License to Kill promotion article - Premeire

Newsman

This was posted online. Interesting old article from Premiere magazine.

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Barbel

Great find, Newsman. I'd seen a couple of these before, but not all.

Shady Tree

Yes, that's cool! Fascinating to look over those unused promo images.

walther p99

some of those posters i would love to have, especially the one by the guy who did the apocalypse Now poster.

sambwoy

Ah, superb! I had been wondering about these!

HoneyRyder'sGirlfriend

I like Elle Bond and Ronrico Bond a lot, though I think Brando Bond might be the best of the six.

PPK 7.65mm

Don Smollen had some got ideas here, it's to bad that the final posters for Licence to Kill were pretty poor compared to the great posters from 1960's and 70's. Of course the film had so many negative factors going for it already it would take more than better marketing to save it.

sambwoy

Well there was also the issue of box office competition. All the posters in that article were brilliant. The second one from the left at least showed a lighter side to Dalton's Bond- perhaps not the best conceptually. Its not that he never raises a smile in the films. I sensed there was desperation to make Bond too naturalistic and too gritty, which is why I think The Living Daylights is a better film.