Editing Roger Moore (section)

====''Octopussy'' (1983)====
Following the film ''For Your Eyes Only'', Moore expressed a desire to leave the role, and other actors were screen tested including [[James Brolin]], but Moore was eventually enticed back for ''[[Octopussy]]'' (1983).<ref>{{cite web |title=James Bond: James Brolin was set to REPLACE Roger Moore in Octopussy |url=https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/1266518/James-Bond-James-Brolin-audition-Octopussy-Roger-Moore-Sean-Connery-Never-Say-Never-Again |website=Daily Express |date=8 April 2020 }}</ref>

The circumstances around ''Octopussy'''s release were highly unusual in that another James Bond film was being released in the same year. Spearheaded by ''[[Thunderball (film)|Thunderball]]'' producer [[Kevin McClory]] (who retained film rights to the property because the antecedent 1961 [[Ian Fleming]] novel was based on an unfilmed 1959 screenplay produced under the aegis of McClory, [[Jack Whittingham]] and Fleming), the non-Eon production ''[[Never Say Never Again]]'' featured his predecessor [[Sean Connery]] returning to the role of Bond. Although tantamount to a loose remake of ''Thunderball'', it was not set in the continuity of the previous Eon Bond films. This led to the media dubbing the one-time situation the "Battle of the Bonds".

He made a cameo as Chief [[Inspector Clouseau]], posing as a famous movie star, in ''[[Curse of the Pink Panther]]''<ref name="ebert"/> (1983) (for which he was credited as "Turk Thrust II"). Then he tried a thriller ''[[The Naked Face (film)|The Naked Face]]'' (1984), written and directed by [[Bryan Forbes]].