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Didn't know that, in that case Bravo! I agree with you, Dan Stevens has been on my radar since years too.
Stan Laurel
Absolutely fantastic in the physical department, would be good in the fistfights. Great comedic timing, and please forget that stupid grin he put on while in character next to Oliver hardy. Notorious womanizer in real life
Rumour has it he is the real father of Clint Eastwwod.
I'd rather have Hardy... Tom Hardy.
But then Laurel and Hardy ..the question continues...
=))
Halle Berry knocked down and killed a man and fled the crime scene without phoning for an ambulance in 1997. Barbara still cast her.
So did former 1st Lady Laura Bush killed a friend with a car when she was 17. Rich people don't go to jail it would seem.
A couple of accidents and leaving the scene, yes, but she didn't actually kill anyone, did she.
Hi. No, Daniel's name was not on anyone's radar until late in the game. IIRC it was summer 2005 when Layer Cake was released in the US that his name started being mentioned. Meanwhile the media was putting out names like Clive Owen, Jude Law, Ewan McGregor, Gerard Butler etc. Here's an article from 2004 on who the "top candidates" are, its pretty hilarious :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4009157.stm
Ewan or Gerard definitely, I also think Clive Owen could have been good. He made some good movies.
Dougray Scott may have been the best choice, better than Craig. When I heard his name back then I thought, great another Dalton!
Why on earth did he not became Bond? Does anybody know?
Yes, I know. It is because they hired Daniel Craig instead.
Ewan McGregor and Gerard Butler - nah. Clive Owen - absolutely not! Owen is awful - one of the most charisma-less actors ever to have graced the screen and awful voice!
Scott? May be. Haven't seen him in enough to judge.
I think we probably got the best available at the time.
Interesting! If history repeats itself, the next Bond should be a relative unknown. Cavill, Craig and Sam Worthington were the reported final three. Sam Worthington would have been the most famous of the three in 2005 due to Avatar's record breaking box office success.
Hmm, it's possible the likes of Dan Stevens and others may not be the next Bond. Too well-known, perhaps, by the time Craig quits?
Having said that, we'll never know if the likes of Owen/Jackman and others were almost on the cusp of landing the role but negotiations over money ruined their chances? In all honesty it's doubtful Craig was Eon/MGM's number one choice for Bond. But the same was true for Sean Connery. The likes of Cary Grant, Roger Moore were the original choices, not Connery. Ian Fleming suggested Richard Burton.
Under different circumstances, I actually wouldn't be against Andrew Lincoln as Bond. But I suspect The Walking Dead might have put him out of the running.
His brother used to teach me RE at school (little bit of trivia there). I agree he's not right for Bond though.
Er...Avatar came out in 2009, Worthington was mostly unknown in 05.
Well right now he's certainly nowhere near "known". But he is a star on the rise, and if he gets a high profile action/superhero type role in the next year or two that'll probably put him out of the running.
And both worked splendidly.
Up to now, Cubby, respectively his daughter have always made the right call. With Dalton too. I'm convinced, if the third (and possibly fourth, and maybe even fifth) movie with Dalton had been made, he would have gone done in history much much better than just being known as the one who failed (which really was the media claimed this).
I'm sure the next actor chosen for the role will work as well.
Bond is not only made of the main actor. It is a team work with many visionary and exceptionally talented people doing sometimes groundbreaking things.