The number of James Bond movies made to date is staggering, with these numbering twenty-five "official" Everything Or Nothing (EON) productions, as well as the Charles Feldman-produced
Casino Royale and Kevin McClory-produced
Never Say Never Again, all while film history is littered with such relevant oddities as
Operation Kid Brother (starring Sean Connery's actual kid brother Neil in a movie full of faces from the '60s-era Bond films, which is today most likely to be known to fans of
Mystery Science Theater 3000).
The number of "unmade" Bond films--of ideas for Bond movies that an established filmmaker made a serious attempt to pursue--is larger still, with the more curious ranging from an Alfred Hitchcock-helmed film starring Jimmy Stewart as 007, to EON's famous unfilmed scripts for The Spy Who Loved Me by Anthony Burgess and John Landis(!), to Quentin Tarantino's
Casino Royale.
Even some of the less well-known are quite enough to fire the imaginations of Bond trivia aficionados--like Charles Feldman's idea of going with Howard Hawks for a director and Cary Grant for a star for his own rather "hard-boiled"
Casino Royale before he went the gag comedy route with that film. Still, had Hawks and Grant made the movie, whatever the quality of the result, it would not have been the milestone of cinematic history that the Bond movies we actually got in the '60s (which led to Feldman's ultimately going the comedy route after they beat him to the punch) have proven to be.
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