Mel Gibson and James Bond

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Plus, as an side it's very interesting to hear the interviewer say that the film was to be called Licence Revoked and not Licence to Kill in the US market at least as I was always under the impression that it was in fact the other way around and that the film was to have been called Licence Revoked first but as it was felt/feared (rightly or wrongly) that Americans would not know what the word "revoked" actually meant, and might think that it had something to do with a driving licence(!). The title of the film was then changed to Licence to Kill which in many ways made much less sense when you think about it as his licence to kill was actually revoked in the film! I wrote a shortish article on this point years ago though it's not on my blog yet. I might dig it out and finish it suitably. Rather interestingly (to me at least) there was also confusion over whether Licence Revoked was to be an adaptation of John Gardner's first James Bond continuation novel Licence Renewed (1981).