Throughout the 60 years James Bond has been on the big screen, there’s been no shortage of casting controversies associated with the franchise.
For 1974’s “The Man with the Golden Gun,” producers cast Christopher Lee in the role of villain Francisco Scaramanga, much to the chagrin of some behind the scenes.
Writer Tom Mankiewicz even claimed to have “begged and pleaded” for them to find anyone else, mainly because he’d originally envisioned Jack Palance in the role.Even Bond himself caused casting issues.
When writer Ian Fleming and producers Albert Broccoli and Harry Saltzman were casting 007 for “Dr.
No,” they all had a sense that Sean Connery was the man for the job.
But before he was offered the part, he would have to screen test, which he ultimately agreed to do despite pushing back initially.
As recounted in Matthew Field and Ajay Chowdhury’s 2015 book, “Some Kind of Hero: The…
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