There is a longstanding rumor that in the early drafts of the script, Dr. No turned out to be a monkey. When first approached by producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, screenwriters Wolf Mankowitz and Richard Maibaum discarded most of the source material and wrote a story treatment about a shipping magnate called Buchwald attempting to blow up the Panama Canal. Dr. No was a monkey god worshipped on the island, and the villain kept a Capuchin monkey as a pet. Broccoli and Saltzman told them to try again and this time stick more closely to the source material. Mankowitz was dissatisfied with the script and had his name removed from the credits. He later co-wrote the James Bond parody James Bond 007 - Casino Royale (1967), which co-starred Ursula Andress, who played Honey Ryder in this movie.

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