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Just for the sake of the line, I was heartbroken when they rejected it." Broccoli called in Tom Mankiewicz to rewrite Maibaum's screenplay and, in the process, Goldfinger's brother was scratched, and Ernst Stavros Blofeld, the mastermind behind SPECTRE, returned. And, Maibaum says, his "smash ending" became "an interminable thing on an oil rig."
Mar 8, 2024 · Maibaum, who wrote and produced O.S.S., wanted Paramount to cast real-life OSS officer and Hollywood heartthrob Sterling Hayden as the lead. Hayden, however, was still serving in uniform at the time, so the role went to Ladd. O.S.S. was released in theaters May 26, 1946, and the film was so successful that other studios were quick to jump on the OSS bandwagon.
Jan 7, 1991 · Richard Maibaum, a former stage actor who began writing scripts for Hollywood in the 1930s, earning credits for pictures ranging from the steely thriller "They Gave Him a Gun" to the covert capers ...
Nov 9, 2012 · Richard Maibaum continued to work on the series in the 1970s (he did initial drafts for Diamonds Are Forever and The Spy Who Loved Me and a major rewrite on The Man with the Golden Gun), but the key writer for the Bond-lite era was Tom Mankiewicz-- the son of the Academy Award winning writer/director Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve) and the nephew of Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman J ...
Richard Maibaum (May 26, 1909 – January 4, 1991) was an American film producer, playwright and screenwriter best known for his screenplay adaptations of Ian Fleming 's James Bond novels. Quick Facts Born, Died ... Among his works are the first anti-lynching play on Broadway, The Tree (1932); [citation needed] the first anti-Nazi play on ...
Jan 9, 1991 · Richard Maibaum, who wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for a dozen James Bond films, died on Friday at St. John's Hospital and Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 81 years old and lived ...
Originally Maibaum's script included Zorin manipulating Halley's Comet into crashing into Silicon Valley, but Wilson insisted on a more realistic plot. [8] At the end of Octopussy , the "James Bond Will Return" sequence listed the next film as "From a View to a Kill", the name of the original short story, but later the title was changed. [ 9 ]
