In the end, the two films only saw a $27.5 million difference in their grosses, with Roger Moore’s official James Bond movie winning out.
The first was 1983’s Never Say Never Again, in which James Bond and Ernst Stavro Blofeld fought for custody of two nuclear warheads yet again.
Ian Fleming’s estate attempted to prevent such a race, but lost their bid to stop the film’s release.
With this film being released in the same year as the official Bond series’ Octopussy, there was obviously a competition between the two films.
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