In their final scene together, Wyatt makes reference to
Never Say Never Again (1983). Ironically, Ian Fleming never wrote a James Bond novel of that title and the reference would have been completely meaningless to him, as the title was coined by
Sean Connery's wife after Connery stated that he would "never" play the role of James Bond again.
Fleming had in fact been hired decades earlier to write a screenplay upon which Never Say Never Again was based. Dissatisfied that the film project had not been green-lit, Fleming adapted his screenplay and published it as the novel Thunderball in 1961, without citing or crediting the film producers, which lead to years of litigation between them. Thunderball did eventually become a movie (
Thunderball (1965)), but the "revised" time line suggests that the film might never have been made in favor of the alternate film Weapon of Choice, based on Fleming's experiences with Lucy, Wyatt and Rufus.
