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Sean Connery very nearly had a cameo in the latest Bond flick, Skyfall, according to director Sam Mendes.

Beware, minor spoilers for Skyfall follow.

In an interview with The Huffington Post, Mendes explained that he considered bringing back the original Bond as the ultimate nod to the series' 50 year history.

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So, it was a very brief flirtation with that thought, but it was never going to happen, because I thought it would distract.

Apparently Connery was very nearly approached to play the role of Kincade; the Scottish gameskeeper who appears at the Bond family estate of Skyfall.

"There was a definite discussion about that - way, way early on," Mendes revealed. "But I think that's problematic. Because, to me, it becomes too... it would take you out of the movie. Connery is Bond and he's not going to come back as another character. It's like, he's been there.

"So, it was a very brief flirtation with that thought, but it was never going to happen, because I thought it would distract."

Ultimately, the role went to veteran English actor Albert Finney, which seems like a good decision. As exciting as the thought of seeing Connery back in a Bond film is, as Mendes points out having him appear as another character would be pretty jarring.

Regardless, it seems that the decision not to include Connery hasn't harmed the film's prospects; since opening in the UK two weeks ago the movie has smashed box office records. Let's see if it can do the same in the US when it opens there on November 9.

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Via Deadline, the co-writer of Skyfall, 007's 23rd film which is already garnering critical praise and smashing box office records overseas, along with the film's director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Road to Perdition) are teaming again for a TV drama. But it's not another globe-trotting spy adventure.

John Logan (already signed on to write Bond 24 and 25) and Mendes have already sent out a script to premium cable networks for a vampire hunter "origin story set in the 1800s London in the vein of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen," starring such characters as Van Helsing and Doctor Frankenstein, who would be tracking down and killing vampires.

Mendes, with Daniel Craig, plotting how to take down a nest of vamps.

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As Skyfall opens in the U.K. today, James Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson have quietly hired Skyfall writer John Logan to pen not one but two 007 films.

According to Deadline, the writer pitched an original two-movie arc while Skyfall was in production, and he has already begun writing the scripts.

A successful playwright, Logan has also worked on such films as Gladiator, Hugo, The Aviator, The Last Samurai and Star Trek: Nemesis. He also wrote the screenplay for Darren Aronofsky's forthcoming biblical epic Noah, starring Russel Crowe.

Skyfall hits stateside theaters stateside on November 9.

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