Why Sean Connery Returned For Diamonds Are Forever After Skipping Bond 6

Why Sean Connery Returned For Diamonds Are Forever After Skipping Bond 6

You Only Live Twice included a hollowed-out volcano as the villain’s lair, and, for the first time in the franchise, included spaceships actually going into space. The 1967 James Bond parody Casino Royale was released in theatres just two months prior, too, which meant many audience members were likely seeing You Only Live Twice through a mocking, spoof-like lens, and considering the bombastic, larger-than-life nature of You Only Live Twice, this wouldn’t have been difficult. Producers felt it wise to bring the next entry back down to earth for a mature, serious, and respectable 007 outing in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, without Sean Connery attached to the franchise. However, despite good intentions, this wasn’t what audiences were used to, and wasn’t what they wanted, either.
Connery clearly didn’t want to return as James Bond, which can be seen in his lackluster and underwhelming performance in Diamonds Are Forever. What Connery did want, however, was the fortune of a salary he was paid for the film, which he reportedly donated to his own charity, the Scottish International Education Trust. Diamonds Are Forever wasn’t Connery’s last appearance as James Bond, however. In 1983, four months after the release of Octopussy, Taliafilm released Never Say Never Again. Not a real movie in the James Bond franchise, as it wasn’t produced by Eon Productions like the others, it acted as a spoof of Connery’s fourth official outing, Thunderball, and paid him a handsome $5 million.

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Why Sean Connery Returned For Diamonds Are Forever After Skipping Bond 6

You Only Live Twice included a hollowed-out volcano as the villain’s lair, and, for the first time in the franchise, included spaceships actually going into space. The 1967 James Bond parody Casino Royale was released in theatres just two months prior, too, which meant many audience members were likely seeing You Only Live Twice through a mocking, spoof-like lens, and considering the bombastic, larger-than-life nature of You Only Live Twice, this wouldn’t have been difficult. Producers felt it wise to bring the next entry back down to earth for a mature, serious, and respectable 007 outing in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, without Sean Connery attached to the franchise. However, despite good intentions, this wasn’t what audiences were used to, and wasn’t what they wanted, either.
Connery clearly didn’t want to return as James Bond, which can be seen in his lackluster and underwhelming performance in Diamonds Are Forever. What Connery did want, however, was the fortune of a salary he was paid for the film, which he reportedly donated to his own charity, the Scottish International Education Trust. Diamonds Are Forever wasn’t Connery’s last appearance as James Bond, however. In 1983, four months after the release of Octopussy, Taliafilm released Never Say Never Again. Not a real movie in the James Bond franchise, as it wasn’t produced by Eon Productions like the others, it acted as a spoof of Connery’s fourth official outing, Thunderball, and paid him a handsome $5 million.

#Sean #Connery #Returned #Diamonds #Skipping #Bond