Not that you are wrong, but its important to note they literally adapted the same book twice within two decades of each other with Sean Connery playing Bond in both to show how unwilling they were to deviate for a while.
Never Say Never Again, the second Thunderball you're referring to, is not canon. They also couldn't make the plot anything else, due to various legal issues.
There's a reason it took so long for it to be released on DVD, unlike every other movie with a character named James Bond in it.
Because it's not a "Bond movie" in the traditional sense.
Not to defend this trash, but Ian Fleming died in 1964.
There's no way every single film before this was based on his books.
Most of them, sure, but ALL?
And many of them have been garbage as well. Coincidence? No.
That's called Sturgeon's Law.
They literally made Thunderball twice.
Not that you are wrong, but its important to note they literally adapted the same book twice within two decades of each other with Sean Connery playing Bond in both to show how unwilling they were to deviate for a while.
Never Say Never Again, the second Thunderball you're referring to, is not canon. They also couldn't make the plot anything else, due to various legal issues.
There's a reason it took so long for it to be released on DVD, unlike every other movie with a character named James Bond in it.
Because it's not a "Bond movie" in the traditional sense.
I never read the books but have seen discussion that only a few of the movies were close adaptations to the novels anyway.