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Posted 28 April 2010 - 02:03 AM
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Posted 28 April 2010 - 03:05 AM
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Posted 28 April 2010 - 03:09 AM
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Posted 28 April 2010 - 03:13 AM
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Posted 28 April 2010 - 03:18 AM
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Posted 28 April 2010 - 04:48 AM
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Posted 28 April 2010 - 03:42 PM
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Posted 28 April 2010 - 03:53 PM
I thought Lazenby was signed for a single film but offered the followup to OHMSS.
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Posted 28 April 2010 - 04:48 PM
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Posted 28 April 2010 - 05:36 PM
As for whether Laz staying in the role would have dramatically altered the course of the series, I personally don't think so. There's a good chance his DAF would have kept some of OHMSS' tone, beyond that I see it following more or less the same path it followed.
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Posted 28 April 2010 - 09:47 PM
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Posted 28 April 2010 - 10:12 PM
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#13
Posted 29 April 2010 - 02:01 AM
Imagine if he did do 7. It'd be THE TWILIGHT ZONE, only the genre would be action, not science fiction. Not only could this have meant no Rog, but it also could have meant no Dalton.
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I wouldn't have wanted a Bond series without the contributions of both Sir Rog and Tim. It is interesting that Saltzman and Broccoli would've considered offering Lazenby 7 films in the role without his having a proven box-office record. Of course they may have thought if they signed Lazenby to 7 back then, they wouldn't have had to pay him as much for playing the role.
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Posted 29 April 2010 - 04:25 AM
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Posted 05 July 2010 - 10:40 PM
that would probaly be horrible, no offence to OHMSS fans but i had to stop the movie out of boredom when Bond was too busy doing nothing, there would be no Moore and maybe no Craig, Brosnan and dlaton, the next film probaly by Lazenbury would be called something like Poptery of a lady
Your criticism appears to be about the movie and not Lazenby in particular. Had Lazenby stayed in the role there's no guarantee they'd make the exact same film.
As an aside, I can't understand how you can find OHMSS boring, it's one of the most exciting films of the series.
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Posted 05 July 2010 - 10:51 PM
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Posted 06 July 2010 - 01:18 AM
Edited by AMC Hornet, 06 July 2010 - 01:19 AM.
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Posted 10 July 2010 - 07:59 AM
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Posted 10 July 2010 - 09:24 AM
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Posted 10 July 2010 - 01:28 PM
OHMSS is my favourite Bond film and Lazenby does a better job than he is often given credit for but 7 films would have required him to really step up his game considerably to prop the inevitable weaker entries that would follow....not sure the series woudl have survived tbh.
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Posted 10 July 2010 - 06:02 PM
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Posted 11 July 2010 - 07:30 AM
Im not so sure about that. When he turned down their 7 movie offer they (apparently) tried to entice him to do one more with an offer of $1 million plus stocks. That was an outrageous sum at that point of Lazenby's career (Connery only made more in one film, DAF, and movie stars like Clint Eastwood were making around half of that per film) so when it came to their faith in Lazenby they were certainly prepared to put their money where their mouth was.get the new guy cheap etc. But then I am cynical that way.
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Posted 13 August 2010 - 05:29 PM
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Posted 14 August 2010 - 02:15 AM
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Posted 14 August 2010 - 03:25 AM
Im not so sure about that. When he turned down their 7 movie offer they (apparently) tried to entice him to do one more with an offer of $1 million plus stocks. That was an outrageous sum at that point of Lazenby's career (Connery only made more in one film, DAF, and movie stars like Clint Eastwood were making around half of that per film) so when it came to their faith in Lazenby they were certainly prepared to put their money where their mouth was.get the new guy cheap etc. But then I am cynical that way.
No. Lazenby was not offered $1million plus stocks, that was the offer Connery got. In the early 70s very few actors made $1million per movie (in fact with the back in money he made, DAF made Connery the higest paid actor at that time). Steve McQueen was considered the highest paid actor in the early 70s and he was paid $750,000 + %. for Le Mans that same year.