8 Things We Learned From The Lost Adventures Of James Bond Book

While the proposed third movie for Timothy Dalton's James Bond had several different ideas on the table at various points, so too was there a tentative plan to follow any such third picture with a fourth outing for the Dalton Bond.

Of all of the actors to take on Bond, none of them were as much a victim of circumstance as Timothy Dalton. For all the plans and ideas for further films for his incarnation of 007, they were all for nought as ongoing disputes meant it ended up being a six-year gap between Bond movies in the '90s. This in comparison to the '70s and '80s conjuring up five films per decade.

If a third Dalton picture had happened, what would a fourth one have looked like, then?

Lock Up's Richard Smith and The Long Walk Home's John Cork were hired separately by Eon to begin plotting out two differing takes on a fourth film - all while Michael France was now working of a different approach for the third Dalton movie.

The treatment from Smith was titled Reunion with Death, and the picture would've opened with Bond on a revenge mission for the death of 006. Focussing on Dalton's strength as a steely-eyed, clinical James Bond, the film would have kept the more serious tone of the actor's previous outings, and would've largely took place in Japan and feature the Yakuza.