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I am about to be hung upon saying this but I would prefer a pretty boy type (given good acting ability) to the ugly man we have now...
Apologise for the idea not the pic size.
I've got nothing against the guy and, despite my reservations about a chav hero going in, the problems I have with Kingsman don't stem from his performance but he does not strike me as anywhere near being Bond material.
In any event it won't happen. EON aren't going to hire someone who has already played a proto Bond in another series.
Don't compare him to Sean. His career was built on his gigantic charisma. He didn't even need to act (although he wasn't too shabby).
“Everything I write has a precedent in truth.” (Ian Fleming).
Fleming sure never saw it coming that M would one day be played by a ruthless Woman.
I think it is very well established by now that a woman could be a leader in the Bond world. I think we should have a female villain in the first movie of whoever the next guy will be, just to spice things up a little
Griselda Blanco jumps first to my mind, but there are many more. (google is your friend)
but if we talk about 'realism' we should not have had half the villains we had in the Bond franchise ;)
Ma Dalton. (Not Timothy s mother).
Agreed on all counts.
I remember Ma Car was in AVTAK
Pierce Brosnan - Remmington Steele??.. or did i miss something?
and no one thought Craig would be good as Bond - and yet, here we are, 4 films, nearly $3 billion later discussing the possibility of his returning/not returning for a 5th time.
Craig's dry sarcasm tends to fly over people's heads sometimes.
but if they did cast him, i'd be willing to give him a shot... if the Craig era taught me one thing, it's don't judge until you actually see them in the role... i wasn't 100% sold on Craig until that PTS to CR, where he knocked it out of the park.... so, you just never know
between the years 1973 and 1985
...and it's close enough.
Of course EON is and was always looking for someone that played a prototype Bond.
Roger Moore: The Saint (it's so obvious even a Wizard should take notice)
Pierce Brosnan: Remington Steele (Steele is so late 70's Moore)
Daniel Craig: Layer Cake
and they will again, why I think Hiddleston has just been transferred to the short-short list of BB.
Well I suppose I can't really argue with that.
The point is Egerton with a second (and maybe third) film out before he would get cast will be so intrinsically linked with the Kingsman franchise (which itself is much more a direct copy of Bond than The Saint or RS) to make it the laziest sort of uninspired Sun journalist casting.
And as we have seen with Dan Babs likes someone just a little bit leftfield and off the radar. By that time Egerton would be far too big a name or would have sunk the Kingsman series either of which would rule him out. For the same reason Cavill has now missed the boat - maybe they did it in the past but I dont believe that these days EON are going to go for guys who front other people's franchises.
Apart from anything else those guys demand more money and EON are nothing if not tightwads.
I think you can argue with it. You were pretty much spot on first time around, but perhaps proto-Bond isn't quite the right description. Kingsman is a direct send up of Bond and its tropes in the same way Austin Powers was, it's just that it is tonally very different. Casting Egerton would've been tantamount to casting Mike Myers as Graves or Robert Wagner as Le Chiffre. Roger, Pierce and Dan, in their respective roles, were more akin to Hiddleston in The Night Manager, or Turner in ATTWN. I definitely see a difference between most of the names mooted and Egerton. I fail to see why he'd be considered at all.