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"People forget numbers every day, baby. Just make sure this one stays with you: 0-0-7."
EON are bigger hacks than everyone already thinks if they don't jump on this opportunity now. I'm not surprised that @Thunderfinger was the one to make such a perfect suggestion, being the leading mind of this forum.
It really makes you wonder why they just didn't take this treatment as a basis for SP. Maybe apart from having M killed.
He also weighs about 20 stone now :
Good to see Bella Emberg still getting work.
Hahaha very good...
@barryt007, who cares how many stone you are when you are strong enough to throw twenty literal stones at anyone with the lip to insult you. Seagal doesn't take kindly to those that are so audacious to insult him. Consider this a warning or get blasted, fool!
Apologize to Master Seagal now, or all these children will die!
Do you like the feeling of all that blood on your hands?
In doughnuts eating contests he must be a champion.
1. A "Moonraker" in the 60s, starring Sean Connery, directed by Terence Young
The novel "Moonraker" has that great atmosphere of a little chamber drama, it's a classic English crime story. Bond's love story which isn't a love story underlines the subtle tone of the book. The movie "Moonraker" from 1978 is such a disgrace that they should have saved the costs for production and instead flown the crew to Ian Fleming's grave so that they could have collectively urinated on it - would have been much less expensive while delivering the same result! Back in the 60s, Terence Young would have brought his masterful eye for thriller and suspense to that story. Oh, what an incredible picture we missed out on, I would even trade "Goldfinger" for it!
2. "Casino Royale" with Sean Connery in 1967
Charles Feldman should have given Connery his one million bucks and we would have gotten one of the most important Bond stories with the best Bond actor. Plus, EON might have had the chance to film "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" with Connery after all, because "You Only Live Twice" would have been delayed and Austria's snow might have come back in the meantime (which was a main factor in the shuffling of the two movies).
3. "Colonel Sun" in 1971 instead of "Diamonds Are Forever"
As fun as "Diamonds Are Forever" is (and it IS great fun!), they should have used Connery's comeback as an opportunity for acquiring the rights to Amis' book; with Terence Young back in the director's chair it could have easily become one of the greatest Bond movies.
4. A third Timothy Dalton movie
Well, that is nothing new, since many share that wish with me. I doubt Dalton would have liked to stay around for much longer, but he was absolutely ready to film that lost outing in the early 90s. I've seen the script ("Property of a Lady") and it certainly looks interesting. I heard Roger Spottiswoode (allegedly not interested) was considered as director, though, and that would have been a mistake.
5. A good fifth (and last) movie with Pierce Brosnan
Pierce Brosnan is my least favorite James Bond, but even he didn't deserve to go out with the dialogue "I'm so good" - "Especially when you're bad...".
What the producers did to him was shameful; Albert R. Broccoli would have never basically fired his main actor, especially given the enormous success of the movies.
Brosnan should have ended his tenure with an exciting, more realistic James Bond movie in 2004.
In the future, EON should start making movies from the other non Ian Fleming books. They can plan better, and it would be better than a "original screenplay" by P & W. There is good material in other books not by Fleming.
Eon has a history of using elements from old scripts, so they are keeping them under lock and key. IIRC, GE used elements that sat around at Eon for years.
Clive Owen is a big missed opportunity.
The fact that he was sacked after DAD and P&W survived is a joke. Brosnan was a scapegoat for that movie, despite him doing his absolute best in the movie and putting up with the crap that Tamahori, Barbara, Michael, Purvis and Wade were making him do.
Everett McGill is presented as this tough, threatening bad guy, but only seconds into the final fight with Seagal he's already running for his life.
You mean two downer endings in a row? I wonder if EON would have agreed about those.
EON would approve now.
I hated that movie.
This interview with director Joseph McGrath (one of several directors on the film) is a good insight to the production of CR67, and why it turned out the way it did. I must admit I actually enjoy CR67, but a standalone non-comedic Bond film would have been interesting.
Yes, and the producer already had an excellent script by Ben Hecht, perhaps the greatest screenwriter in classic Hollywood--that was faithful to Fleming and would have given the 2006 film a run for its money. For more, read Jeremy Duns's e-book Rogue Royale.
The reason why CR67 was made into a spoof was because although Feldman attempted to partner with Broccoli & Saltzman to make CR an official Bond film, they said no because of the poor experience with Kevin McClory. He then went to Sean Connery to see if he would do the film but he asked for too much money to appear, so Feldman declined. He realized that a serious James Bond film couldn’t go without Connery so he decided on turning it into a spoof.