"The Living Daylights" should have been Timothy Dalton's third 007 film...

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...but alas, he wasn't available for "A View To A Kill",
which is a shame given that he would have been only 41 at the time it was made -
making his bedding Grace Jones a lot less nauseating than it was with 58-year old Moore!

Plus, we could have ended up with THREE Bond movies with Dalton, not just two!

If Moore had flatly refused to act in "AVTAK", which actor would have been ideal to play Bond?
A 46-year old George Lazenby, perhaps?
 
Timothy Dalton wasn't the original choice to play Bond after Roger Moore, so it wouldn't have been his third film even if Moore retired earlier.
Pierce Brosnan was actually signed to play Bond but because of his contract for Remington Steele he couldn't take part in the Living Daylights. So they asked Dalton to take over (I believe he was informed he had the part just 2 days before filming began).
 
Oops, I meant SECOND Bond film.

Anyway, who do you think should have acted in "A View To A Kill", if Moore declined and neither Dalton nor Brosnan were available (which they weren't)?
 
A View To A Kill must be the worst Bond movie.

I never liked Roger Moore. Actually I lie. I liked him when I was a kid, but watching it now I can see he was the worst bond. The two Dalton films are both really good imo.
 
Sam Neill was the favourite to get the role for The Living Daylights, after Pierce Brosnan failed to escape his Remington Steele contract. Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli both wanted Neill, but Dana Broccoli suggested Timothy Dalton, and he ended up with the role. Mel Gibson was also in the pipeline (!) but Cubby Broccoli wasn't too keen and Gibson's agent was also demanding far more money per picture than EON were prepared to pay.
 
That's a bit harsh. It's the weakest of Roger Moore's tenure as Bond, due to his age, but my least favourite Bond movie ever is "Thunderball" - how did THAT make more money than "You Only Live Twice"?



The number of most Bond who rank Moore as the best Bond of them all is far greater than any person could imagine (I should know, as he's my all-time favourite), and while Timothy Dalton was served with better plots and scripts than Moore's '80s offerings, IMHO his two films were nothing compared to the films with Pierce Brosnan - "GoldenEye" was a far better start as 007 for the latter than "The Living Daylights", if you ask me.
 
It's funny- Before Sean Connery got the role they looked at Roger Moore, and before George Lazenbury took it they looked at the very young Timothy Dalton. When Roger Moore left, they wanted Pierce Brosnan.

It seems like the same actors were always being looked at. How old was Timothy Dalton way back in 1969? :eek:
 
The Living Daylights is one of my favourites. People forget that it was HERE that Bond went more serious and balls-out and not Goldeneye (or Casino Royale...). It was needed after the ridiculousness of the Moore era. Dalton was made to play Bond, maybe the most convincing actor in the role actually.
 
The ridiculousness is something we should blame on the script-writers, as opposed to Moore himself - and it actually began, strangely enough, with "DiamonRAB Are Forever", the last Sean Connery outing.
As many fans would ask: why make something serious as it was in the '60s and '90s) too light-hearted?

Still, "The Living Daylights" wasn't entirely serious -
it has a few laugh-out-loud moments, and I'm sure you all know what they are!
 
Burton was first choice in 69,but he was filming Where Eagles Dare...

Adam West,Michael Gambon(!) and UFO's Michael Billington were up for it too.

And ol' Mike Caine was considered in 1973!....
 
Why have the producers of the official Bond movies EVER considered hiring an American for a British role? What were they thinking of?

Mind you, a Hollywood actor called James Brolin was screen-tested for "Octopussy" - with him and not Roger Moore, it would have undeservedly lost out to "Never Say Never Again" (the Bond film we could have done without) in the 'Batlle of the BonRAB' in 1983.
 
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