Who should/could be a Bond actor?

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  • weboffearweboffear Scotland
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    baffled by the Fassbender love , genuinely don't see it
  • CraigMooreOHMSSCraigMooreOHMSS Dublin, Ireland
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    weboffear wrote: »
    baffled by the Fassbender love , genuinely don't see it

    Who would you pick? :)
  • cwl007cwl007 England
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    Fassbender all day long.
  • FatherValentineFatherValentine England
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    weboffear wrote: »
    baffled by the Fassbender love , genuinely don't see it

    Why not?
  • QsCatQsCat London
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    weboffear wrote: »
    baffled by the Fassbender love , genuinely don't see it

    Why not?

    Could be blind? :))
  • QsCatQsCat London
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    Has Christopher Eccleston ever been mentioned? He could have played Bond when he was younger. He's interesting looking and an incredible actor.
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  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    We just need someone to suggest Gina McKee now and we've got the set :D
  • QsCatQsCat London
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    Ha yes, Mark Strong has been mentioned too. I love Gina Mckee but I wouldn't go that far!
  • FatherValentineFatherValentine England
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    QsCat wrote: »
    Ha yes, Mark Strong has been mentioned too. I love Gina Mckee but I wouldn't go that far!

    I did suggest a while ago that out of the cast of Our Friends Craig seemed the least likely to ever be Bond at the time.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited March 2021 Posts: 17,728
    QsCat wrote: »
    Ha yes, Mark Strong has been mentioned too. I love Gina Mckee but I wouldn't go that far!

    I did suggest a while ago that out of the cast of Our Friends Craig seemed the least likely to ever be Bond at the time.

    It was the blond hair that did for him. ;)
  • For a one-off, my choices are:

    1. Timothy Dalton
    2. Pierce Brosnan
    3. Michael Fassbender
    4. Luke Evans
    5. George Lazenby
  • FatherValentineFatherValentine England
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    Dragonpol wrote: »
    QsCat wrote: »
    Ha yes, Mark Strong has been mentioned too. I love Gina Mckee but I wouldn't go that far!

    I did suggest a while ago that out of the cast of Our Friends Craig seemed the least likely to ever be Bond at the time.

    It was the blond hair that did for him. ;)

    And his face I think. Let's just say, he became more handsome as he got older. Not that I'm an oil painting...

    Anyway, Mark Strong would have been fantastic. Craig's not done too badly...

  • ImpertinentGoonImpertinentGoon Everybody needs a hobby.
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    For a one-off, my choices are:

    1. Timothy Dalton
    2. Pierce Brosnan
    3. Michael Fassbender
    4. Luke Evans
    5. George Lazenby

    :-D
    I could dig another go for either Brosnan or Dalton.
  • QsCatQsCat London
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    For a one-off, my choices are:

    1. Timothy Dalton
    2. Pierce Brosnan
    3. Michael Fassbender
    4. Luke Evans
    5. George Lazenby

    :-D
    I could dig another go for either Brosnan or Dalton.

    Dalton is 75.. come on.. realistic choices
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    QsCat wrote: »
    Has Christopher Eccleston ever been mentioned? He could have played Bond when he was younger. He's interesting looking and an incredible actor.
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    QsCat wrote: »
    Has Christopher Eccleston ever been mentioned? He could have played Bond when he was younger. He's interesting looking and an incredible actor.
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    One of my favourite actors. But I'd see him as Fleming, not Bond.
  • edited March 2021 Posts: 2,887
    I was watching silent film last night that featured a young Ronald Colman and I thought, "If I had a time machine, or if the Bond series had existed in the '20s, he'd be intriguing Bond."

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    The right looks and of course a terrific voice. Obviously he could not be a Bond actor, but in the even of a temporal anomaly he should have...
  • sandbagger1sandbagger1 Sussex
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    Revelator wrote: »
    I was watching silent film last night that featured a young Ronald Colman and I thought, "If I had a time machine, or if the Bond series had existed in the '20s, he'd be intriguing Bond."

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    The right looks and of course a terrific voice. Obviously he could not be a Bond actor, but in the even of a temporal anomaly he should have...

    I'm sure he'd have been up for the role if Bond had been created back then.

    I occasionally wonder if Paul Darrow (Avon from Blake's 7) would have made a good Bond. He was good as the Sheriff of Nottingham in The Legend of Robin Hood.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    He’d have certainly been interesting! Supposedly he played one of the doctors on the Navy ship in DAD, but he’s not visible.
  • DenbighDenbigh UK
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    I am interested to see who they get to voice the character for the video game :)
  • QsCatQsCat London
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    Ludovico wrote: »
    QsCat wrote: »
    Has Christopher Eccleston ever been mentioned? He could have played Bond when he was younger. He's interesting looking and an incredible actor.
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    QsCat wrote: »
    Has Christopher Eccleston ever been mentioned? He could have played Bond when he was younger. He's interesting looking and an incredible actor.
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    One of my favourite actors. But I'd see him as Fleming, not Bond.

