Jack Whittingham

Jack Whittingham (1910 - July 4, 1972) was a British playwright, film critic, and screenwriter.

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1910 - July 4 - 1972 - British - Playwright - Film critic - Screenwriter

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He is best-known for having collaborated with Ian Fleming and Kevin McClory on a possible James Bond television series or film. When these plans were scrapped, Fleming novelised the work into his ninth official novel, Thunderball; however, the novel only credited Fleming. McClory and Whittingham then sued Fleming, which led to a settlement in 1963 that gave McClory the film rights to the novel. During the lawsuit, Jack Whittingham backed out and sold his part of the rights to Kevin McClory. As a result of the settlement, future versions of the novel were forced to credit, based on the screen treatment by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Ian Fleming (in that order). Two adaptations of Thunderball were subsequently made, the first being Thunderball in 1965 as part of the official series of films from EON Productions. The second adaptation, the unofficial James Bond film Never Say Never Again in 1983. Further adaptations have been planned at one point or another, but have been scrapped due to lawsuits from MGM and United Artists.

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Ian Fleming - Kevin McClory - James Bond - Television - Film - Thunderball - 1965 - EON Productions - Never Say Never Again - 1983 - MGM - United Artists

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Whittingham died in 1972, eleven years before McClory's Thunderball remake, Never Say Never Again was released in theaters.

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