Kingsman creator Mark Millar has revealed his original plan to have a trailer featuring all six James Bond actors ā and he got close to making it.
Mark Millar, creator of the
Kingsman franchise, has been discussing his original plans for the first filmās teaser trailer. The teaser for 2014ās
Kingsman: The Secret Service could have reunited all six James Bond actors, Millar told
The James Bond A-Z podcast. And he was very close to making it happen, too.
Director Matthew Vaughan had got provisional agreements from George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, and Daniel Craig, who were all willing to appear in the trailer. However, the plan fell apart when they heard that Sean Connery was too ill to take part.
āIt would have been so cool,ā Millar, who created the
Kingsman comics, said. āYou could have shot it in an hour. You could have had them standing around a table, and the idea was that you have this Kingsman whiskey that they toast, and then the camera pans round and you see Colin [Firth] or Taron [Egerton], I canāt remember who it was going to be, and it was just the next generation of super spies.
āAnd it would have really annoyed the Broccolis!ā He added.
His fascination with Bond doesnāt end there. Millar also spoke about his upcoming Netflix series
The King Of Spies, and his hope of casting Pierce Brosnan in it. The show is inspired by the world of Bond, and focuses on ageing spy Sir Roland King. After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, King decides to tie up all the loose ends left caused by his spy career.
āPierce Brosnan is obviously perfect for it now,ā Millar explains. āThe character is exactly Brosnanās age. Physically he looks so like him. Brosnan I feel, never got his
Unforgiven. Heās so beloved and I think he went out on a bit of a low for Bond, which was so unfair because I think he was brilliant. I feel he was cheated out of his last super spy story, and I thought wouldnāt it be great to get Brosnan in for that one last job.ā
It sounds like an interesting role for Brosnan, so letās hope that this time Millarās plan doesnāt fall through.
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