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Consider how the final films for most of the actors actually stunk. (exception being Dalton and Laz only did one) DAF was not a worthy farewell to the original Bond, James Bond; AVTAK is constantly trashed (but I liked it) and nuff said about Brosnan's final film.
I think Craig should hang it up. He can go out on top with a top notch film.
He doesn't look his age at all. I don't get complaining about it. 51 is just a number. Seriously. There are men decades younger than he that look worse. He could go for another decade if he wished.
They should have continued with Mr. Brosnan until 2008 so he'd have 6.
After DAD a change in style would have been possible, see FYEO after MR.
Then cast another and also keeping him about 13 years with 6-7 films.
Scenario2 (Which is possible)
They should keep Mr. Craig for another 2-3 films, 2 is more realistic as of his age.
When they replace Mr. Craig do 6-7 films with the new one within 13-15 years.
Longevity is important I think. I don't want this tenure of Mr. Craig to be shortened unnecessarily. After Mr. Dalton and Mr. Brosnan shortened tenures another longterm James Bond is in order.
I believe not continuing with Mr. Craig at this point would hurt the series. They do have to do more than 4 movies with the same actor again, it is long overdue.
So 5 it is!
Yeah they seem to take longer and longer to make. Brosnan's Bonds typically went into production in January of the year of release. The last two have gone into production in November of the year before release in October/November time. Astonishing to think how FRWL came out in Dec '63 and was followed by GF in Sep '64 now.
Glad to see you're taking this seriously, @Thunderfinger :>
That's a really good point to make here. The average is four films per actor. No one has done more than this since Moore and that was 30 years ago! That is more than half the amount of time the series has been around. It is long overdue for a longer tenured Bond and Craig deserves to be the one to break the streak.
I am serious, but you probably want more beef.
One film is clearly too little, the actor will be known as George Who? Oh yes, the guy who only did one. Won t bother even seeing that, must be shit. Most would want to see one more with any actor as it takes a couple of films to get into the role for real. Except Connery and Craig, they nailed it right away imo. After Goldeneye, I still hoped the next would be better and that Brosnan would grow a bit more into the role. He did in a miniscule fashion, but still disappointed.
Moore did seven and I am kind of glad he did, if only he had been younger towards the end. Nobody should break that record. Bond isn t Woverine after all, he ages.
Anything is possible having said that I don't see it happening anytime soon, 7 is a lot of movies for one actor nowadays.Let alone 8 too break it.
DC is already on 9 yrs, and will be close to Moore if he does one more in 3 yrs.
Lazenby clearly needed two (OHMSS and a completely revamped DAF as a follow-up--the title would even work as a reference to his marriage).
Moore can have five (LALD-OP, minus TMWTGG).
Dalton can have three (TLD, LTK, and FAVTAK/QoS since he was the king of the short story mashups).
Brosnan can have three (GE, TND, and TWINE).
Like Connery, Craig gets five (CR, QoS, SF, SP, and Bond 24, a mashup of YOLT and TMWTGG).
DAD never exists in this alternate universe.
After DAD, Brosnan actually said he wanted to do at least eight, just to break the current record. That would have meant he would still be the incumbent Bond
After DAD, Brosnan actually said he wanted to do at least eight, just to break the current record. That would have meant he would still be the incumbent Bond
RE: Craig: He blew out his knee pretty badly in SP, and I think that severely impacted the design and conceptualization of some of the later action sequences which were extremely poor in Austria (just quickly overpowering two thugs in the snow before getting the plane), the Blofeld lair (conveniently shooting everyone from a distance and the gas line for the entire HQ without any hand to hand combat) & the London finale (no visceral hand to hand combat again, just easily breaking the restraints when he was captured, just showing up in the boat, no running etc. etc.) so he's not quite as fit as he looks. He's said so himself that it's getting harder for him to do credibly.
For some reason they've been very hush hush about how bad that knee injury was and what impact it had on SP (Mendes said something along the lines of "we're not supposed to talk about it" re: the operation during the Charlie Rose interview with Craig).