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==James Bond==

[[Image:Dalton.jpg|thumb|200px|Timothy Dalton as James Bond 007]]

In 1986, after [[Roger Moore]]'s final, definitive retirement from the [[James Bond]] role, Dalton was approached to replace him, but obligations to the film Brenda Starr kept him from accepting the role. Sam Neill was then screentested for the part of Bond but was ulimately rejected by Cubby Broccoli. [[Pierce Brosnan]] was then approached for the role. Brosnan was forced to relinquish the role due to television commitments with the revival of ''[[Remington Steele]]''. Previously, Dalton had been offered the role several times before, as early as 1968, to replace [[Sean Connery]], but had turned down the role each time, feeling he was too young for it. Work commitments made him again refuse the role in 1986, but when asked a second time, he agreed to appear in three James Bond films. The first, ''[[The Living Daylights]]'' ([[1987 in film|1987]]) was successful and grossed more than the previous two Roger Moore Bond films as well as contemporary box office rivals such as ''[[Die Hard]]'' and ''[[Lethal Weapon]]''. The second film, ''[[Licence to Kill]]'' ([[1989 in film|1989]]) did less well at the box office, particularly in the US, in part due to a lacklustre marketing campaign. ''Licence to Kill'' was relatively successful compared to previous Bond films such as [[1985 in film|1985]]'s ''[[A View to a Kill]]'' however, and was one of the most profitable of the series thanks to its relatively small budget, a mere $25 million, the same as ''[[Moonraker]]'' had cost sixten years previously.

Dalton's third Bond film (rumoured title: ''[[Octopussy and The Living Daylights|The Property of a Lady]]'') was slated for a 1991 release, but its production was scuttled by internecine corporate litigation between [[EON Productions]] and [[Danjaq, L.L.C.]]. In [[1994]], Dalton officially dropped the James Bond role, re-opening the door for Pierce Brosnan.