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I'm absolutely enthralled with the new season of Star Trek: Picard, particularly Ed Speelers' work. And I'm coming round to the idea that he would be a phenomenal James Bond.
The image above is taken from today's Esquire piece about his rising stardom, (Note: major spoilers for Picard beyond the click, particularly episode 2).
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a43024539/ed-speleers-star-trek-picard/
...but today's episode, specifically, is what's given me the idea. (I assure you, I had this thought before I read the subtitle on the article! :D )
Bonus: He's asked directly about it at the end of the Esquire piece, and his answer's pretty clear.
"I think every British actor under the age of 60 would probably like to put their hat in the ring for that one. I would absolutely love it. I think I’m probably down the pecking order at the moment. There seem to be a few big names thrown around. I mean, of course, I grew up adoring Bond, and it’s something my dad and I shared a huge passion for. But let’s put that out there! Star Trek spinoff and Bond. Yes, I’d do James Bond, and yes, I want to do a Star Trek spinoff."
He’s in the new season of You. I did think he was quite charismatic, but I’d need to see him in more stuff.
As for the guy, not for me!
Cheers -- didn't see it, but I knew there had to be one. Moved!
No worries.
What do we think of James Bond with a London-based girlfriend for multiple movies? Someone he can come home to. We've never really done that. Call her Sylvia Trench. Then she can be put in jeopardy in the third movie or whatever. But give us a few with Bond at first having to keep his career mostly a secret, then she learns more and more and he opens up to her, then something happens to put it all at risk. But give it a few movies!
^^^Never were truer words spoken. This is 💯 % correct.
Probably for the best. 😉
I don't know if I wanted it, but it's the artistic choice that was made, and it worked. DC's James Bond always seemed to traffic in the symbolic and thematic, and his death was perfectly acceptable from that standpoint. If we review the previous four films, the shadow of death was cast all over him, continuously: from "Life expectancy" conversations to his hobby being "resurrection" to skull masks and Dia de los Muertos. It's been there from the beginning.
The beautiful irony in Bond's tragic end is that he would have lived an even more tragic, lonely existence in Jamaica if he had not made the choice to get involved. It was an existential conundrum. Great heroes are forced to make serious choices: and Bond makes one here. It leads him to knowing his life was not meaningless (because of that most perfect thing he'd ever seen) and leads him to possibly saving the world (something Felix bragged about), as well.
The denouement, with Madeliene telling Mathilde about a man named "Bond, James Bond" allows the characters and the audience to see Bond in far more mythic proportions.
But that's me. I liked that DC's Bond was not just another action hero (like Ethan Hunt or Jason Bourne or any of the others). Bond has to affect us differently, and I appreciate that the DC era recognized that--despite some of its flaws.
Well said!
Well...me, of course.
You make it sound much better than the movie I watched. I accepted the conceit, hated the execution. But I don't think any fan prior to Daniel Craig's era would have ever said they should kill him on screen. Fleming teased it in the novels and the world nearly revolted. Though, I guess they did it with Rogue Agent.
20 years ago I would have never expected or anticipated Eon making a movie where Bond actually dies, because I would have thought they were too cowardly to actually go through with it. In fact, I would have never expected the next Bond film to NOT feature Q or Moneypenny, or have the Bond girl die at the end. I remember even when rumors of adapting CR came about that many were skeptical that Eon would actually stay true to the story. Maybe it would just be another case of them taking the title of the book and the rest of the movie would barely resemble what’s on the page.
The fact that they actually went through with killing him off in NTTD actually makes me excited for the future of the series. From here on out nothing is off the table. Nothing is sacred. I’m game for that.
Agreed ! I'll repeat my proposal that in each and every film for the next 6 or so, Bond dies. New Bond and supporting actors each time. We can have films with all the "too-old-for-a-series-of-films" actors, all different sorts of appearances and tones - comic ! tragic ! all action ! - and then switch back. Oh. And each one must have appropriately Fleming-esque Bondian titles, preferably with "die" or "live" in the title !
I see your perspective. Again, I ultimately accepted the conceit of killing Bond off—even if I find it lazy—for Craig's final film, I just think they muddle the execution with a bad villain narrative. I have no grasp of who killed James Bond, the acting was atrocious, and that's a failure on their part. I would have certainly done things different.
Why is the Bond's blood on the good guy's hands at the end? That didn't have to go that way. And separating Bond from the family he'd finally obtained in his final moments was just bleak. They could have done so much more with it, and imo they whiffed at the end. There's some stuff to like in NTTD, I just don't want to go back and find it.
And it's not fair to the film, but the follow-up of the director being kind of a wierdo around younger women didn't help my impression. And looking back at how they fumbled Danny Boyle, and wasted millions and months, I just have a lot of questions. I worry about execution going forward.
And it's why we shouldn't be rushing them!
It must take a lot for an A-level departure like that, and there's been plenty of press about what happened. Saying the producers "didn't want to go down" their route. They hired Danny Boyle and then fired him! Because he wouldn't make edits. I call that a fumble, you call it whatever. And they are on record as having invested heavily in sets etc. for Boyle's plot before bailing on him. Those "wasted" millions that I guess were sort of recycled.
https://www.krop.com/timbrowning/#/527768/
Looking at the concept art Boyle's film, it looked like it was inspired by Moonraker and YOLT. Such a grand scale to everything
Yes, this is what Boyle himself said happened. EON wanted to dump Hodge and his script, and Boyle walked the plank out of loyalty to his mate.
So, here's my vote for a future Bond song by Clementine.
Actually, he could play the villain as well. He has a credit in Dune, so...
It would be funny if he was a silent villain. Mute. Dangerous for it. Full of charisma and no voice, just actions, slow dangerous powerful gestures. A mute villain.
Who happens to sing the title song.
Brilliant? Well...thank you ;)