James
06-06-2002, 05:10 PM
A friend said he read this recently which amused me as a Bond and Spidey follower - can anyone verify? It has the ring of truth! He says he located it in a British film mag but I did a quick bit of research to get accurate specifics but turned up nothing...
Either way it's interesting and it's a reliable mag..!
Apparently SONY aqquired the rights off MGM for Spider-Man in an interesting pay off.
MGM has been sitting on the Spider for a good few years, however there has been legal battles with SONY regarding a Bond remake named Warhead 2000.
Kevin McClory, who co-wrote the Bond flick, Thunderball has always wanted to take Bond in his direction. Being co-writer on Thunderball only, he has just one flick he can remake. This was remade in the 80's as Never Say Never Again, and after another 15 years had past he saw it as a good time to remake it AGAIN (as I said he has only the one film to toy with) this time through SONY as Warhead 2000.
MGM has been fighting this little battle with SONY in an attempt to secure rights to Bond and prevent SONY making a rival Bond franchise of, er, one film.
The beautiful offer from SONY was if they dropped the mooted Warhead 2000, could they have Spider-Man exclusively in return? MGM agreed...
Now who do YOU think got the better deal? :D
The only thing that works against the tale is tha McClory was still counter suing MGM in 2001 I believe (sounce: IMDB)... but that doesn't really invalidate this almost ridiculous deal!
Either way it's interesting and it's a reliable mag..!
Apparently SONY aqquired the rights off MGM for Spider-Man in an interesting pay off.
MGM has been sitting on the Spider for a good few years, however there has been legal battles with SONY regarding a Bond remake named Warhead 2000.
Kevin McClory, who co-wrote the Bond flick, Thunderball has always wanted to take Bond in his direction. Being co-writer on Thunderball only, he has just one flick he can remake. This was remade in the 80's as Never Say Never Again, and after another 15 years had past he saw it as a good time to remake it AGAIN (as I said he has only the one film to toy with) this time through SONY as Warhead 2000.
MGM has been fighting this little battle with SONY in an attempt to secure rights to Bond and prevent SONY making a rival Bond franchise of, er, one film.
The beautiful offer from SONY was if they dropped the mooted Warhead 2000, could they have Spider-Man exclusively in return? MGM agreed...
Now who do YOU think got the better deal? :D
The only thing that works against the tale is tha McClory was still counter suing MGM in 2001 I believe (sounce: IMDB)... but that doesn't really invalidate this almost ridiculous deal!