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Yes indeed, a long way off though I think.
The other day I came across an interview with Ben Affleck where he stated that he was signed to play Batman 8 months prior to it being announced. I could see a similar situation with whomever is selected to be the next Bond.
With the various film franchises, specifically DC and Marvel and growing streaming platforms, the landscape has changed exponentially since Craig was chosen. The competition for talent will be much more fierce.
Cast that man. Is he available though
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Will check it out soon
I do wonder if there's a difference between casting Batman and Bond though. Batman seems to be played by relatively well known and established actors. From what I've read about The Batman the pool of actors considered for the role was relatively small and made up of people like Armie Hammer, Nicholas Hoult, and of course Pattinson. I get the sense for Bond the actors chosen aren't usually quite as well known, and there's often as many as 40 contenders in the early stages. It's harder to keep a lid on that for 8 months than it is with a smaller field of candidates, all of whom are very much known in the industry.
I feel he's becoming more comfortable in the role as the series progresses, I wonder if they shot it chronologically. I hope he gets another shot at role like ATTWN. He is growing as an actor, and I have yet to see him act suave.
I only watch his stuff because I am a bond fan, and he generally tends to stands out from the rest of the cast. I think that's a merit. His chances depend very much on how much the producers want to reinvent the character as he his the most traditional option. Aidan isn't known at all outside the UK, but still has a sizeable fandom domestically.
From this list it seems the criteria was physically mature/coarse facial features/somewhat big/wide stature as well as anonymity more so than complexion or pure looks. Some of the names don't make any sense to me, but maybe they did 20 years ago when they were younger. The idea of what is attractive has shifted somewhat since then.
I'm not 100% sold and it's a bit off kilter, but maybe Gleeson has something. He's a very good actor. Not sure he has the right look, and he'd have to dye his hair. He might be a long shot candidate.
Productions hardly ever shoot in a chronological order, so I reckon that feeling stems from elsewhere. He plays a complex character, so perhaps it's the character himself, as there are quite a few layers to the plot.
Traditional or not, Bond = Bond in Fleming's vision to me. Sure, if set in present day Bond could change somewhat, but within the margins that make Bond Bond. If they would go the period route then leave him as is. That will of course never happen in Babs her time, but a man can dream.
Not a fan of Sean Connery then? Fleming didn’t want him, his vision was for a toff like David Niven to do it, and while there’s the old fan myth about him warming to him in the part and making Bond Scottish as a tribute, there’s no evidence of that. He was already researching his own Scottish ancestry and the only quote on the films from him describes Dr No as “dreadful”. I’m sure he was happy with the money but the impression I get is that Fleming, despite his self deprication, took his books a lot more seriously than the film makers who emphasised the tongue in cheek stuff and made it a mega hit did.
The films have always done their own thing, that’s why that’s why they’re still going. I like the books but I think keeping it successful and relevant to modern audiences is a much more important goal for “Babs” than honouring the vision of a man who died fifty odd years ago. And her dad clearly never cared that much about that vision either, so it’s nothing new.
Yeah, no. Trying to rewrite history isn't very nice. Fleming loved Sean after watching FRWL and after that they got along fine, indeed also "changing" Bond's heritage into part Scottish. These are commonly known facts and been documented time and time again. Thanks to Cubby and probably even more his wife we got Sean. A tall white dark haired male. The type of man men wanted to be and women wanted to be with. Don't even start about Cubby Broccoli as he had a very strong vision regarding Bond and cared about every little detail. Do you even know anything about Bond at all?
Stop pushing your false and defamatory agenda. Thanks.
Yep, absolutely; I'd say that hiring Roger Moore is a sign that they were in the business of making movies rather than following books exactly to the letter! :) And nothing wrong with that either, I'm still of the opinion that Bond is an icon as much because of Broccoli(s) & Saltzman as much as it is down to Fleming.
Yikes.
Personally I found Cubby was best with Saltzman (not including his great first solo effort in TSWLM), and in the latter days, post Saltzman, he seemed more a gatekeeper to his sausage factory (although I love a good sausage, so I also love these films), rather than a producer of "strong vision".
Not hiring Spielberg does seem like a terrible gaffe, doesn't it? :D
Again, if they're worth a dime at EoN they cast Aidan Turner, write a good script like CR, get an actual good director like Campbell and make it a typical Bond mission without all the emotive bs around it. It only takes away from the power of Bond. I'll watch a shitty romcom when I choose to do so, which is never, I certainly don't want it to taint Bond. Certainly no dead Bond at the end. Preposterous, truly.
IF Craig was sole possessor of the idea to kill his Bond (and I suspect not), the true big wigs had to sign off on it; they did so knowing it would create buzz and make $$. They didn’t do it to appease an actor (Universal isn’t in this business to placate the talent, they’re in it to sell and make their coffers even more full).
Wow. You experienced the Craig era different than most of us, mate. I don't see what's "woke" about the recent Bond films or why Craig would be a primadonna. I do know, however, that accusations of "woke" come easy these days.
It's the same as people who are upset about The Little Mermaid casting because of "the historical accuracy of mermaids".
*Ding ding ding* we have a winner! "hE'S a RaCiSt!!" Surely that must be it!? People like yourself is what's wrong with the mentality these days. Can't get your way, let's call random people racist for bs reasons. What I said are quotes, from documentaries, regarding Connery in THOSE days. Tell me you haven't heard about the saying 'men want(ed) to be him women want(ed) to be with him'? Also, Bond IS a white character, with dark hair around the 6' mark, a tall man, especially in those days. Nothing wrong with that. The day they will turn Shaft into a white man I'll react the same way. So no buddy, not a racist. Just stop.
Last but not least, Little Mermaid!? We are on a Bond forum.
Ding ding ding. Can't get your way, call every random thing "woke".
I’m not calling random people racist for be reasons, I’m calling you a racist for your racism. Women want him and men want to be him, yes, of course I’ve heard that. You brought up the colour of his skin being one of the reasons.
Bond is a fictional character. He’s not real. He was written the way he was written because it made sense in the 50s. It’s not set in stone. You want him to remain white because you think white is better than black. Not because Fleming once wrote about the colour in his cheeks. It doesn’t matter.
Are you serious? You honestly don't see the woke elements trickled down in NTTD? You're having a laugh?
Did you get angry and call people names when Johnny Depp played Tonto? Liam Neeson playing Ra's al Ghul? Benedict Cumberbatch playing Khan? Elizabeth Olsen playing Scarlet Witch?
EDIT: Sorry, I think I just repeated your point lol
You clearly don't want to comprehend anything, do you? People like yourself disgust me, gaslighting again as a tool. You read what you want to read, twisting words. Are you black yourself, potentially with a inferiority complex? Not necessary mate, you're just as good as everyone else on the planet, just as equal. If calling you out on being an ignorant tit is racist then that's that.
Also, Bond is white like Shaft is black. Your agendas to blackwash Bond is as idiotic as making an intrinsically black character white.