![]() ![]() Then, I was looked at by Cubby Broccoli, and he didn’t even attempt to be polite. There were about 250 people who auditioned in London with Guy Hamilton, the director, and I somehow got into the final six. On the subject of films, you were also one of the final choices to replace George Lazenby as James Bond in Live and Let Die. Maybe this was incorrect but I kept it instead of signing it into Her Majesty. We were taught in the army to blow up as much as was possible using as little explosives as possible, and I was fairly good at this so I had quite a lot leftover. He telephoned me to ask if I would help having done an explosives course in the army very recently. So he decided to make that complaint known generally by blowing up the dam at the mouth of the 20th Century Fox lake. That was 20th Century Fox, and a schoolmate of mine was selling wine in a lovely village, Wiltshire, which had been voted Europe’s “prettiest village,” and the villagers were complaining to the studio that they had dammed up their little street to make a lake for filming, and showed no signs of promising to remove it after they left. I heard of this great story that when you were in the SAS, you and a friend blew up an ugly dam that the movie studio had built for the film Doctor Doolittle. ![]() On Everest, if you look down there’s a gentle, white shoulder sloping away. It isn’t like a big cliff where you look down and there’s a void. Everest three times!īut anybody who climbs Everest knows that there aren’t drops. With mountain warfare I get vertigo and parachuting I get vertigo.īut you’ve climbed Mt. When you go into a regiment like the SAS you have a choice of four different specialties: jungle, mountain warfare, and so on, and I went for “demolition.” I just preferred it to the others. Why did you decide to join the SAS (Special Air Service)? He talks about why he’s upset with the film, how he was almost cast as James Bond, his famous actor cousins, and what scares him. The book stirred up major controversy upon its release, as Fiennes claimed it was based on real events, and at one point, went so far as to claim that he himself was targeted by the hit squad-dubbed “The Clinic” in the book-and saved by “The Feather Men.”īut is there any truth to Fiennes’s story? In an interview with The Daily Beast, the 67-year-old author-who is not only a former SAS operative but also arguably the world’s greatest living explorer-opens up about what inspired him to write The Feather Men. ![]() A shadow organization called “The Feather Men,” which exists to protect ex-SAS operatives, then sends out hit men of their own to protect the targets. The film, in theaters now, is based on Sir Ranulph Fiennes’s controversial 1991 novel The Feather Men, about four British Army soldiers, including a pair of SAS agents, who are assassinated by a hit squad in retaliation for the murder of the son of a Dubai sheikh, who was killed in Oman by British Army forces. In the trailer for the espionage film Killer Elite, which includes Jason Statham flipping on top of Clive Owen while tied to a chair before jumping through a glass window, a 68-year-old Robert De Niro kicking the asses of people less than half his age armed with only his jacket, and explosions galore, it says in big, bold letters “BASED ON A TRUE STORY.” Wait …what? ![]()
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