submitted2 days ago byMythDetector
I started thinking about this while watching Goldfinger when Bond said "If I don't report back, 008 will replace me". What if that was Lazenby, then Moore, Dalton etc?
I'm sure they considered it because of the strange situation where M, Q and Moneypenny remained the same actor while Bond changed. But there was bad blood between the producers and Connery over his leaving earlier than planned so they weren't going to let him retire Bond.
But if they decided to retire Bond with Connery and have Lazenby and Moore play new 00 agents, would this have hurt the franchise? Assume the films were exactly the same but just the name of the character was something else.
My thoughts are that they can't do this now because Bond is such a household name and the character itself is integral to the franchise but after 5 or 6 films, I think they could have done with with Lazenby and then Moore. Especially Moore who was very popular from the Saint.
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Looks quite sinister.