Early drafts of La spia che mi amava (1977) featured S.P.E.C.T.R.E., but had to be removed for legal reasons, due to a dispute with then rights owner Kevin McClory, who owned the movie remake rights to Agente 007 - Thunderball: operazione tuono (1965) (which he remade as Mai dire mai (1983)) as well as to the names "S.P.E.C.T.R.E." and "Ernst Stavro Blofeld". An early version of the script intended to have Blofeld return as the villain for the first time since Agente 007 - Una cascata di diamanti (1971). Richard Maibaum's original draft script for La spia che mi amava (1977) featured an alliance of international terrorists entering S.P.E.C.T.R.E.'s headquarters and deposing Blofeld, before trying to destroy the world for themselves, to make way for a New World Order. This script was deemed too political by producer Albert R. Broccoli. Also, later, for legal reasons, the name of the villain could not be called "Stavros", and had to be changed, so was called "Stromberg" (Curd Jürgens) instead, because of its similarity with the middle name of Ernest Blofeld which was "Stavro". The traditional black suited S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Army could not wear that color either, and instead wore red outfits in La spia che mi amava (1977). According to the book "The Complete James Bond Movie Encylopedia" by Steven Jay Rubin, the initial hypothesized S.P.E.C.T.R.E. of La spia che mi amava (1977), included "members of the Bader-Meinhof Gang, the Japanese Red Army, and other modern terrorist organizations." S.P.E.C.T.R.E. does appear briefly in the original Ian Fleming novel "The Spy Who Loved Me" (1962), one of few of Fleming's Bond novels to do so.
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