Editing Emilio Largo (section)

==Scheme==
Largo's scheme in ''Thunderball'' involves the theft of two nuclear weapons from [[NATO]] at sea to which he would then use to hold the world hostage by threatening to detonate the two devices in [[United Kingdom|Britain]] or the [[United States]] unless they paid the ransom of £100 million [[British pound]]s.<ref name="Institute1997">{{cite book|author=American Film Institute|title=The American Film Institute Catalog: Feature Films, 1961–1970|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s1k1RsGvFwwC&pg=PA1107|access-date=12 December 2012|year=1997|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-20970-1|page=1107}}</ref> This scheme has been used countless times since ''Thunderball'' and is even a joke in the ''[[Austin Powers]]'' series of movies.

The basic concept of Largo's scheme in ''Thunderball'' is held over in the 1983 remake ''[[Never Say Never Again]]'' where he is renamed Maximillian Largo and played by [[Klaus Maria Brandauer]]. As in ''Thunderball'', the scheme involves obtaining two nuclear warheads, this time stealing them directly from a [[United States Air Force]] base in the UK and holding the world hostage.