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That's clever but the question still remains, and I think its a serious one. It's a lot like how they wanted Roger to go first but he was tied up my his involvement with The Saint so they stuck with Sean. With Pierce, EON began courting him even before Roger was finished, but he was caught up in Remington Steel so they went with Tim. The difference is that in the first case I believe that things worked out very much for the better, while in the latter case it would have been better if that could have traded a season or two of a good TV show for one great Bond movie...
I wouldn't want to miss Dalton though
Looks more badass there than in his Bond movies! What a pity.... :-/
=((
Man up!
Watch him in Framed. He plays a sleazy criminal. He is great in that and Penelope Cruz is the woman in his life. Not bad I would say. Oh and when he does the bank robbery he looks like the ultimate Bond.
He had plenty to add the franchise and just got fed up with waiting as well as studio politics.
We lost Dalton and as a result we got the journey that would lead to DAD. Losing Dalton to me was as bad as losing Craig after QOS.
I'm suprised I liked Brosnans Bond once I saw him because leading up to GE I hated him. Some people judged Craig before he was Bond, I judged Brosnan.
I was very young when Dalton quit. It gutted me immensely because I always assumed he would at least do a few more films after the lawsuit. I don't think we will get a Bond exactly like his ever again. I mean the look and everything. It is from a bygone era and the world is different now.
But demand in my opinion outweighs supply as he did only two. So for those who like his films, they will value them higher.
I was hostile to Brosnan as I wanted Dalton in those films and it took me ages to calm down. Maybe that is why I am harsher on the Broz occasionally. Had Broz came after 3 or 4 Dalton films, I would have been cool about it more.
LOW BLOW!!
Let's put it in perspective, that's Dalton at the time of GE, and here he is at the time of DAD:
:-w
<center>"WE HAVE TO GO BACK"
LOL!
However...we could go back and take McClory's rights and give them to EoN preventing the 6 year lawsuit and have Dalton make 2 more Bond movies, then go to 2002 and hide Lee Tamahori some place nobody where nobody will ask him to direct DAD.
Okay, let's see.
Colonel Sun 1991
and
Risico 1993!
:D
That would have been something, I agree.
Artistically? Yes, without a doubt. Critically? Yes, on the whole. Financially? Probably not, when compared to Brosnan's version.
In my (rather biased, it has to be said) opinion, GE would have been significantly improved by Dalton's presence, and would have completed a magnificent trilogy for him. It really is a crying shame that fate conspired to deny him the chance to prove, once and for all, that he IS James Bond.
First of all, let me say that the one and only title of 'James Bond' belongs to none other than sir Sean Connery, not a theater crazy thesp named Tim Daltz!
Second, Pierce is an important part of the Bond film history because he was the first to bring back some of the magical charisma that Sean had in his original films. Dalton was a direct copy of Fleming’s character from the novels and did as much as he could to distance himself from Sean’s portrayal. However, Sean was the quintessential James Bond which we all came to know and love, and Pierce is just a copy of Sean and Roger put together. Tim is for Fleming lovers, while Sean is for film lovers!
I prefer the films and Dalton is my favourite.
Like I've said before, I think the The Living Daylights PTS proves that Dalton could do cinema Bond better than anyone else, and as well as having all the usual charisma, one liners and gadgets he also bought sort of a darkness to it.