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Post by jimnastics on Mar 19, 2024 13:51:29 GMT
Eh... this guy won't be far off the same age as Craig was for Casino Royale by the time it's released. I was hoping they'd mix it up a bit. Shit, that's wild. I don't know if it's because Craig was already pretty famous when he was cast, or because of how quickly they seemed to switch to "Old Man Bond" (literally his third film!), but I always pegged him as being in his early forties right from the off. Meanwhile I still think of Johnson as being the teenager from Kick-Ass, despite how hench he was in Tenet. But yeah: Johnson is currently 33, Craig was 38 when Casino Royale came out. Not that much difference. He'll basically get just one film where he's a bit younger than Craig's Bond ever was. Obviously they can (and hopefully will) make his Bond a different beast to Craig's, but I feel like there's so much that could be done with a 20-something Bond, even if it's pre-MI6 stuff. |
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Post by drhickman1983 on Mar 19, 2024 14:19:33 GMT
Connery was 31 during the filming of Dr No.
Lazenby was 29.
It doesn't help that in my head Aaron Taylor-Johnson is still 18 or 19 and fresh from filming Kick Ass, but really he's in the right age range.
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Post by clemfandango on Mar 19, 2024 14:20:14 GMT
Craig turning from a fit 40 year old with a questionable Bond aesthetic into a fit 60 year old with a Sid James plastic surgery job in the space of 10 years didn't help the franchise much...
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Post by clemfandango on Mar 19, 2024 14:21:05 GMT
Also Dan Stevens is the only correct choice for Bond.
So hot right now...
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Post by clemfandango on Mar 19, 2024 14:22:12 GMT
We just need to hope we don't get Barry.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Mar 19, 2024 14:25:25 GMT
As a 53 year old, give me fifty, three year olds again. Erm, hang on that's not right... You could have three seventeen year olds, which would be a bit righter, if not fully rightest.
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Post by simple on Mar 19, 2024 14:27:55 GMT
I’m curious what kind of Bond they’ll do since Casino Royale was very much a response to the Bourne Identity more grounded style of action after the 90s stuff got so overblown. But the big action trend of the last 10 years has been Marvel and Fast & Furious films being live action cartoons.
I guess Missions Impossible have always done their own thing and Bond stayed broadly with that grounded style, but is it time for a new shake up and brand of action to take over? What would that even be?
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Post by harrypalmer on Mar 19, 2024 14:33:31 GMT
I've said it before but Jodie Comer would have slayed as Bond. She'll probably end up as evil Bond girl.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Mar 19, 2024 14:41:51 GMT
I feel like maybe they should take him back to the more suave, quipping Bond as a change from the gritty craig Bond.
But as long as they have a coherent vision, good stunts, gadgets and a decent story, I don't really mind all that much.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Mar 19, 2024 14:45:20 GMT
Sorry, has this actually been confirmed?
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Post by cubby on Mar 19, 2024 14:50:04 GMT
It's rumoured, ain't that enough for 6 pages nowadays?
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Post by wunty on Mar 19, 2024 14:51:03 GMT
Bring back Brosnan!
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Post by wunty on Mar 19, 2024 14:51:29 GMT
Just de-age him or some shit. Then just make a new version of Goldeneye.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Mar 19, 2024 14:51:30 GMT
Chris Pratt should do it.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Mar 19, 2024 14:53:10 GMT
It seems highly suspicious that this news has surfaced around the same time that Kate has disappeared
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Mar 19, 2024 14:53:38 GMT
I’m curious what kind of Bond they’ll do since Casino Royale was very much a response to the Bourne Identity more grounded style of action after the 90s stuff got so overblown. But the big action trend of the last 10 years has been Marvel and Fast & Furious films being live action cartoons. It would have been John Wick a few years ago but that fad has kind of died. |
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Post by wunty on Mar 19, 2024 14:56:36 GMT
Talking of Goldeneye. It's on ITVX so me and the family sat down to watch it Saturday just gone. All of Famke Janssens fight scenes have been cut. You know, where she kind of moans alot. Basically the bits I was looking forward to. Gutted.
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Post by darkling on Mar 19, 2024 14:58:05 GMT
Does the Bond franchise have anywhere left to go? Anything left to say?
It's going to be difficult to come up with a completely original direction for the franchise, so failing that, I'd like to see a return to a far less serious Bond.
I'm so tired of bleak, hyper realistic, violent films, stuffed full of "cool" po-faced characters that take themselves too seriously.
I want ridiculous gadgets and memorable action sequences. I can barely remember a single thing that happens in the Daniel Craig films, but I remember Brosnan smashing a tank through walls in St. Petersburg whilst adjusting his tie.
My guess is we'll get something impressive but ultimately forgettable, like the recent Mission Impossible films.
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Post by harrypalmer on Mar 19, 2024 15:12:54 GMT
Bond needs a wisecracking child sidekick.
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Post by cubby on Mar 19, 2024 15:17:14 GMT
BONDEEEY!
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Post by zisssou on Mar 19, 2024 15:17:45 GMT
Remake Goldfinger, with where Bond slaps her arse "man talk" and then it goes into a court room drama for sexual harassment.
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Post by clemfandango on Mar 19, 2024 15:19:01 GMT
I feel like maybe they should take him back to the more suave, quipping Bond as a change from the gritty craig Bond. But as long as they have a coherent vision, good stunts, gadgets and a decent story, I don't really mind all that much. Dan Stevens say hello... So hot right now |
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Mar 19, 2024 15:21:23 GMT
We missed the Dan Stevens window but we still have The Guest (available on ITVX, kids)
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Mar 19, 2024 15:22:41 GMT
Does the Bond franchise have anywhere left to go? Anything left to say? My wish would be for them to go back to not needing to. I don't think we need the BCU anymore, just go back to stand alone capers. |
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Post by Jambowayoh on Mar 19, 2024 15:28:03 GMT
Does Bond HAVE to have anything to say? What's wrong with a spy romp?
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Post by clemfandango on Mar 19, 2024 15:36:10 GMT
We missed the Dan Stevens window but we still have The Guest (available on ITVX, kids) True, he's too old now. Its a shame as he would have been perfect. |
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Post by jono62 on Mar 19, 2024 15:39:15 GMT
We missed the Dan Stevens window but we still have The Guest (available on ITVX, kids) It's on Netflix too. |
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Post by wunty on Mar 19, 2024 15:41:16 GMT
I have a feeling this has been discussed before, or it may just be me making up a discussion in my head... I'd like for them to Man from UNCLE it and actually set it back in the 60s. Just make it a proper old school Bond (albeit without the sexism/racism) and then just camp it up in terms of ludicrous gadgets, overblown action sequencies, crazy and iconic villains and henchmen/women.
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Post by cubby on Mar 19, 2024 15:44:47 GMT
I think that's got to be the next logical step, and retro is so in now it'd play pretty well imo.
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Post by zisssou on Mar 19, 2024 15:50:25 GMT
I have a feeling this has been discussed before, or it may just be me making up a discussion in my head... I'd like for them to Man from UNCLE it and actually set it back in the 60s. Just make it a proper old school Bond (albeit without the sexism/racism) and then just camp it up in terms of ludicrous gadgets, overblown action sequencies, crazy and iconic villains and henchmen/women. Problem is that Austin Powers somewhat ruined that concept. |
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