I don’t know what made me dwell on this, and it probably doesn’t merit its own thread, yet here it is.
For example, what is the first film that has no returning actor playing the same character that they had portrayed in DOCTOR NO? The answer would be THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS. With the exit of Lois Maxwell following the previous entry, no one is left from DN.
DN - TLD Maxwell
FRWL - DAD Llewellyn
GF - DAD Llewellyn
TB - DAD Llewellyn
YOLT - DAD Llewellyn
OHMSS - DAD Llewellyn
DAF - DAD Llewellyn
LALD - GE Hedison (this one is actually problematic in that it should originally have been TLD, after Maxwell's departure, being the first film with no returning actors from LALD, but then, one film later, Hedison does return as Felix in LTK, throwing the whole system out of whack)
TMWTGG - DAD Llewellyn
TSWLM - DAD Llewellyn
MR - DAD Llewellyn
FYEO - DAD Llewellyn
OP - DAD Llewellyn
AVTAK - DAD Llewellyn
TLD - DAD Llewellyn
LTK - DAD Llewellyn
GE - NTTD Dench
TND - NTTD Dench
TWINE - NTTD Dench
DAD - NTTD Dench
CR - Bond 26 Craig
QOS - TBD ?
SF - TBD ?
SP - TBD ?
NTTD - TBD ?
Any mistakes? I am counting Judi Dench’s Ms as one. It’s in the spirit and aim of the thread to do so. Only four actors have managed to cover all of that span. And Craig is only included under the assumption that he will not return as Bond. Still not a 100% certainty until 26 is in the can.
Comments
SF - Along with Kinnear, any one or more of Fiennes, Scott, Harris, Wright (unlikely) and Waltz (unlikely) could return to their respective roles in B26
SP - Same as above
NTTD - Same as above
M - deceased
Bond - deceased
Mathis - deceased
Mr White - deceased
Solange - deceased
Le Chiffre - deceased
Vesper - deceased
Felix Lieter - deceased
Only vespers boyfriend is known to have lived, but he doesn't get screentime in CR.
It's been too long since I last watched the film but I thought I heard screams or muffled sounds of bodies falling before the assassin entered the room. It was implied that they were killed as I think Le Chiffre's two henchmen were in the original novel too.
Whenever I do my Whatever Happened to...thread I seem to have trouble finding characters from the Craig films that survived, outside of the main Bond leading lady. It seems that Connery and Moore's films have more characters surviving at the end?
I think this is an interesting idea of a thread.
I'm sure TMWTGG has quite a few survivors. Bond only kills Scaramanga, while Scaramanga kills Rodney, Hai Fat, Andrea and Gibbs. That's a total of only 5 victims...