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Thanks! Personally I was never impressed by Johnny Depp's English accent. It's better than most, but I nothing more.
I think another difference might be educational: I suspect the way they learn acting in the UK puts more emphasis on pronunciation, diction, rhythm, etc. If American actors use more say method acting, this might handicap them with pronunciation in a radically different accent. But this is purely an hypothesis, I don't have enough knowledge of the acting world in both countries to go further.
That said, I have an anecdote which might be relevant. During my years at uni in the UK, we had a drama club that made a lot of productions in a year. All sorts of things, plays made by the members (often pretentious rubbish), plenty of comedies, but also a good deal of dramas, mostly Shakespeare. They made fairly solid and well received productions of Shakespeare's tragedies, but they really struggled when they produced Arthur Miller's The Crucible. They could barely remember their lines and spoke them as if they were reading. So maybe we should cut American actors some slack: how many British actor do we hear speaking with a seamless American accent?
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/lynley-leo-suter-sofia-barclay-tv-series-elizabeth-george-crime-novels-1236144029/
I finally got round to finishing the BBC TV series The Game recently, it's a great showcase for Tom Hughes as a potential Bond. It was released in 2014, had Daniel stepped down after Spectre, I think he would have gotten a screentest.
Hughes is still only 39, but perhaps his moment has passed. I think he would made a younger, darker, Dalton style brooding Bond
Well, under EON they did first line screen tests for certain candidates (that’s the GE tapes that were released), then if they were picked for later stages they’d do more formal screen tests like the FRWL one, a physical one, and eventually one from the movie they’re making (so with costumes, sets etc). To be honest that’s a pretty standard way of auditioning for big roles, so I don’t know if it’ll be fundamentally different. The specifics of what material they use might, but as long as they’re auditioning and going through that process I don’t think it’ll be dissimilar.
Did she? I hadn't heard about that to be honest mate that's cool. Given his performance he does have a quality EON would look for, I think they'd have wanted someone who wasn't an obvious choice, similar to Daniel's casting.
Whether it was true or not is a different matter! But he was rumoured for the role around 2016, mostly due to The Game - https://www.mi6-hq.com/news/tom-hughes-is-the-latest-next-bond-actor-touted-by-the-tabloids-160901
Obviously it’s just tabloid stuff, but I can imagine him being looked at at that time.
Thanks mate, I don't remember that at all. He does feel like an EON pick for Bond.
Funnily enough, Hughes says something similar to what Daniel said an interview in a 2005 about the Bond role.
I wonder if he was one of the actors Barbara met with according to recent reports, it said she met with a few.
Call it Oh, James!
If anything I’d say Bond films are much more stand alone compared to most franchises, even in the Craig era. Much like Connery’s first ones even if there are recurring plot threads/characters building towards something, each film has their own distinct locations, story etc. They have the feel of being different ‘adventures’.
I'd say Knives Out was a pretty stand alone film, and so was its sequel. The third film seems to be along those lines as well with only Craig coming back.
Knives Out being a whodunit, that's to be expected. And that's just one franchise.
Before Prometheus, there was no direct promise of Alien sequels, and the latest movie is not a direct connected sequel to the Covenant prior film. I'd also say most horror franchises do not have connected plots throughout the sequels, like The Conjuring films.
Yeah, but very different genres. And even horror franchises often have sequel hooks.
Ok fine. The Spiderman films, at some of them, did not set up direct sequels. Sure, they set up an ensemble that returns, but so does Bond. The stories are just continuations of the character's lives, further vignettes. Plenty of franchises and genres do this. Mission: Impossible did for 1-4. The Man From UNCLE was meant to be a franchise but did not tease an exact sequel plot, I wouldn't say. It's pretty common. Bond is maybe the best example of it, though.
I was about yo say: the Spider-Man films certainly have a lot of continuity between them and a good amount of sequel hooks. I thjnk most if not all superhero franchises have since X Men. With Marvel, it even became absurdly high.
Indiana Jones?
I guess it depends how much is too much for people who say they should be standalone. I’d argue what you describe is basically what we got in the Craig films: it wasn’t a very elaborate running story. Even in QoS there’s not much of a running story apart from ‘his girlfriend died’.