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I think both Christoph Waltz and Mark Strong would be excellent Bond villains, but in ten years or so.
Then again, it would be a fantastic challenge for them to play a villain yet again and make something new out of it ;-) .
But I agree with you, Strong would play an excellent villain. He's a great protagonist, too: 'Body of Lies' and 'The Way Back'.
As for Costner, last I heard, he was just a rumor. I hope he is, though, would be great to see him in a Tarantino film.
What I would be rather afraid of would be a Zimmer score %-( . Inception and Sherlock Holmes had decent scores, but not decent enough that I would trust Zimmer.
But...was his look down to the 60s setting that convinced me of his Bondness?
And I liked the way he kept showing off his package like Connery did in his choice of tight trousers etc lol.
As for Fassbender, am I the only one who doesn't see him as the right choice to follow Craig? With the physicality and intensity Craig has brought to the role in mind in don't think Fassbender would be right. If he were replacing a more light-weight Bond like Brosnan or Moore than maybe. I saw X-Men and he seemed kinda lanky and just not at all intimadating. I like my Bond to look like he could kick some ass. On the other hand he could make a very interesting villan. And yes I don't his acting chops are up to par to follow Craig's performances. Plus Im just really enjoying Craig's run and don't wanna see him leave anytime soon.
There's something not right with his mouth. I'm not sold.
May be it was the look, the direction or the actor but it was Bond through and through. I bet they did it on purpose as well. I will email some industry chaps to see if that was the case.
But we can't have a Bond called Assbender though.
Here's the best bit of x-men first class - nsfw - but soooooooooo funny:
Additionally, there was more of an outcry at the disapproval of Craig's casting than initial support. As for Fassbender lacking the Bond quality, on what grounds? He's an actor portraying roles that are not James Bond. My point is, some of the same people that are championing Craig are the same ones who dismissed him initially and are doing the same with Fassbender.
Here is Fassbender in 2011, about 6 years until Craig leaves the role :
Here was Craig in 2000, 5 years before getting cast as Bond:
Now, which of them, about 5/6 years before being possibly chosen as Bond, has the more 'Bond qualities'?
http://images.allmoviephoto.com/2002_Road_to_Perdition/2002_road_to_perdition_003.jpg
Granted, when they announced him in '05, my first thought was Oh! Really? Nooooo... but that changed very quickly.
I get the same feeling for Assbender, i saw his performance for the first time in x-men and that was it for me. Wow. He just stole that movie and made me think DC better up his game or the script better deliver DC a winning Bond performance. Because I haven't scene BOND in the last 2 films and I can imagine B23 being DC'S last.
Assbender for Bond is the way to go.
I recommend Enver Gjokaj:
http://bestof.provocateuse.com/images/photos/enver_gjokaj_99.jpg
He might be Albanian-American, but he could pull it off. He was Victor in DOLLHOUSE, and he was a secondary character until the writers realised how good he was at imitating the other actors and accents. This is him playing Topher, the resident geek:
And I can't find any videos of it, but in the episode "Spy In the House of Love", he was given the personality of a proper English gentleman and was very James Bond. Very good. But very weird to cast James McAvoy as Vesper Lynd ...
To be honest it might have not been here but certainly on commander bond I championed Fassbender when hardly anyone was aware of him and anyone who thinks he isn't got the chops to play Bond clearly haven't seen him anything of any real weight like Hunger, I'll go as far as say that he is as good as Craig as an actor and has made far more savvy choices as an actor than DC has outside of Bond and has already an impressive theatrical C.V.
I just think MF will be far too big to be Bond come DC's exit and anyway like some I'd rather see more from Craig, I think he knows he's got to knock this next one out the park or his popularity in the role will start to wain. I liked him in QOS but I want to see the more suave Bond I want to see less of the thug, something like SC in FRWL.
Fass as Bond is a nice idea but one I don't think will happen and that Xmen/ Casino mash up was dire. Look at what MF has done and what is to come in the next year from him, does he really need to be Bond? No I don't think so.