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Because Never Say Never Again was not an 'official' release via EON productions. It iwas a remake of Thunderball and shrouded in legal misery etc. It is not considered part of the series.
 
And it was cheap nasty rubbish as well, so no loss there. I've never considered it part of the series.

The latest complete Bond collection box set did look quite nice and shiny, and if it had been going for 9.99 :D I might have bought it. However, at
 
Never Say Never Again was actually released in the same year as Octopussy and Never Say Never got delayed until near the end of the year. But Octopussy had the biggest box office of the two.
 
The whole story behind the legal problems regarding Never Say Never Again is told in the book "The Battle for Bond".

I'm not sure whats been changed in it but when it was published somebody managed to get a destruction order on it and it was banned and withdrawn.

But I saw it relisted recently so it looks like whatever was the problem has been removed.

The original Casino Royale is also not an official Bond film , however a legal case a few years back handed the rights of Bond completely over to Sony who now own NSNA and the 1967 CR too whereas they never did before.

It was this case that allowed them to finally make an official version of Casino Royale
 
The original plot of Never Say Never Again was hosted on the net a few years ago. The film was called Warhead and involved robot sharks and the Statue of Liberty. The screenplay never got greenlighted but it would have have been strange to see! Bond vs robot sharks. Bit wacky but then so was the film version of Moonraker. Anything is possible in the world of Bond. :)

http://www.mi6.co.uk/news/index.php?itemid=5121
 
Whatever plotline was considered for NSNA they were restricted in what they could use and the film was legally bound to be a remake of Thunderball because that was the only book that the makers had the rights to.

I've not read the novel but if it didnt have robot sharks in it then using them in the film would have been legally dodgy.

Warhead was simply an early title for what became NSNA.

Ian Fleming wrote Thunderball as a tv story along with 2 other writers and when the tv show never came about Fleming used the story in his Thunderball novel

The 2 other writers successfully sued so they got writer/producer credits when they agreed to allow Eon to make Thunderball.

The deal was that they would regain movie rights after 10 years and it took Kevin McClory from 1975 to 1983 to get the film made- but he was only ever going to do a remake of Thunderball.

It was a few years back when he again announced a plan to produce a series of 007 films to oppose the Eon productions - a difficult prospect considering he only had the rights to one story - but it was enough to make Eon /Sony take him to court where they were successful in squashing any plans for a competing series - and as part of the deal they also were given rights to both NSNA and the 1967 Casino Royale spoof
 
this happened hn i ordered a series of frienRAB a few years ago they advertised it at 16 instead of 46 they tried to say it was out of stock but theyd already taken my money so i waited for it and got it for 16 pounRAB
 
McClory planned to make the rival Bond series with Sony before they bought MGM. Had these films gone ahead, Sony would have ended up owning both Bond franchises.
 
Sony didnt buy MGM the studio

They bought out a library of films that included films made by United Artists - that included the Bond films.

The MGM archive lies in various hanRAB thanks to buyouts and mergers done over the years with films made in different perioRAB owned by different companies- all thanks to Ted Turner who originally bought MGM lock stock and barrel but then he kept the films but sold the studio and used the films to fill TNT/TCM schedules - but broadcast rights for that channel also differ between countries- TNT has a far better schedule in the US than it does here - even European versions of the channel have better movies than the UK

IIRC Warner own most of the pre 1980 (ish) MGM films.

As far as I know the only actual studio Sony bought out was Columbia
 
Quite right. Had the same thing happen a few months back on Play with a Torchwood box set. Suffice to say that the price was rectified and no one got it at the bargain (incorrect) price. There was a big thread in the Doctor Who forum about this.
 
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