It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
^ Back to Top
The MI6 Community is unofficial and in no way associated or linked with EON Productions, MGM, Sony Pictures, Activision or Ian Fleming Publications. Any views expressed on this website are of the individual members and do not necessarily reflect those of the Community owners. Any video or images displayed in topics on MI6 Community are embedded by users from third party sites and as such MI6 Community and its owners take no responsibility for this material.
James Bond News • James Bond Articles • James Bond Magazine
Comments
Oh, for sure. Johnson isn’t on my preferred list of actors.
But I’d give him a chance to prove himself in the role.
Perhaps we've just been spoiled in this department after Craig's pouty, but rather cruel (or Bondian) looking mouth.
He might well be a boring choice (again, not familiar enough with him), but I must admit it's one I'd never heard suggested before.
I'm sure I read something here or somewhere else that an announcement will be made in March.
Is this a rumour, or is it something more concrete, or did I dream that?
It was rumoured in any case. I have read it too, @jetsetwilly! But the rumour didn't come from EON, so I'm not yet willing to bet my life on it happening. ;-)
Damn!
I have a bit of Dorian Gray vibe watching these pics. But yeah, he'd be worth an audition, based on looks alone.
On the flip side of that, I’m a longtime member who always enjoys @mtm’s posts, but I’ve found myself shifting back to lurking again because I found myself arguing a lot with another member. And I could also name members who’ve done the same or even left because of their own arguments with other people. I’ve also pissed a fair few people off on here over the years myself, and there’s probably even more I’m unaware of who can’t stand me, because I know I can be a right argumentative knobhead at times.
At the end of the day we’re all different people from different walks of life, bonded by one shared interest (that we disagree over constantly), who don’t really know eachother or what we’ve got going on in our lives that well at all, talking entirely over text (hard to read sometimes). We’re bound to end up arguing sometimes and getting on eachother’s nerves, and members are always going to come and go. It’s not fair at all to single out one person and blame them for that.
We cannot go back!
In all fairness you have the context that he was actually playing James Bond.
I kind of feel the same, but then, I felt like that when I compared Brosnan to Dalton back when he was announced, and I ended up liking him almost as much. Whoever they cast might not look like Bond to me at first, but I’m sure he will eventually. EON have made their fair share of duds, but I don’t think they’ve ever misfired with casting the lead.
It's an interesting question to ask - how many of us can actually see that James Bond potential without the hindsight of that person actually playing Bond? I'm sure there were people who wouldn't have been able to see Dalton as the character simply based off his previous roles when he was announced. I do agree though, when he played Bond there was something about him that nailed that subtle cruelty very well.
Reminds me a bit of Michael Fassbender in terms of looks. But yes, I completely get what you mean about Dorian Gray.
A bit dramatic, no?
How so? @Benny asked @LucknFate to be more specific. Then @Univex made a kind gesture towards Benny, who never wants to have the final saying in something, except this once (and with good reason.) And that was it.
If you dig a little deeper inside this thread, you'll discover that members clashed over the silliest things, with a bitterness that you will scarcely find anywhere else on the forum. Terms like "racist" have been used. We had to close it down once because some hotheads had to cool off first. What makes this even more surreal is that this thread is 100% conjecture/dreaming and 0% confirmed stuff, which means that it's just not worth all the bickering. When @Benny typed, "Or maybe I was just messing with you. ;)," he was saying goodbye to an argument he wasn't going to pursue any further. It's a discussion forum so you can start, join and leave a debate as you see fit. Benny's wink was an innocent way of leaving a debate he had lost all interest in. Yet all hell broke loose over a remark I see nothing wrong with. Then the drama built up. The "mods" apparently weren't handling things well. But what was supposed to happen? Did Benny have to apologize for suggesting that he was perhaps messing with someone for fun? Of course not.
I get it. Egos were bruised. That's healthy sometimes. But it's over now. So let this be the end of it.
Thank you.
Funny, I had the same experience in '94 with an image of Brosnan. I hadn't even read the headline yet. ;-) Some looks just give it way, no?
The first picture of Craig as Bond also convinced me that he was the right guy for the job, at least in the looks department.
Absolutely. Me too.
For some reason I think that it will be someone not mentioned to any degree on this board, but when revealed many of us will say,’ why didn’t I think of him, the choice makes so much sense’.
That is my hope.
Sort of back on topic: such adaptation of 19th century classics would be an interesting pool to find a future Bond actor.
As with every new Bond dating back to Moore, I had no interest in the new guy Craig and just figured my days were done, not my Bond (with the exception of Dalton; I was excited about his selection). Then, on every account, I greatly and surprisingly enjoyed their debut performance, but it still took a couple of outings to accept them as "Bond" (actually, Roger sold me right away, but I was 11).
I had seen most of the Connery films at a very young age, all at the drive-in, and I do remember my mother mentioning the "New Guy" (Lazenby), but we didn't bother going to check him out.