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Ian Fleming didn’t want Sean Connery as James Bond

April 12, 2024 by Elizabeth Perez

Ian Fleming would have preferred Richard Burton, James Mason or James Stewart to play the first James Bond. The name’s Fleming, Ian Fleming. And boy did he have some problems with how his James Bond character was being adapted for the big screen. As we all know, Sean Connery was cinema’s first 007, but Fleming … Read more

Jean-Jacques Annaud on Connery and Abraham’s onset tension

October 24, 2023 by Elizabeth Perez

Sean Connery and F. Murray Abraham engaged in “playground” tactics on The Name of the Rose, according to director Jean-Jacques Annaud. With a career that goes back nearly 50 years, director Jean-Jacques Annaud was bound to run into some troublesome actors. But the French filmmaker has been relatively lucky – and it wasn’t Brad Pitt … Read more