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Who would you pick? :)
Why not?
Could be blind? :))
I did suggest a while ago that out of the cast of Our Friends Craig seemed the least likely to ever be Bond at the time.
It was the blond hair that did for him. ;)
1. Timothy Dalton
2. Pierce Brosnan
3. Michael Fassbender
4. Luke Evans
5. George Lazenby
And his face I think. Let's just say, he became more handsome as he got older. Not that I'm an oil painting...
Anyway, Mark Strong would have been fantastic. Craig's not done too badly...
:-D
I could dig another go for either Brosnan or Dalton.
Dalton is 75.. come on.. realistic choices
One of my favourite actors. But I'd see him as Fleming, not Bond.
The right looks and of course a terrific voice. Obviously he could not be a Bond actor, but in the even of a temporal anomaly he should have...
I'm sure he'd have been up for the role if Bond had been created back then.
I occasionally wonder if Paul Darrow (Avon from Blake's 7) would have made a good Bond. He was good as the Sheriff of Nottingham in The Legend of Robin Hood.
True, he could still play Fleming. Not really his sort of part though. It would be Cumberbatch if anybody..
Question: can Eccleston neutralise his Northern accent?
In Any human heart? That was good casting. I love that mini-series, it's a shame there aren't more of it's quality.
I've said it before, but I would have taken Menzies as Bond. He is too old now, has been in the series before, is mainly a TV actor and I have no idea if he could have done the action bits, but I still think he has the look and is a fantastic actor.
I could see such casting working if Dalton were to play an elderly, retired Bond à la Ian McKellen in Mr. Holmes (2015). Bond could even be tending to his bees in the same way (see the passage in park in the YOLT novel) and reminiscing on his life and past missions, including some we've not heard of before. Just an idea of what it could look like and Dalton could surely pull off something like this. It would represent an alternative look at Bond in film form much like what The Spy Who Loved Me, 'Quantum of Solace' and 'Octopussy' did with Bond in the literary dimension. I'm sure it'll never happen of course (perhaps it could as a one-off special on TV?) but it's interesting to think about nonetheless.
He'd have been a great 1950s Bond, yes. Could probably still give a good voice performance.
I have thought about exactly this after seeing Mr. Holmes and at first was really taken with the idea of "Old Bond". Either with a previous Bond actor returning or some other great older actor, who didn't get the chance to play the role when they where younger (Neeson, Mark Strong, maybe even Rylance). Really get into what it would be like for someone to live this life for almost 40 years and all the conflicts in this time-period. Basically have a reconning with British foreign policy from the last gasps of the Cold War all the way through to the War on Terror and the various engagements in the Middle East, plus of course whatever fictional Bondian plot you would want to graft on top of this.
And then I realized that that is a Le Carré story and not Bond.
Maybe Craig will do a one man show in the West End once the books are in the public domain in 2035.
I don't think the Bonds will ever go into the public domain though because James Bond 007 is a registered mark. Or rather: you might be able to adapt Casino Royale but you couldn't have James Bond in it unless Danjaq say you can.
Yep, I'd love that.
I was thinking about this in conjunction with Skyfall where we kind of get Old Bond and we get a strong whiff of Lost Empire and all the things these people have done in the past - albeit more through M than Bond. But that really is the extent they can do. Much more and you just completely lose what a Bond film is supposed to be. You are right. Plus, I think we should be done with "things from the past catch up with Bond" for a good little while. I hope the next Bond is allowed to look more to the future, rather than the past.
That being said, I am a bit annoyed that the Handover of Hong Kong and it's aftermath is kind of dealt with in a throw-away line (however important it is for Silva) in SF. That could have been much more central in a film and now it is kind of burned.