<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $36 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $160 million </Td> </Tr> <P> Never Say Never Again is a 1983 James Bond spy film starring Sean Connery, directed by Irvin Kershner, produced by Jack Schwartzman, and written by Lorenzo Semple Jr. with uncredited additional co-writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, from a story by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Ian Fleming . It is the second adaptation of Fleming's Thunderball, which was previously adapted as the 1965 film of the same name . Unlike the majority of James Bond films, Never Say Never Again was not produced by Eon Productions, but by an independent production company, one of whose members was Kevin McClory, one of the original writers of the Thunderball story, who retained the filming rights of the novel following a legal dispute over them . </P> <P> Connery played the role of James Bond for the seventh and final time, marking his return to the character 12 years after Diamonds Are Forever . The film's title is a reference to Connery's reported declaration in 1971 that he would "never again" play that role . As Connery was 52 at the time of filming, the storyline features an aging Bond, who is brought back into action to investigate the theft of two nuclear weapons by SPECTRE . Filming locations included France, Spain, the Bahamas and Elstree Studios in England . </P>

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