[1] After the film project's collapse, without his collaborators' permission, Fleming based his Thunderball (1961) novel upon their joint work.

Kevin McClory won the film rights and chose a single co-production deal with Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli: Thunderball (1965) that was released at Christmas.

McClory's court victory also entitled him to remake Thunderball (1965) as Never Say Never Again (1983), again with Sean Connery as James Bond, the cinematic competition Broccoli had tried to legally ban.

[1] With the remake, McClory attempted to continue with his own James Bond film series, but was stopped after legal action by Broccoli and MGM.

[1] In a later unsuccessful lawsuit, McClory went further and now claimed that he created the cinematic James Bond, and demanded a share of the three billion dollars earned by the official Eon film series.