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what if Timothy Dalton returned for a

third Bond film well he almost did and

no it wouldn't have been golden ey a

completely different script was written

that not only would have had a lighter

and more humorous tone than Dalton's

previous two films but would also see

many of its best moments repurposed for

later Bond films so let's dive in and

find out why it was never made and what

could have been the property of a lady

in A View to a Kill Roger Moore realized

his time as Bond was up when he found

out that at age 57 he was older than the

mother of that film's Bond girl Tanya

Roberts when all the leading ladies

started looking like my

granddaughter after stepping down the

hunt for a new Bond began with many

promising young actors screen testing

for the part my friends called me

Bond James Bond while Sam Neil was the

favorite amongst the team including

producers Barbara Brockley and her

stepbrother Michael G Wilson their

father Albert cubby broccoli who at the

time still called the shots wasn't sold

instead broccoli had had his eyes on

Pierce broen who he had met several

years earlier on the set of For Your

Eyes Only declaring after meeting him if

he can act he's my guy not only that but

thanks to broen's charismatic depiction

of a Suave bond-like character on

Remington steel he quickly became the

obvious choice to replace more Pierce

was so keen on becoming Bond we decided

uh uh to test Pierce and I came down

here to Pinewood and we did extensive

testing for three days I cut the um test

together presented them to cabby and we

sat in the theater and he slowly nodded

his head and the timing couldn't have

been better as Remington steel had just

been cancelled due to Falling ratings

however with news that broen would be

the new bond interest in Remington steel

grew resulting in a sharp upswing in the

show's ratings this led NBC to reverse

their decision to cancel the series as

they exercised a 60-day option in bren's

contract 3 days before it expired to

make another season of Remington steel

did you ever think you'd be back doing

Remington steel you know what no as a

result broccoli withdrew the offer given

to broen to play Bond as he didn't want

the character associated with a

contemporary television series declaring

Remington steel will not be James Bond I

was disappointed

but I think I'm a strong believer in

fate and I think certain things are

meant to happen for a reason in life

instead broen would have to settle for

appearing as a bond-like character in

Diet Coke commercials is not a perfect

world ah

hello that's my dad C refreshing while

searching for a replacement Brockley

remembered an actor he had previously

offered the role of bond to for On Her

Majesty's Secret Service to replace Shan

connory but who turned it down as the

actor Timothy Dalton felt at the time

that they were too young to play the

character I think Bon should be between

about 35 and 40 and it's a 25 26 year

old you know would it would not have

been right with bronen out Brockley

asked Dalton to step in who after some

deliberating finally agreed and while

Dalton may have looked like broen his

interpretation of 007 would be

completely different where broen was sve

charming and quick to crack jokes I

think we understand each other grow up

007 Dalton played the role more like a

stone cold

killer make a sound and you're dead in a

precursor to Daniel Craig's

interpretation of the character that

would come years later aiming to align

Bond more closely with the version

depicted in Ian Fleming's novels

Dalton's Bond offered a darker and more

introspective take on the iconic spy you

can always identify with the James Bond

of the books I mean he's very much a man

and a tarnished man really he's not

perfect he agreed that he wanted to play

a harder kind of bond he would appear

first in The Living Daylights and then

in Licensed to Kill critically they

received a mix reception as did Dalton's

darker portrayal of the character and I

guess the question that people would

like an answer to Is what kind of a

James Bond does he make well I give him

a mixed review Timothy Dalton is a good

actor he is very convincing in the

movie's more serious moments he has a

great screen presence he looks

interesting but if he has a weakness

it's the comic side of the character as

plans moved ahead for a third film to

fulfill Dalton's three picture deal The

Producers look to inject more humor into

the film aiming for a tone reminiscent

of the Roger Moore era since they felt

audiences weren't fully embracing

Dalton's violent hard-hitting 007 films

a poster for the then Untitled film even

appeared at the 1990 con film festival

and while the script would go through

several drafts and ultimately never be

made it's a amazing how many ideas in it

would be reused in later Bond films

tentatively titled property of a lady

the plot of Dalton's third Bond outing

would have revolved around the theft of

a new stealth fighter called the

Scimitar as Bond's task with tracking it

down before he leaves on his mission

however he meets Nigel yupin a rising

young star in the ministry of Defense

who feels a dou o section is outdated to

expensive and should be disbanded this

character shares many similarities to

both Judy Den's m in Golden Eye who

feels Bond as a sexist misogynist

dinosaur a relic of the Cold War as well

as Max Denby inspector who wants to

close down the double O section as a

sign of the evolving times Bond quickly

learns that money Penny is engaged and Q

branch is being shut down in a cost

cutting measure Bond's new car is a

Honda CRX which he refuses to drive

throughout the film Bon is depicted as

an old school agent or over the hill who

struggles to complete his mission which

would become the core of Skyfall story

however where Skyfall treats this

seriously this film would have played it

more for Laughs as Bon complains about

his age throughout the film Alla Danny

Glover in Lethal Weapon I'm too for this

the main villain in the film would

have been Sir Henry Ferguson who is

planning to use the Scimitar to launch a

covert nuclear attack on China in a move

designed to force a regime change in

favor of the Hardline military figure

General Han the ultimate goal is for Han

to take over the country and

subsequently Grant Hong Kong to Sir

Henry Ferguson allowing him to rule over

it as his own principality sir Henry's

plan to use a stealth fighter to help a

Chinese despot complete a coup in China

is very similar to Elliot Carver using a

stealth boat to do the same and tomor

Never Dies Anthony Hopkins was rumored

to be the number one choice for the role

