A revenge driven, Diamond Are Forever, with George Lazenby, and directed by Peter Hunt would have cemented Lazenby as one of, if not the best Bond ever. OHMSS is one of the greatest Bond films.

If you ever thought you were bad at your job, just remember an agent once told someone *NOT* to star in James Bond because it wasnt going to be relevant after the 1960s...

I actually like George Lazenby, he makes Bond more emotionally relatable and likeable

Always wished we saw more interaction between Bond and other double 0’s

This is one of my biggest what ifs ever…I actually enjoyed George Lazenby as Bond and OHMSS is one of the most underrated Bond films of the series.

It's odd how On Her Majesty's Secret Service is considered a bit of an outlier in the Bond franchise when it's by far the most influential film in the series. Hell, look at how most of Austin Powers came out directly out of it: Austin's iconic outfit, the character of Frau, even Dr. Evil's portrayal is mostly based on this particular version of Blofeld. It would have been interesting to see the series continue in that direction. We would have gotten a more grounded Bond long before Daniel Craig.

I'm massive Bond fan myself. Lazenby was fantastic as Bond and I truly wish he would have stayed on as the character. This sequel sounds like it would have been groundbreaking for its time and truly fantastic to watch. I strongly recommend everyone who watches to also checkout the documentary "Becoming Bond," it was released in 2017 and has several interviews with Lazenby himself talking about how he got the role. It's been a while since I watched it, so I don't remember the exact details, but I remember feeling that he had regret over losing the role

Both of these versions of Diamonds would have been better than what we got.

Correction: Felix didn’t die in Licence to Kill. His bride Della did, but Felix was only mauled by Sanchez’s shark. He’s still alive at the end of the film taking to Bond on the phone.

Even though Lazenby had a short stint as Bond, I believe if he had more films he would have grown into the role. Plus on her majesty secret service theme is so cool.

OHMSS had one of the best Bond climaxes ever-the great shoot outs on the peaks, and the bobsled battle. Fine epilogue as well.

The original Goldeneye script, by Michael France, would make a good What Could Have Been. It’s online to read. I couldn’t picture Dalton, as it was originally for him, and I couldn’t picture Brosnan either, as he starred in it, because I kept picturing Craig because it has a more serious tone like his Bond movies. Alec Trevelyan was older and a mentor to Bond, and aspects of the script got used in later Bond movies

As an avid Bond film fan myself, I have been waiting for this video for a long time now and I'm glad I got to finally see it.

On her Majesty's Secret Service is one of the best Bond flicks in my opinion, storywise at least, and with a very strong and unexpected ending. Mr Lazenby himself is also a perfect gentleman and, put it simply, just a very nice guy. That's my memory of him as I've met him and had a lengthy discussion with him regarding his career and life in general. He did tell me the full story behind him not continuing on as Bond, as this video do only partially reveal. But it is a shame we did not see him in more of them, as he himself has since then regretted. He was however, as I perceived it, content with the life he lived with several children.

Honestly not the biggest fan of Timothy Daltons bond, but you have to commend the man for understanding that James Bond should be older than his 20’s. Very cool of him to pass on the role at first, it shows that he understood who the character of Bond is.

Lazenby was great, OHMSS was my favourite Bond film

Bond fans are doomed to never receive a satisfying conclusion to Blofeld/SPECTRE.

On Her Majestys Secret Service was the most underrated bond film ever made. I would've to have seen a revenge driven version of Diamonds are Forever. And yes, I know I already made a comment like this, but this is how much I wish Lazenby was given another Bond film.

I wish lazenby came back honestly I love majesty

Fun Fact: Hugh Jackman, Tom Hardy, Sam Worthington And Ewan McGregor Were All Considered For The Role Of James Bond Before Daniel Craig Was Cast

To quote Star-Lord, “finally”. Nice work. You should dive into James Brolin almost being Bond in Octopussy. He even did a screen test with Maud Adams and got pretty close until they brought Roger Moore back to compete against Sean Connery and Never Say Never Again.

