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He's considered for Bond in the 80's before they've finally hired Dalton in the role.
Edit: Haven't heard or even saw this name before, until I've searched it, and found that fact I've mentioned above 😁
Finlay Light has no acting credentials and seemingly no proof of any contract being offered too him. He's 80's click bait.
As said there (we all know IMDB 😅), he's in Case For The Defence (1978), Light played a guy there named Paul McKeller, has anyone watched that show?
The Bond trivia about him was also there.
Quite interesting searching about this guy 😅, he's such an oddity to me 😁
Couldn't agree more! I think even George would "Ah, c'mon Mate! 😁
Like I said, no Bond film has ever been a failure in the strictest sense. Whenever a film underperforms such as TMWTGG they tend to go back, re-evaluate, and come up with something different for the next one. It pretty much always works. LTK is an unusual one as it had a lot of competition at the time (Ghostbusters 2, Lethal Weapon 2, Indiana Jones, and Batman, which is an unprecedented number of popular franchises to go up against), but it certainly didn't nearly kill the franchise. A third Dalton film was even in the works shortly after. The legal battles that halted the series for 6 years are what 'put the franchise to sleep', and the gap spurred Dalton's departure, which is unfortunate. It wasn't due to LTK underperforming.
Anyway, as for OHMSS, it's objectively one of lower grossing films of the franchise. Like I said, with Bond you're framing its failures and successes in such a particular framework that by most accounts the series is broadly quite successful. Nonetheless OHMSS was probably on the lower end of the highest grossing films of that year (probably the 11th highest grossing film, which for the series at the time was probably a massive drop, but again there are some very heavy hitting films it went up against - https://www.the-numbers.com/market/1969/top-grossing-movies). Both TMWTGG and OHMSS aren't far off each other in this regard and were financial disappointments compared to what came before it - https://www.forbes.com/sites/travisbean/2020/04/18/all-26-james-bond-films-ranked-at-the-box-office/.
Yes, this is a weird story that tends to crop up now and again. Didn't John Glen even mention Lite's name as a potential contender? It seems there's at least some truth to the story, but of course there may well be an element of exaggeration here on his part. The casting process before a certain point in the series was a bit weird anyway even when it came to 'official contracts'. Even just reading of what happened with Brosnan at the time is odd and has been told in slightly different ways dependent on who is asked. At this point there was clearly a lot of competition for the role, and Dalton was still reluctant to do it.
Must say, looking at the guy's photo he's another one who probably looks more suited to playing a henchman or something.
And according to him, Barbara Broccoli wanted to sleep with him. He really would've been Lazenby MK II.
To sleep with him? 😆 Ridiculous!
For all what Lazenby have said, he did have (at least) some bits of courtesy in him, and it's really shown in some pictures.
This guy was full of himself! 😂
And I don't think Barbara would've likely to say that (let alone do that), unless, he's Daniel Craig, you know ;)
Even if she did (which is entirely her business), there was really no need for him to mention it. If nothing else, it's undermining her professionalism for the sake of boosting his own ego.
Exactly. I didn't care for the thngs he said about her in this interview. Lacks real Bondian class.
Then at some point, the media got hold of the story and blew it out of proportion (Idris Elba and ATJ-style). He may have even stirred things up himself, making it sound like it was a done deal when he was still just under consideration.
I certainly don’t believe the guff about United Artists’ change in ownership being the only reason he was let go, or that he had “exactly the same enigmatic charisma as Sean Connery.” I assume he’s just concealing the most likely scenario that he was just one of many actors who were briefly under consideration, but were passed over because they weren’t good enough.
Finlay Light, based on his IMDB, he appeared in 1978 TV series Case For The Defence, he played a character named Paul McKeller (in an episode Murder by the Book), and he's considered as Bond in 80's, so he had experience at least (if this is true).
