New Bond Possibilities

[The Saint 007]

I think Lazenby studied martial arts under Bruce Lee.

[Omega]

I think they were going to make two or three movies when lee died

[James]

That's true. Lazenby was going to be in Game of Death. He met Raymond Chow to discuss making some Golden Harvest pictures with Bruce Lee and when Lee died Lazenby did the planned pictures alone. I love Hong Kong films but it does show how greatly reduced Lazenby's circumstances were. One minute you are James Bond and a few years later you are in Hong Kong trying to cadge some work with Golden Harvest. He's lucky he was a shrewd businessman in real life because I don't think he made much money from his acting career.

[bjmdds]

He sells photos at Chiller Theatre's conventions.

[James]

According to all his bios he made a lot of money selling real estate and had mansions around the world. Maybe Pam Shriver took everything I remember reading about a convention in 007 Magazine years ago and they said Lazenby was a good sport when he was their special guest. Signed photos for everyone and was nice.

[Omega]

I think Lazenby went bankrupt Once or twice. More recently He was suing his ex-wife for a lot of alimony, I think Lazenby probably had and lost several fortunes At least what I would consider a fortune.

A lot of the old Hollywood actors used to do business and acting to support themselves

[James]

Oh, that explains why he's selling his autograph on the convention circuit then. You could probably make an interesting biopic about Lazenby.

[commander0077again]

Weren't Lee and Lazenby buddies?

Yes, Lazenby was in Hong Kong having dinner with Lee's producer Raymond Chow when they got the news of Lee's death. Lazenby was to appear in Game of Death. George arrived in HK, rather down on his luck, in his own words "with a toothbrush" and went to see Chow. OHMSS happened to be playing in the theatres, and Chow said, "James Bond!" The story is that he called Lee and said he had James Bond in the office. From there, Lee and Lazenby became friends. George said he once went to Lee's home and was reading a book in his library (his original library had 10,000 books of mainly fighting arts), and wanted to borrow it. Lee said he couldn't but was welcomed to spend all the time he wanted in the library (seems that people would borrow books and never return them). Lazenby said he was very affected by Lee's death, that "he was a great guy." One can see footage of Lee's funeral and Lazenby is there.

I think it was Robert Clouse, director of Enter the Dragon or someone like that, who said "Bruce would have been the biggest action star in the world. No one could have touched him. He did his own thing, with no camera tricks." He was to appear in TMWTGG (the Lt. Hip character?), and I think it wouldn've been similar to the Green Hornet and Kato. You watch that, and no one looks at the Green Hornet. (In Hong Kong it was called the Kato Show!).

[commander0077again]

Re the original question: it would be a score if the producers went out and found an unknown to be the new Bond .... in the best dream, they would find someone who has classical good looks, great charm along with a dangerous quality. I liked Dalton, but he took the role much too seriously, and his Bond seems wooden in many ways. The best quality for Bond is embodied (I'm repeating myself) in Bogart in Casablanca. There, "Bond" (Rick) has wit, and much charm even when he's staring into his gin. "We'll always have Paris ..." is a line that the novel Bond could have said. Craig could never say that with any dash. Bogart has tough good looks. He could play gangsters and leading men; Craig can only play gangsters.
A petition must go out : SOB - Save Our Bond! And a filmmaker must step out of the ranks of the EON org., and say, at risk of being fired, "We have to go for a real Bond, and we must listen to Cmdr. 0077, and hire him, skies the limit!"

[FormerBondFan]

Re the original question: it would be a score if the producers went out and found an unknown to be the new Bond .... in the best dream, they would find someone who has classical good looks, great charm along with a dangerous quality.

Based on this madness, forget about the classic Bond. It's done. What's the point of bringing back the James Bond with the classic good looks? If Babs The B1tch thinks she can get away with everything she did or if those minions are SOOOOOO full with DC's Bonds success, you might as well have Sheamus as the next Bond, and I can repeat this a billion times.



