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Ian Flemming didn't create a black James Bond...they can certainly cast another double-O as a different ethnicity if they want, but James Bond has a literary description already...it's lame and lacks creativity to hear the rhetoric about changing a character's description to appease members of society when they have the freedom to just create something new to fit their tastes.
Ian Fleming - sorry for the typo
Seems even less creative to just copy stuff out of an old book verbatim.
Before he was a lawyer, Perry Mason was a British agent. Who knew? :D
I've said it before, but taken to the nth degree, I swear some Bond fans would just have had Dr. No 25 times at this point.
DR. YES (1963)
DR. MAYBE (1964)
DR. PERHAPS (1965)...
Dr. Noah (1963)
Dr. Nocent (1964)
Dr. Nocuous (1965)
Dr. Nod (1967)
Dr. No-Go (1969)
Dr. No-Hit (1971)
Dr. Nohow (1973)
Dr. Noir (1974)
Dr. Noise (1977)
Dr. No Longer (1979)
Dr. No-Name (1981)
Dr. None (1983)
Dr. Non Grata (1985)
Dr. Nonharmonic (1987)
Dr. No-No (1989)
Dr. Nonsense (1995)
Dr. Non Troppo (1997)
Dr. Noob (1999)
Dr. Noodle (2002)
Dr. Noon (2006)
Dr. Nope (2008)
Dr. Nose (2012)
Dr. No Way (2015)
Dr. Nomi (2021)
I think I mentioned him a couple of pages back and it was discussed that he is part of that mini-generation born in the 70s (or early 80s) that is probably just lost between Craig and the next guy due to the long breaks between films. Picking one of them - Dornan, Fassbender, Luke Evans, Rupert Friend, Hardy or Cavill - they either have to become quicker with the films, or accept that it's only a two or three film tenure, one of which will push into the upper range of what we have previously seen in Bond age wise. And after 10 years (plus the time it takes to make the next one) of "Old Bond" films, I think most people would like a stretch with a younger actor.
However, I think all of those guys - and if Dornan were to win an Oscar for Belfast, he'd probably be at the top of the call sheet at Eon - could be fun villains in a Scaramanga/Trevelyan-vibe. A bit older than Bond, but basically cut from the same cloth. Maybe even a former mentor. I wouldn't go so cheesy as to have Bond pick up traits or catchphrases from the guy, but having a someone similar to contrast this new Bond against, could be fun.
That's why part of me hopes they cast someone late 30's early 40's (even if that rules me out as Bond #7 😅)
Rege-Jean Page?
Flavour of the month a while back, constantly in the polls...alongside Idris Elba and other no chance of getting the role candidates.
It's got nothing to do with his skin colour, it's because he's only had one notable role.
So no, I don't think he has a chance.
I'd say a chance but he isn't a frontrunner at all. He had his 5 minutes being the lead of a hit Netflix show and is quite good looking, but that's about it. He ultimately doesn't have the career or acting pedigree needed to land the role I think.
The conspiracy theorists believe EON is set on casting a non-white actor no matter what, but even if that where true I think Daniel Kaluuya, Dev Patel or Henry Golding are more likely than Page.
Right age and build.
Maybe he has a good chance for a screen test at the very least ?
Very well said. I would add Turner to this list.
A younger actor just won't pull off the kind of wisdom Bond is supposed to exude as a long tenured agent whom normally have short life expectancies...a young actor is only going to attract people who want a long term Bond because the studio doesn't seem capable of writing ahead or filming back to back movies and then spacing out the release dates later. Bottom line is it's not really going to be "Bond" if it doesn't mesh well with the original literary character no matter how much agenda the newer generation wants to assert or insert onto or into the next films
But it's worth noting many things. Firstly, whether people like it or not, James Bond as a character is easily mouldable. We've had six actors and twenty-five films that have each done something different with the character. Having a James Bond that's younger, and by younger most people just mean early 30s, he can still retain everything that makes him who he is. We speak a lot of James Bond being a tenured agent but his first novel is literally his first proper mission as a 00, and while his career prior to being 00 could add to your term of "long tenured", but that's not what people think about when think of his career as an agent.
Also, we talk of writing ahead but I honestly don't think thats a viable plan creatively or in terms of the business itself. Each production is different and each production faces its own problems, and you might find that planning ahead will cause its own problems and may be even more damaging. The Craig-era didn't go the way it did because EON didn't plan, it went the way it did because of unforeseen circumstances, and writing a few scripts ahead of time wouldn't have changed anything. The same with casting a different actor on a more regular basis. Again it's not very viable and I think would do the opposite of people think it would. Firstly I feel the more they make the weaker they'll become, and I think it'd become less of an event. Also there would be more cases of an actor not resonating, meaning that certain films won't do as well so you'd be creating a rollercoaster of success that would probably end up turning the franchise into a cardboard version of what came before.
Also, I don't really understand the idea that newer generations are pushing an agenda. For me, and I think for others, they understand that while James Bond is still part of the public consciousness but not like it used to be, and feel that a younger actor could really freshen things up a bit, and make Bond 27 as successful as James Bond can really be going forward.
I wonder if Christian Bale was ever considered by eon for bond before he got the batman role ?
This doesn't sound like Craig at all!!! He's about big bucks and ego and hating James Bond and finding unique ways of flushing the character down the toilet!! In short: he's the most evil of evil men.
Well there is a healthy bit of ego in saying: Honestly, they only way they could ever follow me up is if you kill me. People would be screaming for more of me like you wouldn’t believe. No way for this to continue if I’m still around!
Love the guy though;-)
Have you read this story ?
"I'm going to tell a story here, whether or not anybody remembers it or agrees with it. But it was 2006," Craig recalled to Variety last month. "[Producer] Barbara [Broccoli] and I were sitting in the back of a car driving away from the Berlin premiere of Casino Royale. Everything was going well. People liked the movie. And it looked like I was gonna get a chance to make at least another movie. I said to Barbara, 'How many of these movies do I have to make?' Because I don't really look at contracts or any of those things. And she said, 'Four,' and I went, 'Oh, okay. Can I kill him off in the last one?' And she didn't pause. She said, 'Yes.' So I struck a deal with her back then and said, 'That's the way I'd like it to go.' It's the only way I could see for myself to end it all and to make it like that was my tenure, someone else could come and take over. She stuck to her guns."
https://comicbook.com/movies/news/daniel-craig-james-bond-casting-press-conference-reaction/