Not sure if he acted more than that, and he never bloomed (Lazenby, after OHMSS, at least starred in some films like Who Saw Her Die, The Man From Hong Kong, and Hawaii Five-O, even they're lesser, small time films), but this Finlay Light guy, it looks like that's the only one under his belt (and I think, it's such a minor role and just one episode), I don't think he'd even acted after that one.
That said, if that's his only acting credit, he still would've been bad.
The funny thing was, after Lazenby, they've went too far with Roger Green, who's a rugby player, man, at least Lazenby appeared in a commercial and more groomed as he's a model, meanwhile Green had none of that! (And yes, it happened right after OHMSS, Green was considered in 1971 DAF).
And yes, because of that, they hadn't learned their lesson, it got worst!
She'd have made a splendid Bond girl.
The Roger Green screentest is interesting, but TBH I think it kind of sucks.
Nice to see Bob Simmons, though.
He is, actually, he's going to star in another Bruce Lee Film, I don't know if it's the Game Of Death, but it never came to fruition, due to the problems of how to make Bruce Lee appeared on the film because of his untimely death.
But he is, he made big films in Hong Kong, mostly in Kung Fu/Martial Arts genre.
He also did well in Italian Cinema, like that of Who Saw Her Die where he worked with Ennio Morricone for example.
Imogen Hassall, she's the woman who played Maria in The Persuaders, if you've seen my idea for a Bond film (it's there in the thread), I've cast her there as the Bond Girl (she could've make for a great femme fatale or villainess, as she had the looks), I also have Tony Curtis there as Felix Leiter (as he's also an interesting one), then there's Laurence Naismith as M, it's James Bond a la The Persuaders style!
Suddenly Imogen Hassall died in the 80's, what a tragic moment.
Jason is still with us, though no longer on this forum. But they both had a love for OHMSS and The Persuaders.
Oh, it's sad, is @LordBrettSinclair dead? Or still with us?
It's nice to see some talks for this show, I think it's underrated.
Like them, I'm an admirer of both OHMSS and The Persuaders (I'm also a Tony Curtis fan, mainly because of this show and Some Like It Hot).
Actually my idea regarding the Persuaders cast being in the Bond film with Roger Moore was interesting, still a question why the Producers didn't hired them, I understand Bernard Lee, but Tony Curtis? Why he's not cast (or even considered) as Felix Leiter?! He had a lot more chemistry with Moore than Hedison did, and it's also a bit coincidence because I've suddenly remembered those dialogues in Casino Royale, the book, and I think Tony Curtis would've been more closer to the Literary Felix Leiter than Hedison, because there's an American Energy in his presence, his banter with Moore would've been great in a Bond film!
I don't know, I've watched LALD, but Moore and Hedison had really no chemistry in there, I don't feel the kinship, he worked with Dalton's Bond, but not with Moore's Bond, although he appeared in just one film, but still.
It's already there, the American Foil to a British Snob! It's there already! The Persuaders showed it.
Same for the actresses appeared in this series, why they're not considered or hired? Okay Madeline Smith, but so many actresses there could also be a Bond Girl, think of Cyd Hayman, or Hannah Gordon, or Prunella Ransome and yes, Imogen Hassall for example, and they're also real actresses, but alas, as with the tradition, the Producers, instead, hired models like Maud Adams, Barbara Bach, Carole Bouquet and the likes.
@jasonbond006 was an IMDB user who had a weird habit of insulting Craig fans and then playing a victim. I'm glad this forum doesn't put up with that.
"As a gripping thriller, this drama ticks all the boxes – there’s mystery, there’s lies, there’s a really hateful villain (Turner is surprisingly brilliant at playing an evil narcissist)"
https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/fifteen-love-prime-video-review-aidan-turner-brilliant-narcissist-2493660
The guy is banned. Why are you fellas even tagging @jasonbond006?
Whoops!
Coming from you, that's a compliment.
Aidan Turner is still my favourite pick for Bond #7. I do fear he's probably missed his chance unfortunately, I hope I'm wrong though
Yeah, that's my point, forgot to mention that.