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Eon Productions?

posted 20 years ago by MooseNugget
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Albert R. Broccoli .... producer
Harry Saltzman .... executive producer
Ted Moore
Peter R. Hunt
John Stears .... special effects
Maurice Binder .... title designer

[–] ChrisWalkensPal 18 years ago

sounds like a james bond flick to me!

- ChrisWalkensPal

[–] King-Grim 18 years ago

I think that when Eon Productions started out, they intended to make films outside the James Bond series, but as they made more and more of those, this intention was lost - when Call Me Bwana was made, the only Bond film there had been was Dr. No, so it was hardly a series at that point. I'm sure they had no idea that the series would still be going almost half a century later...

[–] erico_suave_007 18 years ago

The poster for 'Call Me Bwana' was used as a plot device in "From Russia With Love" the same year also.

[–] vpilutis 14 years ago

In the novel which the film is pretty close to (only in the book it IS the Russians not SPECTRE which was first seen in Thunderball)
The poster is for the film "Niagara"

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[–] hollywoodpsychic 14 years ago

Broccoli and Saltzman originally intended to make one Bond flick a year, with non-bond films sprinkled throughout. Of course Bond turned out to be a pretty solid bread winner, so they dropped the other stuff pretty quick. That said, Saltzman produced other films and eventually left Eon after 9 Bond flicks, and Broccoli produced a non-Bond Ian Flemming novel (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) in '68. They also collectively began production on a film about Vaslav Nijinsky in 1970 but abandoned the project and never completed the film. (Saltzman returned to the subject and made a film based upon a different script in 1980.)

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[–] vpilutis 14 years ago

Well at one point they were talking about an OCTOPUSSY II which would have the
Character in her own adventure.

The same was said about JINX (Halle Berry) from "Die Another Day" only one story saids they didn't do it when other female heroes' films bombed.

IMO I think the Jinx bit was just a stunt for more media headlines.

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