Daniel Craig/ James Bond Replacement

[Pickle_Rick]

I'm all for Elba. 1. he's an incredible actor 2. he fits all the qualities and 3. If you vote for anyone else, you'll probably be called a racist.

Elba is your guy.

Just like the boy who cried wolf, "racis'" has been over used and only works on soyboys and snowflakes. I've been called worse by better people.

 

[kritikalcat]

For all of the Bonds I think most like Connery the best and I agree but, my second choice is Timothy Dalton. I wish he had done a couple more.

I agree, I think maybe he was too Bond - too much like what Fleming envisioned versus the popular image created by the movies. In attitude I think Craig and Connery are the most similar after Dalton.

 

[kritikalcat]

Cavill is 38 and would be like 41 by the time the next movie comes out. But Brosnan was 42, Dalton 41, Moore 46 at their first movies.

I got my wife into 007 movies last year, watching in order. She thinks Moore is laughably old for the part long before his run ended

 

[kritikalcat]

1. Can't be that young. Bond was an ex Commander in the Royal Navy. That's a Lieutenant Colonel. Don't get there in your 20s. Add in a few more years of training after going into Her Majestys Secret Service and the experience to get to 007 level and you're looking at at least 35 to 38.

Fleming’s Bond joined the Secret Service in 1938 and was commissioned a lieutenant in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, Special Branch in 1941 and promoted to Commander by the end of the war.

Fleming himself was commissioned a Lieutenant in the RNVR in May 1939 at age 31 (Bond is around 23-24 but Fleming changed and froze his age at various times) and promoted to Lt Commander within a few months.

promotions can come very fast in wartime, especially if politics are involved, or - like Fleming - your family connections get you a job as personal assistant to an Admiral

 

[Wildcats1st]

Look if they want to kill off bond and the new 007 is a black guy I’m fine with that. Casting a black person to play a white character I’m sorry but it will kill the franchise going forward. I think the way you expand it is to have 00 spin off franchise that stars a black actor or woman. Edirs Elba is a good actor but no way is he James Bond and you can’t make bond films with that tropic thunder under tone. If they did make a nutty move like this though John boyega would probably be the guy. Even a 00 spin off boyega would make a good agent.

It shouldn’t even be discussed though. Stick to who the character is.


fwiw I think Henry cavill is the man for the job. It’s all about money and he will be the biggest draw. When you see him speak with his British accent it makes too much sense.

 

[Get Buckets]

Craig definitely had the duck lips and blue steel poses down.

 

[bigblueinsanity_rivals250340]

Cavill is 38 and would be like 41 by the time the next movie comes out. But Brosnan was 42, Dalton 41, Moore 46 at their first movies.

He has the super soldier serum though. So it isn't the normal 41

 

[Wildcats1st]

New name to watch jai Courtney

 

[bigblueinsanity_rivals250340]

New name to watch jai Courtney

Internet says he's Australian. Doesn't that rule him out?

 

[syrus12]

Internet says he's Australian. Doesn't that rule him out?

He was only Bond once....but George Lazenby was Australian.

 

[ganner918_rivals60369]

He was only Bond once....but George Lazenby was Australian.

Yeah, and he sucked

 

[WildcatFan1982]

My favorite part of Goldfinger is still when they stick the FBI agents in front of a KFC to establish that they are in Kentucky.