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Oh gosh, watch A Very English Scandal if you can, he’s brilliant in it and I think shows everything you’re asking for there.
It’s a fair point and she does indeed make every role her own, but I think slightly different with Robert Brown as he’s pretty much just a direct replacement for Lee (I would say playing the same character but let’s not get into that! :D ), plus I’m not sure he was even all that great really. He was fine but not much more for me. And I’d say Fiennes was a contrast to the Lee/Brown M.
But yeah you do make a good point, I’m sure she’d be very good.
Bu actually, Ralph Fiennes would be the only one I'd like to see returning. Not as Mallory. But simply as M, no explanation required. A good luck charm, transitioning from one era to another, just like Dench.
Perhaps swap roles, too?
Yes, please. There shouldn't be favoritism among various actors in the series reprising or coming back in different roles and eras.
I'd like to see Olivia Colman as May or Charmian Bond, honestly. It's time to introduce both the characters to the movie series. It will help make the next era different. In particular, since Denis Villeneuve likes to direct ensemble casts. As I've said before, Ralph Fiennes back as M being Sir Miles. Female M, Emily Blunt. Hayley Atwell or Felicity Jones as Moneypenny. Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Q. Those are my main casting choices for MI6 and Bond's family. No traitors!
Never say never, but in most cases I’d say no to either.
The possibly best British actress working right now handing Bond his breakfast and telling him some sketchy people inquired about him is a bit weird. You'd probably have to get her into the story in a bigger way and I don't know how to do that without re-hashing Skyfall.
I think there could be a fun modern version of the May character where she is someone working for MI6 and responsible for the domestic cover of the 00s. A combination of organising their living situations as well as keeping everything buttoned down while they are on mission. I know the Bond franchise approaches many of these questions with a big "Well, it just works", but I do sometimes wonder how that works for him.
If we get a relatively young Bond, they could have a sequence where she introduces him into all of these protocols and him being the himbo that he is mainly being interested in how this is going to work with his various affairs etc. Banter ensues.
Alternatively they go closer to the relationship they have in the books, where May has worked for Bond for years already and she knows all the ins and outs of how he goes about missions and stuff. So now that I think about it more, the character I envision is probably closer to a modernized Loelia Ponsonby, but still.
Still not something I see Olivia Colman doing, though.
That’s a very fun idea of how to do it. As you guys are saying though, it needs to be part of the story of the film rather than just lore, or even worse, just stopping the film dead for a Nigel Small-Fawcet type comedy character.
Tilda Swinton
Gillian Anderson
Olivia Williams
Male M:
Hugh Laurie
Mark Rylance
Benedict Wong (would make for a great ‘Q’, too)
My reasoning is that Amazon want a WORLD built around the character of James Bond? To me that would suggest the obvious fact that we will see spin offs of which their will be multiples of?
Now? Who ever the new 007 will be? I would not expect them to have a guest appearance in any 8 or 10 part TV show? However? M,Q, or Moneypenny could show up in a series involving the Double O program?
Alongside this show? You could introduce a CIA series that could be working in tandem with the British equivalant that culminates in the next movie release?
This obviously could apply to any other country too if you so wish?
It seems the more high profile the MI6 crew are the more they need to be shoehorned in to the plot, as much as I love Fiennes, Whishaw and Harris as the MI6 crew.
As well as both of them being interesting and fresh actors, think it’d be a great way to represent the Indian community, the largest ethnic minority group in the UK, bringing in actors who reflect the diversity of modern Britain while still capturing the essence of those iconic roles.
That was their thinking with their Citadel and its global spinoffs, yeah could be.
Yes that would be good, a bit like the South Asian M in First Light, who I'm not sure has been identified yet!
Oh man, that's the obvious one, isn't it? Just a fun little nod for the people who know Fleming and nothing anyone else has to worry about otherwise. May is the Cleaner! Perfect.
Off topic, but how many Indian Bond girls did we have in the series? I'd rather have an Indian Bond girls than an Indian Moneypenny, because her name is not Indian one bit, but I'm not averse to an Indian Q, albeit an Asian tech wiz might come off as a stereotype. That being said, I suspect they might want to keep Ben Whishaw, given the name recognition.