McClory was very fond of Warhead as a title, and the working title for the third version, developed for Sony Pictures, was Warhead 2000 or Warhead 2000 AD.

Connery is by far one of the best things in Thunderball. He’s still very much engaged. Of course, he has doubles for the underwater scenes (they had at some points three different crews filming different sequences, to speed up production), but he’s great in it.

The copyright issue about Thunderball also meant that the producers couldn’t use (after the end of 1974 of a deal with Kevin McClory) any element introduced in Thunderball. And as both SPECTRE and Blofeld come from the script and the novel, that became a pain in the ass.

Try the Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp miniseries for his turn as a reclusive singer-songwriter. He saves friendship with his song.

To understand why the show was canceled, it’s interesting to take a look at the ratings.

Person of Interest also had the benefit of not having two underwhelming seasons that caused the show to lose most of the audience… and the good will it originally had.

A Montgomery Clift who couldn’t find a project with the right profile.

The Rust trial was the new Don’t Worry Darling. This is the new Rust trial.

If it was more of a character study than expected, I can see the guy who dropped “HBO” from HBO Max because it sounded too “elite” deciding to kill it because it wouldn’t have made Joe Sixpack happy to witness a girl doing girlish things.

Nobody assumed that The Flash would be a hit, especially with Miller’s “issues” and the decision to basically reboot all the DC Comics properties, which was taken before the release.

For some older musicians where the fans are completists, people are definitely buying variants of the same record, while the artist and the label are taking advantage of it, as it can boost the sales and the position in the charts. For McCartney III, there was more than a dozen versions of the album (and there were…

Well, if you haven’t checked your almost namesake’s Twitter account, there was a major earlier this week.

The AV Club is getting rebooted.

Nikki Finke, when she was the head writer on Deadline.com, couldn’t stand Hathaway (and actually hated most women). Here’s this nugget where she took the defense of the most misunderstood person in the world when Hathaway got her Golden Globe.

It is. The Doom Patrol was introduced as a backdoor pilot from the Titans TV show, with some recasting before the show went into production. That’s the same thing here. “Dead Patrol” was actually co-written by the showrunner for DBD and by one of the producers. They have simply recast the three main parts from that…

The scripts on TOS weren’t always supplied from a bunch of good sci-fi writers, and some of them were actually so-so, but Roddenberry had a reputation early in his career for being able to rewrite the script for an entire episode over the course of a single night needing only a typewriter and a bottle of whisky. Sure,…

Roddenberry went over budget for TMP, and everybody involved had a miserable experience making it (that’s one of the main reasons why Nimoy wanted to get Spock killed in a sequel), partly due to Roddenberry developing a massive coke habit (once he started to work with the film guys) and failing to rework a so-so script…

Soderbergh built the whole script around her limitations as an actress, and she was just starting to act, so her acting skills that big of an issue at the time. Then, it’s easy to notice that between Haywire and The Mandalorian, her career was either being the lead in some DTV project or a secondary antagonist in some…

Carano is currently suing Disney for wrongful termination and discrimination. Does she have a case? Who knows. The mysteries of the law are beautiful and strange.

Whoever runs the Twitter account?