One of them (who went uncredited) was the stunt coordinator in charge of the final sequence. This movie had SIX DIRECTORS- SIX-each helming different parts of the film. Normally one is enough, unless it's a Coen or Wachowski flick. This was not the only problem this film had. David Niven, Fleming's original choice to play his super-spy character, was given the lead. Too bad he didn't tell most of the actors who genuinely thought it was a straight-up Bond flick.
When those rights wound up in the hands of Columbia Pictures, producer Charles Feldman originally wanted to make the movie WITH Saltzman and Broccoli, but ended up producing it by himself when they couldn't come to terms, and neither could he cast Connery himself to play Bond.so he decided to make the film into a comedy. When Harry Saltzman and Albert Broccoli won the film rights to Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and stories, there was one title they didn't get-the very first novel from 1953, Casino Royale, which had already gone to CBS for a 1954 episode of their Climax Mystery Theater series. Actually, there are TWO James Bond movies that aren't part of the official canon-there's this one, and there's also the 1983 film Never Say Never Again, in which Sean Connery (at the age of 53) returned to play 007 in what is essentially a remake of Thunderball.