    True, he could still play Fleming. Not really his sort of part though. It would be Cumberbatch if anybody..
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    Cumberbatch would be a good Fleming, wouldn’t he? Mind you, I liked Tobias Menzies too.
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    QsCat wrote: »
    Ludovico wrote: »
    QsCat wrote: »
    Has Christopher Eccleston ever been mentioned? He could have played Bond when he was younger. He's interesting looking and an incredible actor.
    5e8c71cf85235e073b587bdb41ee84b9.jpg
    image.jpg?width=640
    QsCat wrote: »
    Has Christopher Eccleston ever been mentioned? He could have played Bond when he was younger. He's interesting looking and an incredible actor.
    5e8c71cf85235e073b587bdb41ee84b9.jpg
    image.jpg?width=640

    One of my favourite actors. But I'd see him as Fleming, not Bond.

    True, he could still play Fleming. Not really his sort of part though. It would be Cumberbatch if anybody..

    Question: can Eccleston neutralise his Northern accent?
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    I think he's done plenty of accents over the years: he played John Lennon. I expect they made him go RP for that Thor film.
  • QsCatQsCat London
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    mtm wrote: »
    Cumberbatch would be a good Fleming, wouldn’t he? Mind you, I liked Tobias Menzies too.

    In Any human heart? That was good casting. I love that mini-series, it's a shame there aren't more of it's quality.
  • ImpertinentGoonImpertinentGoon Everybody needs a hobby.
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    mtm wrote: »
    Cumberbatch would be a good Fleming, wouldn’t he? Mind you, I liked Tobias Menzies too.

    I've said it before, but I would have taken Menzies as Bond. He is too old now, has been in the series before, is mainly a TV actor and I have no idea if he could have done the action bits, but I still think he has the look and is a fantastic actor.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    QsCat wrote: »
    For a one-off, my choices are:

    1. Timothy Dalton
    2. Pierce Brosnan
    3. Michael Fassbender
    4. Luke Evans
    5. George Lazenby

    :-D
    I could dig another go for either Brosnan or Dalton.

    Dalton is 75.. come on.. realistic choices

    I could see such casting working if Dalton were to play an elderly, retired Bond à la Ian McKellen in Mr. Holmes (2015). Bond could even be tending to his bees in the same way (see the passage in park in the YOLT novel) and reminiscing on his life and past missions, including some we've not heard of before. Just an idea of what it could look like and Dalton could surely pull off something like this. It would represent an alternative look at Bond in film form much like what The Spy Who Loved Me, 'Quantum of Solace' and 'Octopussy' did with Bond in the literary dimension. I'm sure it'll never happen of course (perhaps it could as a one-off special on TV?) but it's interesting to think about nonetheless.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    mtm wrote: »
    Cumberbatch would be a good Fleming, wouldn’t he? Mind you, I liked Tobias Menzies too.

    I've said it before, but I would have taken Menzies as Bond. He is too old now, has been in the series before, is mainly a TV actor and I have no idea if he could have done the action bits, but I still think he has the look and is a fantastic actor.

    He'd have been a great 1950s Bond, yes. Could probably still give a good voice performance.
  • ImpertinentGoonImpertinentGoon Everybody needs a hobby.
    edited March 2021 Posts: 1,351
    Dragonpol wrote: »
    QsCat wrote: »
    For a one-off, my choices are:

    1. Timothy Dalton
    2. Pierce Brosnan
    3. Michael Fassbender
    4. Luke Evans
    5. George Lazenby

    :-D
    I could dig another go for either Brosnan or Dalton.

    Dalton is 75.. come on.. realistic choices

    I could see such casting working if Dalton were to play an elderly, retired Bond à la Ian McKellen in Mr. Holmes (2015). Bond could even be tending to his bees in the same way (see the passage in park in the YOLT novel) and reminiscing on his life and past missions, including some we've not heard of before. Just an idea of what it could look like and Dalton could surely pull off something like this. It would represent an alternative look at Bond in film form much like what The Spy Who Loved Me, 'Quantum of Solace' and 'Octopussy' did with Bond in the literary dimension. I'm sure it'll never happen of course (perhaps it could as a one-off special on TV?) but it's interesting to think about nonetheless.

    I have thought about exactly this after seeing Mr. Holmes and at first was really taken with the idea of "Old Bond". Either with a previous Bond actor returning or some other great older actor, who didn't get the chance to play the role when they where younger (Neeson, Mark Strong, maybe even Rylance). Really get into what it would be like for someone to live this life for almost 40 years and all the conflicts in this time-period. Basically have a reconning with British foreign policy from the last gasps of the Cold War all the way through to the War on Terror and the various engagements in the Middle East, plus of course whatever fictional Bondian plot you would want to graft on top of this.
    And then I realized that that is a Le Carré story and not Bond.

    Maybe Craig will do a one man show in the West End once the books are in the public domain in 2035.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    Yeah it doesn't sound like something for a Bond film to do, really. They're not introspective pieces: he has crazy adventures.

    I don't think the Bonds will ever go into the public domain though because James Bond 007 is a registered mark. Or rather: you might be able to adapt Casino Royale but you couldn't have James Bond in it unless Danjaq say you can.
  • cwl007cwl007 England
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    Dalton to do a one and done. I could even put up with them using the CGI de-ageing jiggery pockery just to see Dalton do it one more time. The technology is getting further and further away from uncanny valley all the time and it would still ultimately be Dalton doing the acting, his great voice hasn't aged either.
    Yep, I'd love that.
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