After Fleming wrote the novel Thunderball, based on the collaborative scripts - but without crediting his co-authors - McClory and Whittingham sued Fleming. They were given the rights to the story, though Whittingham had previously given up his rights to McClory.
Whittingham died in 1972, 11 years before McClory turned their screenplay into Never Say Never Again.
British screenwriterJackWhittingham got his film career off to a good start with the tongue-in-cheek espionager Q Planes (1939).
Whittingham switched from action films to emotional "problem dramas." Two of his best films in this vein were Crash of Silence (1952), the story of a deaf child, and The Divided Heart (1952), a tale of a hotly contested adoption.
One of JackWhittingham's last screen assignments was the James Bond opus Thunderball (1965), which enabled the writer to receive a story credit on the 1983 remake Never Say Never Again, even though he'd passed away 11 years earlier.
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