Lazenby played the best physical fighting Bond until Daniel Craig 37 years later. And Telly Savalas the best Blofeld.

Maybe one day AI can show us what both versions of the scrapped DAF could've looked like. I think the Goldfinger II angle would've done better at the Box Office, but the OHMSS II version, that would've aged like fine wine. As TravisMiddleton8218 said below, either of these would've been better than what we got.

This is the best 007 info I have ever seen on youtube. I salute you!

Richard Maibaum also wrote an early Batman screenplay before being replaced by Tom Mankiewicz yet again. It’s in the Maibaum archives at the University of Iowa. Good luck getting ahold of that one! 😊

I grew up in the 80s so my first Bond was Octopussy and as a kid I loved Roger Moore but as I got older and I started watching all of them in order and when I got to On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, that became my new favorite! In my top 5 Bond movies.

Oh George. If only he had a different agent. He would have ruled the 70s. This is the diamonds that should have been.

I liked Lazenby. OHMSS was very good. Would have for sure like to see more of Lazenby.

OHMSS is still my favorite Bond. Lazenby nailed it first time out. He would have been terrific in six more films.

Thank you for this video. I love the Bond film series!

Diamonds are forever forever forever🎶

Oh man, Sean Connery being stalked and photographed in the loo is next level paparazzi 😖😖😖😖

another banger as always boss, your the man with this lol

"I'm not James Bond, I'm Sean Connery" What a legend.😅

OHMSS IS my favourite Bond movie, I would have loved to see his take on Diamonds Are Forever ❤

Been waiting a while for this… did not disappoint! 🤩

Based on what you shared, I would have loved Dalton to star in OHMSS and to have a LTK inflected DAF as his sequel. The Bond Series over the years has had many missed opportunities and yet many have kept coming back for more. In the end though, we got Connery, Lazenby, Moore, Dalton, Brosnan, and Craig. We got all the “good bits” just out of order. One wishes we could have a total reboot and could start from scratch with a great Bond and all of the best bits in some sort of coherent order from book and screen.

Damn. The original script for lazenby in diamonds is actually quite entertaining. Blofeld's original death seems a bit anticlimactic though. Great video

Some suggestions: WCHB: Total Recall WCHB: Neil Blomkamp's Alien and his Robocop.

thanks for your hard work

Thank you for the video! Interesting stuff!

I've been looking forward to this one. Thank you

The Lazenby/Hunt version of Diamonds is one of cinema’s great missed opportunities.

I come to your channel for everything movie related! Thank you for another banger of a video!

A really interesting video. A revenge thriller would have been much better than the film we got.

Really wish Lazenby got at least one more Bond film to get a second chance to show off what's hes capable of as an actor, but, oh well.

Dang we missed out on what could’ve been a nice sequel

Been waiting for this

I saw ohmss last week for the first time and the ending hit me I really wish we got more lazenby

Thanks for the amazing video ❤

Sean Connery orginally signed a six picture deal and then felt left behind. George Lazenby could have been the Bond of the 1970's, but wasn't accustomned to the pace of movie making.

I wish Lazenby would have done DAF and then maybe walked away. I've heard they offered him a 6 picture deal , they didn't want him back , the studio heads wanted Connery back. So many different stories we'll probably never know.

That revenge driven sequel would have been incredible!

Now do the Connery version of Her Majesty's Secret Service would it have been the same?

On Her Majesty's Secret Service was the first Bond film I ever saw (edited for television in the 1980s). That movie (& Lazenby) remain the definitive Bond story for me. All the rest that I eventually saw either measured up to it, or failed miserably. Casino Royale came close. OHMSS is the bar.

This also begs the question, what if Timothy Dalton returned for Goldeneye in 1995?

