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Heck of an idea. Though I'm not too sure what Dalton could have done with AVTAK that Moore didn't. Over the top plot entirely. The pairing of Brosnan and Roberts would have made more sense at the time though.
Get the feeling a '91 Dalton would have looked like Lethal Weapon 2 or one of those bad Van Damme movies. Would have liked to see he and Glen carry the franchise into the new decade, but the idea holds a lot less appeal to me than what Lazenby could have done 20 years earlier.
The first draft had Sir Henry Lee Ching as the villain, with locations including Hong Kong, China, Japan, London and Scotland. Main plot points included an explosion in the Nanking Atomic Plant, a car chase between the DB5 and Rodin's car, a fight with the Kohoni brothers and the ending taking place beneath the sewers of Hong Kong.
The second draft had General Han and Sir Henry Furguson as the villains, with locations including Vanouver, Vegas, China, Hong Kong and Libya. Main plot points included a fight with a robot programmed by Colonel Al-Sabra of the LSSP, Aston Martin DB5 vs monster truck chase in Vegas, a fight with female body builders and a finale taking place inside the Hoover Dam. (Felt a lot like GE with TND mixed in)
The third draft (I don't know much about) had 006 (not name Alec) as a rogue agent. Similar to Goldeneye but with similar jokes to those in True Lies
The final draft would be Goldeneye as we know it in 1995.
If the first draft had been made (obviously with a bit of tweaking here and there) I think it would be one of the best of all the films and I would definitely prefer it to a Lazenby Diamonds are Forever. In fact, if I'm honest, I would have preferred Connery in OHMSS.
I read one dated January '94, with Bond fighting Trevelyan, he was not 006 but a defector head of section. Different locations and many different characters. Would have been a pretty solid film with Dalton and a few alterations.
As for Lazenby in DAF, although DAF is disappointing, I don't think they could have turned it into a revenge story. They had already messed up the Blofeld arc from the novels so it makes sense for them to just take it in a new direction. And even if they had found a way to make it work it seems unlikely the inexperienced Lazenby would have been able to handle the deeper emotions such a film would throw at him. I'd much rather have seen Connery in OHMSS.
In my perfect world, if Lazenby had been in DAF, he'd let his fists do the talking for 2 hours. No need of an Oscar worthy performance, just pure badassery.
However, those who have read Ruggerrio Jr's script, I would heartily appreciate it if anyone spares me a digital copy or a link to it. I am eager to read it.
Well, of course, that's just my opinion. Nominations don't really relate to my point, though, and in fairness, Lazenby had issues with his colleagues (or his colleagues had issues with him) that Dalton didn't have.
EDIT: He was voted for "most promising newcomer", and I agree - he's pretty promising for his lack of acting experience. I just don't think he would've taken the franchise in a sustainable and enduring direction, and how many nominations he received isn't really relevant to that. But again, this is just my opinion, and I'm not going to be upset over differences in opinion.
I don't think it helped that Dalton himself, by all accounts, didn't have the greatest of experiences when filming LTK. It's known that he regularly clashed with Glen.
Laz, by contrast, wasn't an experienced actor but he did have a director with a clear vision.
Yes, Laz, by contrast, wasn't an experienced actor but he did have a great director with a clear (and Flemingesque) vision. Hence, why his performance is good.
He probably did but Laz was too busy chasing anything with breasts and a pretty face to notice ;)
@suavejmf. It's funny then that Dalton has said on record that he prefers TLD. Having watched both in the last couple of months, TLD does seem the classier of the two IMO.
Where did you read this? I've never heard about any of this before.
Jealous that Laz wasn't paying him attention. Ha ha!
Lazenby: "Peter Hunt got me the job. If it wasn’t for him wanting to use me as James Bond, I wouldn’t have been there. But then we got on the set. Peter is gay as gay can be and I had no idea. I wasn’t sophisticated enough at the time, but there was a bunch of gay guys who were friends of Peter’s running around the set. Someone told me to clear the set and I said “How do I do that?” They said “Just pick up the speaker over there and say that you want the set cleared and if anybody’s not working on the scene to get of the set.” I did that and all these guys that were Peter’s friends had to leave. They told Peter that I had thrown them off the set, but I had no idea what I was doing. I was just doing the crew a favour. But Peter wouldn’t talk to me through the whole movie. He never spoke one word to me. I did that whole movie without speaking one word to the director after that day, and that was the second day on the set."
Omg... "He's not an actor. He's a trivia question" lmao xD
There are some inaccuracies here I'd like to clear up.
The "first draft" you refer to was actually a story treatment by Alfonse Ruggiero & Michael Wilson. That treatment was expanded into a screenplay by William Osborne & William Davies (the "second draft" described above).
The treatment and screenplay were completed in 1990-91, before the litigation that caused the long gap in Bond films.
The Michael France GOLDENEYE script was a completely different project with no connection to the early '90s material and was developed after the lawsuit battle.