The point is that the general public will never separate DC's Bond from the original 5 Bonds so DC's Bond is considered both a classic and a popular Bond. If that is the case, then send in Sheamus (or other direct opposites) as Bond for all I care. If DC Bond films can strike a billion dollars and receive Oscar nominations (technical if not major), why not Bond movie starring Sheamus? Isn't that right, BJ and Saint 007?

Dismissing someone who is the most popular Bond since Sean without a great classic Bond aside from his debut Bond movie, leaving him to be bashed like it's his fault even he has no control over the stuff he is given. If this is how Babs The B1tch treats a classic and popular modern Bond (Pierce) who represents a younger generation, then she doesn't deserve a Bond movie starring an actor with dashing classic good looks. And hey, Babs is opened to cast a black as Bond. You know what? Let's give it to her.

[carl stromberg]

Re the original question: it would be a score if the producers went out and found an unknown to be the new Bond .... in the best dream, they would find someone who has classical good looks, great charm along with a dangerous quality. I liked Dalton, but he took the role much too seriously, and his Bond seems wooden in many ways. The best quality for Bond is embodied (I'm repeating myself) in Bogart in Casablanca. There, "Bond" (Rick) has wit, and much charm even when he's staring into his gin. "We'll always have Paris ..." is a line that the novel Bond could have said. Craig could never say that with any dash. Bogart has tough good looks. He could play gangsters and leading men; Craig can only play gangsters.
A petition must go out : SOB - Save Our Bond! And a filmmaker must step out of the ranks of the EON org., and say, at risk of being fired, "We have to go for a real Bond, and we must listen to Cmdr. 0077, and hire him, skies the limit!"

Barbara Broccoli will pick an unknown who is short, craggy and light haired to replace Craig as she chose Craig and wanted Sean Bean instead of Brosnan.

[Glorious England]

i Don't think there Is going to be a Bond after Daniel Craig due to "Franchise Death",and here is why.

it only takes one look at Blomberg to see that the American Economy is completly and totally trashed, it is in a triple dip recession, my Business and Marketing Degree is telling me that the American Economy is going to tank, when that happens, there will be an Enormous Media Crash that is going to wipe "Holly-Hood" of the face of the map, including Colombia-Tristar, meaning Bond will need a new publisher, and i do not think it will get one, and here is why.

when one looks at the massive number of negative reviews for skyfail amongst the public, it does not take a rocket scientist to see the Bond franchise has failed, that feeling is doubled when you consider what "Take 2 Interactive" gave as there reason for pulling out of the running for buying the virtual version "It is damaged beyond all repair, the games are woefull and the Films are worse, we would loose billions, and probably go bankrupt, trying to rebuild it to a level it can get a fanbase again", yes, the publisher of GRAND-THEFT-AUTO felt it would go bankupt trying to fix just the Bond Games, let alone the Films, because they are THAT far gone!

it would take a publisher Billions of Dollars to oust EON and ensure that bar-boring boiled-vegetable, the reason for franchise failure, NEVER has another say in the franchise, then Billions more on top to get the franchise back on its feet with an all new cast and crew and another new cannocity...

problem, there is a massive wave of angered old Bond fans who are calling "BOYCOTT", the publisher would likely never get its money back! so i cannot see anyone with an ounce of Business Sence taking it on, it is literally Business suicide under everything i learned about Business.

however, if there is a Bond after DC, under EON/Tristar, i agree with FBF it will not be a traditional Bond, because Babs will want another "street-rough" Nond to appeal to the yobbos, goths, and COD-tards that make up 80% of todays pathetic youth.

so if we are to have a "rough" Bond i say, Go for JASON STATHAM.

reasons: One. He is a real life Gentleman. Two. He is hard as flipping nails, he does all his own stunts dont forget, Three, He is incredibly charismatic and witty even if it's more rough and ready "diamond geezah!" than "effortlessly smooth", and Four, He doesnt bother with emotions much, prefering an old fashioned 1980's "meathead" Action Movie approach, meaning that he is 4 times more like Bond in persona, than Danielle " i iz a Wayne Rooney wannabe" Cr-egg will ever be.

plus, Stath has one hell of a lot of fans, both young and old (even my Dad likes Stath, a "real man" according to him), wich is something that no WWE star short of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson can really claim.