The Battle for Bond deal with Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli: "Thunderball" (1965) that was released at Christmas. McClory's court victory also entitled him to remake "Thunderball" (1965) as "Never Say Never Again" (1983), again with Sean Connery as James Bond, the cinematic competition Broccoli had tried to legally ban. With the remake, McClory attempted to continue with his own James Bond film series, but was stopped after legal action by Broccoli and MGM. In a later unsuccessful lawsuit, McClory went further and now claimed that he created the cinematic James Bond, and demanded a share of the three billion dollars earned by
Diamonds Are Forever (film) John W. Mitchell and Al Overton. It lost to "Fiddler on the Roof". Diamonds Are Forever (film) Diamonds Are Forever is a 1971 James Bond spy film and the seventh in the "James Bond" series produced by Eon Productions. It is the sixth and final Eon film to star Sean Connery, who returned to the role as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond, for the first time since "You Only Live Twice" (1967), having declined to reprise the role in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969). The film is based on Ian Fleming's 1956 novel of the same name, and