New Lawsuit Challenges The Owners Of James Bond For The Use Of Character's Name & 007

Screenrant ^ | February 17, 2025 | Bella Garcia

[Macho MAGA Man]

Could this be the end of OO7?

[BenLurkin]

[Jamestown1630]

How can it be the ‘end’ when people want to name things after it?

[Sirius Lee]

Ah, but do they own DOUBLE 007?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14Mfmn7vN4g

[V_TWIN]

David Niven was 007??? Who knew?

Runs neck and neck with roger moore for wimpiest Bond of all time.

[lee martell]

The “titular” name?

(I know, I know)

[BipolarBob]

When I go in for blood tests at the lab they always ask name? I always say “Bond. James Bond”. I wait a few seconds to get their reaction then tell them my name.

[BlueLancer]

Would one of the names include "Double-nought spy"?

[Fresh Wind]

Wasn’t Goldfinger rated “PG”? (Pussy Galore)

[lee martell]

That would have been fitting.

[A strike]

Leave it for a REAL scumbag to try to steal an icon on a technicality ..

[Macho MAGA Man]

No doubt! This guy must live a boring life.

[A strike]

Except, this shyster has found his gold mine, really exciting now !
(no doubt he had a clock ticking down to the minute to when he could spring his theft)

[wally_bert]

Some of the best BH episodes.

[scrabblehack]

In the satire film “Casino Royale” (1967). It was a huge disappointment - not funny, not exciting.

[scrabblehack]

Kevin McClory helped out with the short story/novella “Thunderball.” He was eventually awarded movie rights.

He made a deal with the regular Bond franchise.

Then he claimed that he invented SPECTRE and Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

“The Spy Who Loved Me” was going to feature Blofeld, but because of McCLory’s claims, the character’s name was changed to Stromberg.

A Blofeld-like character was presumably killed at the beginning of “For Your Eyes Only.”

McClory remade Thunderball as “Never Say Never Again” with Sean Connery.

He tried remaking it yet again as “Warhead 2000” or “Warhead 2001” and tried to get Timothy Dalton. That one never launched.

He finally died — I suppose his family sold Blofeld, SPECTRE, Thunderball, etc. to the Bond franchise.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Niven did serve in WWII. His acting style was more of the pre-war suave type.

[Angelino97]

I once read that David Niven was Fleming's ideal vision of James Bond.

I read elsewhere that Roger Moore was how Fleming envisioned Bond.

Either way, it apparently wasn't Sean Connery.

[Angelino97]

Yes, MGM bought McClory's rights. It also bought Casino Royale from Columbia. It was to consolidate all the missing pieces to the Bond film & TV copyright.

The Fleming Estate still owns the literary rights.

[Monterrosa-24]

Fleming would probably not have known of a very young Roger Moore. I read that he though Hoagy Carmichael was close to how he imagined James Bond.