Patrick Macnee

Moving on to, this guy's interesting.

Dr. George Wagner, played by Patrick McNee.

He has passed.

He passed in 2015.

that's the thing I don't know how close the book is to the movie so Dante's like I did the best

I could

maybe the maybe he he like twisted that maybe the book was much better about keeping the I don't know maybe no idea but anyway Patrick McNee he was an incredible actor uh British.

A lot of British projects under his belt.

Yeah, he said he was very good at camouflage and now he's stuck being invisible.

And that's voiced by Patrick McNee.

He's the original John Steed.

A guy who agreed to do a cameo but didn't actually want to turn up to set.

And beyond his casting, we also had our fourth star from The Avengers making their way across to the movie.

Following the footsteps of Honor Blackman, Diana Rigg, and Joanna Lumley, Patrick Macnee arrives playing Tibbett.

Apparently, at the time, there was a big thing about how, um, Moore was from The Saint and he was from The Avengers, and it was kind of like the No Way Home of British spy TV stuff.

Chuck Leav was also originally written to be Felix Leiter, but this was changed after the casting of David Yip.

the

Avengers, and he actually came up with the second series of the Avengers, like the Avengers with Patrick McNee in it.

Yeah,

that's the one where Patrick Benit plays Iron Man, right?

And I explained to her how I did it.

And then our conversation... became more about the kinds of books we love that aren't being done anymore, kinds of movies we love that aren't being done anymore, like the Thomas Crown Affair and Remington Steele and It Takes a Thief and Moonlighting and the Patrick McNee, Emma Peel, you know, Avengers, not the superhero Avengers.

And then we had one of those comfortable silences old friends can have over dinner.

And she looked up from her glass of wine and said, this book we're talking about why don't we write it together? Why don't we do this? And I thought, okay, I mean, we could.

um that's the one that bombs hard but the other two kind of set the template for werewolf movies like bone cracking transformations i would say i'm gonna i'm gonna use a technical term here standy upy werewolves rather than all foury well i mean american wolf in london it's an all four it's it's a kind of basically like it's a kind of augmented dog isn't it Whereas, you know, you see from then on and ever more that werewolves tend to be standing on their feet like just enormous humanoid, you know, kind of monsters.

I'm going to end with a quote from Patrick McNee because this is my sort of provocation to you to come back at it.

I'll paraphrase it.

He said, this is so much more than a horror movie.

the set pieces, the performances, you know, the kind of veneration of old character actors.

I love Slim Pickens.

And they, you know, and I love John Carradine and Patrick McNeese, great.

And yeah, you know, so we can...

... before this though.

But Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan-

What?

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