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I was in the navy, and that was very common.
I have no idea where any of this comes from but it sounds somewhat plausible... at least for a fictional character. Bond comes across to me as the sort of person who would go out of his way to accumulate all of this training/experience due to the thrill of it. Oddly though it claims he became 007 at age 38... apparently the youngest 00 at the time. Anyway, best keep Bond to about 30-34 for the younger age range I'd say, or at least an actor should play him as such.
Connery and Craig never striked me as a leaders, and Brosnan/Roger hardly ex military at all.
Edit: read the linked page. That works.
I have really enjoyed what Barbara and Micheal have given us but this is a bit much. Strike while the iron is hot and put out something especially during the 60th Anniversary celebration. I find their desire to have a bond film every 3-5 years really limits the potential of the films and has not improved the writing or production which always seems to be done in a hurried manner. By letting Craig have his year long ride into the sunset they are missing the opportunity to work with quite a few potential actors. I think Amazon should push them into making decisions quicker and hope they do.
I can see Bond #7 being somebody suggested on this forum and not being a shock to us but being a shock and not well thought of by the general public
I think most fans on here will support whoever is cast and will reserve judgement till at least the first trailer of Bond 26 😅
Fair enough, thank you; that’s good to know! :)
Oh I thought Roger was fairly convincingly officer class, and I believe he did serve in real life. Craig I buy too, but I agree about Brosnan completely- he just looks wrong in the uniform to me, like he’s dressing up.
He, even more than Nicholas Hoult, will probably forever be a boy in my eyes, given that he was so widely known as a child actor. It doesn't help that he has a very boyish face to me. Looking at the "Gogol criteria", I can't - or rather don't want to - see him seduce anyone, let alone Monica Bellucci and I don't think he'd stand an ice cubes chance in hell against Bautista, even with all the plot armor in the world.
He's also - looking back at the last page or so of discussions - very young at currently 25.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61371123
I think there's a reasonably high probability the next Bond will be black. It may appeal to Eon or Amazon to reinvent Bond's lineage. After all, Bond 26 is a complete reboot of the character and his world so it gives the producers a good reason to cast someone that is non-white. Regé-Jean Page is half Zimbabwean, half English. I don't think he'll be the next Bond but guys like Page and Elba have got a lot of media attention. My guess is most film goers will be fine with a black Bond. Eon could look at the casting of the new Doctor and think "if it works for Doctor Who, it can work for Bond."
I wouldn't want that, as it's not how Fleming wrote the character, but most people don't see Bond as a literary character. He's just a superhero spy to most people I suppose.
I loathe woke and I despise many aspects of all this fakeness going on the past couple of years, the urge to cancel ourselves for example. I'd like every colour to have their own 'Bond'. Their own 'hero', at least that's what it seems to be all about. I certainly didn't make it that way. I'm all about sticking to the source material and not about bending over backwards to please a toxic movement.
Hopefully we soon can move on from these 900 pages of speculation and also a lot of silliness, to be frank. For me there is only one true heir to the throne and you know who I mean, so I'll leave it at that.
One of the first things I though of, when I heard the announcement, was if this would inspire the casting of the next Bond. The Doctor (I wish the news would stop reporting him as the new Doctor Who), isn't human, so there is no reason why they couldn't flip the whole thing on it's head, and go off in a new direction. The question is whether the right choice has been picked. For instance, you can't cast just any white actor in the role. Personally, I was hoping it might be Noel Fielding or Richard Ayoade. Oh well, maybe next time.
Yeah. I feel the same way too. But I still feel it's good to have a liberal mind toward these things though, because we'll know until we see it, I guess. A recent example is Pattinson's Batman.
I realise there has to be allowances made to suit the man cast to play Bond, Connery's brown eyes, Daniel's height but that doesn't take me out of it. But if you have to change the whole orgin of the character and everything already established to accommodate the man cast, then in my eyes that's not what I see as James Bond.
I would sooner them come up with a new character completely and then you're not hindered by history of the series. There won't be calls for traditional casting and so on.
One thing no one ever mentions about casting a black actor as Bond, is the future.
Let's say they cast Page this year. The first film has great box office, but then there's a noticeable drop off in gross in the next two films, the newness of the new direction has worn off. Do you recast with a white actor who fits Fleming's description or do you continue down the path you've set?
s/n: after seeing the two Dr. Strange movies now, I'm very happy we never got Benny C. as Bond. Total lack of charisma in those movies, and likely how he'd approach Bond.
I don't see what you'd have to change.
That's the same problem with any lead actor though.
I’ve always liked the idea of Richard Ayoade in that role, because on the surface his persona just seems to suit it so well, but then I realised he hasn’t actually done any “serious” acting, has he? So, he might risk coming across as out of his depth compared to some of the names they’ve had in recent years.
In fact, never too late to introduce a cool black character. Nomi, anyone? Even though opinions vary. Heck, go ahead and introduce a black 00. CREATE instead of hijack.
Nah, not good enough, I hope they hijack Bond instead.