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The BSA Lightning motorcycle Volpe rides was not produced until 1965, meaning different bike or other vehicle in the chase.
Poster for 1962's Thunderball would not claim 'Here comes the biggest Bond of all!'.
On to another What if, submitted by @MaxCasino
There have been rumors and in one case I believe some work went into developing a spin off movie for a character in a Bond film. I am of course talking about Wai Lin and Jinx.
I have heard that there was serious interest for a Jinx spin off movie after DAD. Would Pierce appear in the film? Not sure. But when you see how heavily featured Halle was in the advertising and marketing of DAD you can tell the studio was interested in having her return.
The case of Wai Lin is a bit murkier. Not sure there was ever serious interest, but fans have often wondered if Ms. Lin could have starred in her own movie.
so dear community members what say you...what if Wai Lin and Jinx got spinoff movies?
I know Michael Madsen would have returned for Jinx. He said so himself.
Although the closest that I'm seeing a decent spin off was through Felix Leiter, and that's because of the Dynamite comics that I've read about him (but still I don't want them to get filmed), I'm not even interested in those Moneypenny Diaries and that's because I knew Moneypenny so well that I don't need to read more about her.
But just give me Bond films instead of spin offs.
So is it somehow a good thing that it never happened? I think so.
I'm just interested more in the Bond character than the other characters in the Franchise.
So my guess here was if it's really put on fruition, then assuming the Jinx spin off would've likely to come out in 2004, I mean, It would've likely to interrupt with the production of Casino Royale given the budget and the staff and crews who would worked on that spin off film (for sure it would've been likely the same set), the same for a Wai Lin spin off that would've even make the productions of the standard Bond films more complicated and as a result, there would be a lot more gaps in between the Bond films and it's because of those spin off films (imagine the Wai Lin spin off that would've been likely to get released in 1998 or possibly 1999, then the production for TWINE would've been more complicated, I mean, for sure, it would've affected the Bond film productions).
These Wai Lin and Jinx Spin offs would've likely to affect the Bond production.
And that's the same with Wai Lin, unfortunately, I don't think it would've been successful either, more of a disappointment too.
And imagine this, if we've seen TWINE like that (the issues given in that film) what more if given a low budget due to that spin off? I think we could've seen TWINE in a lot more worse possible 😅.
Of course, the budget that would've been for TWINE would be half allotted for that spin off, then an interruption in the Production, and it would've created a more lesser result.
So my dear literary fans of Mister Bond. What it Christopher Wood had been commissioned to write the continuation novels in the 80s?
Some other information I found out.
http://www.tikit.net/panfans/2015/11/09/bits-and-pieces/ 5
After mentioning Christopher Wood and ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’ last week I received the following comment from Mike Pretty “A little Christopher Wood footnote for you. I used to work for Jonathan Cape (and Pan, but that’s another story) and I edited The Spy Who Loved Me for publication. I can’t remember why, but it was decided that the girl who was going to be eaten so graphically by a shark needed a name. I was about to get married, so I inserted my fiancee’s maiden name just as a placeholder until we talked about it. Wood wasn’t bothered either way, so in she stayed. Luckily Kate was amused!” Mike married Kate Chapman who sadly died all too young of cancer.
Mike Petty adds that he had “previously worked at Jonathan Cape, and Sonny [Mehta] claimed he hired me because I was presumably able to cope with Tom Maschler, which he couldn’t. I like to think I had other talents, though!”
FWIW, Christopher Wood also loathed Jonathan Cape chairman Tom Maschler. “Sometimes I would gaze up at the Corcovado peak and wonder if the statue of Christ the Redeemer on its summit with arms spread wise was in fact Saint Peter measuring the Pearly Gates to see if they were wide enough to receive Maschler’s head”.
Oh, I guess because he's the scriptwriter of both TSWLM and MR, but it would be interesting had there been a YOLT novelization based on the film script by Dahl.
I wish Christopher Wood at least made a novelization of it.
