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I didn't either. Not that you can anymore, but if the archives of the other Bond forum still worked properly, you'd be able to go back and see that I was on board with Craig extremely early on, even as far back as the point when Clive Owen and that bogus "final four" were still considered to be viable options.
Too pretty boy.
He looks like a boy still and appears too fey too me. Certainly doesn't appear to have any rugged quality. Like he could take care of himself. Slapping a tux on doesn't make anyone a candidate to become James Bond.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/features/who-will-be-the-007th-james-bond-447004.html
But Brosnan was plebiscited. Turner may have been had he been a contender in the 90s. Now...
EXACTLY.
I haven't seen much of the other contenders.
Very much agreed. And, if Barbara Broccoli could dismiss Hugh Jackman as not being rugged enough for the part, then certainly she wouldn't think Turner measures up.
They clearly haven't seen what he's working with under the hood, to come to that conclusion.
I didn't know that Burt turned down Han Solo and John McClane as well. In both cases, the final choice was better imho.
“I have nightmares about some of the movies I’ve made and some of those I turned down,” he revealed. I think I’ve made many more than 100 films and I am proud of about four of them! Did you know I was asked to play James Bond and I turned it down? Cubby Broccoli came to see me personally. I knew Sean Connery was leaving as he wanted more money to go on and they could not agree on fees. Sean went on to greater things, but the James Bond movies also went on and on. I guess I should have been worried when Cubby came to see me as Sean wanted more money. I don’t know what he thought my fee would be. The truth is we never got that far as I just could not see James Bond being played by an American. The accent would never have suited the part and I could never do Sean’s accent or even an English accent without it being a comedy. So, I turned down James Bond. What a crazy thing to do!”
It was not the only crazy thing Burt has done, however.
“I was offered John McClane in Die Hard, but didn’t really like it, so Bruce Willis took it — and look what happened. I was also asked to be Han Solo in Star Wars — A New Hope. I am famous for not being famous in those roles. Bond hurts the most.”
https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/the-man-who-could-have-been-bond-or-han-solo-or-john-mcclane/
In the Terence Young film Triple Cross there were several moments where I felt Christopher Plummer might have made a good Bond.
(We were just talking about this...)
POLDARK series 4 confirmed.
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2017-04-08/poldark-will-return-for-a-fourth-series
They are filming series 4 this September, so I doubt it will stop him from playing Bond, given we won't see the next Bond film until 2019 at the earliest.
Why not?
Well okay, it's still possible. Like successfully navigating an asteroid field is possible.
If Harrison Ford could, so can EON.
I don't think he's too old really. He may be 43 or whatever, but to me he doesn't look that much older now than he did in Batman Begins. In fact I'd say he looks more Bond appropriate now. If he were one of the countless names mentioned as a possibility to replace Craig I'd put him towards the top of my list.