Tilbage i 1973 tog Roger Moore over som James Bond efter Sean Connery. Selvom at Moore endte med at lave en række film, så var tydeligvis usikkerheder i starten, for åbenbart tog studiet MGM kontakt til Mel Gibson få år efter. Han havde i den periode haft stor succes med Mad Max-filmene, og de ønskede at høre om han måske ville overtage rollen.
I et interview med JoBlo fortæller Gibson nu, at han sagde nej til rollen. Han ønskede nemlig ikke at "sidde fast", som skuespillerne der portrætterer Bond ender med:
"I got offered the James Bond movies when I was like twenty-six, which is like forty years ago, okay? And they said, hey, we want you to be the next James Bond. And I thought about it; I was in Australia, I was working with Peter Weir. And I did think about it, and I sort of turned it down - for that reason. Because I thought, look what happened to poor Sean, he got stuck there for like three decades."
Er du glad for at Gibson sagde nej tak?