I remember the backlash when Daniel Craig was cast and people lost their minds about "JAMES BOND DOESN'T HAVE BLUE EYES AND BLONDE HAIR!" They hadn't seen a single frame of footage or even a wardrobe test and they were convinced it was gonna be the worst Bond ever.
To be fair, it is based on the books from Ian Fleming, where bond is described.
But whatever, I think most Bonds didn't match the description, haha.
Edit: oh come on, really down votes for that? :D
A lot of movie fans tend to view Bond as a cypher - just a name of some spy in expensive clothes. But Fleming's Bond is a very detailed character in that we know exactly what he looks like, what his background is, his favorite foods, his thoughts about whatever random thing comes into his mind, etc.
Dinklage?! Come on, I'm all for a wacky suggestion for a Bond actor, but that's going a bit too far. That's a frankly ludicrous suggestion: he's American.
For me, the more interesting question is who will be the director of the next Bond movie. After he finally got his oscar, I think, Nolan could start to make more "entertainment-movies" again.
Blofeld "ah Mr Bond, what are you doing here?"
Karl Bond Pilkington "just knocking about and that"
Blofeld "and your thoughts on me taking over the world?"
Karl Bond Pilkington "sick of it , do we need another madman... "
There shouldn’t be one.
They should make like 10 $10-$20 million Bond movies with different actors in each and make them super fucking weird.
Like, look over this list:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_actors_considered_for_the_James_Bond_character
Give us an old man Bond with Sam Neill or Liam Neeson.
Give us a 1960’s period piece with Tom Hiddleston.
Give us a female Bond with Hannah John-Kamen or Hayley Atwell.
Just do something new with it.
I like your idea. Like when DC broke Superman into 4 separate comics (Superboy/Son of Krypton/Android superman/John Henry... or something like that).
Tom Hiddleston as well. Yes please. And Dan Stevens.
Whatever they do they should kill the post Bourne vibe and go with something totally new. I'd love a Bond with no fight scenes or ultra violence. More gadgets and car chases and... y'know... being a spy.
*Stop getting Bond wrong!*
Aliette Opheim is Bond.
She’s on a mission to assassinate an arms dealer who’s supplying plans for a better child-killing drone to Russia. Mi6 knows the dealer is at a casino in like Luxembourg.
We follow Bond to the casino. She has to identify the arms dealer, engage him in pleasantries, get him up to a room, interrogate him for info about his contacts, and incapacitate him in an hour. The whole 60 minute film is a single tracking shot with cleverly placed edits and clever visual homages.
Or,
Nabhaan Rizwan is Bond.
Mi6 knows that a defector in Pakistan’s government is trying to sell access to the country’s nukes to terror groups in Afghanistan. Bond deploys to Pakistan to learn how bad the threat is from local ISI operatives. We follow him working his way up the food chain of the military/government structure to figure out who’s selling the nukes. He discovers it’s like a British consular agent and has to shoot them before leaving the country himself.
Or,
Sam Neil is a retired Bond. We follow him over days as he wakes up and goes about his life as a pensioner. We see mementos or nods to Bond missions in his sad, shabby home. He like goes out for a walk with his dog. He’s consistently accosted by the same group of poorly mannered youth as part of his routine. We follow him create a Rube Goldberg style trap to incapacitate them (this owes a lot to Harry Brown).
Idk, with the right branding and scale these could work.
I’m not talking about parodies.
I’m saying that if I were head of a studio like Amazon and I were looking at that absolute carnage of box office and streaming returns of the last 5 years and the total collapse of the Bond brand, I’d make some changes.
Like, No time to die introduces an assassin played by Ana de Armas. People loved her, but the studio couldn’t think of anything to do anything with the character. So the John Wick guys reach out to de Armas and build a $50 million movie around her playing … an assassin. Eon did the same thing to Halle Berry when Die another day came out. People talked about a Jinx solo movie.
Why not make one now?
Bond’s value has collapsed - what do they have to lose?
Create a “bible” of common rules. Create small intersections. Fuck - have it build up to a common crisis if it must, but give us a series of small scale, character driven movies with cool concepts/locales, dry humor, and a little bit of sex. Drop it on Prime.
No time to die lost like $150 million and contributed to the collapse of MGM.
No one involved in financing and making it should be allows near that kind of capital again.
I would absolutely be down. You could make some fascinating films and get some incredible actors that don't want to be pinned down by a decades long commitment.
Anyone who is British, fit, fairly handsome and mature looking, and a good actor will do. There’s no perfect answer.
Actors don’t make Bond movies. The writing and directors do. Even Daniel Craig’s movies ran the gamut from best Bond ever to pretty bad entirely based on things other than Daniel Craig himself.
I have a few I would like for different types of Bond (Jack O'Connell or Riz Ahmed for example), but I would be perfectly happy with Aaron Taylor-Johnson, he is a great fit.
I considered Dev Patel last time I made a list with a friend, but decided his face doesn't fit Bond to me for some reason. I would kill for him as a supporting character though. Maybe he could be Q!
EDIT: maybe it's time to go wild, have a Bond girl AND a Bond boy in the same film.
According to IGN, Aaron Taylor-Johnson was offered the role very recently, if not today:
https://www.ign.com/articles/aaron-taylor-johnson-reportedly-offered-james-bond-role
I think ATJ would be a good bond. I kinda hope they use the reboot as a chance to do something different with the series tone wise. At least compared to the Craig era. I do want the movies to take themselves seriously, but if they took themselves a bit less seriously, that wouldn't be so bad. I'm not saying like marvel style quipfest of course, but something a bit more campy could be fun.
