10 Actors Who Stupidly Turned Down Video Games

This one really stings. While developing their legendary, ground-breaking FPS GoldenEye 007, Rare operated under the belief that they had carte blanche to use any characters they wanted from James Bond's storied history.

And so, they went about adding the prior iterations of 007 - played by Sean Connery, Roger Moore, George Lazenby, and Timothy Dalton - into the game's multiplayer suite as playable characters.

Yet these alt-Bonds all ended up being cut after Rare was unable to secure likeness permission from Sean Connery, holding up the approvals process and prompting Nintendo's higher-ups to give it the chop.

Considering how this would've made an incredible game somehow even better, it's deeply frustrating that Connery turned down a likeness payment which would've required him to do absolutely nothing.

Ironically, Connery ultimately gave his likeness to the 2005 game From Russia with Love, even recording new dialogue some 22 years after retiring from the role.