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TAS is a great call.
I like my bat-suits to have bat-ears, not nubbins. I will state a controversial opinion and say that the Batman Returns suit is the best. The yellow emblem and belt contrast nicely with the black body and it's not as cumbersome as the '89 suit, as glitzy as the Schumacher suits, or too realistic like the Nolan suits.
Then Hoult would be a close second. He is a good actor and he has grown into his looks.
I feel that these two, and Turner, have a snowball's chance in hell at the moment.
Good call on the BATMAN RETURNS suit. For me it's a toss between that one and the '89 suit. I actually like the one Mickey G's dad wore. I loathe the suits Bale wore in his films. To me they look like the Michelin tire Bond sucked air from in AVTAK.
Getting back to Bond I still maintain the belief that NTTD will end up being the last Bond film we get until our newborn kids are Sir Roger's age in AVTAK. That said, if we were to get another film in the next few years, I'd still consider Turner. Possibly Cavill.
As Batman?
Well Hoult was almost cast as Batman.
https://deadline.com/2019/05/rob-pattinson-nicholas-hoult-batman-short-list-matt-reeves-1202616908/
I never really saw him as a serious contender for Bond until the Batman news came out. I'm sure that put him in contention for a lot of other big franchise films. Maybe it's one of the reasons he got cast in Mission Impossible.
He's very pretty and looks like a male model. Maybe he seems a little too 'nice' and polite. But perhaps they wantt o move towards the refined English gent again. Especially after being 'edgy' with Craig.
I think Hoult has certainly matured well though. He has promise considering he is only 30 and Bond 26 won't start casting for another 2-3 years. He would be around 33 then. If you said 3 years ago that Pattinson would be Batman I would be confused, but he really matured in the last few years. I think we haven't heard the last of Hoult.....a lot will depend on Mission Impossible.
Also what is the status of that film?! I know coronavirus has impacted everything, but is there a chance that the film will move out of its 2021 slot? Seems slowly more and more inevitable.
Babs obviously like Jamie Bell as well. Wouldn't rule either of them out.
Agreed on this. He has shown extremes of "posh" (Fantastic beasts) and tough (rogue army sergeant in The Capture) and is physically spot on.
Don't know if he has "it" but definitely one to watch to see how he handles a bigger role as there is definitely potential there.
I might have to seek out more of his work, this new Hulu show he has looks great. Essentially as expansion on the pompous twit he played in The Favourite (the show has the same writer):
Also Hoult has a Taylor Sheridan film with Angelina Jolie in the works. Now that could could very very very special....
I think he, alongside younger contenders like Jack O'Connell and Richard Madden are likely the names that we will be discussing more in the next three years. Most of the people suggested - such as Idris Elba, Aidan Turner will be too old.
I'd rather have Hoult than Cavill, and I did enjoy him as Napoleon in U.N.C.L.E. But I've known Hoult to be a good actor since About a Boy. The guy is a talent, more so than Cavill. Much more. And he doesn't look like a large bodybuilder. I bet he'd be a brilliant Bond. If only he had a voice like Craig's, though. He can lower it. Just like Suchet made his voice higher in pitch for Poirot.
That being said, for me, now, it's Aidan Turner n1, and Hoult n2.
And whisky and cigars :-D
Did I miss a controversy?
Nah.
Not after many whisky and cigars ;) He's got the time.
He'd be fine for a Fleming biopic, I think.
No. I just didn't understand how Stuart Martin could be a "good marketing stunt" as you put it. It took me a while to realize you were referencing Connery. Not my brightest moment!
No worries, it happens to the smartest.
Come to think of it, any other Scottish people could think of as Bond? I'm not saying the next Bond should be Scottish, but it would certainly create some excitement in itself.
Sorted.
Looks like he wouldn't mind playing a villain though:
You're a brave man @Denbigh you should know that no-one compares to Aidan Turner ;)