tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24904037.post3175029046249671358..comments2024-01-11T04:57:37.530-04:00Comments on The Furious D Show: Hollywood Babble On & On #1089: A Legal War Ends, But A Mystery Lingers...Furious Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07934529688753875751noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24904037.post-35511746094166410882013-11-19T15:45:41.406-04:002013-11-19T15:45:41.406-04:00Could it be that McClory just never had any other ...Could it be that McClory just never had any other ideas. His constant legal battles with MGM/Eon and the Fleming Estate are almost obsessive. His credits don't indicate any great creative genius. He only wrote 3 films, 2 of them based on the same story.<br /><br />This could be the story of a man who had one good idea and wanted to beat it to death. There don't seem to be many clear answers. Just suits filed involving the same characters.cincimaddognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24904037.post-80157647712583785952013-11-18T14:05:34.705-04:002013-11-18T14:05:34.705-04:00A British court gave permission for Never Say Neve...A British court gave permission for Never Say Never Again, but the lawsuits blocked the others just by adding too much to the development costs.<br /><br />Telly Savalas played Blofeld in <b>1969</b> in On Her Majesty's Secret Service with George Lazenby as Bond. The last MGM/Danjaq appearance was in the mid-1970s with Roger Moore in an opening scene that ends with Bond dropping a wheelchair bound Blofeld into an industrial smokestack.<br /><br />As for modernizing SPECTRE they could be retconned as a for-hire provider of covert criminal services and weaponry for everyone from gangs, to terrorist cells, to rogue nations. Blofeld could be reborn as a child of the Eastern Bloc, groomed since birth for the KGB, but orphaned by the end of the Cold War, who uses his training & intellect to reinvent himself as the man behind the mega-criminals.Furious Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07934529688753875751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24904037.post-56047276478858004662013-11-18T12:37:18.683-04:002013-11-18T12:37:18.683-04:00How did the non-Broccoli, non-MGM producers get th...How did the non-Broccoli, non-MGM producers get the right to use Bond in "Never Say Never Again"? Why did they make an exception in their long legal battle against McCrory and the "Thunderball" elements?<br /><br />Also, SPECTRE and Blofeld are present in most of the Bond films in teh 60s and 70s- I guess what you are saying is that Blofeld and SPECRE are absent from any Bond film after the rights returned to McCrory. But wasn't he in some later ones-? I remember Telly Savalas played him once in the late 70s. <br /><br />Actually I think an attempt to revive Blodeld and SPECTRE are past their sell-by date- the Austin Powers movies showed that the Bond formula was never very far from self-parody, and that Blofeld, purportedly a supervillian, is not really that far from the comic Dr Evil. Given that the Daniel Craig reboot is more gritty and dark than eariler iterations, and that they have dispensed with or transformed many of the mroe outlandish elements of the folruma, I think they would not want to go back to the silliness of SPECTRE and BLofeld. Unless they ditched the grey Nehru jacket and reinvented him as a global cybercrimial or something like that.mauricenoreply@blogger.com