It's a sequence that could look like it could have been in The Terminator or something because these robots were smart.' Bond drops off from a glider onto what looks like a soap factory but instead, they are making munitions. In an interview featured in Mark Edlitz's book The Lost Adventures of James Bond, screenwriter Alfonse M. This was part of the movie's cautionary tale focused on society's increased reliance on technology. While it was ultimately scrapped due to legal issues concerning the James Bond movie rights in the early '90s, the unmade third Dalton film would have seen 007 fighting Terminator-like robots in its opening sequence. Instead of immediately replacing the actor, however, producers intended to change things for Dalton's third movie as James Bond.
This could have been due to its humorless tone compared to what audiences were used to from 007, especially during Roger Moore's era. Timothy Dalton's two outings as James Bond were not the most popular, with License to Kill posting the worst box office gross in franchise history and The Living Daylights not performing much better (via The James Bond Dossier).
