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His films are hardly setting the world alight. He was average in MOS (although not really his fault as the script was awful), Man From Uncle was hardly a smash and greater things were expected from BvS (although again mostly probably Snyder's fault) where the only consistent thing about the reviews is that Affleck blows him out of the water.
I don't think many people get excited at the prospect of a new Cavill film.
Plus as the star of another big franchise EON not going to touch him.
I didn't think much of Hiddlestone before but having watched The Night Manager he has turned me round. Could that programme be his Layer Cake?
Trouble is he's 35 so if they don't get him right now he'll be too old. With 3-4 year gaps the norm they need to hire someone around 33 and even then you'll be lucky to get 4 films out of them before they are past it.
If they hang on for Dan to stay then Hiddlestone will have missed the boat. Not sure if he's such an outstanding candidate that it's worth binning Dan to get him so we get 4 films out of him though.
I'd like to think EON are already eyeing up actors in their mid/late 20's who they can bring in in 2018/19 when Dan goes but I don't have that much faith in their forward planning.
Much as I decry the script flaws in SP I think the Marvel sausage factory route of churning out creatively moribund and repetitive tedium every year would not be good for Bond.
Bond shouldn't be competing with these $1bil kids films that rely on the 3D boost to make the box office look so spectacular.
600/700/800m is where we should be aiming and for a 2D release that is more than acceptable. The demographic for Bond is somewhat different to superhero films and rubbish like Transformers and Fast and Furious. These are not Bond's competitors. One of the mistakes of SP was chasing the $1b franchises by throwing huge wads of money at it rather than realising SF was a box office perfect storm and would be very tough to replicate even with a perfect script.
Bond is up against Bourne and MI and is doing perfectly fine in that market.
Where I will give credit to Marvel is they have a long term strategy. Not really sure how they can assume the films will keep being successful as far ahead as 2028 but the bubble shows no sign of bursting yet and I guess they have crunched the numbers and realised that the public appetite for seeing CGI skyscrapers getting knocked down for 2 hours is far from saturated yet.
As for 007 Craig for one more in 2018 and then I don't know I really like Hiddleston but who knows.
Cavill is often slated for lacking charisma. I don't see any potential Moore/Connery/Brosnan charisma (based on his acting CV). But to give him the benefit of the doubt, James Bond is a unique film character and it's possible many actors can rise to the occasion and deliver a credible performance.
It's funny to think many people think Tom Hiddleston has certain qualities to play James Bond- his current tv show The Night Manager could be his showcase for the role - but many think he doesn't look macho enough whereas many feel Cavill looks good for the role but lacks the acting qualities. You can't win sometimes. ;)
My bet/wild guess is Eon will find someone that appeals to fans that want someone with a reasonably good look for the role but also with some acting range. In a sense Cavill has boxed himself into a stereotyped corner playing Superman. He's stuck with the role for two Justice League films and who knows what else? I don't blame him for taking the part but it may not help to showcase any greater acting range. I don't want Tom Hiddleston as the next Bond but he seems a more versatile actor than Mr Cavill.
I don't think Hiddleston or Cavill will be the next James Bond.
Odd isn't it?
If reality is irrelevant then why did you provide an example from reality? Fact is, you're all about handing roles to preferred groups in lieu of creating the best possible roles without recourse to ideology.
My gravamen is with your apparent denial of fundamental differences between men and women, and the reality that those differences produce a greater tendency toward criminality--including organized crime--by men. I personally have nothing against a female Bond villain, but I do have a beef with all this equalitarian nonsense.
Feel free to quote any comment of mine over the last 24 hours that showcases a pro-stance that men and women are 100% equal when it comes down to "a greater tendency toward criminality." Please, feel free to quote it. I'll wait.
The person I was originally replying to was the one who brought up differences between men and women, so aim your comments elsewhere. Are men universally more ruthless and/or successful in a criminality aspect? Absolutely, never said they weren't.
As it Stands the Bond Novel Franchise is losing steam (Haven't read trigger mortis but again jumping from author to author time period to time period it's so jarring that it's hard to really keep track)
The Bond Video Game franchise is essentially dead and more then likely never coming back I have given up hope on this one...
There is the comic book franchise which is quite nice and of course there are other things to give me the bond fix both Old as in my going through the franchise each weekend my wife is working and New such as Night manger and MacGyver the Reboot scratching that espionage itch still I feel the long gaps with films is not the best idea but there isn't much i can do so oh well.
This.
If a 3 or 4 year gap really did make any great difference in the quality of the film then I might be onboard. But given SP was only marginally better than the hurried QOS then we might as well just churn them out every 2 years.
Well said. Considering how long it's been since a 2 year cycle was the norm- 1999- I can remember having this same conversation on the Bond forums in 2005 as we were awaiting news on BOND 21: who would be playing Bond, would they EVER go back to 2 year intervals, etc. I wonder how many of us on these boards are left who actually lived through the luxury of having a new film expected and actually arrive within 2 years. I remember it well. If the current film was a weaker Bond, it wouldn't be long before the next film surpassed it. No big deal. Now whenever a new film comes out and is a disappointment or considered "the worst film in the series", it's kind of a blow considering that the quality should NOT have decreased to such a level after the longer wait.
There is no quote. Rather, one may easily read between the lines you write. The whole calling somebody "closed-minded" simply reeks of the shrill "Women are as good as men in everything!"-ism that permeates the very atmosphere we breathe. And it gets bloody irksome.
PS--I'd love to see Angela Burq'el and George Sauros team up as co-villains in a Bond film.
I will NEVER give up hope on this one! Since the games got me into Bond in the first place.
EoN just needs to pull themselves together and hire a great studio that can produce a whole series of high quality games, that can be bestsellers again.This franchise is still a big money maker and there are studios who would love to have a shot at it
Not as irksome as this tedious argument chaps.
For the next film- anything goes. If Eon is currently developing the next film and looking for the next world's threat or whatever-who knows what type of villain we'll have? I'm hoping Barber's comments were just his own anticipation of a timeframe and that Eon are as we speak racking their brains for the next film.
if Bond 25 is to be Craig's last - and going forward, they continue on with the same 3-4 gaps between film, then i believe if they are going to get any longevity out of an actor in the role, then they are going to have to cast young again.... which leads me to Taron Egerton - who is currently 26 years old, and has already cut his teeth for Bond with the film Kingsmen... he'd be 32 years old by the time Bond 26 would come out... which was also the same age George Lazenby was in OHMSS - and 2 years younger than Connery in DN.
Uh, you may need to revise your facts. Lazenby was 29 at the time of OHMSS and Connery was 32 during DN.