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Fun fact: Oliver Reed played a James Bond-like character in 1969, the same year as On Her Majesty's Secret Service, in the Basil Dearden adaptation of Jack London's The Assassination Bureau, starring opposite Diana Rigg and Telly Savalas. That might give an idea of how he would have approached the role.
I've heard a few other things about the Moore replacements. One thing is that Broccoli went off Brosnan quite badly after the first attempt to get him in the role fell through and was keen to give the part to Liam Neeson, who declined because he wasn't interested in being in action films (ironic). It's going solely by Wikipedia, but apparently if anything had prevented Brosnan from playing in GoldenEye, Paul McGann would have stepped into the role.
I had seen both the Neeson and McGann things but wasn't able to find much to back them up, otherwise would have included them both in these articles - particularly McGann seeing as he is the man who missed out on Bond but got the Doctor, sort of the opposite of Brosnan.
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Poor McGann. Alost Bond, almost Sharpe. Got The Doctor, but there's a big asterisk next to it.
I meant to put a little aside in about him being James Bond in my Prime Minister Hugh Laurie Thing, but I forgot. Even in other TLs, he's the nearly man.
a Shuffling the Deck thing with the Bond movies
Shaking, shurely?Stirring The Martini
Stirring The Martini
Shaking, shurely?
There can be only one... Bond.Was Adrian Paul, of the Highlander TV show, ever actually considered, or is that just internet scuttlebutt?
It's going solely by Wikipedia, but apparently if anything had prevented Brosnan from playing in GoldenEye, Paul McGann would have stepped into the role.
Poor McGann. Almost Bond, almost Sharpe. Got The Doctor, but there's a big asterisk next to it.