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An older Bond?
I was reading the Batman vs Superman thread and someone posted an article where it talked about how Ben Affleck was going to play it more seasoned, older and world weary. So I thought could the same approach work with Bond?
Obviously we've had an older Bond with Moore (and even Brosnan and Dalton were in their 40s), but I mean one that acts like it. Give him a few grey hairs and make him seem very experienced. Don't make him moody, give him one liners, etc, but when he's not in action make him seem a bit world weary and tired of it all.
This could also make him more vulnerable in the fight scenes, don't make him weak, just have him struggling a bit sometimes if he's up against a younger bloke and have him rely more on his wits to get out of tough situations. It would be a cool contrast to Craig, who beats the crap out of people with ease.
So what does everyone think. Could this work? Would it be a fresh, different approach to take after Craig (who began as a young rookie after all), or is it a bad idea?
Obviously we've had an older Bond with Moore (and even Brosnan and Dalton were in their 40s), but I mean one that acts like it. Give him a few grey hairs and make him seem very experienced. Don't make him moody, give him one liners, etc, but when he's not in action make him seem a bit world weary and tired of it all.
This could also make him more vulnerable in the fight scenes, don't make him weak, just have him struggling a bit sometimes if he's up against a younger bloke and have him rely more on his wits to get out of tough situations. It would be a cool contrast to Craig, who beats the crap out of people with ease.
So what does everyone think. Could this work? Would it be a fresh, different approach to take after Craig (who began as a young rookie after all), or is it a bad idea?
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That's the only real issue, but they could still get a nice trilogy of movies out of him.
I loved the John Pearson book "James Bond the Authorised Biography".
A weary 62 year old Bond would really reinvent things.
To an extent, Thunderball sort of touched on it, and the idea has so much potential. Sky fall touched on it too I suppose, but really, you need an older actor.....Dalton, Brosnan anyone??!!
Wouldn't that ROCK?!?!
How do you mean with Thunderball? Do you mean the fitness farm?
Also, a less extreme version of this idea has been explored in For Your Eyes Only and (please don't hurt me) Never Say Never Again. There are also some fan trailers for returning Connery and Dalton (and maybe Brosnan, but I'm not sure) movies, which do look pretty cool.
Yes, the idea of Bond being burnt out, with the toll of his job catching up on him.
I'd really live to see a Bond that is 60 plus, burnt, a little lonely, living somewhere in the Med, enjoying his daily scuba diving, and good wine, just escaping his nightmares..... with an old adversary catching up on him, and him relying on MI 6 instead of them relying on him for once.
Except, Bond is Bond, and takes care of business just as he always does ...!
I would LOVE this film!
But aside from those two examples, Connery always looked about 10 years older than his actual age, Moore was 43 in LALD, Dalton was 41 in TLD, Pierce was 42 in GE…and heck even Dan was 38 in CR despite being rookie Bond. So to me I always pictured Bond to be somewhere close to 40. So an older take would be nothing new to me. I would have actually liked to see a true origin story – lets see Commander Bond being recruited to mi6 and see how that plays out.
This. And I think there isn't much left to explore of the idea. NSNA did it poorly, FYEO did it very well, OP too to a lesser extend.
And while I am a huge fan of Idris Elba as an actor, I can't see him as Bond. As Buonaparte Ignace Gallia, however, that is another story.
For me, I'd love Idris Elba as an older Bond. Timothy back in the saddle would rock, too, of course. Sean Bean just did a very decent job in the film CleanSkin. I'd like very much for Elba to also have a go at being a British spy in a film that is not too close to a Bond film. CleanSkin was a pretty good film and different enough from Bond to be interesting in its own way.
But back to the original thought of an older, genuinely more aged Bond. It would be like an alternative Bond world from what we know and love, and I cannot see that getting a green light while the current Bond series is ongoing (and which of course I hope continues for decades).
As @Saunders just mentioned, the producers could possibly be brave enough to stick with Craig until the true retirement age for Bond, making his run the whole gamut from new 007 to retirement, really world weary by that time. I could get into that, but I think the general public really want Bond in his prime always and would not appreciate it the way more serious fans could. Craig could definitely act it. (and it would have to steer clear from being along the likes of R.E.D.)
As for a black Bond; speaking as a 28 year old black man myself I am opposed to the idea simply because its pointless and unnecessary. Bond is a white man and white he should remain because quite frankly that's how I prefer it.
If I want to see old dudes as spies, I'll watch tinker tailor but please, Bind is all about keeping certain traditions and bringing the wow factor.
Anything to say about the actual idea?
That's a debate for another thread. In fact I'm going to edit my post and get rid of that bit so we can stay on topic.
After all, is there only so many times you can reinvent the wheel, so to speak?
Bond should always win. I'd hate to watch all the Bond movies knowing he might die in the end. It'd be like Casino Royale or On Her Majesty's Secret Service on steroids.
Oh He would win. My idea is something like the lines of Tomorrow Never Dies. He takes out all the bad guys and villains and it looks like he escapes the danger of the villain's base but MI6 doesn't know where he is, then the final shot is on a beach and you only see his silhouette with the ending guitar line of the Bond theme ring.
Quite. =D>
I agree with this.
He split the planet, re-heated the core with his heat vision, sucked the polluted air into his lungs an breathed back the clean portion only, and then got animals from other worlds to populate it.
I was in awe.
All that to say that seeing a one or two off concerning Bond's older age might not be bad.
Then of course back to womanising, drinking & neutralising new world threats!
Fantastic idea! Let's write it.