What if they went with the original China setting...

I keep reading that this movie was originally suppose to be set in China but then they reset it to Mexico for budget reasons. But in the movie, there is the Hong Kong agents that are undercover who get killed.

So I wonder, if this movie was suppose to be set in China originally, did the original script possibly have Latin American agents, undercover in China maybe then, and it was reversed more so?

The undercover agent was played by Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa. So what if in an alternate Bond universe, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa and Robert Davi just switch roles? Would that have been good if they had done that, possibly better even?

I don't know how far they got with that but the main desire to go to the Far East again really was more of the unmade third Dalton film which would have been fully HK.

ironpony wrote:

Would that have been good if they had done that, possibly better even?

The small issues I have with LTK have nothing to do with the characters' race and more about story structure and characterisation.