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What does Gen Z want in the next Bond?
For the franchise to live forever, it depends on the young blood. It's not about me and what I want. The franchise needs a Bond that will appeal to people under age 20.
Fans like me will watch every Bond movie that comes out, but for the younger audience, they may not yet be invested in it.
I know a lot of people on here are older, but maybe you have kids/neices/nephews who are into it. I'm curious on how they feel about it.
Fans like me will watch every Bond movie that comes out, but for the younger audience, they may not yet be invested in it.
I know a lot of people on here are older, but maybe you have kids/neices/nephews who are into it. I'm curious on how they feel about it.
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for me, there must be a cool girl, a car chase, some jokes and a trouble that 007 need to resolve before the credits.
Younger people tend to be on social media platforms, big platforms with smaller communities inside of it, rather than message boards.
Why do people think that younger viewers need to see a person near their own age in a role in order to identify with it?
For myself, when I was a kid I much preferred watching Steve McQueen in "The Great Escape", "The Magnificent Seven" or "Nevada Smith" to watching some kid my one age in a Disney movie
I had no trouble relating to adult Steve McQueen, because I wanted to be like him (as he seemed on screen) rather than be like another kid, which I already was
This. For me it was McQueen, Bogart and Cagney. I'm not so sure age is that important to the younger generation going to movies. Downey, Cruise, and Keanu are all well into their fifties and HUGE box office draws in popular franchises.
They won't care as long as the new Bond carries himself with confidence , can kick ass and is also fallible.
Yes, you nailed it with me as well. As a teenage Bond fan in the '80s, I looked up to Connery, Lazenby and Moore as my action guys. Moore was obviously aging, but he was Bond, so it was okay. If you were cool, you were cool, age wasn't a factor and I had a lot of movie heroes who weren't necessarily of my generation.
This also reminds me of the situation around 2002 before DAD was released and Vin Diesel had that XxX movie coming out and he put Bond down saying kids can't identify with a hero who wears a suit. So which film did better business and which series is still going on with the guy in the suit?
Besides, if you let Gen Z cast a film, they may select some influencer or TikTok star.
Bond can't be forcing himself on women in a barn anymore, but the rest of the character works well. Just make sure the action and aesthetics are stylistically fresh (NTTD did this very well) and you'll have us coming back for more. We're not THAT hard to please.