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Batman villian Tom Hardy in line for James Bond role
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz/rehab/338697/Batman-villian-Tom-Hardy-in-line-for-James-Bond-role
But yeah Bond vs Hardy would be fantastic in my opinion he was single handedly the best part of the Dark Knight Rises
While it's true that Bond is no social butterfly, it is completely inaccurate to say that he doesn't have a sidekick. The relationship Fleming builds between Bond and his allies (Leiter, Mathis, Kerim Bey, Draco, Quarrel, etc.) is utterly central to the novels, and is one of the most striking features of the Bond character. Bond may be a rather cold man, but the love he has for his few close friends is powerful, even to the point of bringing Bond close to tears.
**sigh**
Abandoning the things that make Bond films Bond films is a far greater threat to the series than is clinging to the past.
I also fear this. I wonder if Mendes et al. weren't stung by feminista criticism that Bond took a "progressive" character and shoved her back behind a desk.
And anybody who thinks Eon isn't riding the "diversity" train just like every other elite institution in the Western world is in denial. IMO, of course!
Is says more about certain posters who are terrified of the truth.
To piggyback on the below, I'd like to see a steady actor as Leiter and feel Wright is doing a terrific job.
How about we get the actual Leiter that Fleming intended, for once? I. e. a sandy-haired, hawk-faced, wise-cracking Texan.
Tell me about it! Why do we have to have a goddamn slave playing the part?
I can believe J.W Pepper would.
All in the name of irony. Something a 50's throwback like Perilagu wouldn't understand. Hiding his inherent racist slant being his need for everything to be exactly as Lord Fleming intended. Frankly I'm bored of all this nonsense. Again, ironically, it's less offensive than most of Perilagu's drivel, but I guess that's the point.
No. Although we could theoretically discuss Steve Martin as the villain and we'd be in exactly the same place in 6 months time.
And I will add to this that Bond needs fairly often outsider's help because he is not all perfect and all knowing. In the novel TB, it is M who finds out SPECTRE's strategy, not Bond. In MR again, it is M who first suspects Drax may be up to something.
I wonder if this rumous has anything to do with Tom Hardy playing Bane in TDKR. Nah, probably a coincidence.
Given that English is clearly not your first language, I will forgive you this pitiful sentence.
Apologies. I'm aware they don't have predictive text in the fifties.
Nice one.
I think the next Bond may well be under our noses without any of us even realising that Eon are casting their eyes on him or them? I mean I do not recall anyone mentioning DC for Bond whilst PB was in the role? So I guess we will have to wait and see what the future holds? I just look forward to see what Bonds 24 and 25 bring? \:D/
When I referred to "sidekick" I meant some action oriented character shooting all the bad guys just like Bond and together with Bond. Someone running around with Bond doing lots of physical arse kicking isn't a nice thought, especially when it's Moneypenny. All those characters you named except for maybe Felix haven't helped Bond in this capacity. I can't recall Felix doing this either. If she were merely doing some spying it wouldn't be as bad. She did this in the Moneypenny Diaries but she wasn't working with Bond. In fact she was predominantly on her own. I don't like the thought of those two going out and working in the field together. She's always been a secretary in the films and the actual Bond novels. If she is to leave the office in Bond 24 then fine, have her engage in some investigative work but she should spend very little time working side by side with Bond in the field. I hate the backstory they gave her in Skyfall. It's so typically Hollywood. Why couldn't they just show her having some interesting and perhaps amusing interview with the head of MI6, Chief of Staff or whoever else might have been required to interview her.
As for Fassbender he's quite probably the hottest actor on the planet at the moment with a possibility of an Oscar on the horizon he certainly doesn't need Bond.
In the novels, and to a significant extent in the films, Bond's sidekicks do engage in some roughhousing with Bond. Now having said this, let me say that I in no way, shape or form support Moneypenny becoming another Wai Lin or Jinx.
Now, now, no reason to bring your IQ into the discussion.
If M decides to put Penny back in the field then he'll have to hire a temp to take her place while she is away from the office, unless Gargy Mallory gets Tanner to do all the menial work on top of his usual duties. Or if she returns to the field on a permanent basis, bring in Ponsonby seeing they don't seem to be interested in giving Bond his own secretary. Whether actual field agents have secretaries in the real world now, I don't know.
Hardy is a good actor but he's a bit on the pretty side for Bond like Brosnan was in Goldeneye. If he's shorter than Craig then I'm not sure if he should actually be a candidate. Craig isn't even 6 foot. It says on the net that he's 175 cm. That's too short for Bond I think. A Bond actor should be at least 5 foot 10 (178cm) which I think Craig is.
Does anyone recall if they made Hardy appear as if he were a similar height to Bale in The Dark Knight Rises? Bale is 183 cm which is 6 foot or just over.