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Just my thoughts on the names you gave:
-Christian Bale is too old to become Bond when Craig leaves the role;
-Henry Cavill - let's see what happens, but I think he'll become too conotated with Superman in the future. A fine actor with, I hope, a bright future ahead of him. I don't agree his look doesn't fit Bond, on the contrary.
-Hugh Jackman will not become Bond and it isn't because he doesn't have the time. He's too old for that! I don't know where did you get that Jackman is more fit than Craig, is it because of the way he looks in Wolverine? No actor to become Bond in the future should be more fit than Craig, his look in CR was already stepping too far. I could see Jackman being cast in some other role during the Craig era though.
-Fassbender - if you haven't see First Class do, it's a great film. However I think they went to huge efforts to make him look "Bondian". However I don't see it happening. First and foremost he looks the same age as Craig or even older (which is no mean feat considering Craig doesn't look exactly young)... being 10 years younger than Craig! That's shocking and I can only imagine how old will he look when Craig leaves the role. However, I would be all for him playing Fleming in a biopic.
It's so odd, some continue to have this talk when it'll amount to nothing. I don't see the point in it myself.
Exactly, the next Bond will probably be somebody nobody is counting on, at least for now. I can bet none of these actors people are talking about now will ever become Bond.
Well that's why people like to speculate, it makes it interesting, and who knows maybe someone at EON is probably watching this thread right now.
I've seen X-men: First Class and I do see a Connery aura coming out of Fassbender (even other people noted this) and this lead to speculation from fans he succeed DC after he step down (again this is up to Barb and Mike Wilson), BTW Michael Fassbender is 35 years old and Craig is 44 so that's a bit of a major different. Also for Hugh Jackman, yeah beside Wolverine, I've seen his other film for a guy same age as Craig, he still is physically fit and he can do a lot of stunt with no problem, I did read something behind the scene DC said that "he feels he is already getting too old to cope with the extreme physical demands of playing James Bond"
http://www.kinobody.com/2181/daniel-craig-skyfall-workout/
Jackman kept his body in shape (no wonder why magazine said Jackman is the sexiest man), and he looks like if he had play Bond for Skyfall instead of Craig, Jackman wouldn't have found the stunt too hard and he can handle the physical demands for James Bond if he had that opportunity. When Daniel Craig played Bond in CR and QOS he was very physically active and could handle the physical demand for playing as Bond, but for Skyfall he did look a bit weaker. Jackman and Craig are the same age yet Craig admitted that he couldn't handle the physical demand of playing Bond, Jackman from looking at his other movies involving good fitness looks like he doesn't have any problem.
For Henry Cavill, I look at his face and he just doesn't fit Bond for me (that's why on my previous statement, I said Clive Owen and Hugh Jackman look more like Bond then Cavill), even though Cavill has black hair and is 6 feet, his look does not convince me that he's Bond. I prefer he doesn't take the role of Bond.
As for the discussion at hand about Hardy playing Bond, I just don't see it. He is talented as an actor but for Bond I just don't want to see him in the role because I feel like that would continue an unfortunate derivation from the classic Bond character which was started by Craig. Although Craig does not look like the Fleming's Bond, he does have the un-handsome face and stark brutal feeling about his presence which Fleming did characterize Bond as having. I personally did not like this decision because I enjoy the film Bond more than I do the novel Bond, and I feel that there is and should be a clear division between them. Hardy would only continue this pattern, as he does not look like Bond because he is short and muscly as well, and while more handsome, his face somehow doesn't fit the character, just like Craig.
Bond to me is meant to be thin yet trim, tall yet not gangly, dark brown-black hair, handsome but not unable to be menacing, and above all sexy. This for me is where Michael Fassbender comes in because I feel that he would be the ideal candidate to inherit the Bond role after Daniel retires because he fills all of my requirements, and he is 10 years younger than Craig so he won't be too old by the time Dan does finally retire.
As for Nolan directing a Bond film, frankly I have mixed feelings about it because while I have no doubt that he could direct an excellent Bond film, my worry is that as a writer he present some unique problems for the franchise going forward. He would more than likely want to do a fixed number of films with a degree of continuity between them, if not a flat-out trilogy like he did with Batman, and will be producing with Superman. He may also want to end the series with his film ark, which is something that I'm sure none of us want. I also think it would be a waste if he did only one film as well because I know I would want to see more of his work after he did one. Ideally, if he could be signed in for 2-3 films initially and then roped into doing 1-2 more, he could direct an entire actors tenure as Bond and it would fit together nicely. I would love it if he directed Fassbeder in 4-5 films after Craig is done, but I don't see that happening. I think the most feasible way for him to do multiple films would be to take on the rest of Dan's films, but he probably wouldn't want to use Craig. More than likely Nolan will be flattered but turn a directing job down either because he'd feel constrained, or because he'll want to continue his own original projects. Ultimately though, we'll have to wait and see.
