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Did she say she liked it that it wasn't true? Cause if she did, I'm considering changing my feelings towards Grace. I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship ;)
...is 85 years old.
He was already old when he played Aristotle Kristatos.
I mean even before he played Kristatos.
Me, too. Fukunaga is set to come back and filming begins in January for a November 2021 release. Title to be announced during the end credits of NTTD.
Damn that would be nice.
Very rare dream, indeed :)
it's The Hildebrand Rarity.
As much as I like Tom Hardy, he’s more at home being the bad guy. The whole him playing Bond rumours made it to that comic tabloid the Daily Star.
Of course, if they have already come to an agreement that this is absolutely, positively curtains for DC, then maybe they have secretly auditioned Hardy behind the scenes and it leaked to their chagrin. Perhaps that's why they are so adamant about the November release date. It's got me thinking.
I don't prefer Hardy as Bond, and I still don't think this is true, but there are far worse choices out there.
I have to agree with Kermode's assessment of the cast to be honest:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/aug/11/the-man-from-uncle-review-style-paired-with-deathly-boring-substance
"And the two male leads, Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer, are fantastically dull and uncharismatic, with all the sexy danger of a pair of M&S men’s underwear models, easily upstaged by their cheerfully pert co-star Alicia Vikander. And in fact all three are entirely outclassed by an airy cameo from Hugh Grant as the dry British intelligence chief Waverly, giving one-and-all an object lesson in scene-stealing."
Cavill is a bit dull in it for my tastes. I think Hammer is a little better but they're still not a hugely impressive pair, and as Kermode says, blown off the screen by Grant. You can't Bond being upstaged by M. Compare to Guy Richie's buddy leads in his other big blockbustery series Sherlock Holmes, and you can see that one has proper movie stars in and the other has a couple of good looking guys there, moving their lips a bit.
I liked the film for taking a little of the flavour of Italian 60s spy movies though, you don't see many doing that.
He wasn't offered the role, but an audition, which he turned down.
Yeah, true.
I wonder how many actors have had a audition or been considered for bond since 1962.
100's ?
Eon's casting directors throw out a wide net. Many years ago, when I was just 20, I was an assistant editor on a big TV series, Paradise Postponed, and one of the supporting actors, a good looking chap (can't recall his name now) was asked to do an audition on tape. I remember he was so pleased, he bought the producer flowers and the entire editing team fish and chips lunch because we had supplied Eon with some footage of him from our show. Sadly, for him, he didn't advance further in the auditioning process. So, to answer your question, yes, they turn over every stone and audition dozens, if not hundreds (over time), for the role of Bond.
That's really interesting, do you remember when that was? I'm curious if that was in one the times where a Bond actor had finished and they needed a new one or whether they're always looking. Sounds like it must have been for Living Daylights? I'm going to guess it was maybe Dominic Jephcott?
Yeah, it was for TLD. Not long after, I was having lunch with my boss, editor John Shirley (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, LALD, TMWTGG) at a pub near Pinewood Studios when Tony Waye, who knew John and was TLD line producer, came over and told us Pierce Brosnan had been cast as Bond. About a week later this news was announced in Screen International, but, as we know, it was not to be - at that time. I went on to later assist editor John Grover on LTK, and several other films with him after that.
Yes I think they looked at an awful lot more actors for Bond 15 than we've heard about: I remember Michael Praed a couple of years ago saying he got pretty close to it (although obviously that's his version of events), and he doesn't appear on many of the lists of candidates we knew of. Plus, as you say, there are all of the guys they just made enquiries about and went no further.