There is a popular theory about James Bond that ensures that he appears in another film outside the saga, although it has now been denied.
when it premiered The Rock in 1996, fans speculated that the character of Sean Connery called John Patrick Mason It was actually james-bond. Since he is a former MI6 agent and SAS officer who years ago was imprisoned in Alcatraz and sent back there to help Stanley Goodspeed (Nicolas Cage).
Now the producer Jerry Bruckheimer has made it clear that this was never part of the film: “It was never discussed or even thought about.”
But the own Nicolas Cagehas revealed that he is a big fan of the james-bond of Sean Connery and that he insisted that he be in the film and that even his performance resemble the famous British secret agent. Maybe because of that, there are so many fans who think that he is the same character.
“He was a huge influence on my decision to become an actor.” Said Nicolas Cage in an interview commemorating the 20th anniversary of the film The Rock. “Ever since Dr. No (1962), which I saw at a drive-in with my father, I knew I wanted to be like this. I used to refer to Connery on set as Maestro. We would have a whiskey together and talk about his life. He likes to sing, you know. So between takes, it was great to see Sean Connery singing a big band version of Donna Summer’s ‘Hot Stuff’.”
Do you think John Patrick Mason was really James Bond? At the end of the movie The rock they give him up for dead, but in reality Stanley Goodspeed (Nicolas Cage) he lets him escape and in exchange gives him the location where there is a microfilm with a lot of secrets. The same that a spy with a “license to kill” from the British secret intelligence service could obtain. So everything is very suspicious…