Awesome video as always say man 🌍🌟 Could you talk about Guillermo Del Toro Hellboy 3 ??? Could you talk about Guillermo Del Toro Pacífic Rim 2 ???

after all the polls, diamonds are forever fans can finally find peace at last

i must say that the plot for if diamonds are forever was a sequel to majesties is really interesting in my opinion, wouldve probably been interesting to see how would it have played out in motion

God I love the early Bond movies, OHMSS definitely included even though I prefer Connery. I hope the Bond franchise achieves a return to form, but I'm not very hopeful after the last few movies and all the rhetoric coming from the producers.

The Diamond satellite was used in both Die Another Day and Batman forever George Clooney.

I don't dislike Sean Connery's diamonds but I do think that George Lazenby one would have been a lot better. I know there's a few Bond stories that Ian Fleming wrote that has yet been made into films I think they should go that route and make it a period film.

Great vid! My question is what your source for the plot synopsis is....

Would it been possible to do what would of been Tarantinos Casino Royale or Star Trek

OHMSS is my favorite Bond film. This was the only film that actually allowed the Bond character to change form the beginning to the end.

Buddy hell these versions are a million times better than the original ones that I love also lol

Love the repurposed visuals!

Indeed a Sean Connery OHMSS would be great

I have long been fascinated by the idea of a Lazenby led DAF, and so had been hoping for ages that you might do this video! Big props to you for the excellent end result - it clearly must’ve taken a lot of time and effort 👏🏼. I do wonder if the passing of Ilse Steppat (Irma Bunt) just 4 days after OHMSS’s international release was a contributing factor in plans changing. It may have confused audiences if the part had been re-cast in DAF for little more than a cameo appearance.

To this day, I really wished we would’ve gotten the original Richard Maibaum script instead of Mankiewicz one that we got in Diamonds are Forever. Besides the script being poor and Hamilton’s over-the-top direction in the film, my main issue was that it should’ve been a direct sequel to On Her Majesty’s Secret Service where Bond’s revenge towards Blofeld needed to be throughout the movie, not just have it wrap up during the opening sequence. As for whether it should’ve been Connery and Lazenby returning on Bond, I honestly don’t care because both actors did exceptional work with the character, but the one actor I did wished return was Savalas as Blofeld along with Hunt returning to direct it.

What a fabulous, inventive, far-reaching, long-ranging re-imagining of "what might have been". Kudos for your imagination - and thanks for a great laugh. Your creativity is appreciated.

There is only one James Bond. There have been some good Bonds, with varying degrees of success. But nobody can touch Sean Connery for the perfect blend of style, humor and when required, absolute viciousness.

Finally!

I like the Wrath of Khan Nicholas Meyer reference. He had a hand in the initial scripting of Tomorrow Never Dies. I'd have liked a second Lazenby outing.

Liked Lazenby, bad mistake turning 6 picture deal down! OHMSS is one of the best and one of my guilty pleasures! Do wish Lazenby had given it another go!

It would have been interesting having John Gavin as James Bond. After all, he would eventually be American ambassador to Mexico. Imagine a James Bond actor having Diplomatic Immunity

This would have been such a better movie than the one we got

George Lazenby also played Bond in the Man from Uncle movie to.

Wow, this sounds better then the finished version of Diamonds Are Forever.

Where did that clip of the killer kitties come from? 😂

the Goldfinger sequel really reminds me of Die Hard With A Vengence.

My favorite Bond movies starring Sean Connery are Dr No, Goldfinger and You Only Live Twice. Diamonds Are Forever is a 6,0 or 6,5/10.

Felix didn't die in Licence to Kill. His wife did.

The Diamonds Are Forever we got is one of my favorite James Bond films, so I’m happy with what we got, but I will admit, it would’ve been really satisfying, to see Lazenby return in the movie where he went after Blowfiled for revenge for his wife’s death

Diamonds Are Forever is the Greatest Bond film we never had. People complain that George Lazenby was too ''stiff'', but he just needed a film to get loosened into the role as a beginner actor, and the greater revenge theme allowed a perfect way to expand Lazenby's emotional range and the propulsion of the character making it more three dimensional and adding a retroactive nuance to the film before as the set-up of a change in his character from one film to the next, which rarely happens in the series as the character begins each film entirely the same in mental stature.

