Some "Never Say Never Again" Trivia

Above, Sean Connery and Kim Basinger. Orion/Warner Bros.

For the first time in a while, I watched Sean Connery's last outing as James Bond in Never Say Never Again (1983). 

It hadn't struck me before, but I got curious as to the age differences between Connery and co-star Kim Basinger at time time of the movie's production.

At the time of production, Connery was 52 (he was three years younger than Bond successor Roger Moore) and Basinger was 29. She's only a couple of months older than me. 

At the time, or since, I don't remember if Connery's and Basinger's age differences ever became an "issue". It would be considered as a May-December romance these days.

For those who aren't aware, Never Say Never Again is a remake of Thunderball (1965).

According to Wikipedia:

Never Say Never Again is a 1983 spy film directed by Irvin Kershner. The film is based on the 1961 James Bond novel Thunderball by Ian Fleming, which in turn was based on an original story by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Fleming. The novel had been previously adapted as the 1965 film of the same name. Never Say Never Again is the second and most recent James Bond film not to be produced by Eon Productions, the usual producer of the Bond series, but by Jack Schwartzman's Taliafilm, and was distributed by Warner Bros. instead of United Artists. The film was executive produced by Kevin McClory, one of the original writers of the Thunderball storyline. McClory had retained the filming rights of the novel following a long legal battle dating from the 1960s.

Never Say Never Again had its origins in the early 1960s, following the controversy over the 1961 Thunderball novel. Fleming had worked with independent producer Kevin McClory and scriptwriter Jack Whittingham on a script for a potential Bond film, to be called Longitude 78 West, which was subsequently abandoned because of the costs involved. Fleming, "always reluctant to let a good idea lie idle", turned this into the novel Thunderball, for which he did not credit either McClory or Whittingham; McClory then took Fleming to the High Court in London for breach of copyright, and the matter was settled in 1963. After Eon Productions started producing the Bond films, it subsequently made a deal with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, and then not make any further version of the novel for a period of ten years, following the release of the Eon-produced version in 1965.