That's No Moonraker: Thunderball

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Notes

Film

• 4th film based on the 9th book (8th full-length novel).
• Synopsis from Google.
• This movie, when adjusted for inflation is the most financially successful James Bond film, driven by anticipation for the sequel following Goldfinger. same production designer as the last movie, same director as Dr. No and from From Russia with Love.

Podcast

• Legal woes surrounding this film.
  • Originally slated to be the first movie, it was based on Fleming's screenplay he did together with two co-authors in between the publication of the first book (Casino Royale) and the fourth book. Fleming later turned the screenplay into a novel on his own and his co-authors sued him.
  • The legal battle continued until 2006 (long time).
  • Co-authors had the rights to the story but were not allowed to make other James Bond movies.
    • They were credited as producers on this film and were eventually allowed to make their own movie with the same story.
  • Now everybody is owned by MGM.
• General attitudes about the film. Is it more a piece with the first three movies or more cartoony?
• Proper abstract opening credits.
• The cold open: James Bond punches a lady and takes off in a jet pack.
  • Alex rank this as the top for cold opens so far.
• The title song.
  • This is the fourth iteration of the song.
  • After Goldfinger, They called Shirley Bassey back up and she accepted.and she said she would do it. They wrote a song called "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang".
    • Derived from an Italian review.
    • We do hear the song later and there is a club called the Kiss Kiss Club but not Bassey (it's an instrumental).
    • he credits were too long to match the song.

Meta Notes

• MGM Studios (who currently own the Bond franchise) is a subsidiary of MGM Holdings, Inc., a private corporation.

Star Wars names

Star Wars pun names for <name of film>
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