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The guy does sound suave. If he can throw a punch, he’s got my vote.
LOL, I was thinking just the same thing.
It was only four years. Which may be a shorter gap than to the next Bond film! :)
That was then though. And it was Roger Moore: his fame as a TV star was needed as Connery was casting a very large shadow.
And this is now: anything could happen.
Another boyband type proposition by our ever precious pierce2daniel. No thanks.
I don't think your post is fair or appropriate @JeremyBondon
@Pierce2Daniel is free to comment, just like anyone else.
Every time this fella gets mentioned, I think of rom-coms or period dramas, I can't picture him being a ruthless dangerous assassin with a licence to kill. Admittedly Page isn't the only candidate I could say that about
I think he looks like a nice guy who would be a substitute elementary school teacher, one that the kids wish would replace their own teacher.
This is usually followed by comments such as :
I would NEVER under any circumstances watch a James Bond movie. However if William Shatner were cast as 007, I'd be first in line.
Obviously I'm using Shatner and Frampton as over the top exaggerations but it seems to me the general public who aren't Bond fans will accept anyone who happens to be popular at the moment.
Well Frampton as 007 can help Show Me The Way to be more Bond like...
I'll be here all week
Well, it makes sense: it's generally someone who has no interest in/has an active dislike for the franchise and the type of people or things it traditionally entails, but is very interested in a particular actor and feel the addition of that actor would change the property into something they might find worth watching.
It's like someone saying they're an atheist and would never watch a film about the life of Jesus, but might actually be enthusiastic about it if Jesus was played by Florence Pugh in a loincloth. It makes sense, but of course you don't really want to change the property to target that person, because that person needs the property to be something actively different to what it is, and different to what the long-term fans want.
For what it's worth I don't think most of the people who say things like that are actually actively lobbying for that change to happen, they're just commenting on how much they love that particular actor.
Well that's what movie stars are for: to bring an audience with them to a film.
If Sean Connery was still alive, there'd still be people advocating for his return as 007.
Here's what he might look like as Bond in an origin story...........
Well I've heard William Shatner called "a portly James Bond" in his portrayal of Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek: The Original Series so I suppose he's got that going for him. ;)
The guy is very nearly the same age as Craig. He might have made a good Bond once upon a time and I'm looking forward to seeing him in The Suicide Squad, but I trust even the tabloids will realize now he was never a realistic successor for Craig.
It's the case of a lot of names brought forward by the tabloids. They're like ten years behind in the list of potential Bonds and they haven't even noticed it.
That's just the thing. You can't look at contemporaries of the current Bond as potential successors. You have to be looking at the next generation, and few would be able to predict who among them could really fit the bill until the time comes.
I think we'll need to repeat the entire length of Craig's run before Barbara gets around to prepping B26 then recasting. In the meantime, the media with continue with the Elba rumors.
Absolutely suitable to play a suave spy, but not Bond.