Who will be the next JAMES BOND ???

[bigvic]

Isn’t the fella from the Kickass films the favourite now?
I’d have liked to have seen Mark Strong in the role, he’s probably too old to be considered now but stick a syrup on top and there you have it, the perfect 007.

[oldoakknives]

We need someone unmistakably British, from a Public School background but who isn't necessarily academic, someone who is responsible for the deaths of scores of people but doesn't let it get to his conscience, someone able to lie at will to get out of tricky situations, and who has a string of failed relationships.

I give you our next Bond

Every time.
Seems the ‘no politics’ rule only applies to ‘some politics’ eh?
You forgot the usual ‘but this is the G&D so I’ll say no more’ at the end.

[Passenger]

[QUOTE=oldoakknives;6123696]Every time.
Seems the ‘no politics’ rule only applies to ‘some politics’ eh?
You forgot the usual ‘but this is the G&D so I’ll say no more’ at the end.[/QUOTE

Sense of humour maybe OOK, Ryan's suggestion is deuced funny after all, and if we can't laugh at ourselves in spite of everything our 'hero' has wrought...well we'd be a rum lot indeed. lolz.




I've read the KickASS actor is a contender.

btw Hugh Laurie has written a damn good comedy spy novel called the Gun Seller, well worth a read imho.

[Passenger]

He was great as Stringer Bell. Menacing, smart.

For me some of his best work. Too old now for Bond.

[oldoakknives]

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Every time.
Seems the ‘no politics’ rule only applies to ‘some politics’ eh?
You forgot the usual ‘but this is the G&D so I’ll say no more’ at the end.[/QUOTE

Sense of humour maybe OOK, Ryan's suggestion is deuced funny after all, and if we can't laugh at ourselves in spite of everything our 'hero' has wrought...well we'd be a rum lot indeed. lolz.




I've read the KickASS actor is a contender.

btw Hugh Laurie has written a damn comedy good spy novel called the Gun Seller, well worth a read imho.

Ah yes. Humour. Silly me.

[Passenger]

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Ah yes. Humour. Silly me.

If you've not read it, Hugh Laurie's book, The Gun Seller, truly is a real treat, ask Santa...

[oldoakknives]

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If you've not read it, Hugh Laurie's book, The Gun Seller, truly is a real treat, ask Santa...

I think I can probably guess what it would be like. No doubt politically leaning a certain way.

[Passenger]

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I think I can probably guess what it would be like. No doubt politically leaning a certain way.

Nah you're 'reading' way too much into it/ me, it's just a rollicking good espionage novel with laughs, a nice stocking filler is all.

[wileeeeeey]

Idris would have been great but too old now.

Henry Cavill would be great for a Kingsman / Downtown Abbey style spin off but need more grit for bond.

[number2]

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Nah you're 'reading' way too much into it/ me, it's just a rollicking good espionage novel with laughs, a nice stocking filler is all.

You know what they say about "feeding them" - just don't

[oldoakknives]

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You know what they say about "feeding them" - just don't

I know. I should never have commented!

[number2]

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I know. I should never have commented!

Hahaha very good...

[jon8oy]

I'll repeat my number one choice would be Riz Ahmed. He's smooth, sophisticated, and if you've seen A Night Of you'll know he can take his menace to depths that are truly haunting. He's still only 40 too.

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[oldoakknives]

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Nah you're 'reading' way too much into it/ me, it's just a rollicking good espionage novel with laughs, a nice stocking filler is all.

How would I know?

[MikeJSmith]

Cavill is going to be doing something hopefully a lot more interesting than another Bond; at least it’s something that he is passionate about

https://news.sky.com/story/henry-cav...n-axe-12769469


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[TheFlyingBanana]

We need someone unmistakably British, from a Public School background but who isn't necessarily academic, someone who is responsible for the deaths of scores of people but doesn't let it get to his conscience, someone able to lie at will to get out of tricky situations, and who has a string of failed relationships.

I give you our next Bond

Very, very good!

😁😁

[snowman]

Very, very good!

There's 'politics' and there's a joke at a politician's expense and I think this is clearly the latter and a funny one.

(I'll resist the urge to say that he was the joke at our expense... Oh, damn! )

M

[Chris_in_the_UK]

Idris, got to be Idris.

[gorrie]

Either Jamie Dornan or Tom Hiddleston would be my picks.
Hiddleston was excellent in The Night Manager in an undercover role, and Dornan showed a bit of grit in The Tourist (and obviously has the other side of a Bond nailed in Fifty Shades).

[OldHooky]

Hancock.

Desperate for anything, and hopeless at it. Perhaps more suited to Clouseau than Bond, but wouldn't put it past his ego.

Orlando Bloom. Probably the right mix of age, refinement and battle experience. Anyone who's fought Orcs is a tough old bast*rd.

[Papa Hotel]

Either Jamie Dornan or Tom Hiddleston would be my picks.
Hiddleston was excellent in The Night Manager in an undercover role, and Dornan showed a bit of grit in The Tourist (and obviously has the other side of a Bond nailed in Fifty Shades).

The problem with Dornan is that he went to the same drama school as, well, a block of wood. Seriously, the guy is a terrible actor.

[rabbitinheadlights]

Isn’t the fella from the Kickass films the favourite now?
I’d have liked to have seen Mark Strong in the role, he’s probably too old to be considered now but stick a syrup on top and there you have it, the perfect 007.

