The Living Daylights
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Short description
A Soviet general named Georgi Koskov defects to the West, and James Bond is assigned to bring him safely out. Koskov claims that a hardline KGB counterpart, General Leonid Pushkin, is planning to kill British agents, but Bond doubts the story, particularly after Koskov is seized again. Following the trail leads Bond to Kara Milovy, a cellist caught up in the affair, and eventually to Afghanistan, where a larger scheme tied to an arms dealer comes into view.
The Living Daylights is a British-American action, adventure and thriller film from 1987, directed by John Glen and written by Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson. It is the fourth of the five Bond films Glen directed in a row, sitting between A View to a Kill and Licence to Kill. Timothy Dalton plays James Bond, with Maryam d'Abo as Kara Milovy, Joe Don Baker as Brad Whitaker, Art Malik as Kamran Shah, John Rhys-Davies as General Leonid Pushkin and Jeroen Krabbé as General Georgi Koskov. The credited cast runs to 48 names.
Made for 40 million dollars, the film took about 191 million dollars worldwide, a strong return. On IMDb it holds 6.7/10 from 114,000 votes, and on TMDB 6.6/10 from 2,101 votes. A critics' rating of 6.5/10 from 59 reviews puts professional and audience assessments close together.
What's left behind the scenes
- Sean Bean, Sam Neill, and Mel Gibson auditioned for the role of James Bond.
- Frederick Warder and Glynn Baker were deliberately cast as agents 004 and 002 due to their resemblance to George Lazenby and Roger Moore, respectively. The scriptwriters wanted to mislead the audience and make them guess which of the 00 agents was actually Bond.
- Following the Falklands War between the United Kingdom and Argentina in 1982, three American-made UH-1 helicopters came into British hands. One of these three helicopters appears in the film as a medevac. Its registration number is G-HUEY, and it participated in airshows.
- Initially, it was planned for a stuntman to play the Russian assassin on Gibraltar in the opening film, but John Glen decided an actor would be better suited for the role. Carl Rigg was chosen. Rigg was unemployed at the time and caring for a newborn baby while his wife was away on business. He received a phone call, entrusted the baby to the care of neighbors, left a note for his wife, and boarded the first plane to Gibraltar.
- Timothy Dalton was initially considered for the role of James Bond in the late 1960s, when Sean Connery (1930-2020) left the franchise after filming Lewis Gilbert’s (1920-2018) 'You Only Live Twice' (1967). Albert R. Broccoli (1909-1996) tested Dalton for the role of Bond in Peter R. Hunt’s (1925-2002) 'On Her Majesty’s Secret Service' (1969), but the actor declined, feeling he was too young for the part. He was also offered the role in Guy Hamilton’s (1922-2016) 'Diamonds Are Forever' (1971), but Dalton refused for the same reason. While it was still uncertain whether Roger Moore (1927-2017) would play agent 007 in 'For Your Eyes Only' (John Glen, 1981), Dalton was again a frontrunner, but the script wasn’t even ready at that point, and Dalton turned down the offer. Dalton was then offered the role of James Bond in John Glen’s 1983 film 'Octopussy' and 1985 film 'A View to a Kill', but the actor was committed to other projects.
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