The Death Collectors: Bond Films that Never Were

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wwbgdiaslt

Two guesses for what we will see -

Lazenby does at least one of the seven sequels he was signed up for - it's still DAF but it's the earlier version with Gustav Goldfinger and the yacht battle on Lake Mead and Gustav Goldfinger drowning in salt.

Linda Thorson wins the role of Tiffany Case, which she campaigned for IOTL meaning that all fouf of the female Avengers leads gets to be a Bond Girl.

A mix of the Gerry Anderson / Anthony Burgess drafts.
 

marktaha

Banned
Problem in that Fleming specified in his will that any film of The Spy who Loved Me couldn't use the plot of the book.
 

marktaha

Banned
LumineVonReuental said:
It certainly would have been fascinating to see Bond evolving in the intended order of the novels (even if The Man with the Golden Gun resets his personality), though Fleming's sale of specific film rights during the 50's - which meant Casino Royale being unavailable to Saltzman and Broccoli - made that difficult unless CR went first and its success allowed for chronological order.

I haven't included a chronological Bond series on the list, but at least two non-Fleming novels will get an entry on this project (admittedly, one of those scenarios is somewhat more realistic, the other is just exploring for fun).
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My Bonds -50sMichael Rennie, early 60s Laurence Harvey, late 60s Gerald Harper, mid-80s Lewis Collins or Simon Williams.
 
unclepatrick

unclepatrick

DougM said:
Anything has to be better then Timothy Dalton
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I like Dalton .
But I will admit that his films have flaws .
Living Daylight show signs of being written for Moore with some humor that does not fit the character that Dalton is playing.
It also suffer from poor casting for the villains .

License to Kill is good but it breaking from the Formula .
It also has the silliness of the Truck stunts at the end.
A clear case of "We can do these Stunts." Never mind that the story does not need them.
 

DougM

I guess I should slightly rephrase. Most of my issue with Dalton was the scripts. That being said he was not the best Bond, he couldn’t pull off the Bond James Bond bit or the other quotes with the amount of arrogance they need.
I love him in other roles just not Bond.
Add in that I know during that time we had had a chance to Brosnan and it didn’t work out…. Now there was a Bond ultimately let down by his scripts…
Frankly it is very hard in this day and age to pull off a good Bond script. It is the problem of combining the exotic locations the gorgeous scenery the set pieces and action scenes and just enough of bonds snarky wit in with the traditional (and now unacceptable) sexism. I think we all know the best older scripts wouldn’t get made today…. So perhaps Bond needs to retire for a while. Because you can’t turn Bond into Bourne. If you do all you have left is the name.
 

Major Major

I just can't wait for Alligator. I used to have a picture of a flyer for the film, but lost it when my disk crashed.

Watch Bond (B*nd? Never mind) looking into the eyes of his enemy over the card table, and saying, "Go fish."
 

LumineVonReuental

wwbgdiaslt said:
Pulp. Sidney Winch and Elliot Harmsway? Or are we looking at the Nicholas Meyer proposal?
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Oh, I can't spoil that. But I can say it won't include Pierce Brosnan.

farmerted555 said:
How much was Orson Welles paid to play Blofeld in Warhead? And was it in cash, Mrs. Pell's Fish Sticks or Rosebud Frozen Peas?
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A lifetime supply of Paul Masson, which he proceded to drink copiously while on set. Allegedly, it may have taken a few takes to get his opening speech right as he kept screaming "MAaahhhh the french…champagne!".

In all seriousness, I rather admire Welles, I do think he would have made for a good villain in a non-parody project. Bad as Casino Royale (1967) is, it can't be denied his Le Chiffre shows potential.

DAv said:
Same here. Living Daylights is a really fun Bond movie. Shame he wasn't able to make more of an impact due to the legal issues around the movies.

Another good update here, looking into the potential Bond movie. Having Connery on board with more creative licence would have been interesting enough. Hopefully he didn't have that moustache for the film though. Bond with facial hair doesn't feel quite right.
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Oh no, Connery didn't have the moustache. I just couldn't find a good enough picture from the period in which he didn't have facial hair while at the same time wearing a toupeé, and the moustache is easier to ignore as opposed to Bond being bald.
 
Indiana Beach Crow

Indiana Beach Crow

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After seeing him in films like The Rocketeer and Hot Fuzz, I think that Dalton's true calling was to play a scenery chewing Bond villain. You can just see in his performance that he has so much more fun playing the baddie.
 
unclepatrick

unclepatrick

Indiana Beach Crow said:
After seeing him in films like The Rocketeer and Hot Fuzz, I think that Dalton's true calling was to play a scenery chewing Bond villain. You can just see in his performance that he has so much more fun playing the baddie.
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I am not sure which Villain you would cast Dalton for.
 
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Sam R.

DougM said:
Because you can’t turn Bond into Bourne. If you do all you have left is the name.
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Bourne? Why settle for easy mode? Get him to option something and butcher it.


This Smiley actually does have Bond in it. Except he’s blonde. And an unlikeable Australian. Who uses women like tissues: to write OTP communiques on.

Or of course Bond could resignedly climb back over the Berlin Wall…

Just think: two franchises ruined at once.
 
HesitatedEye

HesitatedEye

unclepatrick said:
I am not sure which Villain you would cast Dalton for.
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He'd have been a good 006/Alec Trevelyan maybe as a mentor to Bond maybe I dunno. I love Sean Bean and he did a great job but I dunno as a villain it's a tad of a stretch for me he either needs to be the flawed hero who sacrifices himself for the greater good or well Sharpe cause then he'll actually live to the end credits.
 
unclepatrick

unclepatrick

HesitatedEye said:
He'd have been a good 006/Alec Trevelyan maybe as a mentor to Bond maybe I dunno. I love Sean Bean and he did a great job but I dunno as a villain it's a tad of a stretch for me he either needs to be the flawed hero who sacrifices himself for the greater good or well Sharpe cause then he'll actually live to the end credits.
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I would have like to see Sean Bean as Bond. He be very good .
 

Nivek

HesitatedEye said:
Not true he lived in the Martian.
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Career Suicide so part of him died.
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unclepatrick

unclepatrick

I been reading the 2019 Dynamite Comic James Bond book.
It interesting in that we do not meet Bond in the book rill the end of the first issue,
Could a Bond Movie work with out Bond showing for the first 15 minutes or so?
 
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