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Yes, it was 'Luds' on these forums. He was convinced Clive Owen was the new Bond.
I think Campbell said he didn't even audition.
I sighed with relief when it looked to be all BS (he is one of the most monotone, one note actors I’ve ever watched…)
I don't understand for the life of me what people saw in Clive Owen to be Bond. I understand he was in a BMW advert but seriously?
Oh and apparently, there's some antisemitic backlash against ATJ being Bond: https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/1881899/Aaron-Taylor-Johnson-next-James-Bond-Brosnan-Lazenby-jewish/amp
I didn't know he was Jewish. You'd think it would stir less of a controversy than being a Black candidate. Apparently not.
An actor who happens to be Jewish has no control over the tragedies happening in Gaza.
Just more hatred being vomited onto the pages of our present-day story. I hope the next generations look back at things like this with disgust.
Bloody sad.
As far as I know, ATJ has never said anything about Gaza, so why would he be dragged into the conversation.
Just nauseating.
People say this and just insert whatever actor they have a distaste for and don't want to see become bond. Its a time honoured tradition at this point.
No, I like Theo James and Clive Owen, but they are too old.
I'm still skeptical about him as Bond, mostly because of his voice. But I'd be happy if a Jewish actor was cast as Bond, as long as he's British. In 2005 I thought Jason Isaacs would be great.
Agreed. I mean, I’ve been open in getting Sope in the role (I don’t think that’s going to happen). So long as the man is from the UK and has the physicality, alpha presence and can be suave and seductive and dangerous and can play an assassin for his country, I don’t care about anything else.
And for these anonymous thugs to take issue with ATJ and tie him to the tragedy in Gaza is sickening.
In the end, the guy is an actor. Just an actor. Leave his ethnicity/religion/personal life-family-wife and children out of it. If you don’t like him as an actor— fine. Everything else is nobodies business.
Edit: very good point @talos7 … most likely the twits behind this movement are a handful of a$$****s. And now, to stir up the sh*t, this rag gives these dinks a larger platform then they’d ever have had, if the Daily Mail didn’t given them the stage.
But ultimately it seems to amount to very few people, and it's something these tabloids have chosen to write about.
I've also noticed in the comments on articles / social posts about ATJ being Jewish, that bots keep posting comments about Daniel Craig being Jewish or married to a Jewess.
Social media, especially Twitter really has gone to the dogs.
That's scary. And ATJ hasn't been cast yet. For all we know it's just as much a rumour as the Shatterhand one.
I shall put this here and say that isnt it obvious
Michael Fasbender is the next 007
i mean it says so right there i mean you have to move letters around and such but come on you all see it right
It's entirely possible that Dalton simply and genuinely just didn't want to do a third Bond film rather than be urged to jump before being pushed.
Whilst he indicated he'd be up for a third film he nevertheless had a vibe when interviewed by the Bondage fanzine during the filming of LTK that it might be the last ever Bond film.
“My Feeling is this will be the last one. I don’t mean my last one, I mean the end of the whole lot. I don’t speak with any real authority, but it’s a sort of feeling I have. Sorry!”
We may have got him back if the hiatus had been shorter but if he already felt that the Bond series itself might be winding up then after six years out it's likely he mentally moved on and was decent and pragmatic enough to think EON would benefit from the reboot of a new lead.
Of course Cubby would have been happy to retain him as Cubby bless him never liked to shake things up, prepared to have Guy Hamilton back yet again for TSWLM and such like, so may have wanted to be loyal and give Dalton first refusal but I've personally never had a reason not to believe the 'official' version of events given.
one: if you like him, sounds like he might be james bond soon! good for you. or he's the next "what was that about" years down the road, but no harm done.
two: you hate him, find his ego and mannerisms a little off-putting, then maybe the producers don't want everyone thinking he's Bond and they'll hurry and decide on someone themselves?
Without any kind of dissing, I'd say that Aidan Turner is the Adrian Paul of this period - someone who, on the surface, seems a natural fit for Bond, who's got the look, is easy to imagine in the role, is popular with a general audience, etc, but who a lot of hardcore fans weren't sold on and who didn't align with EON's thinking when the time came.
I don't think Eon are ever in any kind of hurry when it comes to Bond, except when production on the movie actually begins ten years after the last film. :)
If an actor is getting a lot of buzz that you don't particularly like, you say they're the next Clive Owen, and If someone else has a dislike of an actor that you think is right you say they'll join the next actornotbond.com site after he's cast. >:)
;))
To be fair, there were positive comments. I'd say 50:50 for and against. My guess is Aaron Taylor-Johnson will get a mixed reaction if cast as Bond. A decent teaser trailer may up his approval rating. 😉
It was pretty obvious there was mutual respect between Cubby and Dalton. Cubby after all, was eager to cast him for a long time, and when he finally did, he obviously wanted to keep him in the role. The studio, obviously, were looking at the numbers, and the critcal/public reaction and wanted to recast. But I was relieved to hear thst Cubby didn't bow to pressure and would have happily continued with Dalton in the role, ( Cubby quite rightly lambasted some rag newspaper thst declared Dalton was fired!) but the real story finally emerged, that Tim was only willing to fulfill his contract, and do one more, which Cubby quite rightfully said that wouldn't work for the series, and allowed him out his contract. There was no animosity, and no awkwardness like the way Brossa was shown the door, and Dalton remained close to the Broccolis and was even one of the pallbearers at Cubbys funeral!
That sort of reaction is inevitable no matter who gets the role. And really, comment sections are a cesspit of negativity and nonsense, and this one is no different.
Deadline again.
@DEKE_RIVERS , surely you're trolling by now?
Bruce Haring wrote that piece which is a "filler", repeating what someone said on a talk show.
I gave you a list of columnists who "break news" on Deadline.
I said hit the link to their names and see that they write "exclusives" and "breaking news" pieces (and Bond's casting would fall under this).
And Haring isn't one of these columnists. He's a reporter. And he reported what ATJ's wife said on a talk show.
And please note how she's having fun, and says, "keep speculating"?
You're surely trolling by now, no?
Yep, trolling … 🙄