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Renny Harlin’s disastrous demand to dump Dalton
It was recently revealed that director Renny Harlin, known for Die Hard 2 and Cutthroat Island, was offered the chance to direct Timothy Dalton’s second Bond movie, but had the gall to demand that Dalton be replaced. Given that The Living Daylights had already established Dalton as 007, replacing him… Read More →
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James Bond. Charming, sophisticated secret agent.
Valentin Zukovsky always seems to have a quick-witted comment or some way of measuring himself against 007. As their relationship developed across GoldenEye and The World Is Not Enough, Zukovsky enjoyed revisiting their history, occasionally with a pointed reminder that their friendship was anything but friendly. He even had no… Read More →
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Saoirse Ronan’s “dark…young female villain” interesting
Actress Saoirse Ronan, coincidentally the wife of rumored James Bond actor finalist Jack Lowden, recently revealed that she is “dead serious” about playing a villain and wants “to go dark.” I appreciate the candor, particularly because she isn’t coyly pretending the timing has nothing to do with her husband’s recent… Read More →
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Character Witness: Moonraker’s double-take pigeon
COO! DID I JUST SEE WHAT I THINK I SAW?! COO! WAS THAT 007 IN A HOVERCRAFT GONDOLA IN ST. MARK’S SQUARE?! COO! I’D CALL IT IMPOSSIBLE, BUT I’M A PIGEON WHO JUST GOT A CAMEO IN A JAMES BOND MOVIE! COO! Read More →
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Theo James grabs headline with Bond dropout
As is customary, another potential James Bond actor has stepped away from the running and grabbed a quick headline in the process. 41 year old actor Theo James, the Divergent, The White Lotus and The Gentlemen star, recently revealed in an interview that he considers himself “too old” for the… Read More →
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Blofeld’s bizarre “waxwork show for morbid tourists”
Alongside some of James Bond/Sir Hilary Bray’s stranger lines in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Ernst Stavro Blofeld has a few odd sayings of his own. Here, he’s referring to the unfortunate Shaun Campbell, another British agent investigating Piz Gloria, whose corpse is rather bizarrely hung in effigy from a… Read More →
Filed Under: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service