For Your Eyes Only (1981) Roger Moore: James Bond Revisited
January 18, 2021 by:
In 1981,
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY marked a new era for James Bond in more ways than one. After going to space in the controversial (but wildly successful)
Moonraker, the choice was made to bring James Bond Movies back down to earth. To that end, John Glen was promoted to director, a post he would keep all through the eighties, while Roger Moore s James Bond was given a mature, order edged overhaul. The result was a critically acclaimed, successful Bond outing that stands as one of the series most underrated gems.
The Living Daylights.
Released in June 1987, the 15th official Bond film was the first since Roger Moore bowed out of the series following 1985 s disappointing
A View to a Kill. Interestingly, Moore might have never played 007 if Dalton had said yes when he was asked to star in 1969 s At the time, I think I must have been only 24 or 25, Dalton explained in
The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of James Bond. And I can remember thinking, Too young! . [Connery] was tremendous, and not only did I think that I was too young, I thought it was a pretty dumb move to take over for him.
One of the main highlights of working on my ‘Crooner’ documentary has been getting to know the Hollywood actor Robert Davi (Pronounced Da Vee) Not only was Robert in my favourite childhood film ‘The Goonies’ he was also, in my opinion, the best James Bond villain with his menacing role as Franz Sanchez in ‘Licence to Kill’. He was even in my favourite alternative Christmas film ‘Die Hard’! As if all that wasn’t enough for me, Robert was very close friends with my musical hero Frank Sinatra. So you can imagine how thrilled I am to have him as our guest here in Wayne’s World!
NEXT JAMES BOND contender Regé-Jean Page has been backed by Bridgerton fans to be the new 007 after Daniel Craig s No Time To Die, as the Duke of Hastings star posts that he s ‘shaken and stirred .
Everyone knows that Timothy Dalton only got two James Bond movies and that, after
License to Kill in 1989, the Bond franchise took a six-year break before Pierce Brosnan took over the role in 1995 s
GoldenEye. But what one new book asks is: What if Dalton got more movies and those movies were totally different? The truth is, the plans for James Bond movies we never saw are, in some ways, even more thrilling than the movies that were actually released.
Bond expert Mark Edlitz s latest book,
The Lost Adventures of James Bond, is a deep dive into all the aspects of Bond adventures that aren t quite in the canon of the big screen films or the original Ian Fleming novels. Instead, Edlitz s book gives us a glimpse of what can best be described as the Lost Sea Scrolls of 007; versions of scripts and story treatments that, for a variety of reasons, never became cinematic missions of the world s most famous fictional spy. But, if Timothy Dalton didn t even get a third movie, how was th