[FLEMING]--MAIBAUM | The Spy Who Loved Me, typescript screenplay, 1976

[IAN FLEMING]--RICHARD MAIBAUM

THE SPY WHO LOVED ME. 1976

Photocopy typescript screenplay, 123 pages, small folio (letter size), dated 8 January 1976 with two pages of later inserts (p.33 dated 21 January and p.85 dated 5 February), in a metal-strip file binder, burgundy covers with a numbered paper label ("9") and ownership inscription of Ernie Archer (assistant art director), housed in a grey cloth folding case with a red morocco title label

Richard Maibaum, who wrote this screenplay, worked on all but three of the Bond films from Dr No (1962) to License to Kill (1989). Maibaum once said of his Bond adaptations that “the real trick of it is to find the villain's caper. Once you've got that, you're off to the races and the rest is fun.” The Spy Who Loved Me has the first appearance of the infamous Jaws, played by Richard Kiel. This version of the script has a new villain, Klement Kronk, kill Blofeld and (with the help of Jaws) take over SPECTRE for his own fiendish purposes. Sadly, this portion of the story was changed before production commenced in the summer of 1976 in order to avoid the film getting dragged into an ongoing copyright dispute over the use of SPECTRE. This copy of the screenplay belonged to Ernie Archer, assistant art director for this and other Bond films: The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), Moonraker (1979), For Your Eyes Only (1981), and Octopussy (1983). Archer also worked on other classic films such as The Day of the Jackal (1973), 2001: Space Odyssey (1968), and Doctor Zhivago (1965).