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Hear hear!
I would say that Amis, Gardner, Benson etc.. are cannon. Hatfield, on the other hand, isn't cannon.
Precisely. I think it's down to each individual fan. As far as I am aware, there is no hard rule on it. This particular fans does count the continuation books as cannon.
So do I, Major!
... and @Murdock nails it again...
But craig will be 54 not 45
What are you talking about? Craig is 49.
I only got in to this discussion because some people said Craig should do Bond 26 in 2022. In that year Craig will be 54
Why are we talking about Bond 26? Who the heck knows when that will come out? What is the conversation here? :O
I like Craig and I want him to continue. What he needs is decent material to work with.
His downfall, IMHO, has been Mendes.
As the box office went up, DC's performances went down.
Not sure what Mendes was after, but it certainly wasn't a strong, vibrant Bond character.
Basic notions of literature. Conan Doyle had contimuators for his Sherlock Holmes stories when he was alive and well. Only his work is considered canon. Not the thousands of fanfics, pastiches, etc.
So again, by what law and where does it claim only the original creator's work is canon? You show me the evidence to that, and I'll rest my case.
He wouldn't be sacked but at some point he'd be transferred to a desk job or an instructor job or something like this, where his skills can be used at their maximum while avoiding the risks brought by age (however healthy one's lifestyle may be) and the physical toll of an operative's work. I might be wrong but in the army 45 is the age limit for field duty. Otherwise I think @bondjames said it best.
But he isn't just "secret agent man", he's James Bond. It's like saying, "you'd think they'd be superheroes of all ages out there, so lets make Spider-man 50 years old. Why not?"
In film?
In the novels sure but movies are their own thing. Some liberties should be taken.
Okay, so not really relevant. The point is, James Bond is one of those characters who is viewed as being in his peak years, broadly because that's how Fleming wrote him. If Craig is your favourite Bond, you personallly might not care about his age, and can see him playing the role for another 5 years - just don't expect and act like general audiences feel the same way.
I'm not saying let's cast a 50 year old to make his debut as Bond, it won't be the smart thing to do in the first place. But, a field agent like James Bond, much like Ethan Hunt and constantly Jim Phelps before him, do have what it took them to be effect in their line of work. If they start slipping, then I am sure the authority behind their agencies will have them retired. Seasoned agents have always been out there.
...which I'll also say, can be achieved in fiction and can be achieved on film.
I already said one can be a womanizer at any age. Yes if it's written it will happen but how believable or even tasteful is a Bond seducing a woman young enough to be his daughter or even granddaughter? There's a difference between a Don Juan and a satyr. Bond can easily be the former, heck he IS a modern Don Juan, but he should not be the latter.
I hope so. It was not always the case with Moore. Or even Brosnan in DAD. It's not incidental that the most believable relationship Moore Bond had was with a Bond girl closer to his age. But in any case, a Bond in his 30s got a certain "range". And he's at an age when he's not necessarily settled down yet, when being a bachelor is fairly common. In your 50s, you're generally in a relationship, or divorced, but a good chunk of your life has been lived. You are older, wiser...