Kevin McClory

Kevin McClory is a British film writer, producer, and director. McClory started his at film career as a film technician at Shepperton Studios, then moved on to Hollywood, where he worked as an assistant to John Huston on a number of movies including The African Queen.

Moving back to England, he wrote and directed The Boy and the Bridge. In 1958, he met Ian Fleming and they--plus Jack Whittingham--collaborated on a number of drafts for a movie called Thunderball, but nothing came of the project, though Fleming did turn the scripts into the 1961 novel Thunderball.

McClory and Whittingham went to court and won the rights to the material in 1963, and in 1983 McClory turned it into the Sean Connery-starring Never Say Never Again

Since then, McClory has continued to try to make movies based on the Thunderball scripts, including most famously a project called Warhead 2001, to be made by Sony. The project was scrapped when a court gave MGM/UA sole control over James Bond on film.

More Information

McClory's page about his fight for the rights to Thunderball: [1] (http://www.spectreorganisation.com/index.html)