The Living Daylights (1987)
1987 John Glen Bond film with Timothy Dalton's debut. Soviet defector plot, Maryam d'Abo as cellist, return to serious tone.
Michael G Wilson is the stepson of Albert Broccoli and has produced the Bond series alongside Barbara Broccoli for decades, but he also co-wrote five of the films across the Moore and Dalton eras, including For Your Eyes Only and Licence to Kill.
Those scripts represent the series at its most grounded. For Your Eyes Only deliberately reversed the space-station excess of Moonraker, and Licence to Kill is closer to a revenge thriller than to anything the franchise had made.
He trained as an electrical engineer and a lawyer before entering the family business, and has appeared in a cameo in nearly every Bond film since 1979.
Michael G. Wilson1987 John Glen Bond film with Timothy Dalton's debut. Soviet defector plot, Maryam d'Abo as cellist, return to serious tone.
Michael G. Wilson1981 John Glen Bond film with Moore. Greek Mediterranean setting, ATAC recovery mission, return to grounded espionage after Moonraker.
George MacDonald Fraser1983 John Glen Bond film with Moore in India. Maud Adams as Octopussy, jewel-smuggling circus train, Soviet nuclear plot.
Michael G. WilsonA View to a Kill is John Glen's 1985 British spy film. The work represents Moore's final Bond appearance at age fifty-seven and the weakest late Moore Bond entry.
Michael G. Wilson1989 John Glen Bond film with Dalton's final outing. Bond's personal revenge against drug lord Sanchez.
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