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He does have those big ears, and blue eyes.
And an overall bruiser appearance. That’s not an insult, I just think that the next actor will have a bit more of masculine elegance.
I agree, I think the next actor will be quite far removed from Daniel Craig to avoid comparisons.
I keep waiting for Range Rovers to come flying out of the forest. 😉
He definitively has what it takes for the role. In two or three years, the time for Bond 26 production to start, he will have aged slightly and could be perfect if Eon wants to go in a direction akin to Matt Reeves's Batman (a young, but not debutant neither, protagonist who is in his second year of service).
Absolutely guaranteed to be a nonsense article. However, its seems the British tabloid press are starting early on rumours of Craig's successor. Personally speaking, Cavill is at a distant last place on that list for me. I'd say Page as the edge over Dornan. Nonetheless, I do like Dornan - especially in the My Dinner with Herve and A Private War. However, it's waaaaay to early to be speaking of frontrunners.
Also, I recently watched and really enjoyed the Dune reboot. I especially enjoyed the coming-of-age angle. It's something I think the Bond reboot could do if they go for a leading man in his 20's. Especially if they get someone has talented as Timothée Chalamet. He is in intensely swoony form in Dune. He has a magnetic Byronic pensiveness, which gives the coming-of-age element some heart. I've heard some suggest he isn't 'manly' enough. This is incorrect. Firstly, he looks like a young Christian Bale and whilst, not traditionally masculine, he has a rockstar sense of cool. He is just cool. That's what the new Bond needs to get younger audiences in. Perhaps the English equivalent is Harris Dickinson of soon to be Kingsman fame.
"I've heard some suggest he isn't 'manly' enough. This is incorrect.
He looks anorexic and unhealthy. What's with the pouting anyway? Oddjob for example would only need to sneeze to blow him away, let alone for him to whimper in a corner.
Also, no to all three of the others. Not suitable.
I appreciate you suggesting different sorts of names for it, and Chamelet is a cracking young actor, but I just can’t picture him as Bond, no matter how hard I try. I think he’d be better suited to some sort of cold, creepy assassin type.
If they wanted to go younger, maybe Jack O’Connell as Bond, with Chamalet as a kind of modern day Scaramanga, his dark mirror image?
Has a literary Bond essence to him.
He surely is. And he can act. And is known. And is reputable since he was about 12, when he received brilliant reviews for About a boy, his second film.
Here he is, standing his ground with Sir Derek Jacobi in Tolkien.
He's got potential, i'm definitely going to have to look into what else he has done.
Not enough charisma.
I see you commenting here a lot and being a dissenting voice for most that are suggested currently... So I've no offence meant by this question (and I realise I've not flipped through all the 833 pages here so apologies if this is repeat question or statement for you), I'm just generally curious. Who are your picks?
Nicholas Hoult. The right age, too, and I agree with Benny and others on here that he has something good and is a real possibility.
Yeah, apart from a couple of the names who are too old/famous to do it (Hardy, Elba, Fassbender etc.) he’s the only one who I think I know could do it. The others are all a bit riskier in terms of movie lead actor quality for me.
That doesn’t mean the others can’t of course, it’s just that without the luxury of being able to screentest them he’s the only one I feel more sure of! :)
He’s the new Harry Palmer of course, so he’s on the spy radar!
+1
also curious because I agree with all your critiques but am at a loss as to a good candidate. All the actors I would have liked to see in the role are at least 10 years too old by now (way back it would have been Clive Owen, then Richard Armitage, then James McAvoy... not to mention I'd have loved to see two or three more films with Dalton. But I digress)
:D
I guess I would be OK with Turner, but for some reason I have trouble telling him apart from Kit Harrington X_X