What if Sean Connery did OHMSS?

James_Bond

For years I've wondered how OHMSS would have turned out with Connery as 007. I feel the directors would be able to give Connery a more serious appearance, if YOLT was created after this film. Maybe a few years later they could have done YOLT. What are your thoughts?

Dragonpol

James_Bond wrote:

For years I've wondered how OHMSS would have turned out with Connery as 007. I feel the directors would be able to give Connery a more serious appearance, if YOLT was created after this film. Maybe a few years later they could have done YOLT. What are your thoughts?

Well, they were filmed out of sequence and that is my major beef with Eon Productions for completely wrecking the continuity in Fleming's Blofeld Trilogy. The reason given for not filming OHMSS directly after TB was that it would have been a case of "TB on skis". I don't myself buy into this theory at all. It's just a lame excuse as OHMSS was of course much more than an action film - there was a human story at its heart and the eventual film version is a masterpiece and my favourite film of the series bar none.

jason_bourne

If Connery were there, there would have been a well-rounded Bond. I don't think it would be like TB. remember: the novel always ends with Tracy's death.

I can't imagine how significant it would have become seeing Connery's Bond in such an emotional state. Connery and his Bond would have been a bigger movie icon notwithstanding his present stature.

DarthDimi

http://www.mi6community.com/index.php?p=/discussion/1950/switch-the-bond-actors-to-different-films/p2
http://www.mi6community.com/index.php?p=/discussion/1081/sean-connery-in...-ohmss-the-movie-poster-is-here/p1
http://www.mi6community.com/index.php?p=/discussion/2423/should-ohmss-have-been-made-after-thunderball/p1

Sorry, we try to contain those "what if" threads. They can spawn and endless series of duplicates.