McGinnis continues to sip from the martini glass to this day, as this auction also includes a more recent rendering of Daniel Craig as the somber, deadly serious Bond. “It required the excitement of the women,” McGinnis later said of his first Bond outing, “plus the adventure.” The Thunderball poster became a sort of template for all of his Bond works, including the one for Live and Let Die introducing Roger Moore as 007. This is the poster that boasted: “Here Comes the Biggest Bond of All!” McGinnis said it took him just three to four weeks to complete the hairy-chested image of Sean Connery’s wetsuit-clad, harpoon-gun-wielding Bond kneeling alongside scantily clad renderings of SPECTRE assassin Fiona Volpe (Luciana Paluzzi), doomed British Secret Service operative Paula Caplan (Martine Beswick), Patricia Fearing (Molly Peters) and Domino herself, Claudine Auger. He was given much to work with – he was able to see rushes and some black-and-white stills – but not much time. In a 2010 interview with the Illustrated 007, McGinnis said he was brought to the producers’ attention by Don Smolen, an artist and designer at United Artists.
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