James Bond in film Deighton together with Sean Connery to work on a script. The script ran into difficulties after accusations from Eon Productions that the project had gone beyond copyright restrictions, which confined McClory to a film based on the "Thunderball" novel only, and once again the project was deferred. Towards the end of the 1970s developments were reported on the project under the name "James Bond of the Secret Service", but then producer Jack Schwartzman became involved and cleared a number of the legal issues that still surrounded the project and licensed the rights from McClory. With Connery still committed to the
James Bond 007: From Russia with Love by Bruce Feirstein who previously worked on the film scripts for "GoldenEye", "Tomorrow Never Dies" and "The World Is Not Enough", in addition to the script for the video game "". Feirstein would also go on to write stories for future Bond games at Activision, including the 2010 remake of "GoldenEye 007", third-person shooter "", and 50th anniversary game "007 Legends". The game's soundtrack was composed by Christopher Lennertz. Additionally, Vic Flick, best known for playing the original guitar riff in the James Bond Theme announced that he contributed to Lennertz's score. On April 5, 2005, Sean Connery was slated