Mick Jagger in For Your Eyes Only

fzv98dfzv98d Posts: 15MI6 Agent

I am often on a Rolling Stones discussion board. There has been a recent post about Mick Jagger walking past Roger Moore in a scene in For Your Eyes Only. Anyone ever heard that before?

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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,702MI6 Agent

    No, but there is a five second clip on YouTube claiming to show Jagger in FYEO. A a man who looks like Jagger walks in front of Bond and Luigi Ferrara.

  • emtiememtiem SurreyPosts: 5,686MI6 Agent

    I think it looks more like Robin Askwith! πŸ˜‚

  • caractacus pottscaractacus potts Orbital communicator, level 10Posts: 3,907MI6 Agent

    this has gotta be a question for @Barbel if ever I saw one!

    music related and obscure casting trivia related, he's gonna have a definitive answer

  • emtiememtiem SurreyPosts: 5,686MI6 Agent

    Surely the answer is pretty clearly: 'it's not him'? πŸ˜„

  • emtiememtiem SurreyPosts: 5,686MI6 Agent
    edited April 2021
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff

    Ha! Between "Confessions" movies, no doubt!

  • emtiememtiem SurreyPosts: 5,686MI6 Agent
    edited April 2021

    Confessions of a Bobsleigh Instructor πŸ˜„


  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff

    ...and of course Sir Rog would have had to make a cameo appearance in return.

  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent

    Well you can't always get what you want.

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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff

    Don't start me up.

  • The Red KindThe Red Kind EnglandPosts: 3,119MI6 Agent

    'Mick' looks like he's waiting...on a friend.


    ..Angie, perhaps?

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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff

    Ruby?

  • GrindelwaldGrindelwald Posts: 1,294MI6 Agent

    Jagger was gonna be Zorin ?

  • James SuzukiJames Suzuki New ZealandPosts: 2,406MI6 Agent

    I hadn't heard that Jagger was going to be Zorin. But I know they wanted Bowie to be Zorin. They asked him, but he turned it down as he didn't like the script.

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  • emtiememtiem SurreyPosts: 5,686MI6 Agent

    It would have made a lot of sense to consider Jagger, but he was never really even the actor Bowie was. And it seems they had their heart set on replicating Max Largo from NSNA with the blond look: they even ended up styling Walken to look like Bowie! πŸ˜„

  • Unknown007Unknown007 Posts: 201MI6 Agent

    if it was Robin Askwith at least it wasn't as bad as his con-man performance in Benidorm.

  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,239MI6 Agent

    Well done to emtiem, who spotted that this was indeed Robin Askwith.

    The story dates back to OHMSS, when Carry On star Sid James appeared on set with George Lazenby. It was a matter of bitter regret for the producers that they never asked this national treasure to cameo in a Bond film, so when a similar scene popped up in For Your Eyes Only, they wasted no chance in acquiring the services of the Confessions star.


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  • Alex006Alex006 Posts: 156MI6 Agent

    Lol! Wait, are you serious?

  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,239MI6 Agent

    Nah, just talking nonsense. That is Sid James with George however.

    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 6,030MI6 Agent

    I think it’s a photoshopped picture of Sid in Carry On At Your Convenience, the exact same pose is in that film.

    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,965MI6 Agent
    edited March 2022

    Carry On Up Her Majesty's Secret Service


    Sir Sidney Bray

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  • Smithers500Smithers500 Spectre IslandPosts: 1,341MI6 Agent

    Wasn’t there once a rumour about Ringo Starr popping up in OHMSS? That was nonsense as well if memory serves.

    Bowie would have been great as Zorin, he even had an “oddity” (excuse the pun) with his eyes, akin to the physical characteristics that Fleming used to give his villains.

    A Bowie theme song would have been great too - not that I’m moaning about what we actually got, just an interesting “what if”.

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  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 26,417Chief of Staff

    I think you may have started something with this πŸ‘€πŸ€£

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  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,965MI6 Agent
    edited March 2022

    @Sir Miles

    I'm sure that, rather like the Carry On films themselves, they'd soon start to feel a bit samey. Having said that, I'm tempted to go on to cast Joan Sims as Tracy, Peter Butterworth as Draco, Bernard Besslaw as Grunther, Jim Dale as Campbell, George Lazenby as Bond, Charles Hawtrey as Gumbold, Kenneth Connor as M and Jack Douglas as Q 🀣🀣🀣

    @Smithers500

    I agree that David Bowie would have made a great Bond villain. Although he passed over the opportunity to play Zorin, I'm sure he'd have been remembered for that part more than for any of his other, artsily respectable film work of the time. Hats off to Christopher Walken, though, who made Zorin indelibly his own.

    As another example, perhaps, Bowie would have been a terrific Largo in NSNA, had the character been reimagined as an English villain; his fashionable modernity pitted against Connery's old-school charisma and his pairing with Kim Basinger icily good looking as well as dysfunctional. Maybe Bowie could have written and performed a title song for NSNA, even a whole score, synth-ily Bondian or rock-infused and more impressive than what we actually got.

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  • emtiememtiem SurreyPosts: 5,686MI6 Agent

    I think it's fairly striking how NSNA's Largo fairly clearly influenced Eon's baddie in their very next film.

  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,239MI6 Agent

    They would have needed a different M in that case, due to Fox's resemblance to Bowie, sort of. Anyway, too good looking, would have outshone Connery, and Moore probably.

    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
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