James Brolin

[John Drake]

Anyone remember watching this on The Living Daylights DVD? Brolin was house hunting in London when Roger came back at the last minute to do Octopussy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksjXilVYIxw

[James]

If nothing else that test proves Cubby would never have picked Daniel Craig.

[mcbride007]

He would have been like Sir Roger.

[stockslivevan]

For a second my mind went to Josh Brolin, who I think would make a good American ally.

As for James Brolin. As Bond? Nah.

[Mulli]

If nothing else that test proves Cubby would never have picked Daniel Craig.

But worryingly he was about to settle on Brolin if Roger Moore had not returned.
A terrible choice for the role, and one that I think would've damaged the series in much the same way Craig has.

And I wont even get started on John Gavin.

[Thunderpussy]

I wonder how all the Roger haters would feel about him Now, If Brolin had Taken over with Octopussy.

[James]

Brolin would have been a lighter Bond like Roger if that screentest was anything to go by so maybe they would been lumped in together. He has an American accent in the test but I think they said he would been coached to sound a bit more British as Bond.

[stockslivevan]

Brolin would have been a lighter Bond like Roger if that screentest was anything to go by so maybe they would been lumped in together. He has an American accent in the test but I think they said he would been coached to sound a bit more British as Bond.

Yeah they wanted to get the gist of him performance wise, then do something about the accent.

I remember Christopher Lambert was purely because of his accent.

[John Drake]

I found another one. Brolin doing the OHMSS fight!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhkUWMJoccQ

[Thunderpussy]

Nice find,and I see he was using the Russell Crowe Phone method.

[A Crag-like face]

Judging from those screen tests, I think Brolin would have been alright in a George Lazenby sort of way (I'm not a big Lazenby fan, but he's certainly preferable to Craig). Brolin is stiffer and much less dangerous looking than Lazenby, but he has a much smoother delivery than Lazenby too. I think it's a good thing he wasn't cast, but he wouldn't be the disaster Craig's been. Craig is changing the character of Bond. Brolin either would have lived up to the Bond standard or been quickly ousted. Cubby wasn't trying to rewrite Bond the way Babs is now.

I'm not 100% sure Gavin would have been a total disaster either. He is pretty wooden in Psycho, but that might be because Hitchcock hated him and treated him poorly as a result. I remember Gavin's performance as Julius Caesar being one of the few real highlights of the otherwise tedious Kirk Douglas ego project better known as Spartacus.