This apparently he’s already screen tested for the role and seems to be at the front of the queue.

https://metro.co.uk/2022/12/11/aaron...-17918767/amp/


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[wileeeeeey]

I'll repeat my number one choice would be Riz Ahmed. He's smooth, sophisticated, and if you've seen A Night Of you'll know he can take his menace to depths that are truly haunting. He's still only 40 too.

He would be an excellent choice. What an actor.

Mark Strong would have been good a few years back

[kozza6]

Always wish the role had become available at the right time for Clive Owen.

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[snowman]

Always wish the role had become available at the right time for Clive Owen.

Agreed, he'd have made a decent Bond.

M

[JackTommo]

I'll repeat my number one choice would be Riz Ahmed. He's smooth, sophisticated, and if you've seen A Night Of you'll know he can take his menace to depths that are truly haunting. He's still only 40 too.

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This is a great shout! Would love to see this happen

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[Martylaa]

Surely not…

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/cultur...son-james-bond

[monogroover]

I can see that. They'd put him in more classic attire and cut his hair. Then I think it would work.

[Martylaa]

I’d like to see Tom Hardy in the role, although tbh the last movie was garbage and a ridiculous ending where Bond died so not sure how they can bring him back?

[Passenger]

I’d like to see Tom Hardy in the role, although tbh the last movie was garbage and a ridiculous ending where Bond died so not sure how they can bring him back?

Agree both points...interestingly TH can fight, could actually kill with his bare hands if required as he's well into BJJ, won a couple of tournaments iirc... just referencing what someone said about DC actually looking capable of the deed as well as carrying off a dinner jacket...TH was pretty amazing playing both Kray boys...did convincing menace, even showed he loved it, the violence, INFLICTING PAIN as Ronnie...the masochism/sadism is in the books..Bond from bondage but ;less so in the films*, that dual nature...just saying and HE looked well in a suit.

* IN fairness though DC did bring a bit of that.

[Tifa]

Looking forward to a female Bond here....

[Passenger]

Looking forward to a female Bond here....

But how, really, could she be James Bond? I dunno, just how that works...

[Kingstepper]

But how, really, could she be James Bond? I dunno, just how that works...

Jamesina Bond,

[snowman]

Maybe she'll just identify as female?

More seriously the female 007 seemed a wasted opportunity in NTTD.

M

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[stefmcd]

Looking forward to a female Bond here....

Watch Alias. Great 'Jane Bond' played by Jennifer Garner. Better than any Bond films for many decades.

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[Passenger]

The SALT movie, even, cracking, imho.---ha just looked, lots of in person stunts, minimal CGI.


shit, sorry Suds.

[Saint-Just]

But how, really, could she be James Bond? I dunno, just how that works...

Nowadays she just needs to identify as a man to be James Bond

[Passenger]

Nowadays she just needs to identify as a man to be James Bond

crAZY HUH?

[oldoakknives]

I think Bond should stay as faithful to the original concept as possible.

"Facially, Bond resembles the composer, singer and actor Hoagy Carmichael. In Casino Royale, Vesper Lynd remarks, "Bond reminds me rather of Hoagy Carmichael, but there is something cold and ruthless." Likewise, in Moonraker, Special Branch Officer Gala Brand thinks that Bond is "certainly good-looking ... Rather like Hoagy Carmichael in a way. That black hair falling down over the right eyebrow. Much the same bones. But there was something a bit cruel in the mouth, and the eyes were cold." Others, such as journalist Ben Macintyre, identify aspects of Fleming's own looks in his description of Bond. General references in the novels describe Bond as having "dark, rather cruel good looks".

In the novels (notably From Russia, with Love), Bond's physical description has generally been consistent: slim build; a 3 in (76 mm) long, thin vertical scar on his right cheek; blue-grey eyes; a "cruel" mouth; short, black hair, a comma of which rests on his forehead. Physically he is described as 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) in height and 76 kg (168 lb) in weight. During Casino Royale, a SMERSH agent carves the Russian Cyrillic letter "Ш" (SH) (for Shpion: "Spy") into the back of Bond's right hand; by the start of Live and Let Die, Bond has had a skin graft to hide the scars."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_...ary_character)

[monogroover]

I’d like to see Tom Hardy in the role, although tbh the last movie was garbage and a ridiculous ending where Bond died so not sure how they can bring him back?

They'll just reboot, like they did in Casino Royale when he earned his 00 status. The Daniel Craig Bond isn't the same one that flew a Space Shuttle, got married to a Countess then widowed the same day or killed Scaramanga on some remote Asian island (etc). That said I thought it was a stupid idea to kill him off in the last film.

[Martylaa]

They'll just reboot, like they did in Casino Royale when he earned his 00 status. The Daniel Craig Bond isn't the same one that flew a Space Shuttle, got married to a Countess then widowed the same day or killed Scaramanga on some remote Asian island (etc). That said I thought it was a stupid idea to kill him off in the last film.

That’s true, but they never killed James Bond off in any other movie either.
I still remember walking out of the movies thinking what the f-c- have they done to the franchise.


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[ChronoPantera]

Maybe James Bond will wake up from a dream, or step out of the shower...

like Bobby Ewing in Dallas all those years ago !!

or maybe it will be Lashana Lynch who already took his 007 service number in No Time to Die ??