They were so determined to run from Roger Moore’s Bond, though, that they turn him into a snarling asshole for most of this film, and the result is one of the least fun Bonds, a low-rent revenge story that feels more like the Joel Silver movies (and the clones of those films) that were starting to clog screens at that point… CREDITS SEQUENCE Dalton is enormously charming, with a savage wit, and he can certainly play funny. The other thing that defined the tone of this film was Dalton himself, and the writers just weren’t able to figure out what to do with him. By the end of the decade, that money wasn’t going nearly as far as it used to, and the decision was made to shift everything to Mexico as a way of shaving costs. Much of the development period was spent trying to center the film in China, but over the course of the ‘80s, United Artists had been gradually squeezing the Bond producers, keeping all of the films somewhere between $30 million and $40 million to produce.
It was hardly a fair match, though, thanks to maybe the worst work John Glen ever did and a very strange script. By now, the story about how Spielberg kept trying to direct Bond movies only to be turned down because he wasn’t from the UK, leading him to create Indiana Jones with George Lucas as their way of making Bond movies, has become legend, and this particular summer, their world-traveling hero kicked the shit out of Bond. If that’s true, that would have made Landis the first American to direct a Bond film, and I’m guessing it would have chapped Speilberg’s ass majestically. If you believe John Landis, this film was offered to him repeatedly by Cubby Broccoli, and Landis turned it down because he knew the script wasn’t ready. There was a writer’s strike in 1988 that knocked Richard Maibaum out of the movie’s development early, leaving it all on producer Wilson. Right from the start of development, Licence Revoked seemed like a problematic entry in the series. While those franchises flourished, it seems like certain producers were more interested in battling the budgets than anything else, and for Star Trek V and James Bond, it was a very rough summer, indeed. President Hector Lopez / Pedro Armendarizġ989 was one of the bloodiest box-office summers of the decade, with Batman, Indiana Jones, Dead Poets Society, and Lethal Weapon II leading the charge.
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