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But yes, I think he was the one they were out to convince at that point.
Yeah, I think he’ll fare better than when they tried to make Sam Worthington happen, but it does feel a little forced doesn’t it? I think he’s likeable enough though.
I think you guys are convinced we live in a 90's theatrical enviroment. Dwayne Johnson just had a big flop in "The Smashing Machine" it doesn't mean he's not a movie star.
It's much easier for a big actor to just want to do streaming movies so he isn't blamed when a film doesn't do well at the box office.
Sometimes I wonder why they don't just hire Jason Statham.
The actor makes these numbers with B-movies!
Genuinely though, I feel casting Statham as the lead in The Running Man would have been a cool throwback to Schwarzenegger in the 1987 version. I think it could have worked.
Anyway, I’m not too keen on Glen Powell either. He’s fine and relatively likeable, and I’ve got nothing against him as an actor. But I’m not sure I’ve ever been blown away by a performance of his or his general screen presence.
At least it would have performed better in international markets.
I don't hate Powell, but I think he wasn't at the right point in his career. He's not that famous.
You are right he was safe bet after Layer Cake but looks was lacking.
He looks like Hugh Jackman in that last photo.
I don't think he was quite as far from the typical Bond look as some believe. He's more in the rugged, Connery mould looks wise, and he's got the cold grey blue eyes and 'cruel' mouth Fleming's character had. Even looks a bit like Hoagey Carmichael (if that matters at all to an onscreen Bond's appearance). I think it's just the dark blonde hair and the fact that he came off the heels of Brosnan. I honestly don't think the producers were expecting the 'Craig not Bond' backlash at all.
I 'fess it freely, though: I couldn't see Dan as Bond at all in 2005. Not any aspect of anything he'd ever done suggested Bond to me. Not Layer Cake, not Tomb Raider, not Sword of Honour, not Archangel, not The Trench, nowt. As far as I was concerned, James Bond looked like Adrian Paul - tall, dark, a swash to his buckle and classically handsome. Whereas Dan looked more like Red Grant. I knew who he was, I'd seen him in plenty of stuff on British tv, I liked him and I already thought he was a great actor...but nothing about him suggested Bond to me. I've never been more glad to be proved wrong - Craig became my favourite Bond after the first viewing of CR. He was that great. Lesson learned, there.
I remember reading an interview with MGW where to me it came across as if he was surprised at the backlash Craig got. Honestly, I can understand that. From their point of view they had their man. I also think it's easy to have been blind sided by fans being that energised/hateful on the internet, it only being 2005 after all!
Anyway, I've always thought Adrian Paul looks like Bobby Cannavale, and that was never my image of Bond. It was probably more Pierce Brosnan for me. I do remember vaguely being a bit taken aback by Craig, although I was too young to have seen Layer Cake or Tomb Raider at that point, and really anything he'd done. A few people I know said he looked like Steve McQueen though and that that made sense for Bond.
Anyway, if it were as simple as getting some good looking boy with black hair and who looks good in a tuxedo, we'd have many more (and I'd argue some pretty poor) James Bonds.
Honestly, I think you could have said the same about Connery as Bond with his strange duck's mouth, bushy eyebrows, and lined, craggy face (for the record I think like Craig he was a good looking guy, and had that charisma/sexuality, but I can very much understand some not believing him to be good looking. Again, it's the rugged aspect to their appearances).
I will say both Connery and Craig certainly aged better than Jude Law (not to say he's aged badly at all, but I'm not sure he quite has that same spark to him compared to when he was younger. But I think that's down to him not having Craig or Connery's charisma or screen presence).
Dark blond/light brown at most I would say.
Here he is the day he was revealed to the public as the new Bond: jet black hair that ain't. But somehow the press didn't lose their minds over him being 'BLOND BOND' etc.
Here's Craig the day he was announced for reference.
I don't give a fig what colour the guy's hair, eyes or whatever is, makes no difference to how he acts to me. Roger was brilliant, Daniel was brilliant.
All these men look different, and that's fine. They also come off slightly differently onscreen.
Thanks buddy, very kind :)
Connery was more handsome than Craig, in the vein of Clark Gable, Cary Grant, or Gary Cooper.
I always describe Craig as a Steve McQueen's stunt double, but we don't have Steve McQueen for the close-ups.