I still can't picture him in DICK TRACY being reamed by Al Pacino then getting killed, and yet.....
Dick Van Dyke: First American James Bond?
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James Brolin and Ashton Kutcher as well.....
I have an old friend who insists his favorite Bond was Lazenby.
Personally, my own favorite Bond wasn't Bond at all: James Coburn as Derek ("Repeat after me: I am not a pleasure unit") Flint.
Personally, my own favorite Bond wasn't Bond at all: James Coburn as Derek ("Repeat after me: I am not a pleasure unit") Flint.
I have to admit that (assuming he could have pulled off an English accent) I could have kind of sort of seen West pull off a Moore-esque Bond, based on that scene in the '66 movie where Bruce Wayne is wearing a tux and fighting off the United Underworld crew while threatening to kill them all.
I had those, back then! (not no more!
) Shit...so THAT is why I did not get the role...??? I have wondered, all these years...
lazenby was better than most people will admit and OHMSS was arguably the best film in the series. If Connery had filmed OHMSS as his swan song (*and everything else about the movie remained the same) I have little doubt it would be considered the best by most people.
While I'm not really a fan of the whole idea of James Bond, I did watch all the movies on TV growing up for whatever reason (though I've only seen the first of the Craig movies), and the ones I liked best were Lazenby and Dalton.
I'd agree, I can totally see why people might have considered him.
I don't know. Connery had many strengths but I couldn't ever see him as vulnerable enough to pull off that final scene the way George did, plus I don't think everything else would have stayed the same. In particular Rigg was specifically cast to compensate got Lazenby's lack of acting experience so if Connery stayed I doubt we'd have got Rigg.
I just can't see Connery's Bond ever being that cut up over a woman's death
Sure, Connery might have not played it exactly the same but that doesn't mean he couldn't have pulled it off. This is the Oscar winning star of such films as "Robin and Marion," "the Man who Would be King" and "the Untouchables."
I liked Moore (with Brosnan a close second):
Connery (and Craig) were the closest things to Fleming's original concept of Bond as a ruthless killing machine.
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I dunno about Bond itself, but maybe there could have been a spinoff featuring an American spy? Maybe that would have made more sense.
I suppose The Man From UNCLE, in which Fleming had some creative input, was the closest they ever got.
A Felix Leiter spinoff seems the obvious option there.
Although I think there were failed attempts to develop film spinoffs for a couple of Bond-film female leads, including Halle Berry and Michelle Yeoh. The latter strikes me as a hell of a missed opportunity. I mean, who needs James Bond when you've got Michelle Yeoh?
Ah, Mr Starkers, I’ve been expecting you.
Fun Fact: The producers of 24 originally conceived of Jack Bauer as an "American James Bond."
A funny thing happened: While the producers of 24 were trying to create an American James Bond, the producers of the (Craig-era) Bond films were HUGE 24 fans who wanted THEIR guy to be more like ... Jack Bauer.
