11/24/2023 0 Comments Licence to kill openingOne of the most memorable aspects of any Bond film is the score. Hitting just the right mix of the old and the new would be a challenge for sure. This new incarnation of Bond really was a more serious take on the character. Licence To Kill was first Bond film to earn a 15 certificate in the UK, although it did scrape through with a PG-13 rating in the US. Whereas The Living Daylights had given audiences an introductory glimpse at a harder, grittier Bond, the second and unfortunately, last appearance of Dalton’s 007 really upped the ante. This came after American test audiences remarked that the original title reminded them of having their driving licences taken away. It appeared that filmgoers approved of this darker version of 007 and for Dalton’s second appearance as James Bond, the producers took an even bolder step with 1989’s Licence Revoked, or as it would end up being known after a last minute title reshuffle, Licence To Kill. A fan of the original Ian Fleming books, he agreed to a three film deal on the proviso that his Bond would be a harder edged version of the character than audiences had become accustomed to during Moore’s reign.ĭalton’s opening gambit in 1987’s The Living Daylights proved successful both critically and financially with the film outperforming Moore’s last two Bond films 1983’s Octopussy and 1985’s A View To A Kill, with a worldwide box office gross of $191 million to make it (at that time) the fourth most successful film in the Bond franchise. With the Broccoli’s first choice now benched you can almost picture them finding an old headshot of Dalton and wondering if it would be third time lucky if they asked him again.ĭalton of course accepted their proposal this time around and the rest is now cinematic history. But when you’ve seen Bond from the beginning, you don’t take over from Sean Connery.”ĭalton was once again in serious contention for the part when the film’s producers skirted with the idea of changing the lead actor in the early ‘80s, but ultimately it appeared that his eventual predecessor, Pierce Bronson, was the favourite to nab the part after Moore’s departure, only for the GoldenEye star to fall foul of the legal red tape that bound him to his television show Remington Steele. I was about 24 or 25, which is too young. “Originally I did not want to take over from Sean Connery. The role of Bond wasn’t that unfamiliar to him as he’d initially been in serious consideration to precede Moore in the first place, when he was first courted to replace Sean Connery in 1969’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, but in a 1987 interview he explained that he’d turned down any idea of playing the role that would eventually go to Australian George Lazenby, due to his relatively young age at the time With Roger Moore hanging up His tuxedo after 1985’s A View To A Kill, the role of the world’s favourite Super Spy, James Bond was passed on to a relatively lesser known actor (at that particular time at least), Timothy Dalton with the release of 1987’s The Living Daylights. Dalton had mainly been known as a stage actor prior to his new appointment and had toured with the Royal Shakespeare Company, although he had already appeared in several motion pictures and was probably most recognisable for his role as Prince Barin in 1980’s Flash Gordon.
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