The Role Sean Connery's Bond Would Have Played In Die Another Day
Die Another Day is often cited as the worst movie in the James Bond franchise, but things may have been different if a planned cameo by Sean Connery's James Bond went ahead. Released in 2002, Die Another Day was the final appearance by Pierce Brosnan as 007. Despite being the highest-grossing Bond film up until that point, it was criticized by fans and critics alike for its reliance on CGI and for being overly campy and ridiculous. Featuring invisible cars and the planet-carving Icarus beam, it was hardly surprising that future entries in the series relied on the more down-to-earth, bleaker Daniel Craig Bond era.
As well as being Pierce Brosnan's final Bond movie, Die Another Day also marked the 40th anniversary of the franchise. It featured numerous callbacks to previous films, such as Halle Berry invoking Ursula Andress' look from Dr. No and the various gadgets featured in Q's warehouse. The Icarus beam itself is an overblown callback to the laser that once threatened Sean Connery's Bond in 1964's Goldfinger. However, the anniversary celebrations almost extended to featuring a cameo appearance by the original James Bond himself.
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Before Die Another Day's release, director Lee Tamahori spoke of his desire to have Connery feature alongside Brosnan in the movie. Sean Connery would not have played a tongue-in-cheek version of James Bond as in The Rock; he'd have fully reprised his role. Tamahori was operating under the belief that James Bond 007 was merely a codename, and each actor who played him was playing a different secret agent that shared the prefix. This would have been emphasized in Tamahori's original Die Another Day concept when
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