Who Loved Me were coincidentally similar to parts of Warhead. As a result, Broccoli ordered his scriptwriter to make last-minute changes in The Spy Who Loved Me before filming began.
President Richard Schenkman (standing left) and members of the James Bond 007 Fan Club. (Photo by Charles Reilly, courtesy of Richard Schenkman.)
McClory tried in vain from 1976 to 1979 to finance Warhead but apparently, too many obstacles were placed in his way. The word on Warhead eventually disappeared from the public eye and the production seemed to have fallen through.
But The Spy Who Loved Me was released in the summer of 1977, this time produced by Broccoli alone. He proved that he could make a slick, entertaining Bond film without Harry Saltzman, and the film was the biggest success since Thunderball in 1965. One character in the film, a henchman called Jaws (portrayed by Richard Kiel), became something of a cult hero with kids, and the character would return in the next Bond film.
For Your Eyes Only was originally announced to be the eleventh Bond film, but due to the success of Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, United Artists and Cubby Broccoli changed their minds. The only Fleming title left which could incorporate an outer space
In December of 1974, United Artists released The Man With the Golden Gun ,starring Roger Moore again as Bond, and Christopher Lee as Scaramanga. The film, one of the weaker of the series, did fairly well internationally, but it had a poor reception in America and in England. Around this time, it was reported, Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman were not on the best of terms. They had more or less taken turns producing the last two films. Saltzman had gone on location for most of Live and Let Die, and Broccoli had taken more control of Golden Gun. Now that the new film was out, Harry Saltzman decided to leave. It was rumored that he needed capital for a private venture, and he sold his share in Danjaq, S.A. (the Swiss company made up of Eon Productions and United Artists) to United Artists. Danjaq, S.A., then, became Albert R. Broccoli (Eon Productions) and United Artists.
I n January of 1976, the THUNDERBALL film rights reverted back to Kevin McClory. He was also supposedly free to make further pictures based on "The Film Scripts." He therefore began planning to make his own Bond series. He contacted Len Deighton, author of such thrillers as The Ipcress File and Funeral in Berlin. McClory took "The Film Scripts" and built a new screenplay. The men collaborated on the script, which was provisionally called James Bond of the Se cret Service, one of the original titles from "The Film Scripts." One day, McClory was visiting Sean Connery and asked if he might be interested in also collaborating on the script Connery had always expressed an interest in writing and directing, and surprisingly agreed to the offer. Together, McClory, Deighton, and Connery came up with a screenplay which McClory retitled Warhead. It was reported that during the writing of the script, Sean Connery became interested in not only directing the film, but starring as James Bond again as well.
Meanwhile, Eon Productions was preparing production on its latest, The Spy Who Loved Me , again featuring Roger Moore. When Broccoli learned of McClory's plans to make Warhead , he wasn't too pleased. As reported by John Brosnan in James Bond in the Cinema, further friction was caused when McClory and Sean Connery learned that some of the plot details of The Spy Who Loved Me were coincidentally similar to parts of Warhead. As a result, Broccoli ordered his scriptwriter to make last-minute changes in The Spy Who Loved Me before filming began.
President Richard Schenkman (standing left) and members of the James Bond 007 Fan Club. (Photo by Charles Reilly, courtesy of Richard Schenkman.)
McClory tried in vain from 1976 to 1979 to finance Warhead but apparently, too many obstacles were placed in his way. The word on Warhead eventually disappeared from the public eye and the production seemed to have fallen through.
But The Spy Who Loved Me was released in the summer of 1977, this time produced by Broccoli alone. He proved that he could make a slick, entertaining Bond film without Harry Saltzman, and the film was the biggest success since Thunderball in 1965. One character in the film, a henchman called Jaws (portrayed by Richard Kiel), became something of a cult hero with kids, and the character would return in the next Bond film.
For Your Eyes Only was originally announced to be the eleventh Bond film, but due to the success of Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, United Artists and Cubby Broccoli changed their minds. The only Fleming title left which could incorporate an outer space
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