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O'Connell, like Hardy and Craig, is to thuggish imo. Fassbender, I could see making a good Bond. But at 38, and with these 3 year gaps between films, he might be deemed as to old, and too famous for Bond.
He will be too old and is in demand. I just saw the trailer for Fassbender as Steve Jobs. Awsome transformation.
Idris Elba is a great actor but yes, wrong for Bond. Race aside he's too old, too heavy and now too arrogant about it. This whole affair has shown a rather unpleasant side of him.
Exactly. No need whatsoever for the next fella' to 'fit into' any of the Craig timeline.
They will cast a 30-34 year old who will not be too expensive and who's schedule will permit a film every 3 years at a minimum.
There will be plenty of talent to choose from in 3-4 year's time - imo it is far more a question of luck, more so than decision making. Connery was in the right place at the right time, it wasn't so much Cubby & Saltzman's 'genius' that cast him...
There were indeed some rumors in advance, I remember this very well - the first time I heard of Daniel Craig being associated with Bond was March 2005. Why do I remember that specifically? Because I had just seen The Jacket that very day and I was at home looking around the web and there was the story that he was in the rumor mill for Bond. I was like...HIM? I could only picture him as the scruffy mental patient from The Jacket, not exactly an audition piece for Bond, so I was a bit thrown off. Anyway Layer Cake came out in the US that June and I believe he did some interviews where he confirmed he'd met with EON.
Not entirely out of the blue, though I remember that Cavill and Clive Owen were the front-runners according to the media, and Craig was not even mentioned in some of the 'next Bond' articles at the time...
The story is Barbara Brocolli was at the London premiere of Munich at a time she was considering people for Bond. She has seen him in Layer Cake and openly admit she has the hots for him. But it was portrayal of Steve in Munich in what I believe she is quoted as saying "That's when I saw my Bond on screen". She apprently fought two battles to get her way. One to convince Daniel to do it and another with the studio to convince them he was the right guy. But publicly we knew very little until the reveal. All credit to Barbs she called it right.
No, no and no again %-(
Sorry, but the credit does not 'go to Babs'. She has proven time & time again that she does not make good creative decisions. She got LUCKY.
The credit goes straight to the actor who gave it his heart & soul to become Fleming's 007 whilst still giving a clueless, hyperactive cinema audience their kicks - Dan is a class act and he would make ANY role believable, in a similar way that Christian Bale does.
Just because 'Babs' got all fuzzy in her knickers from the mere sight of Dan does not mean she is a genius for insisting DC got the part.
Rant over :D
She gambled and got lucky. Credit her for taking a risk perhaps, yes, but she did not foresee what DC would do with the role because she does not posses that kind of judgement.
Hindsight makes it look like some genius move, but imo it was just a gamble that paid off, luckily for her.
Remember though - this is the woman who thought Purvis & Wade were the right guys to write screenplays for Bond films based simply on the fact that they had good knowledge of the franchise... that's like giving a guy control over a ship just because he knows the waters.
I stand by my opinion - Babs should be a producer on paper alone and get someone more discerning to make creative decisions.
I completely disagree with that.
People were actually quite excited and were looking forward to who the new Bond will be but in Craig's case, irrespective of his acting talent the guy just rubbed so many people the wrong way with the way he looked at the time and people, the media were brutally vocal about it. James Bond even today still has a cliched and generic look to him that many actors can fill. Tall, dark and traditionally handsome. Craig was skinny, had floppy blond hair, wasn't 6ft something and didn't look like the poster boy for a Givenchy ad.
This man to many people, understandably just was not what was expected as being James Bond and they were viciously vocal about it. I doubt the likes of Cavill would have received a modicum of the abuse Craig endured; at least not before the film was released anyway.
007 Is still going strong despite Barbara Broccoli, not because of her.
As you may have noticed, I'm not her biggest fan...
I'd prefer to see someone completely new take the reins. I don't want 'Craig Mk II' when Dan retires.
But I guess I'm in a minority and most people think 'Babs' knows what she's doing :>
Going back to what I said previously. I think Barbara and Michael have been great custodians of the franchise and believe when Dan's time is up it will be the next generation of the family Gregg & David G Wilsons turn to reboot it with french new ideas. Hoyte van Hoytema doing Cinemotography for Spectre was a master stroke Cinematically Bond can only get bigger, Bond for the Imax generation. I would love to see Chris and Jonathan Nolan come on for story writting and direction from Bond 26 with a new Bond and cast. Kind of the Interstella team back together. Onwards and upwards but I will be sad when Dan goes he is a terrific Bond in some ways his performace holds up poor written parts of his era, and I do agree Dan is a bigger reason than Barbs for the recent success. But Bards does deserve credit because Dan was not an obvious Bond, he wasn't from the usual mould and his prior roles were not an obvious path to Bond. She saw something in him that we all see now and thats before he hit the Gym for Casino.
Bana could be good too (really liked him in Closed Circuit) but whenever I see him I'm reminded of that tragedy that is Hulk. Sadly it's indelibly imprinted in my mind forever.
I mentioned him a few weeks ago, and yes, he has some potential. Rather like a young Dalton, in a way, both in looks and approach...
He's dark & edgy. Not sure about his cinematic appeal though, time will tell perhaps.
Yes, I would agree with all these points.
Bale would have been decent back in 2002 when he did Equilibrium.
Ian Flemings prefered actor for playing Bond Richard Todd, but scheduling conflicts prevented him from getting it.