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I think we'll need to be patient, but I do think it'll be an exciting few years ahead
Even though I've resigned myself to probably not getting the casting I'd want, I trust Eon will make the right call casting Bond #7
I got laughed at for suggesting him a few years ago 😁
The first time I watched an episode of Lucifer with my wife I immediately saw him as a potential Bond....just couldn't get into Lucifer...but when someone looks like they fit the build for a literary character and people laugh that is usually the first sign that they haven't read much.
Rupert would have needed to look the part, he's even blonder than Craig
Just looked up Tom Ellis, and based on his photos looks like a solid option, providing another 6 year gap hasn't begun.
Glad someone agrees with me...I think he can bring the swagger too based on Lucifer episodes
Been checking out interviews with him on YouTube. Seems like a charming, dashing guy. Great voice as well. He's 6"3, dark hair and turned 43 this past November. He looks closer to 35 IMO. Personally I'd think I'd be a happy Bond fan if he got the gig (even though I haven't seen LUCIFER).
Someone better send this thread to Barbara Brocoli then LOL...I'm in 1000% agreement he should play the part even if he turns into another Dalton and only makes 1 - 3 movies
Yes. I think Amazon will push for a 3 years gap once the new era will kickstart. And regarding M:I and F&F, in a couple of years they will be both over. Cruise is filming 7/8 back to back because he just can’t keep doing his stuff at his level at 70.
If the Amazon/MGM deal closes, I expect Amazon to push Eon to cast Bond #7. Amazon's not paying all that money to wait for 2-3 years for Bond 26 to go into production.
I sincerely hope so. I hope plot ideas are being developed at Eon and Purvis and Wade are delving into their Fleming novels for inspiration.
But they might not!
It could very well be that many of the names here (including the much loved Aidan Turner) are too old for the role by the time shooting on Bond 26.
So like it or not It's hard to see them not being asked to write the next bond film imo.
I would not mind them writing the next Bond movie...however, there is always the risk that they are trapped in their current story arc and would try to continue the story which means altering the literary character and Bond story which I would not care to go see at all
While we are on this tangent, is there any book/magazine feature/podcast episode going into the career of P&W and their association with association with the Bond franchise? Just their list of Bond films is somewhere between interesting and confounding, but their other ventures and specifically Johnny English is really strange to me.
Barbara Broccoli discovers them, they do two Bond films that I would argue aren’t among the greatest scripts in the bunch and specifically count among the most fantastical in the franchise. Then they go and make an explicit parody of the Bond films and at the same time, EON decide they want to go back to basics and darker with the new actor. So they re-hire the two guys who wrote TWINE, DAD and Johnny English? And they nail it?? Then QoS and the writer’s strike followed by the up and down and WTF that is Skyfall into Spectre into NTTD. How did all of that happen?
As for Bond actor: Jamie Dornan seems to be getting some buzz for his performance in Belfast and from the looks, acting ability and career I would say he could be a good Bond. Sadly he is probably too old at 39. and if he were to win the Oscar for Best Supporting, that obviously qualifies him as the lead villain for a future film.
Jamie would be the right age if they started filming now and released in two years, and then every 2 years following, if he stayed healthy and fit he'd be primed for 3 to 5 films easily.
I agree, however, it's film, it is easier to conform to the literary work and mold the actors than it is to wait for the perfect actor to be born and aged to the correct form later...we'd end up with one film per generation instead of continuous works of art
The first quote was five years ago. He's probably even more desperate now. LOL
And anyway, given the insane box office success of the latest Spider-Man film I can't see Sony wanting to drop Holland, they'll try to keep him attached for more films:
...so there's no way Eon want Bond to be played by the current Spider-man actor. Never going to happen, Tom. Stick with Spidey.
And do we need "a really short James Bond." His words, not mine.
No thanks.
I don't even think I could watch a Bond movie with him as the actor, he is perfect for Spiderman but any other role I find it hard to take him seriously
However, I get him being interested. Like he says: He’s a British guy who is now making his way through the mainstream film industry. Of course he’d like to play James Bond. Who wouldn’t?
As for them rushing or taking their time: Eon very much seems to be in the mindframe that every Bond film is an event and a very, very high-class product. From that point, they would be well advised to take their time and look for the „perfect“ actor, because his first film will have to make 750 million+ from a standing start and then stand on its own for four years or however long it will take them to do the next one. They could go and do a quick run of three films that are produced more or less concurrently and released every two years and look at it as a bit of a palette cleanser Bond, casting someone like Fassbender, Dornan, Matthew Goode or Luke Evans who probably wouldn’t hold the role for 15 years until they’re 60, but would be worthwhile to do it for 7 or 8 if they can crank out 3 or 4 films in that timeframe.
Casino Royale
Quantum of solace
Skyfall
Had their dna
They also tried to bring the films back to Fleming with Die Another Day hell the original ending of the film was Moonraker’s (the novel) ending rather then the CGI insanity we got
I get that they aren’t beloved here but they aren’t the writers of Manos hands of fate…
As for next writers I want someone who read the Fleming novels and had ways to bring them to our time sorry but the idea of Pirate gold being sold on the black market is extremely cool and should be used…
The reason I loved Craig’s first two films and liked his third is the plots were small and intimate like a Fleming Novel… I could imagine Fleming writing about an organization taking the water from Bolivia …
Like I said the next era I want them to stay true to Fleming through out the tenure
It’s a shame as the Craig era was so close to being perfect really there are just a few changes I would of made
As for who should play bond next well honestly I am hoping we get a big name for the video game bond trilogy as Tom Hardy will likely be to old for Bond 26 but not project 007
I keep trying to find an actor who has the same sort of Tough darkness that Craig Dalton hell even Lazenby Moore and Connery had but I fear Amazon will push for the one actor who will be ok in the part but like Brosnan he will be a cocktail of cheep one liners and fun action sequences
Henry Cavill …
Unlike Clive Owen in the early 2000’s Henry is someone that has so much fan support I bet Amazon is already getting letters to cast Henry as Bond
And if he got the part I won’t complain but my hopes will be lowered very much
Craig or Dalton can pull of a weird Fleming title like The Hildebrand Rarity… Cavill can’t his films would be
Shamelady
Death comes today
All the time in the world
Dead today and tomorrow
He will never have the right voice.
As for Purvis and Wade, I do think fresh blood could be a good thing but they know Fleming really well, since they've been on board we've seen the most Fleming on screen since the 60's
Perhaps bringing on a talented writer early, like they did with Paul Haggis and John Logan, might improve the structure. Rather than bringing on a writer late in the day to polish the script