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No actor was Sean Connery and the series survived.
The actor has to be different from Craig. If you look for a clone of Craig you are DOA.
In a funny sort of way that could mean less pressure on the actor you'd think: if Bond himself was truly not relevant anymore then it's less the fault of the guy playing him than the core concept of the character which he's just being paid to read the lines of.
I don't want to say there was no pressure on him because of course there was, and he proved a massive hit in the role, but as SecretAgentMan says, I'd say that coming after the generally perceived failure of Dalton to catch fire he perhaps had a slightly more favourable playing field than any of the others. The gap also probably helped him as folks remembered Bond as they liked him growing up rather than perhaps the Bond of the previous movie; and GE definitely aimed for that nostalgia I think by rebooting the whole thing.
I think it's sort of water off a duck's back by now. They know the press print a load of old rubbish about them, but I guess all publicity is good publicity, and all it proves it that people want to read about Bond.
The thing I can imagine might get up their nose a bit is when other professionals use Bond to promote themselves, as with the Steve McQueen rumour the other day. Seems very likely someone in his camp decided to get some publicity for his new movie by saying he was perhaps up for the Bond directing job, and if that's not true I could imagine that the Brocs would be a little disappointed by a fellow professional using them in that way; certainly I think any actor who does so probably gets themselves crossed off the list pronto (hi Sam Heughan).
Strongly disagree. Only Lazenby had the task that Bond #7 will have. Connery defined the role and Craig re-defined it. The others only inhabited it.
Being different from Craig is not that hard.
A tall and handsome actor, someone who can have female fans under 30 years old...
Each Bond actor redefined the role in some way; that’s how the series has survived so long. It’s inaccurate to say Craig was the only one who redefined it when the likes of Moore, Dalton, and Brosnan were doing it decades before.
Following Craig will be tough, but not the impossible task so many make it out to be, and this isn’t even remotely similar to the situation that occurred in the late 60’s.
Yeah both of you and @SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ have a point. Perhaps in the eyes of the MGM/UA executives, the same ones who refused to start production on GE with Dalton in the role, Brosnan was the safest bet they could go for but still wasn’t quite a box office star. Then again neither was Connery, Moore, Dalton, or Craig before they became Bond so it kind proves that track record doesn’t matter much. If you find a good actor and give him a good script, they’ll do wonders.
I think you're right that Brosnan was the safest choice at the time, and absolutely the right one too. They also didn't really want a full box office star: I think Kleeman has said they weren't really looking at names like Mel Gibson even though they were mentioned in the press, as they needed someone not tied to any other film series.