# NSNA with George Lazenby **URL:** \ **Category:** Films\ **Created:** [May 18, 2020, 1:26pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/nsna-with-george-lazenby/1622 "2020-05-18T13:26:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Orion](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/user_avatar/quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/orion/32/1276_2.png) [@Orion](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/Orion)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 1:04pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/nsna-with-george-lazenby/1622/41 "2020-05-21T13:04:20Z")
I should say, from my own experience, that constrictions on other acting work in contracts doesn’t go beyond “not taking work that’ll conflict with our schedule without discussing it with us first” - For Bond that’ll be “DO NOT GO DO AN AMERICAN TV DRAMA, PIERCE!!!” MGM got a good pay day for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo because Craig’s schedule on that was going to collide. ---
**Author:** ![David\_M](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/user_avatar/quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/david_m/32/508_2.png) [@David\_M](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/David_M)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 1:42pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/nsna-with-george-lazenby/1622/42 "2020-05-21T13:42:40Z")
A fundamental problem with NSNA is that it was legally bound to be a remake of Thunderball, full stop. And that alone limits its potential hugely, because TB was one of the few entries that hewed fairly closely to the source material, anyway. There’s a lot of potential in adapting a version of, say, Moonraker that’s truer to the novel, but not TB. What we end up with is “Thunderball on a budget,” which is like saying “Ghostbusters with less laughs” or “Love Story without the mushy stuff.” Now if the question is, what if ‘Warhead’ or ‘James Bond of the Secret Service’ or whatever McClory was calling it in the 70s got made with Lazenby, that might have been worth pondering. But Lazenby in NSNA would have been just one more nail in the “low budget” coffin: scaled-down effects, scaled-down music, scaled-down stunts and scaled-down Bond. ---
**Author:** ![Silvertoe](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/user_avatar/quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/silvertoe/32/1701_2.png) [@Silvertoe](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/Silvertoe)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2020, 4:22pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/nsna-with-george-lazenby/1622/43 "2020-05-23T16:22:59Z")
Thinking about it, even now, you get lookalikes of connery, Moore, Dalton, brosnon and Craig, but you never see a lazenby lookalike on the books ---
**Author:** ![BondFan](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BondFan](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/BondFan)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2020, 11:20pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/nsna-with-george-lazenby/1622/44 "2020-05-23T23:20:04Z")
Because he wasn’t explicitly named as James Bond. His reg plate only said “JB” for this reason. Same reason McClory couldn’t sue Cubby for the Blofeld appearance at the beginning of FYEO. ---
**Author:** ![BondFan](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BondFan](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/BondFan)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2020, 11:22pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/nsna-with-george-lazenby/1622/45 "2020-05-23T23:22:36Z")
Just wind it forward to all the Roger bits. That’s what I did. ---
**Author:** ![BondFan](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BondFan](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/BondFan)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2020, 11:24pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/nsna-with-george-lazenby/1622/46 "2020-05-23T23:24:08Z")
I remember reading Cubby saying he had no influence over his actors’ other films. ---
**Author:** ![Silvertoe](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/user_avatar/quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/silvertoe/32/1701_2.png) [@Silvertoe](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/Silvertoe)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2020, 8:59am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/nsna-with-george-lazenby/1622/47 "2020-05-24T08:59:01Z")
But aren’t the gadgets in the db5 not a legal issue? ---
**Author:** ![BondFan](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BondFan](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/BondFan)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2020, 1:54pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/nsna-with-george-lazenby/1622/48 "2020-05-24T13:54:27Z")
I wouldn’t have thought so. Some things are just part of the spy-fi subgenre. Bond wasn’t the first adventurer to have gadgets. 1930s thriller heroes like Norman Conquest had explosive cigarette lighters. Also, even if there was an infringement, these things are taken on a case by case basis. Cubby might’ve thought it wasn’t worth the hassle, or would’ve been bad PR. He fought McClory, remember, because McClory was an actual threat (able to make a Bond film). ---
**Author:** ![David\_M](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/user_avatar/quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/david_m/32/508_2.png) [@David\_M](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/David_M)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2020, 2:03pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/nsna-with-george-lazenby/1622/49 "2020-05-24T14:03:35Z")
I agree gadgets for adventurers is nothing new, but “ejector seat in an Aston Martin DB5” is awfully specific. ---
**Author:** ![Dustin](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/user_avatar/quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/dustin/32/7_2.png) [@Dustin](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/Dustin)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2020, 3:14pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/nsna-with-george-lazenby/1622/50 "2020-05-24T15:14:29Z")
Maybe it’s as simple as that Eon didn’t catch this in time - and then decided not to act as the horse was already sending postcards from greener pastures while Eon still thought this might be good advertising. They hadn’t used the Aston in ages - so much so its use in 1980 was a caricature inside a larger caricature. In the end - if this can be considered the end already - they milked the Aston far longer and with more iconic results. Who is talking about THE CANNONBALL RUN today, apart from us? ---
**Author:** ![saintmark](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@saintmark](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/saintmark)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2020, 10:52pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/nsna-with-george-lazenby/1622/51 "2020-05-24T22:52:05Z")
Burt Reynolds fans? ---
**Author:** ![BondFan](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BondFan](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/BondFan)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2020, 11:24pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/nsna-with-george-lazenby/1622/52 "2020-05-24T23:24:56Z")
And, until a couple of years ago, Burt Reynolds himself. ---
**Author:** ![saintmark](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@saintmark](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/saintmark)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 2:18pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/nsna-with-george-lazenby/1622/53 "2020-05-26T14:18:18Z")
Burt Reynolds delivered some classic movies and when his 1970’s movies are on I generally watch them because they are enjoyable and he was a believable tough man. ---
**Author:** ![AMC\_Hornet](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/user_avatar/quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/amc_hornet/32/544_2.png) [@AMC\_Hornet](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/AMC_Hornet)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 3:01pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/nsna-with-george-lazenby/1622/54 "2020-05-26T15:01:22Z")
Rather like Sir Roger and Lewis Gilbert, Burt and Hal Needham seemed to share “the same insane sense of humour” and it showed in their projects. [Previous page](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/nsna-with-george-lazenby/1622.md?page=2)