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Jack Whittingham is known as an Writer, Screenplay, Story, Producer, and Original Story. Some of his work includes Thunderball, Never Say Never Again, Q Planes, Hunted, The Prince and the Pauper, Pool of London, Mandy, and Danger Man.
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Jack Whittingham was a British screenwriter and playwright involved in the James Bond canon via the Thunderball controversy and the 1983 non-Eon Bond film, Never Say Never Again. He was known partners with fellow screenwriter, Kevin McClory.
In 1957, screenwriter Jack Wittingham with his friend Kevin McClory was introduced to Ian Fleming whilst on a collaboration on a possible 007 screenplay in the Bahamas.
Along with Kevin McClory, they had sued Fleming for plagiarism in 1963 of the screenplay. During the lawsuit, Whittingham stepped down as 'co-plaintiff' and stood by Kevin as 'principal witness', having previously signed away all his rights "of whatsoever nature" entirely when the screenplay was presumed finished. As a result of the settlement, future versions of the novel were forced to credit, based on the screen treatment by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Ian Fleming (in that order). His work would carry onto the 1965 Bond film, Thunderball and the 1983 non-Eon remake,
Nov 15, 2013 · At the heart of the longtime dispute was a script that McClory wrote with Fleming and writer-for-hire Jack Whittingham in the late 1950s that Fleming later used to turn into the novel ...
Sep 19, 2023 · McClory and Jack Whittingham tried to prevent Fleming from publishing the book, which led to a lawsuit that finally ended in the London high courts in 1963. McClory won the film and TV rights to ...
Jack Whittingham was born on 2 August 1910 in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. He was a writer and producer, known for Thunderball (1965), Never Say Never Again (1983) and The Birthday Present (1957).
The first novelisation of an unfilmed James Bond screenplay, it was born from a collaboration by five people: Ian Fleming, Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, Ivar Bryce and Ernest Cuneo, although the controversial shared credit of Fleming, McClory and Whittingham was the result of a courtroom decision.
Dec 18, 2018 · Short, sharp, and punchy, this is the kind of Bond story that fans of the films will enjoy. Not for nothing: THUNDERBALL is technically (and legally speaking) “based on a screen treatment by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham and the Author.” Indeed, the story behind this novel is full of (almost) as much intrigue as one of Bond’s own ...
