Die Another Day
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invincible1958 — 18 years ago(January 06, 2008 05:35 AM)
John Cleese's character isn't named 'R'. It also 'Q'. Q stands for Quartermaster.
Bond only jokes about 'R' coming after 'Q'. But in 'Die Another Day' he is called 'Q'.
Desmond's characters was named Major Boothroyd. 'Q' is only the position like 'M'. -
NothingButTheBest — 13 years ago(November 20, 2012 03:01 PM)
I think Desmond Llewelyn was going to be Q as long as he was alive and the producers wanted him so he said in an interview, I think John Cleese still would have been R but may have had a bigger role than Desmond Llewelyn.
I'm not sure why they brought in Cleese anyway, was it just so Desmond Llewelyn wouldn't have to do anything too demanding if the scripts called for it? Such as having to visit Bond on the job. Or was it to provide some continuity in case anything happened to Llewelyn?
The world is your lobster. -
micmac99 — 10 years ago(October 31, 2015 01:44 PM)
It was Desmonds wish to have an assistant to speak the most difficult lines because he was starting to have even more trouble with all the technical things in the script. He had wished assistant since Goldeneye.
He was going to come back as Q in Die Another Day, I remember him saying something like this in an interview about week before he died that "I am looking forward to have some funny gags in the next movie with John Cleese"