The film begins with the death of an honest and hard-working war-hero-turned cop (an awkward-looking Fred Ward) being faked by a shadowy government agency. Yet amongst its numerous issues, there’s an intriguing protagonist and origin story fighting to get out. Viewing the film it’s certainly easy to see why it didn’t fly. Unfortunately the studio’s plans feel at the first hurdle when the film earned a measly $3.4 million during that all important four day opening weekend. Remo Williams (Fred Ward) grabbing throats and taking names Even the film’s full title, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, suggested that there was confidence that the material could have longevity. The studio’s aims of creating by their own admission “a red, white and blue-collar Bond” was further signposted by bringing veteran Bond director Guy Hamilton on board to direct. Like Ian Fleming’s creation, Orion’s intended film was adapted from the series of popular action espionage ‘Destroyer’ novels, the first of which was initially published in the early seventies, focusing on a US government operative named Remo Williams. Back in the mid-eighties, Orion Pictures – a subsidiary of United Artists Corporation – thought they were onto a sure thing when they set about crafting essentially their own version of James Bond. Every movie studio dreams of having a long-running film series to call its own, particularly in the modern risk aversion, multiverse-building Hollywood landscape.
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