Imagine this: instead of Die Another Day being the film to celebrate the 40th anniversary, would it have been a good idea to have a 'catch-up' with the 1960s Bond and see what he, as an older man and agent, would be like? Hopkins was, I think, 65 in 2002.
They could have phoned Connery to ask him to do it, and he would have growled and told them to eff off and slammed the phone down. And then he would have later read that they've gone one better and got Sir Anthony Hopkins instead!
Funnily enough, in 1971, Hopkins was considered for Bond, saying in 2012: "I met Cubby Broccoli and I didn't think I was the right material for Bond but it was flattering to be offered it."
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Edited by DavidJones, 02 May 2015 - 02:37 PM.