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It's the case of a lot of names brought forward by the tabloids. They're like ten years behind in the list of potential Bonds and they haven't even noticed it.
That's just the thing. You can't look at contemporaries of the current Bond as potential successors. You have to be looking at the next generation, and few would be able to predict who among them could really fit the bill until the time comes.
I think we'll need to repeat the entire length of Craig's run before Barbara gets around to prepping B26 then recasting. In the meantime, the media with continue with the Elba rumors.
Absolutely suitable to play a suave spy, but not Bond.
I'll have to find my bow tie 🍸
I think if they can make the next movie to the sort of budget Skyfall had rather than to the larger Spectre one, it should be fine.
Do we know what sort of budget NTTD had?
$250m for the final version, and probably another $50m for the aborted Boyle version, so all in all probably $300m.
I'd definitely expect a drop, because no one will be sure about the new guy replacing Craig. I'm not sure precisely how movie financing works, but I think if some of it is from investors and product placement, those people won't find the first non-Craig Bond such an attractive proposition.
??? Based on WHAT ? Sean Connery did not have blue/grey eyes or jet black hair, but he sure made a terrific Bond. What Connery did bring was strength, conviction, height, a strong build, sex appeal and swagger. I've seen people tout a bunch of pathetically generic handsome lads on here who'd tip over in a stiff breeze, and would never be believable in a fight. Watch The Take, in which Elba appears with the (proposed by many folks on here) Richard Madden and the comparison becomes very obvious very quickly. Madden's character even self-disparagingly compares himself with Elba's character with regard to the physicality aspect. As for Elba's age -- he's in fine shape, as can be seen in any of his films. He looks fitter than past Bond actors did at younger ages.
All other considerations aside, he's too old now.
We all want Margot Robbie, Scarlett will always be my muse, but I'm quite flexible.
Exactly! You have to consider longevity, and how long the actor will realistically last in a series of films, not just one movie.
If we can get past the fact that he is black, and not at all in line with the original Fleming description (yes, I know Moore and Craig had different hair colour, and Connery and Laz had different eye colour - but these are minor discrepancies aside).
Different skin colour and background origin takes on whole new level in adapting and modernising a colonial white old-fashioned British character written in the 1950's. If we eradicate that part too, is this really Ian Fleming's James Bond anymore, or just another modern action superspy?
You could argue its never really been fully Fleming Bond on screen (other than early Connery, Laz and Dalton), but the essence of the 1950's character is still evident in all the performances from all the actors, despite the different direction in the movies over the years.
Looking at all the actors, they are not a million miles away from the physical description Fleming gave Bond all those years ago. Craig, Dalton, Brozza and Moore had the eyes, Dalton, Brozza, Laz and Connery had the hair. But they all tallied up overall in a fashion to what Fleming described in the books, if they are still anything to go by. I know some of you don't care less about the books, or Fleming, so this argument will be wasted on you. To me, I personally want an actor that physically matches exactly what Fleming described, no matter what era the new films appear in - but that's just me.
Getting past the skin colour, Elba is way past his sell-by date now. How would Elba look at the end of his Bond reign? Come to think of it, how old would he look mid-way through his Bond reign.
He's certainly not my first choice, but he's a good actor, and I could see EON having him on their shortlist.
Then again, I seem to remember that Barbara Broccoli produced one of Jamie Bell's films, so maybe that might swing things in his direction
They're not playing a character written in the 50s any more though. If it were set in the 50s, sure that would be a bigger issue. Is there much 'colonial' about Craig's Bond? Or Brosnan's? Fleming's Bond fought in WW2 and battled the Russians in the Cold War- is it really Bond if he doesn't do that? Elba is too old to start now though, yes.
Steel yourself for an avalanche of "he's too short!" posts :D
Deviate too far from what Fleming wrote and you might as well also change the character's name and occupation.
Seems to me, and I could be way off, but these days it seems ANY actor in his 30s and from the UK could be considered for Bond. That just doesn't ring true for me. Someone may be a good, or even great actor, but that doesn't always make them right for the role.
Hypothetically, say had Al Pacino been cast as Superman, I'd have probably felt I was watching Pacino play Superman rather than see the actual character on the screen.
Shortlist? Lol, that’s about right.