Well this one is also a good source too: http://www.themoviebit.com/2012/10/ultimate-james-bond-trivia50-facts-for.html
7.Daniel Craig has said that he was worried by the delay in production, and was eager to get back into the role because, at the age of 43, he feels he is already getting too old to cope with the extreme physical demands of playing James Bond.
May I ask do you have any other favorite Bond actor beside Daniel Craig because you seem to be too much of a DC fangirl then not being open-minded, so what's wrong with other actors taking role of 007 beside DC.
I was not aware Daniel Craig was offered to play Thor, that would've been interesting to see. Also I know Jackman may not have the chance to play Bond I'll agree, but he could've if DC wasn't chosen (he was eyed by EON as Jackman said in the interview and he was getting famous so his role as Wolverine wouldn't have stop EON from considering him as Bond). But I can dream, can I? Well I can understand why you would like the Bond film over the novel (well I tend to like the film better then the novel, although there were Bond novels then the movie like Diamonds are Forever), but beside Daniel Craig, Roger Moore didn't look close to Bond but yet he did a good job as Bond, so if Craig and Moore can play Bond even if they don't look close to the novel it's the actor's intrepretation and how close can they get to the characters in the novel. I know Tom Hardy could do a good Job as Bond if he was given that opportunity, he's handsome, tough, active, and he does Bond characteristic in and out of acting. I'm not going to make a big deal out of his height because Daniel Craig prove that a 5 ft Bond can be a badass.
For MIchael Fassbender, as I said, he's my other candidate to take over Bond after DC, but he may get too famous. He could or could not be select to play Bond. But If I was the people at EON, I would not cross off Hardy and Fassbender.
For Chris Nolan, I don't think he would be the writer for a future Bond film, his brother, Jonathan could do that since his brother is a screenwriter. I would love it if EON approve of having Jonathan Nolan and maybe David Goyer to write a story and screenplay for future Bond films if Nolan direct them, if both of them can prove they're just as good as Richard Maibaum, Paul Haggis, and Neal Purvis & Robert Wade then you may have yourself a good Bond film.
First of all, poking around that guy's site I have to call BS on a lot of the stuff he says. He contradicts himself between posts and says things about training that are factually wrong. I'm Craig's age and a part-time trainer; the gym I'm at is fairly high end and the other trainers (not myself) that I get to work with and learn from have very high level science backgrounds. This guy talks much more in generalities (some of which are wrong) and sounds like a really young guy repeating stuff he's read on other sites.
As for Craig looking weaker in SF I just don't see it. Physically, he's even more dense and bigger than in QoS. As for him appearing weaker - well, that's in the script. It's the character, not the actor. I'm guessing that he's joked about the physical demands of playing Bond, but it certainly doesn't show on screen.
Thanks you lord ;)
@mdo - I have read too much stuff, that I knew was wrong to just believe one quote, when I saw too many inerviews etc, where is was never mentioned, quite the opposite. Plus my post was not directed against another actor but against the notion ...see above. There is a difference, you know. I like Moore and Connery best apart from DC.
Craig has worked out in spite of the fact that he is short, not because he is. Shortness is a trait that is best avoided in a Bond actor and we all know that, so just because Craig pulled it off doesn't mean Hardy will.
I laugh at what you all call short. I'm 5'7". I'm short. They're all close to 6' or taller. Quit griping about things that don't matter.
So do I!
and as with Bardem's Silva, Bond might have a worthy adversary, certainly an improvement on QoS's Greene, who is so weed he slams a fire axe into his OWN foot!!??
Which is perhaps his forte, and might be a much better choice for him than getting involved in a franchise that currently does very well and does not need his hand.
I also had no problems in the film (the trailers were something else). However, I personally think the choice of voice was not very inspired.
To be honest, I preferred it in the preview. The dub sticks out like a sore thumb to me, it was pretty seamless in the preview, albeit muffled. I felt more authentic. I also preferred his delivery, the intonation in the final was too defined. If you don't know what I'm on about, see this...
Incidentally his dialogue appears that much louder than everyone else on the blu ray which makes it worse
Yes exactly, the blu ray accentuates the dub. The original dialogue was recorded on set. I think the voice was also accentuated in the dub (as evident in the clip above). It's not dissimilar but the intonation feels real in the original audio, with the dub almost sounding like a parody of the original performance.
Let me state this for umpteenth bloody time, Hardy, Fassbender, Cavill etc will be far too big when Craig leaves, it's likely this guy is on hardly anyone's radar, who can truthfully say they thought of Craig 4-5 years before he was cast? and that is the way it should be. The next 007 will be made a star being Bond not vice a versa, sometimes I wonder if some of you actually have any knowledge of this series history
I said the same kind of thing a couple of weeks away but people still don't get it. Oh well, just give up.
Time will tell all.