Pick an Alternative Bond and Director for Each Decade

Agent Lee

Pick an alternative choice for Bond and perhaps a director for an alternative Bond film for each decade. It might also be fun to pick a whole alternative cast for each decade as well, but that's up to you. I'll start:

60's
Bond: Richard Burton
Director: Sergio Leone

70's
Bond: George Lazenby
Director: William Friedkin

80's
Bond: Charles Dance
Director: Ridley Scott

90's
Bond: Timothy Dalton
Director: Michael Mann

00's
Bond: Clive Owen
Director: David Fincher

10's
Bond: Michael Fassbender
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn

Number24

60's

Bond: Patrick McGoohan
Director: Alfred Hitchcock

70's
Bond: George Lazenby
Director: John Boorman

80's
Bond: Sam Neill
Director: Ridley Scott

90's
Bond: Liam Neeson
Director: Peter Weir

2000's
Bond: Michael Fassbender
Director: Christopher Nolan

Matt S

Number24 wrote:

60's

Bond: Patrick McGoohan
Director: Alfred Hitchcock

That would have been fantastic. Patrick McGoohan was supposedly offered the Bond role, but he didn't accept it on moral grounds. We would have had a Bond who only slept with girls he married.

Number24

Funny. The suggestion is based on the assumption that McGoohan agreed to play BOND, i.e. the character would be promiscous.

Absolutely_Cart

Dalton would've been too old by the 90's, and he didn't age gracefully.

If all were ideal, Dalton would have had the job in 1985 and leave in 1991 with 4 films under his belt.

Agent Lee

You're probably right. That's why my idea was that this hypothetical 90's bond film with Timothy Dalton would've been in the early nineties. The main reason I picked Dalton for the 90's was because I couldn't really think of any other potential Bond in the 90's that I would've liked more than Dalton.

chrisisall

Agent Lee wrote:

60's
Bond: Richard Burton
Director: Sergio Leone

70's
Bond: George Lazenby
Director: William Friedkin

80's
Bond: Charles Dance
Director: Ridley Scott

90's
Bond: Timothy Dalton
Director: Michael Mann

00's
Bond: Clive Owen
Director: David Fincher

10's
Bond: Michael Fassbender
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn

Wow, how very eclectic!

AlphaOmegaSin

Absolutely_Cart wrote:

Dalton would've been too old by the 90's, and he didn't age gracefully.

If all were ideal, Dalton would have had the job in 1985 and leave in 1991 with 4 films under his belt.

He would have still looked youngish in his third Film.

M 'n' M

Sounds fun - here's a strange list and how different things would have been!

1960's Roger Moore and Alfred Hitchcock

1970's Sean Connery and Stephen Spielberg

1980's Pierce Brosnan and John McTiernan

1990's Liam Neeson and James Cameron

2000's Colin Firth and Christopher Nolan

chrisisall

M n M wrote:

1980's Pierce Brosnan and John McTiernan

That would have been impressive.

Agent Lee

M n M wrote:

1970's Sean Connery and Stephen Spielberg

I really like this! I've been thinking lately it might have been cool had Connery stayed for a few more in the seventies, especially if Bond had gone in a grittier direction like other 70's action films.

AlphaOmegaSin

Speilberg was just starting his Career in the 70's, so it would have been interesting to see.