SPECTRE didn't exist until Thunderball, which began as a screenplay by Fleming, writer, producer and director Kevin McClory and screenwriter Jack Whittingham. Ian Fleming's original novels featured the real-life Soviet anti-spy organization called SMERSH, which became SPECTRE in a lot of the early films to avoid too much Cold War relevance. The copyright issues surrounding SPECTRE were tangled. The script saw numerous changes from inception to production, most notably after producers Eon acquired the rights to the main villain from the Sean Connery days: SPECTRE (Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion), the organization that hadn't appeared in an Eon production since 1971's Diamonds Are Forever. He was drawn in eventually by the developing script, which, like Skyfall, would deal with themes of mortality, aging and the serious implications of modern espionage. Mendes didn't want to return for what was then called only "Bond 24." Besides his transparency in discussing his exhaustion, he told Metro, "I think the great risk of repeating oneself is that one doesn’t have the great store of ideas that you have when you first tackle a subject."
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