Jeezus, my head is spinning!

I don't really have a horse in this race, but I always thought Lazenby was all wrong for Bond, especially as Connery's successor.

That's interesting about the nature of Irma Bunt's death as Maibaum repurposed a deleted sequence from On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Partially filmed, and then abandoned because of the shoot overrunning, it involves Bond pursuing a SPECTRE spy who works at The Royal College Of Arms. We in fact see him in the film. He shows the Bond Coat Of Arms to Bond in his meeting with Sir Hillary Bray. He then leaves the room. As filmed, but deleted he's listening in on the conversation via a bug in a statue he gave to Bray. Bond picks up on this, finds the bug, and goes after the spy. A chase ensures. Filming stopped at the beginning of this, outside the college. The sequence would have continued with Bond pursuing the spy to a post office where he manages to post the recording of Bond and Bray's meeting to Blofeld. Bond chases after him, ending up on the underground railway, but rather than the tube, this is Mail Rail, a real life means of transporting mail across London. It also features in Hudson Hawk, doubling as the Vatican's Mail Rail. Bond kicks the spy onto the electrified rail. The sequence would then have continued with not only the parcel being intercepted so Blofeld doesn't get it, but an elaborate fake train crash being enacted to explain the spy's death so Blofeld wouldn't get suspicious why contact had stopped. We would see this. Due to expense and the production falling behind, this was never shot. But in fairness it probably wouldn't have made the final cut as the film was already the longest Bond film then, which concerned the producers. Tbf the sequence while great would have brought the film to a standstill, and is unnecessary. There is however a reference to it in the released film. After Bond first arrives in Switzerland we can see his contact reading a newspaper. One headline reads ".......killed in rush hour train crash". This was a nod to that, that was presumably added when the pursuit sequence was still intended to be shot.

I’ve been around long enough to be inherently skeptical of these kinds of, “what we almost got,” stories, but damn, if this is true…. Specifically the first one…. I would’ve been the best damn movie ever, including any of the modern ones.

Lazenby ❤wasn’t bad and who knows what his Bond could have been … each new Bond needs 2-3 bond films before they can define their version of Bond. I believe strongly he could have been the Daniel Craig of his era ❕

It wasn't his agent who talked Lazenby away from playing Bond, it was his manager. Ronan O'Rahily, who founded the Radio Caroline pirate radio station and became a kind of taste-maker in swinging London and was not an experienced talent manager. The ironic thing is that he told Lazenby that the whole Bond schtick was past its prime --- the tailored suits, and martinis, and jet-setting vibe was starting to look tire, and that the whole Bond series was not going to stay relevant; and in a lot of ways he wasn't wrong. The series would never again be as hip and relevant as it was in the early 60s, and they spent the 70s chasing other genres like Blaxpoitation, kung-fu movies, and sci fi.

In my head-canon Diamonds are Forever takes place before On Her Majesty's Secret Service and after You Only Live Twice.

Waiting for this one

I'd love to see you do a video on the first version of Prometheus which had more elements from the Alien movies

OHMSS is my favorite Bond Story and favorite Bond Movie.

That actually sounds like a good movie!

If George Lazenby would not have taken such bad advise at the time . I really think he would have ben very good as Bond James Bond

Wow there are a couple of movies in there I would really pay to watch 😍

This sounds like a great plot

After the lukewarm reception of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, I think Diamonds are Forever was more or less intended as a direct follow up to You Only Live Twice as the pre credits sequence even picks up right where it left off in Japan with Bond picking up Blofeld's trail. Still, this story treatment sounds like it would've been pretty interesting. Certainly better than the campy mess that Diamonds are Forever would turn out to be!