Eps 8: James Bond Just Got a Fourth GoldenEye
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GoldenEye introduced a fifth actor to portray British super-spy James Bond in his own movie franchise, Pierce Brosnan, while updating other elements of the canon in the 90s and reinvigorating the iconic, yet venerable characters financial influence among film audiences. GoldenEye was the first British super-spy James Bond movie not produced by Eon head Albert Broccolis Michael G. Wilson. GoldenEye was the first film to establish British super-spy James Bond was orphaned, with Timothy Dalton playing 007, as well as Russian computer programmer Natalia Simonova grilling Bond on what makes him tick.
The 1995 film James Bond is a 1995 espionage film, the seventeenth installment of the James Bond franchise produced by Eon Productions, and the first film starring Pierce Brosnan as fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The book follows closely the plot of the 1995 James Bond film, but novelist John Gardner added a violent sequence before an opening stunt jump, where Bond kills a group of Russian security guards, a change which was retained and expanded on in the video game GoldenEye 007. Six of the early Bond films featured 007 facing foes from the villainous organisation Spectre, all building up to a grand reveal that No. The first of the 007 films saw Connerys British character brought to life on the silver screen.
The first Bond movie that saw a revocation of a spys licence to kill features the drug lord 007 Franck Sanchez . When Sean Connery took a break, Bond moved to Australian actor George Lazenby, and On Her Majestys Secret Service marked his first film role. In the course of seven Bond appearances, Roger Moore became the oldest actor to portray Bond, being 58 years old at the time of the last Bond film, A View To A Kill. In 1994, Pearse Brendan Brosnan was cast as James Bonds fifth actor, starring in GOLDENEYE, which was scheduled to release in 1995.
Although Die Another Day was a critical failure, it was -- at the time -- the highest-grossing Bond film so it seemed like a sure thing Pierce Brosnan would be back in the role of a fifth -- and he sure seemed up to the task. Only one director got the call again, ten years later, when Pierce Brosnan left the James Bond movie franchise following the woeful, laughable Die Another Day. Yet, after casting Piers Brendan Brosnan in GOLDENEYE, director Martin Campbell thought Sean Bean was really going to be the big pick considering antagonist Alec Trevelyan is the villainous version of James Bond, a former MI6 agent and colleague of 007s. Poor Pierce Brosnan, the only Bond actor that apparently did not have the option on when he left Bond.
Just looking at the concepts that were played for Bond 17, you could see how Pierce Brosnans time in the role seems to benefit more from one movie. To better understand the Timothy Dalton films that we never got, and the piles of little-known, undiscovered projects that made the 007 legacy all the more fascinating to watch, I strongly suggest checking out The Lost Adventures of James Bond, written by Marc Edlitz. It is been an uncharacteristically long time between Bonds - six years, in fact - since 1995, the release of GoldenEye, the seventeenth entry in the monolithic spy franchise. On 17 November 1995, the world saw the wide release of GoldenEye, the 17th installment based on writer Ian Flemings fictional British agent, and the first of the six years -- by far the longest interval between Bond films -- since 1989s License To Kill, written by Ian Fleming.
GoldenEye, then, was to not only become Bond in a new decade, but for a new era, one where the world had irrevocably changed. Timothy Dalton was still the pick of Albert R. Broccoli to portray Bond, but the stars initial seven-year deal with Dunjaq expired in 1993. The role was supposed to explore those happenings with Bonds girlfriend/former CIA operative Connie Webb, and things eventually gave way to a wild turn right out of a Michael Crichton novel. Connie Webb would be appearing in this draft, too, although now given quite a few lines to utter referring to the parts abilities as agent and love interest.