You Only Live Twice (film) You Only Live Twice (film) You Only Live Twice is a 1967 British spy film and the fifth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film's screenplay was written by Roald Dahl, and loosely based on Ian Fleming's 1964 novel of the same name. It is the first James Bond film to discard most of Fleming's plot, using only a few characters and locations from the book as the background for an entirely new story. In the film, Bond is dispatched to Japan after American and Soviet
You Only Move Twice not let them use it. The writers went with "Bont" because they felt it was the most similar name that they could legally use. The final scene at Globex contains several references to action and "James Bond" films. The episode title and many references are from the Bond film "You Only Live Twice", as well as an allusion to "A View to a Kill". A character modeled after Sean Connery's Bond is tackled by Homer and killed after a parody of the laser scene from "Goldfinger". Miss Goodthighs from the 1967 James Bond parody "Casino Royale" makes an appearance in