Was novelization a thing at that time?
Thanks for the mention, @thedove, and for posing this interesting "what if" question by @MaxCasino. Christopher Wood is rightly considered as one of the best Bond continuation authors and is at a level similar to that of Kingsley Amis. He got the literary Bond in a way few others have and could successfully ape Fleming's writing style and discreetly update it for the late 1970s film novelisation audience. It is quite a skill to take two very outlandish Lewis Gilbert directed Bond films and turn them into acceptable literary Bond stories. That is exactly what Wood brought to the table. Of course it would've been nice to see Wood write some original Bond novels in the 1980s but at the same time I'm glad that we got John Gardner's take on James Bond in the 80s and 90s. There'd be no Never Send Flowers or Dragonpol otherwise. Ultimately I don't think I'd want to trade that for some original Wood Bond novels in the 1980s. I'm sure you wouldn't expect me to say anything else, though. :)
Back in 2012, a Bond reunion was set to happen, even Roger Moore himself touted of the idea that they would be having a Bond Reunion Movie a la The Expendables, although, joked that he would be needing some stuntmen when performing action scenes, but it never happened.
Now I can't vouch for what @SIS_HQ details above. Never heard of a movie where all the Bond actors would star together. However I recall some talk around a round table discussion with all the Bond actors gathering for a discussion about the series and the impact on their lives.
You can either talk about a movie where all the Bond actors come together like Expendables OR what might a round table discussion with the Bond actors might have looked like.
In both cases I think it's safe to say that Sean would be the toughest to get to participate but since this is fantasy, lets say he was on board!
So the what if is obvious in here, what if it happened? What do you think it would've looked like? How would it fare? What do you think would've happened? And would it affect the Bond Franchise, and how?
Had it happened, it's pretty obvious to say it would have divided the fandom, one half would be pleased to see the previous Bonds join forces together, and the other would instantly hate it since it would canonize the Codename Theory.
I always thought that Roger Moore could have interviewed some Bond alumni for the 50th anniversary, namely Ursula Andress, BECAUSE of Dr. No.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/585787/Roger-Moore-James-Bond-Sean-Connery-Pierce-Brosnan-George-Lazenby-Timothy-Dalton/amp
https://www.mi6community.com/discussion/12315/sir-roger-moore-hints-at-bond-super-film-starring-himself-sean-connery-and-pierce-brosnan/p2
I wish you could have hosted the round table @CrabKey those are topics very worthy of discussion!
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/pierce-brosnan-first-approach-for-james-bond-1983?fbclid=IwAR2YXLFpqgYXTjx2Tua6_E3cfOyKNj3z2_CHBp-qsuJ9m_Sodvtysv2fdmQ
Looks like Cubby was a fan of Pierce before TLD and way before GE. It seems to be coming out that Pierce screen tested for the role in late 1983 to take over as Bond in AVTAK. Wow, one wonders how a new Bond would have improved AVTAK. Can we imagine Pierce and Walken sharing a screen? Or even Pierce and David Bowie (who was rumoured for the Zorin role).
This would have altered things quite a bit from what we got had it happened. One wonders if Dalton would have lost his chance to become Bond and whether Brosnan would have added 3 more films to this run. What happens with LTK? Could Pierce pull that off? Or would a return to Fleming be put on hold for a tone more in line with Brosnan's other Bond films?
What say you Mi6? What if Pierce Brosnan had starred in AVTAK?
Brosnie would have undoubtedly been better recieved than Timmy, audiences were so used to Bond being lighthearted escapism than Timmy's portrayal felt out of place, as much as i love both of them.
The skinny snowboarding double would have been a *lot* more believable.
As for future films, TLD was not yet fully tailored to Dalton so I can see Pierce in that film, I can't see Pierce pulling off LTK and I am not sure they would even go that direction. LTK was written to play to Dalton's strengths and not Pierce.
Funny how the casting of an actor for one movie spills over for many other interesting and different choices down the road.