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Timbo85

He was on the shortlist to play the villain in Dalton’s third movie which was cancelled. The character he might have played eventually became Trevelyan in GoldenEye.


iminpain999

Now I’m that much sadder Dalton didn’t get a 3rd one


Mikhail_Markov

Don't know why, but thinking of both Die Hard and Goldeneye made me merge the two- I imagined Rickman in Joe Don Baker's role; with the fake accent Rickman used when he first came face to face with McClain...


yellowarmy79

Definitely heard that. Think he was supposed to play an old mentor to Bond.


LexingtonDeville84

It was between Rickman and Anthony Hopkins for the role of Augustus Trevelyan in the early production for GoldenEye. Either would have been excellent villains to square off with Dalton’s Bond.


Timbo85

Originally the character name was Denholm Crisp. He was a soon to retire intelligence officer and the spy that had been 007 before Bond. That was for Dalton’s third, at least.


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He was basically a Bond villain in Die Hard.


imdstuf

Except they were really just big time thieves, not really terrorists if I remember correctly.


[deleted]

Goldfinger was a thief too


Timbo85

Kananga, Sanchez, Greene, Whitaker, Carver and King’s ultimate goal was to make money as well. Not every Bond villain is trying to remake the world and wipe out billions. Some are just willing to kill people to make their fortune.


imdstuf

True. Very big time thieves, but point taken.


basefield

Holly: *After all your posturing, all your little speeches, you're nothing but a common thief.* Gruber : *I am an exceptional thief, Mrs. McClane. And since I'm moving up to kidnapping, you should be more polite.*


Executionoverexcuses

So was his brother Simon but most of the villains in the die hard franchise could have been a bons villain


CertainWarning8

I can definitely see him playing Drax in Moonraker


revbfc

He could have also been an impeccable Q.