Peter Sellers is the best James Bond 007...

O07

I have recently read that the late Peter Sellers estate was still claiming royalties until 2011 as Sellers had brokered a 3% of gross profits on the film. Incredible, considering he left the production before all of his scenes had been shot.

The Sellers bits were the book bits and they are the best bits.

Can anyone shed more light on the production of CR '67?

It would make a great book.

Gassy Man

While he looks more like Harry Palmer than James Bond, Peter Sellers can have a mean enough face to play a spy. I'm rather surprised he didn't in a more serious film. Not sure about his deal with the trouble film. It is often tough to watch, as it's a mishmash of so many ideas and not all of the good. But the score inspired supermarket shopping theme music for many, many years to come.

AlphaOmegaSin

Sellers actually did look rather similar to Flemings Bond -{

Napoleon Plural

His scenes in the film are covered to hilarious effect in Geoffrey Rush's The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, albeit briefly.

007 Magazine also did a brilliant edition on the making of 67's Casino Royale, and the second half of the mag was given over to the other rogue film, Never Say Never Again. Wish I'd snapped it up, but it's like hen's teeth now. I agree it the subject would make a great book, esp with recent revelations about a movie of CR that got scripted in the early 60s. The film had many different directors and writers and Sellers had a breakdown during filming and just left.

AlphaOmegaSin

Reportedly, Sellers and Welles never got on.

Matt S

AlphaOmegaSin wrote:

Reportedly, Sellers and Welles never got on.

Who did get along with Orson Welles?

The shirtmaker Frank Foster (He made almost all of Moore's and Lazenby's shirts for the Bond films, and some of Connery's too. He may have also done Sellers' shirts for CR, since Sellers was also a client) told me that Orson Welles wanted Foster to come measure him across the street at his hotel, but Foster, not wanting to give special treatment to anybody, told Welles that he had to come to him. Welles declined.

Thunderbird 2

007, this is for your benefit.

Go here:

http://www.ajb007.co.uk/topic/44826/what-bond-movies-do-you-not-own-if-any/page/2/

Start with my post near the bottom, no 49. That is basically the production story of the monster we call CR-67!

O07

Thanks for that Thunderbird 2. It's a pity there's so few people left to ask, would be nice to know the details. A book or a good documentary would do well.

ggl007

I remember a good documentary about the making of and about Charles K. Feldman. I don´t know if it was in some of these:





Ah, and I have that 007 Magazine special. Really fantastic as usual!

AlphaOmegaSin

MGM also own CR54.

HowardB

Apparently, Sellers really wanted to play James Bond in a serious Bond film. Sellers, who was a brilliant actor and mimic could so deeply immerse himself in roles that some believed he really had little personality of his own. He actually bought an Aston Martin to prepare for playing Bond.

Barbel

Sellers said at the time (can't recall the source so I'm paraphrasing) that he usually disappeared into his characters but he wanted to simply play Bond as himself, the way that Cary Grant always played Cary Grant or John Wayne always played John Wayne no matter what the movie happened to be.

BigChris

To this day whenever my closest friends want to really rib me, they tell me that they thought Peter Sellers was the best James Bond. B-)

Absolutely_Cart

I enjoyed Sellers as Bond. He's the sexy suave a little bookish and nerdy innocent, but he gets the girls.