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He played a terrific, psychotic villain in Ex Machina.
His performance in Gotham already qualifies him as a Bond Villain.
Speaking of Gotham, I’d like to see Morena Baccarin as a female villain, given her current role in Endgame.
At the moment I find it too youthful and too, well, Batman.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Viggo Mortensen
Gong Yoo
Take Safin in NTTD for example. Imagine that rather than (or in addition to) seeing Madeleines mother be killed, we would have been shown the dinner party where Safins family was poisoned (with Blofeld/Mr White present). And that we would have gotten glimpses of his masked vendettas throughout SF and SP, NTTD (ultimately killing Blofeld). The whole overarching plot would have been tied together better, we would have sympathised with his character killing the rest of the bad guys before Bond then finally stops him from world domination.
Imagine Silva, upon being captured was sadistically tortured by M, proving that his hatred for her was justified rather than the soapy back and forth mommy didn't love me argument between them. Bond's reluctance to trust her would extend beyond the simple plot gimmick to open the film.
That the writers/directors missed such simple straightforward opportunities goes to show the lack of talent in today’s Hollywood and how most content is becoming more and more boring. That the industry insists we enjoy and celebrate the lack of achievement and ability of these privileged, unintelligent hacks is farcical. Why not improve upon the products instead of calculating how to scrape together viewership from proven mediocrity. Word of mouth was always the best and most effective marketing method for films and series. Netflix is dying because of unbelievably dull content, not able competition or lack of marketing budgets.
If you forego protagonising the villain, you need to up the creepy level thousandfolds. Think Willem Dafoe, Fiennes' Voldemort, The redneck fingering scene in True Detective, Leo and Jackson in Django etc.
They didn't even shave Christoph Waltz's head for Blofeld and in his case they should’ve sacked the backstory. Bond’s stepbrother? What a clunky way to make the whole universe revolve around the protagonist.
As for actors:
Jonathan Bailey may not be completely right for Bond, but he could certainly do a job as someone similar to Trevelyan or a tech billionaire gone mad.
Reminds me a bit of Oscar Issac having seen him in stuff. Would be a rather young villain too (he's 29 now) but this again would be an interesting direction to go.
Too young, too youthful and well, too Bond (which is not a bad thing, if they can start auditioning).
I've seen Munich The Edge of War this weekend and Ulrich Matthes did a great job playing Hitler. It's not an easy role and you can quickly fall into a caricature. He was perfectly chilling. I know he was considered for Le Chiffre, so why not cast him as a Bond villain?
Dragomir Mrsic could also make for a realistic henchman, or independent low level crook, or a random gambler who gives wrong directions to the bad guys.
+1, particularly Elliot Carver.
He would make a charismatic villain.
I can see him as Fleming/novel Hugo Drax.
He'd have made a great Trevelyan as he eas originally written: a mentor figure. Heck even Renard: I could picture him, in spite of his age, beating up Brosnan Bond. I never quite bought into Robert Carlyle doing that. Or better still: Malcolm McDowell as a recurring villain for GE and TWINE, maybe even for a dramatically rewritten DAD for a final showdown.
Okay, okay, I'm fanficking now. And I'd like more actors that are neither British nor American as Bond villains.
Would be an interesting nod, but the word is "droog".
He was well cast as the villain in Star Trek IMHO
He would have made a great villain for Daniel's Bond to go up against
Agree, also reminds me of the guy in LALD.
Ironically, he was the original choice to play C. Plus MGM’s money problems got in the way.
If I'm not mistaken, he was also considered for the part of Blofeld, when he was written as an African warlord.
The only good thing about that train wreck of a movie.