and expressed interest in playing an

intelligent villain which he would get

to do in Silence of the Lambs Popkins

would subsequently turn down the role of

trellion in golden eye and Elliot car

Tomorrow Never Dies however it's worth

noting that both of these films were

made following his star making portrayal

of intelligent villain Hannibal Lecter

and seeing as how property of a lady

would have preceded that film and makes

me wonder if he would have been more

open to playing the character CIA agent

Connie Webb is this film's Bond girl who

Bon crosses paths with as he begins his

mission discovering that she's on a

similar Mission again very reminiscent

of NSA agent Jinx and Die Another Day

and Chinese agent why Lynn and Tomorrow

Never Dies as a daughter of a not Master

burglar Connie was recruited and trained

by the CIA to infiltrate high security

facilities to gather intelligence but

left the agency and noww works as a

freelancer for them Katherine Zetta

Jones and Elizabeth Hurley were the top

contenders for the role Bond films are

noted for the Exotic locations Bond

travels to throughout the world as well

as their thrilling stunts and this film

would have been no different the

pre-title sequence would have open in

North Africa where Bond under the guise

of competing in a powerboat race

parasols his way into a Libyan chemical

weapons plant once inside Bond sets

explosives before being confronted by a

security robot equipped with a taser and

an Uzi after battling the robot Bond

escapes and rendevu with another agent

who berates him for failing to achieve

the mission objective of destroying the

plant only for the facility to then

explode in the background as a fragment

of the robot lands next to them taking

us into the title sequence this entire

opening with Bond sneaking into a

facility planting explosives and then

escaping is very similar to the opening

of golden ey minus the robot after

getting his orders Bon would have

traveled to Vancouver Canada which is

where he first crossed path with Connie

Webb as they both investigate the

missing stealth fighter which Bond

learns was stolen by a group of

gangsters known as the vanelli brothers

on behalf of the main villain Sir Henry

Ferguson while in Vancouver Bond and

Connie would have had a friendly kaying

race through the Rapids of a mountain

river before returning to their hotel

and engaging in you know what before Bon

wakes up the next morning to find her

gone so that's what that feels like Bond

then follows the vanelli Brothers to Las

Vegas which he drives to in a

Lamborghini a running gag in the film is

Bond running up the build for his

mission as he keeps renting different

exotic cars which infuriates the penny

pinching yupin who is trying to reign in

mi6's expenses in Vegas Bon learns that

the vanelli brothers plan to sell the

Scimitar to Sir Henry Ferguson following

this Bon gets into a bizarre fight with

two female bodybuilders in his hotel

before tracking the vanelli brothers to

a rodeo where he runs into Connie again

once there Bon disguises himself in a

cowboy outfit rides a bull and then gets

into a showdown with some of the

brothers henchmen as the henchmen reach

for their Guns Bon guns them down like a

cowboy from an old western from here the

vanelli brothers flee towards the Las

Vegas Strip in Li limo while Bon pursues

in a monster truck causing tons of

Destruction along the way which again is

very similar to the tank Chase in Golden

Eye the vanelli brothers escape with a

scimitar to Hong Kong which causes a

furious yupin to suspend Bond and Order

him back to London Bond ignores him and

instead flies to Hong Kong where the

Vaneli delivered the Scimitar to Sir

Henry who promptly kills them Bond

tracks Sir Henry to his private island

and discovers that he's an avid fencer

the two agree to duel which escalates

into an increasingly destructive sword

fight exactly like the duel bond gets in

with gustoff Graves and Die Another Day

afterwards Bon meets up with Q who gives

him his classic DB5 before Bon finds

himself being chased by one of Sir

Henry's henchmen in a sports car

outfitted with guns and missiles in a

scene just like the car chase on ice and

Die Another Day Connie tracks the C to n

King Tower before being captured by Sir

Henry and his goons the Scimitar is

moments away from taking off and

dropping a new gun China Bond

infiltrates Nanking Tower and steals the

simitar before disabling its nuclear

warheads while Connie is able to escape

her captures Bon then returns to Nanking

Tower flies through it and impal Sir

Henry on the nose of the aircraft

however it's worth noting that in a

previous draft of the script the film

ends with Sir Henry in a combat suit

exactly like the fight Bon finds himself

in against Gustaf Graves at the end of D

another day so what went wrong Not only

was the script finished but Dalton

thought it was quite good as the film

entered production in 1990 with broccoli

and team interviewing directors

unfortunately as MGM United Artists the

company responsible for Distributing the

Bond films prepared to be sold legal

disputes arose between them their buyer

and cubby Brock's company Dan Jack owner

of the Bond film rights stalling the

production process when the dust finally

settled Dalton's contract had expired

which meant he was no longer legally

obligated to star in another Bond film

regardless he was still asked by

broccoli if he'd like to return to which

he replied that he'd like to do one more

however Brockley told him that after a

5-year gap between movies he couldn't

come back and just do one Dalton would

have to commit to doing four or five

more which dalon felt would be too much

and respectfully declined that done I

now become part of a rather wonderful

history this ended up being a relief to

the studio as they weren't Keen for

Dalton to return anyway as his films

were not the most loved by fans with

Licensed to Kill being the lowest

grossing Bond film of all time adjusted

for inflation plus the studio wanted to

introduce bond to a new generation and

felt that it was counterintuitive to do

that with Delton still in the role and

in a great example of Fate being

fulfilled and history coming full circle

for some crazy reason it came round to

me again and I think when something

happens in your life for a second time

it carries a certain significance and I

couldn't have said no to it Pierce Bren

would finally land the role he was born

to play

the name is

Bond James Bond starring in what many

consider to be one of the best Bond

films of all time thanks for watching

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