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The question is if a horse could carry him or if he would have to carry the horse.
At 76 I think he looks years younger than Connery in NSNA.
Tim has said that one of the reasons he decided to not keep going as Bond after LTK was because he thought he was too old, and if he declined back in 1994 with 48, then there's NO WAY he's gonna accept to return with 76.
I think it was a joke, old chap.
Definitely a joke if even said. He certainly was looking towards B17 as late as autumn 1993/early '94. He just wanted to finish his three picture deal.
Off-topic: I can't be the only one who thinks The Phantom (1996) was totally legit and a deeply underrated 90s superhero/adventure flick...
Still, he looks 20 years younger in that picture.
I think there is, at least, the most objective evidence to show that Dalton would be a good Bond.
Yeah, there is, and it's called "Framed".
I was half joking. Being serious now, I see Adam Driver's name brought up regularly as a possible Cranston/Shadow. Personally, I know nothing about him, I don't think I have seen him in anything. He looks like he would be a good Shadow, standing at 6'2" he'd cut an imposing figure in the costume.
You aren't. I un-ironically like The Phantom, it goes well with The Shadow (1994) in a double bill.
Also it's nice to see Tim looking well. I think he is signing the LTK dinner jacket for Christies.
How can you or anyone on this forum (including me) possibly know that though? I know this forum is long and has had a large number of names brought up, but none of us as far as I know are casting agents or producers. Certainly not for EON anyway. There are probably dozens of contenders that haven't even been brought up in this forum yet, and I suspect a few that have been brought up/dismissed by some would probably do very well in the auditions. Hell, none of us even know who the contenders actually are.
Tend to agree. He's better in that than he is in Bond, if you ask me. He blasts everyone else off the screen in Rocketeer, and it's not as if his Bond films were filled with massive stars.
Seen that. Brilliant.
Where is your profile pic from??
That pic was from an AI deciption of Craigson Danny.
Yeah, fair enough. By 'recent contenders' I was referring solely to the suggestions on here - not the whole gamut of British male actors in the appropriate age range. ;)
Fair play. I think the rule of thumb applies just as much as it has usually done in the past - the most 'likely' actors to get the role won't. Maybe one of us will get lucky and have suggested the next Bond actor in the many pages of this thread, but it's unlikely.
Cheers! Yes, The Shadow is another great one.
Speaking of which, I do hope nobody looks at The Phantom in a so-bad-it's-good kind of way. It doesn't deserve it.
I'm hoping for a film renaissance of these types of heroes, rather than the ones we've been seeing in recent decades.
If I was part of the discussion, it escapes my memory at the moment, but any praise of The Phantom is a good thing. I agree, it's not worthy of "so bad it's good"—it's just good and deserving of a much better assessment than it received. I too would love to see good pulpy adventure flicks return to the cinemas.
And regarding who should be Bond, if we're looking at Americans, Billy Zane totally could have made a good Bond in the 90s/00s.