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Yeah, but the "what if Pierce was in 'LTK'" question isn't really valid. "The Living Daylights" was originally written for Roger Moore and it was slightly tweaked for Dalton. "LTK" was written specifically for Dalton's take on the character and I'm sure EON would have taken a much different...

I think "License to Kill" was another unsuccessful attempt to alter the franchise to cash in on the fad of the day. Like "Moonraker" tried to ride the coattails of "Star Wars", "License to Kill" was an attempt to make Bond in the style of 80's action flicks like "Die Hard". Bond fighting a...

I'll agree with you that "OHMSS" is one of the best films in the series but I think "The Living Daylights" and (especially) "License to Kill" are among the worst. I've said it before (perhaps in this very thread, it's been around a while) that I find the 5 consecutive films that John Glen...

No, Craig is replacing a Bond that has been overwhelmingly accepted by the public so he'll suffer the same fate as George Lazenby and Timothy Dalton.

There really isn't a "reason" for it. Characters were re-cast previously in the 007 series (the film in question featured the THIRD Bond) and Q wasn't "temporarily retired" after Desmond Llewlyn's death. The movie just says M is elsewhere, just because.

Uh, that IS why he was absent, I didn't elaborate on the reason he was missing, I just pointed it out. My entire point was that "Q" was missing in "Live and Let Die", M was missing in "For Your Eyes Only" but Moneypenny was the only character other than Bond to appear in all 20 movies.

That sucks about Moneypenny, this will be the first film not to feature her and Bond will now be the only character to make it through the entire series. Q has been absent once before in "Live and Let Die" (and M was absent in "For Your Eyes Only") but they realized it was a mistake and they...

I don't know why they try to get away with leaving the gadgets out every few years or so. Historically, it's proven very unpopular. The lack of a Q appearance in "Live and Let Die" is a frequent criticism (and an admitted mistakee) and "Tomorrow Never Dies" was very gadget-heavy because people...

I wish, but then again his agent probably isn't very good if he couldn't get him a $500,000 raise after four consecutive movies that ougrossed their predecessors.

No, Bond films are built around huge setpieces and rewriting for a particular actor is common. If the script says Bond is 28 and on his first assignment, that will be changed when Brosnan is cast in the part again. This is clearly a franchise where the writing accomodates the casting and not the...

But Bond's age is never addressed in the movies and the chronology is very loose. I can't imagine that there is anything in the script that explicitly says that Bond has to be young or that it's a prequel, the writers most likely just wrote him differently. The "de-aging Bond" thing wasn't an...

I would hope that their decision to hire an Academy Award-nominated writer would indicate that they're trying to go in a different direction than the last few 007 flicks. It wouldn't be the first time. Look at the movies they made after "You Only Live Twice" and "Moonraker".

Mi6.co.uk is proclaiming that Brosnan will return. The article features some very promising quotes from Brosnan. Turns out he only wanted a half-million dollar raise from "Die Another Day" (he wanted $17 million US vs. the $16.5 mil he got for "DAD"). Sony wants him back, he's willing to come...

That's very reassuring. As long as Brosnan hasn't completely ruled it out, I have to believe that SOMEONE will come to their senses somewhere along the line, even if it means Sony going over Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson's heads.

The only I can see Pierce Brosnan coming back is if Sony goes over the heads of Michael Wilson and Barbara Broccoli and offers him the money he deservedly asked for. Sony can't be happy about the current group of actors EON seems to be considering, and I'm sure they'd rather maintain the success...

Anyone familiar with Bond history knows that the Broccoli's audition a bunch of actors and that you can't count out the current actor until the last minute. Roger Moore was reluctant to appear in "For Your Eyes Only" but he went on to appear in "Octopussy" and "A View To A Kill", plus he was in...

"For Your Eyes Only" could have been right up there with "From Russia With Love" but John Glen's pedestrian direction makes it look like a cheap 007-knockoff. In the hands of a more capable director, who knows how the franchise would have fared in the 80's? Spielberg wanted the FYEO gig but...

Roger Moore was 007 until the age of 56 or 57, and he looked a lot older at 50-51 than Pierce Brosnan (he'd be around the same age during "The Spy Who Loved Me" as Brosnan is now, and that was arguably Moore's best 007 film) so I think Pierce is definitely the way to go. Of course, all of...

If you look at it in terms of the EON films only, Moore did 7, Connery did 6, so 5 would be a good number for Brosnan. I'd say that would put him in Bond Big League.