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2. Dan
3. Roger
4. Tim
5. Pierce
6. George
For me
Just like when Brosnan was about to be names Bond on The Living Daylights and then Remington Steele was picked up at the 11th hour and Pierce contractually had to stick with Remington Steele and then wait his turn. Just think if Remington Steele Bond would have gone off in whole other direction.
1. Pierce
2. Sean
3. Roger
4. Timothy (VERY UNDERRATED).
5. Lazenby
6. Craig
So true, and having MR as his vanishing number would have been a bit cringeworthy.
(Hmmm...AVTAK... ) :|
According to the press back then, their first choice was Sean Connery in FYEO. But he declined. According to the press back then, like I already mentioned. [/quote]
Was the intent to bring Connery back in 1980 or film FYEO back when he was still in the fold?
Agreed. I think MR would have been a tad more dignified a send off than AVTAK. At least that film didn't end on crude jokes about dropping soap in the shower.
Sa
I thought Sam Neil had impressed everyone but Cubby.
"All of us were impressed with Sam Neill"
Imagine if he'd done Goldeneye and M had called him a dinosaur :))
I think he sounds like Brosnan. I have to say, I am not impressed. Great actor. But not Bond. Not in this scene anyway.
Big mistake. Big, big mistake. The icon before the character. James Bond does not know who/what he is to us. He lives in a world where there are no Bond movies, no Bond novels. He would not be conscious of what he represents.
He still managed to recognize his own theme song in OP. :))
Concerning the topic, we're all aware that many other actors were being looked at and even Moore himself was considering leaving after Moonraker. But the money was there for Moore, and he had a very large fan base that were paying to see his films. I think a lot of us can agree that Sir Rog hung around for too long, but when the money was rolling in, why not keep him? It wasn't even until AVTAK that the box office started to drag, but even still the film was a worldwide financial success. Whatever your opinion on Moore's Bond, one can't deny his films were constant moneymakers.
As I said I am of two minds about when Roger Moore should have retired. FYEO would have been the perfect first Bond movie for a new actor, maybe more than LALD and TLD. Then on the other hand, I cannot see anyone but Moore pulling OP convincingly. In AVTAK Moore was too old, but AVTAK as a first movie for a new Bond would have been terrible unless drastically changed and Moore does bring some qualities to it.
When the sparring partner acts more convincingly, there's a problem IMO :)
But you can go also full meta-throttle with that, like in DAF or AVTAK ("That's him ?" "Thats" you?"): note this was the last official outing of Connery and Moore : the actor before the icon, somehow.
But the most subtle hin there is a "Bond world" outside the norma world, IMO, was in LTK, when we have a made-for-TV-villain thrown into the Bond world. He just can't believe Bond can do water-skiing behind a plane to escape, Milton Krest must be lying.
Mendes went a bit that way with the totally "illogical" DB5 but didn't acknowledge it fully. In Moore times, they acknowledged it "a lot". It's a pity Glen is labeled a yes-man while he takes full responsibility, and Mendes an author while he doesn't :)
One of the flaws of both DAF and AVTAK. But anyway, Sam Neill sounded like an icon, not a character. Which is strange, as I thought he would have been able to pull it off easily. Not sure his face or body could have worked as Bond, but I always thought his acting and his delivery of lines would.