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I'd prefer someone who can act, like Matthew McConaughey.
I dropped in to put in McConaughey's name but everyone beat me to it. He fits the lanky Texan version from the novels to a tee. I would have no problem with the new Bond stories featuring more of the friendship between James and Felix.
The first film of a new actor should be all about our new Bond.
McConaughey is a brilliant actor, although perhaps too famous to be a supporting character
Yes. Would distract from Bond. Also, if - as it would seem, since the series is due for a change in tone and other factors - we get a younger Bond, then Matthew M would be too old, in comparison with "X" as Bond. Surely, though, there would be more than one Texan actor out there of the right age and lankiness.
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The only problem might be his age. He's in his '50s now.
Perfect…
I wonder, why do you feel that way @Benjamin_Weekly69 ?
Felix is a Fleming character, and not a created EON character. I have no problem with either, but I do enjoy it when we can keep as much Fleming in the films as possible.
Which is what makes me agree with Jordo. Obviously there are hundreds of ways to do this, but I feel like if they gave us Felix (and Q and Tanner and Moneypenny and so on) from the jump it will feel too much like „this is the new Scooby Gang. If they keep Felix for a second or third film, I think it would fit better with his role in the book series. A regular, but not a main character. That’s kind of the genius of the first three Craigs in that regard. First, Felix but very little MI6. Then, when they want to centre the film on M and MI6, you bring in Q and Moneypenny, but don’t also shoehorn Felix in. And in NTTD you can kind of see what happens when you do both: You kind of have one overstuffed movies or rather two underserved movies stuck together.
I can't disagree. NTTD did feel rather overstuffed with the allies we already know, and then they even added Nomi to the list. But it's not so much that we have these characters, it's that they get a fair bit to do. Remember the days in which Bond got his mission from M, stopped at MP's for a quick flirt and then at Q's for his equipment, and that was it, leaving the rest of the film more than ample room for other characters, like Felix for example. I'm far from against the "MI6 Team" in the Craig era, but I wish NTTD had reconsidered the time offered to some characters. I still think it's a huge mistake that Paloma was underused. She could have easily been of much more service to Bond throughout the movie, maybe rendering Q and MP superfluous in some regards. She could have been good with computer tech, for example. Hey, she could have been '007'. I have no problems with Lashana, but Anna steals the show. She's arguably the best thing in the film. Or so I think.
Not just because Paloma was wonderful and charming, but there is an adventure with Paloma that's more exciting than what happens after she departs the film.
Bond and Waldo following Paloma in Cuba and figuring out what happened to Spectre together, sounds more exciting than Bond going back to London and the exposition dump that happens during that section of the film. The film goes downhill post Cuba
Sorry for going off topic, I think the next film needs to follow the Craig era, Bond and Felix should be contemporaries. Having a new younger Bond tutored by an experienced Felix doesn't sound exciting to me.
Combining Paloma and Nomi ("Palnomi"?) would've been easier I suppose though then the film wouldn't have the "black 007" element. I like the film just as it is though. If there is a criticism to be made, however, then I think NTTD perhaps tried to fit too much in and so not every element could get the full coverage it needed, even in the longest Bond film in the series. We could have done with a few less shootout scenes and few more character or plot building development scenes.
I couldn't agree more. Even in the film one could see that Craig's Bond was slightly disappointed when she left. Maybe if the film were a standalone Bond adventure, she would have stayed on more. Just imagine her action scenes in Safin's lair! Not that Nomi wasn't good, she was. But Paloma would have made it more exciting.
Yeah. I agree. Maybe a white actor as good as Jack Lord would also work. Jack Lord was so good, that one wouldn't have had any qualms about him as James Bond....even as an American.