Just to add, the bond name is big enough to generate a huge box office without a Hollywood face, I think they should go for someone relatively unknown. Hopefully a young Scottish actor, preferably of another ethnic background, bond has been too white for too long. They need to mix it up a bit.
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Wet
No thanks.
Bond is dead. The world needs to move on.
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Thatās why Iām saying they need to mix it up a bit. Posh Brit saving the world is getting a bit tired.
According to Flemming Bond attended Eton. I very much hope the opening sequence of the next film doesnāt start with a ghastly smashed bottle of Buckie the remnants of which are still sticky with fried Mars Bar.
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Fck me, talk about stereotypes. I was thinking more of someone with a brilliant brain who attended a top university from a non public school privileged background. Think Iāll step away now.
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Not sure about the actor - I donāt really know who the fuck anyone is any more, barely know who the fuck I am - but Iād love it if someone had the courage to reboot the whole franchise and actually set the stories in the times that Fleming had in mind when he was writing. Those are the times that shaped the whole character of Commander Bond - WW2 fresh in the minds of every adult, Cold War in full swing, Cuba, Berlin Airlift, Korea, Suez, Vietnam simmeringā¦ Mad Men with supervillains and nuclear crisesā¦ Imagine what you could do with a good eye for historic detail + modern SFXā¦
Why would they care about King & country?
Our magnificent achievements in international relations over the past 500 years.
Contenders for the next Bond
according to Ladbrokes:
Aaron Taylor-Johnson: 5/2
Henry Cavill: 5/2
James Norton: 11/4
Rege-Jean Page: 8/1
Tom Hardy: 9/1
Jack Lowden: 10/1
Idris Elba: 12/1
Aidan Turner: 16/1
Callum Turner: 16/1
Sope Dirisu: 16/1
Jonathan Bailey: 20/1
Iād worry more about whoās going to write and direct vs who is going to strut about in the tuxā
I worry about the temptation to go woke, and how itās liable to make it unwatchable.
It needs to evolve, but if they even think about messing with the core formula I suspect it will suffer.
Iāve no idea who most of them are. So out of touch with music and film
All the ones who wonāt get it.
Producers know at least a couple of things now:
He (you can count that as one) has to be able to act.
He needs to look like he really could kill somone.
He needs to be young enough to make a few films.
Heās probably not the one you are thinking of.
There were strong rumours the top of the list filmed some promo shots, but I canāt see that being a genuine leak.
Bloody hell this thread has got it all: national stereotyping, scary āwokeā. What a load of cock.
Muting you now.
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The Bond recipe
Glamor
Gadgets
Gratuitous violence
Genuine baddie
Gets it on with Baddies wife
Guns
Interesting Geographic settings
Gaston Gartins
Girls
Perhaps the new direction could be Glue?
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The gadget segment has always been my favourite part of bond. Saying that,the last bond I saw was moonraker at Leicester Square when it was released.
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This - I reckon Brosnan was the best all round actor to play Bond, but he was given, by a country mile, some of the worst scripts in cinematic history. Utterly terrible.
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