 Years earlier, Alfred Hitchcock (I) (qv) was originally considered  as director, with James Bond being played by Cary Grant (qv) and  Grace Kelly (I) (qv) lured out of retirement to play Tatiana  Romanova. These ideas were scrapped after _Vertigo (1958)_ (qv)  failed at the box office. The helicopter chase scene is a homage to  Hitchcocks cropduster sequence in _North by Northwest (1959)_ (qv).