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Maybe He and Macquarie have signed for Bond 26. 😉
I suppose after having Craig as Bond for so long, it's tough to picture anyone else as Bond
There's clearly something to him as an actor though. As others have noted he was in the running for Batman/Bruce Wayne, and I do get little flashes of Bond in that Armani ad. I don't think he'll be our man, but going from Mad Max: Fury Road he has the capability of playing a villain.
Yes, I think that's the struggle the next guy is going to have. And it'll be worse than following Dalton or Brosnan too, because although they had their positives they were perhaps slightly identikit 007s, and Craig is probably generally held to be on the top tier next to Connery (I love you Roger, but you're probably just one step down from those two).
Hm I don’t know. I don’t think Bond has to look too tough really, himself. It’s just that when he does fight it has to look convincing. That’s when it counts. These agents are trained to handle themselves, regardless of how their face looks or even how well-built they are. For example, in Spooks there are all sorts of different looking spies. Appearing unthreatening could work in favour of Hoult’s Bond.
‘I’d rather see a more mature Bond myself, at the top of his game. Then again, just because they are going young it doesn’t mean it has to be a novice Bond
The Monica Bellucci benchmark is a funny one. There are men her own age, that would struggle to look convincing when trying to seduce her. I mean.... she's Monica Bellucci!
I think the other side to this is how Bellucci herself plays this hypothetical scene and how well she plays off whichever actor one is talking about. After all, she's a solid actress and a big reason why her scenes in SP work is because she plays off of Craig effectively. They also happen to have that sense of chemistry in a way people don't see as much with Lea Seydoux and Craig.
I mean, it's about as useful as saying 'a requirement for the next Bond actor is they should look like they'd be the sort of person to answer a telephone while mounting a chair or bed like Sean Connery did in FRWL'.
If you want an underdog who is clearly going to get battered but somehow manages to overcome the odds using smarts and focused violence, cast a James Bond. You're supposed to fear for him in those situations and he's supposed to surprise you with his ability to survive.
She would have been an incredible Paris Carver.
Agreed. Neither Moore nor Brosnan were particularly menacing, yet their respective Bonds were depicted as capable fighters (when Moore got older it might not have looked too convincing, but still). While Dalton looked menacing enough, I always thought his Bond came off as rather inept in hand to hand combat. Which I always frustrated me.
I thought he was great in TLD and most of LTK.
It’s that bar fight scene in LTK that turned my stomach. Bond, and his facial expressions, looked like a buffoon. To this day, I can’t stand watching it. I suppose they were going for humour. I never found it funny, just embarrassing.
Maybe it's the bar brawl that did it for me and it tainted the rest of his tenure fight wise. Be that as it may, my perception is that his Bond is a mediocre fighter at best. Only Connery in DAF comes off as worse.
Indeed ! Something of a Bond tradition - and a good one ! - for Bond to face a favored opponent and have to come up with a way to win. Red Grant in FRWL was a rather normal sized man, albeit in superb condition, but it was clear for the audience that Bond would not be the favorite in a fight with Grant. and that Bond had to come up with a way to prevail. Likewise, for Bond's fight with Oddjob in GF, the blonde henchman in YOLT at Blofeld's lair (piranha chow), and more.
It was a good fight for them both, yes, but before Bond used the handy dandy briefcase knife, Grant had a wire round Bond's neck and was on the way to killing Bond in the same manner in which he killed his victim on Spectre Island in the PTS...
Yeah, true...and Craig's Bond did something similar to Primo in NTTD....even to Fisher & Obanno in CR. It's why I think Cary watched CR's staircase fight and wanted to recreate it in NTTD during the bunker shootout.
I’m so happy that Batman grabbed him. I don’t see him as Bond.
That actually raises an interesting point because it would be nice for whoever does get cast in the role to have the same enthusiasm and passion for the James Bond legacy and someone who gets and understands the character even if they end up playing around with more superficial elements.
Really looked forward to Colin Farrell as the penguin, but he just ended up doing an impeccable impersonation of Robert Deniro.
I am not opposed to Hollywood trying to be more artsy, but when artfilms take themselves too seriously without any substance they just end up big boring cringefests.
Still more interesting than Marvel, but not by much.