 Billington ultimately played a brief role in the pre-credit sequence of "The Spy Who Loved Me" (1977).Moore, who had been considered by the producers before both "Dr. No" and "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", was ultimately cast.He tried not to imitate either Connery's or his own prior performance as Simon Templar in "The Saint", and Mankiewicz fitted the screenplay into Moore's persona by giving more comedic scenes and a light-hearted approach to Bond.