), coco1997 and I present to you:FROM A VIEW TO A KILL (1985)
After the success of Octopussy, Timothy Dalton is ready to take his Bond in a darker direction. Peter Hunt, who is now tired out after 5 Bond movies in more than a decade (4 of them starring George Lazenby, one of them starring Dalton), passes on directing the next in the series, From a View to a Kill, to helm Wild Geese II; as such, the producers turn to longtime editor John Glen to direct this, his first feature film.
At first, conflicts arise over the new director and his ways of working, but soon all come over to his side; Dalton, in particular, remarks that he'd never felt more carefree on a film.
To perform the theme, John Barry contacts popular band Duran Duran. Together, they collaborate to create the only #1 Bond theme hit in the U.S.
The film opens on June 13, 1985, and stars Timothy Dalton as James Bond, David Bowie as Max Zorin, Geoffrey Keen as Sir Fredrick Gray, Desmond Llewelyn as Q, Brigitte Nielsen and Grace Jones as May and Day, Peter Davison as Boswell, Fiona Fullerton as Stacey Sutton, and Walter Gotell as General Gogol.
The gunbarrel opens onto the frigid wastes of Siberia, where a lone figure trudges along in the distance; a closeup reveals him to be James Bond, on a vital mission to recover a microfilm copy of a Russian spy satellite from Agent 003. Wearing heavy thermal gear, 007 trudges through the frozen wasteland, using a scanner to search for traces of electronics hidden amongst the ice.
The scanner leads him to an outcropping of ice, where inside, Bond finds 003
Edited by Mr. Blofeld, 20 November 2007 - 01:56 PM.
