MI6 Confidential Issue #39

By MI6 Staff

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Take a deep dive into the rich and complex history of Thunderball, the self-crowned ‘biggest Bond of all.’ Synonymous with ‘Bondmania’, the film’s preproduction has a long, tangled history and lasting consequences for the franchise.

This issue of MI6 Confidential revisits the drafting with an insightful look back at the various script revisions before Thunderball went into production, tests the waters of the censor’s sensibilities and hosts a rarely seen suite of retrospective interviews with the principal cast and crew.

Beneath The Surface - The scripting of Thunderball
A Modern Mythology - Producers interviewed on the brink of Bondmania
In Their Own Words - Cast and crew reflect on the biggest Bond of all
Sex & Sadism For All The Family - Thunderball was cut to meet censor’s standards
Passion Project - Meet the designer behind Vesper’s iconic Love Knot
Geopolitics & Genders - The globalism and masculinism of 007 explored
Local Hero - Bond gave Panamanian actor Jaime Newball his Hollywood debut
The Bond Connection - Berlin Station is a taught TV thriller from writer Olen Steinhauer