Nail hit squarely on the head. If they only hired guys who were a similar age to the age the last guy was when he left, then simple mathematics suggests eventually they'll be hiring pensioners!
Favourite Bond films
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Nail hit squarely on the head. If they only hired guys who were a similar age to the age the last guy was when he left, then simple mathematics suggests eventually they'll be hiring pensioners!
Exactly. Bond's age was fluid in the pre-Craig era and it will remain so in the post-Craig era, as well.Regardless of the incumbent actor's age at the time of his last film, the succeeding actor will more than likely be somewhere in his mid-to-late 30s for his first movie.
There's a reason that the 3 primary rumored frontrunners to eventually replace Craig are 38, 43, and 44, so it's not like I pulled my assessment of things completely out of nowhere, but we'll see what they do.
^ As I said before, they're not 'front-runners.' They're names which bored tabloid and showbiz writers throw out every now and again as clickbait and to fill column space. There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever to suggest that Eon are seriously considering any of these people, any more than they were seriously considering Julian McMahon to replace Brosnan.
I know of at least one occasion where someone asked Barbara Broccoli about the possibility of Elba as Bond and she was noncommittal, but we'll see what happens.
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2015/03/28/007-producers-idris-elba-would-make-a-great-james-bond
She said he'd be a good Bond but that it was like asking a woman who her next husband would be. She reiterated that Craig was the current Bond and hopefully would be for a long time.
This does not constitute making someone a front runner.
I couldn't disagree more. Brosnan was a good choice let down by poor movies. Too much stupidity, too over the top, tongue too firmly in cheek.
It shows how far Bond had drifted from grittiness of the early Connery films (From Russia With Love is still one of my favourite two Bonds) that Brosnans were seen as a welcome step back from some of the franchises excesses.
Casino Royale is stunningly good - the other of my two favourites. Quantum was O.K., but Skyfall a badly written, badly cast mis-step. Spectre's O.K. - an improvement, good but not great. Again, a great Bond let down by the material.
I get why you judge the franchise against the films you grew up with, but go and read Fleming if you want a handle on the character. There's been talk about Craigs movies being influenced by the Bourne series. There's probably some truth in that, but only as far as Bourne showed that there was a market for more serious action adventure / espionage stories. Like Bond used to be...
Personally I think it's something of a fallacy to suggest there was some golden age of serious, gritty Bond films starring Connery. There was From Russia With Love and...
Well that's it. This is a film series that began, after all, with Bond facing a mad scientist with metal hands who owned his own island, had his own nuclear reactor, and who was toppling rockets using radar beams, its not exactly John le Carré. FRWL is the exception really, then we're back to the fantastical again with cars with machine guns and ejector seats fitted to them, madmen with "lasers" and diabolical plots involving atom bombs. In the next film Bond's got a rocket pack and in the next one we have a villain with a hollowed out volcano and a spaceship that eats other space ships!
After FRWY the next time Bond was remotely grounded in reality was probably FYEO.
Or sure the preposterous nature of the films varied. OHMSS, LALD, TLD and their ilk are very different beasts to TSWLM, Moonraker and DAD after all, but at heart they're pretty much all preposterous bar a few exceptions.
But that's fine, I like a touch of the ridiculous in my spy thrillers
Well that's it. This is a film series that began, after all, with Bond facing a mad scientist with metal hands who owned his own island, had his own nuclear reactor, and who was toppling rockets using radar beams, its not exactly John le Carré. FRWL is the exception really, then we're back to the fantastical again with cars with machine guns and ejector seats fitted to them, madmen with "lasers" and diabolical plots involving atom bombs. In the next film Bond's got a rocket pack and in the next one we have a villain with a hollowed out volcano and a spaceship that eats other space ships!
After FRWY the next time Bond was remotely grounded in reality was probably FYEO.
Or sure the preposterous nature of the films varied. OHMSS, LALD, TLD and their ilk are very different beasts to TSWLM, Moonraker and DAD after all, but at heart they're pretty much all preposterous bar a few exceptions.
But that's fine, I like a touch of the ridiculous in my spy thrillers
As entertaining as it is to speculate on who'll be the next Bond, there hasn't been a good track record on this. And as much as I'd love to see Idris Elba play Bond, if Broccoli & Wilson are able to get Craig back for the final film on his contract, then Elba may very well age out by the time they're prepping Bond 26.
Also, in response to DigificWriter's suggestion of Matthew "Glee" Morrison a few pages ago, all I have to say on that subject is LOL NO.
Also, in response to DigificWriter's suggestion of Matthew "Glee" Morrison a few pages ago, all I have to say on that subject is LOL NO.
According to Dalton he was actually offered the role in 1969 (for what would become On Her Majesty's Secret Service). Whether there is any validity or not to this is up in the air, but he's quoted as saying that.
So he could have easily been Bond if he didn't feel he was too young for the role.
Personally, I've always thought that the story about Dalton being offered the role for OHMSS is Eon spin, to compensate for the fact that he was a very public second choice when Brosnan had to drop out because of his Remington Steele contract.
Ideally I wish Moore had gone out on a high note after For Your Eyes Only and then Dalton had taken over for Octopussy, so he could have ended up with potentially four movies. I really liked him as Bond. It could have been interesting to see how his take on the character might have altered Octopussy or especially A View to a Kill, which could have seriously done with some toning down.
Dear God in Heaven, no. A thousand thousand times no. Absolutely no.
More 'no' than that. Much more !
I'd have liked to have Dalton do FYEO too. Overlooked and in many ways the best of Moores films.
I like Roger, I really do, but he was a mistake as Bond.
Yeah, alternatively it's a real shame that Dalton didn't get at least to make 2 more movies after LTK. If they'd kept with the previous timetable of one every 2 years, he could've made films in 1991 & 1993 and we still get to see Brosnan in Goldeneye.
Dalton wasn't offered the part in 1969 for OHMSS, he auditioned but was told he was a bit too young. That is from one of the documentaries on the Blurays.
Having said that, although it does not have the best Bond, OHMSS is my favourite Bond film, especially at Christmas.
Another who would have liked Dalton to do more. Two wasn't nearly enough. Moore would have had a suitably camp OTT send-off with Moonraker, then if Dalton had taken over?...FYEO, hmmm, might have worked. Octopussy no, just rubbish. A retooled VTAK might possibly. Personally would have preferred different scripts/stories.
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