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Damn. You have a point...
Well, it's more like the Brosnan haters thinking they are the ones that have the point. But now that I already said it to mock them, they will look even more unoriginal if they copy me. :)
The novel is better. And this thing apparently rips it to shreds. I had to ask people what it was about to compare (and it wasn't true to the story), because I would be in a rage if I saw this. NOBODY ruins Dumas's brilliant work. [-(
Yeah, maybe we could bring Christopher Walken back as the villain and he and Bond can team up and drown the Bond girl in the water. :|
Believe me, I'm a HUGE fan of Dumas' work and even I'd admit there could be some trimming. He wrote "novels" (actually, serialized stories published in magazines and newspapers that later were bound as novels) that went on and on because he made more money the longer the story! And that's to say nothing of the fact that he had an assembly lines of writers contributing to his books (although they were all published under his name).
The Three Musketeers is one of my favourite books but the sequels really become draggy and stretched out. I've not read The Count of Monte Cristo but wouldn't be surprised if the story could be compressed with little ill effect.
And then nobody will bring up/talk about the movie for 30 or 40 years.
Martin Csokas
I too thought Richard Gere could be bond.
And Lana Wood would naturally return too. Kind of ironic how Plenty died by drowning in the pool water, isn't it?
Neither past actors/celebrities (Peck, Bogart,...), neither US stars (Gere, Eastwood - said himself when asked the role MUST be for a British and certainly not a US-, Brolin might have been, ...) neither French Jean Dujardin (In OSS 117, he's a parody of Connery's 60's style, nothing more and doesn't look like 007 ; despite having so many talents and being one of the finest actors of the last decade)
I've read Sam Neill (if it happened, I'd find it just boring, he doesn't have the 007 style and class, IMOO), Ryan Gosling (?), Cary Grant is out of this contest for me, ...
and the blasphemy goes to the possible cast of Mads Mikkelsen (??? ! ! Really ?! I thought he acted not bad as Le Chiffre's CR 2006 but still isn't the best cast for that role, then him for Bond, I'd rather not mind neither go and see) : Just no one as an official 007.
I openly quite dislike this topic because it's comparable to the fact Hollywood empire tries to adapt/remake some Non-US artistic successes like, as a Belgian watching Spielberg's "Tintin" -I didn't because I dislike those animations- I'd certainly prefer a...Belgian adaptation or TV serie or even TV films with the spirit of the famous comics from Hergé. Same remark for fans of "Millenium" serie, now both Swedish and US adapted...
I hope some understand me... It'd be like watching a Spanish adapt of Batman...Or an Italian Zorro. It's all in the non-sense. And I find it non-interesting, even I'm aware there are tastes for anyone.
The topic has changed its name but I never counted Lazenby and Brosnan (Great British) as the very first Non-British, as the original poster typed above, better read "the first Non-Commonwealth actor, who could play the part."
It happened a Scotsman (whose perf declined the origins character split in 2, half Swiss, half Scottish), an Australian (British and Commonwealth), after him a real English gentleman, then a Welsh. An Irish (Still Commonwealth but Non-Brit) and another Englishman...Fans know that, but to keep the phenomenon worldwidely (I exclude autochtones islands) : what about a Northern-Irish actor ?
I think he could've been good.
If I'm right, Northern Ireland is part of the UK but not Eire/Ireland, only part of the Commonwealth (16 or 32 countries I can't remember exactly) and Great Britain islands, so does Scotland, Wales, Isle of Man and obviously England .
I may be wrong.