JAMES BOND is famed for squeezing out of tight spots in pretty miraculous ways. But an eccentric idea by film director John Landis for Roger Moore’s 007 to escape villains by disguising himself as a crucified Jesus was just a step too far.
Landis, then a writer on The Spy Who Loved Me, dreamed up the madcap plot as a pre-title sequence for the 1977 movie, intended to take place in a Spanish church.
But it was dismissed by long-term Bond producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, who apparently fumed at Landis: “Are you f***ing crazy?” The hilarious revelation is documented in new book The Lost Adventures Of James Bond, which unearths plans for 007 movies which didn’t quite make it to the screen.
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