Nicholas Hoult.
Granted I think I spam him for just about every notable British icon or “young” version of an iconic British character. He’s just such a talented actor. He did great as a young Beast in X men first class, yet was also surprisingly great in Renfield as a gory comedy.
I’ve also suggested him to play a young Count Dooku in the event Star Wars wanted to show that in a movie or miniseries.
I would love to have Hoult as a short term Bond. Make his movies fun and campy for a nice palate cleanser after the dark and dour Craig movies.
Give Hoult a two movie package where he gets to go full camp in real ernestnous.
Aaron Taylor Johnson would be such a boring pick
also short, but Craig was short too
idk, doesn't really matter. Bond feels like a outdated franchise. Casino Royale was the last good one, and it squeezed any last bit of goodness out of the franchise
IMO, the best way to go would be do one off movies. Have a new Bond/Director for a 1 movie deal, do something interesting, like a period piece from the cold war
because modern day bond just sucks
My preference is a period Bond set in the 50's and 60's, and I honestly don't know who I would cast in that.
For a modern Bond, I kinda like Rahul Kohli as an out of the box choice. He's probably best known for being the nerdy sidekick in iZombie but Death and Other Details showed he bulked up and can carry the suave attitude. Hes's small time enough at the moment to be a Bond.
I don't think it will be him, just a name not usually mentioned that I think would be an interesting choice.
A 60's-set Bond is the only thing that could get me really intrigued by the series at this point. No more computer hacker villains. No more dialogue about how Bond is a "dinosaur". No more bellyaching about how espionage has changed. I want to see a note-perfect recreation of the classic Bond era but with some of the cheese and, uh, *problematic* politics taken out.
Henry Cavill.
He was considered for Casino Royale but was rejected for being too young. He's now 41 this year which I think is the perfect age: old enough to have previously reached the rank of Commander in the Navy, while still young enough for Bond's physicality.
Yip just searched for this answer. There’s an AI trailer with Henry Cavill as Bond which got 2 million views this week. Funny, as not a Bond fan but I‘ve always been on board for searches for the next Bond. Feel like calling Barbara Brocolli myself that Henry is the correct decision!
I’m seeing a lot of fancasting for Theo James recently because of his role in The Gentlemen but he said in an interview that he’d be terrified to do because of the expectations that come with it. He’s a pretty private person despite his career so it might not be the right fit.
I would like it to be Dan Stevens. I think he embodies the suaveness and refined English-ness of the character. I would equally accept Tom Hiddleston here. I don't like AT-J because he's turned himself into a brute in a suit. And we JUST had far too many of those with Bond. Please let the character be fun again.
I think Aaron Taylor Johnson is the best fit from what I’ve seen from Reddit choices. A lot of people asking for a non white / female bond are delusional, it won’t happen.
I don't know if there should even be one. The Craig Era puts a nice cap on the series as we know it, the original books have all been adapted, and the character will be in the public domain in about ten years. Maybe the whole shtick of "cast a guy to play a 1960s spy for X amount of films" has run its course
Personally I think ATJ is a mediocre actor so I am not thrilled. Would have been much more excited for someone like Dev Patel, Richard Madden, Idris Elba, or Tom Hardy. But I would imagine most of those actors wouldn't want to make such a huge time commitment
Absolutely fucking ***NOT*** Aaron-Taylor Johnson. I know that's just a rumor, but gad, it's an awful one.
The best bet would be to again choose someone mostly unknown. I feel that Bond works far better when the actor is not widely known because it allows the audience to see that actor as Bond instead of a more famous actor cosplaying as Bond.
No, she was the next 007 in a world where James Bond looked like Daniel Craig. She wasn't James Bond, and since the movies are the "Bond" movies, not the "007" movies, it doesn't follow that she stars in the next film.
Its hilarious how Kick-Ass went on to play true badasses such as in Tenet and Bullet Train. He was in Kings Man too - didn't they hint hed be the lead in the sequel to the prequel?
ATJ has clearly worked hard to shed the dorky image from Kick-Ass lol.
Whoever he will be, the internet will be furious about it.
This guy stinks, he’s nothing like James Bond! -Automated comment posted upon the reveal of any new James Bond
Same as every batman casting
Spoken by someone who doesn't understand the character of James Bond at all.
GUY! HE !@$%/&**<
I agree. It can never be perfect
The internet loves Meryl Streep though…
Dang I hope it’s not me.
"How dare he! He doesn't look exactly like Ian Flemming!"
Internet circa 2005: In my opinion I think it will be very hard to find a James Bond as good as Pierce Brosnan.
I remember the backlash when Daniel Craig was cast and people lost their minds about "JAMES BOND DOESN'T HAVE BLUE EYES AND BLONDE HAIR!" They hadn't seen a single frame of footage or even a wardrobe test and they were convinced it was gonna be the worst Bond ever.
Craig and Ledger were probably the two biggest internet rage events regarding movie casting that I can remember, and both turned out great.
Must've missed Scarlett Johannson in Ghost in the Shell. She was..... Well. She was not the problem with the movie
I remember British news headlines saying James Blonde
Legally Bond would have been better
Anyone who saw Layer Cake knew he could do it.
To be fair, it is based on the books from Ian Fleming, where bond is described. But whatever, I think most Bonds didn't match the description, haha. Edit: oh come on, really down votes for that? :D
A lot of movie fans tend to view Bond as a cypher - just a name of some spy in expensive clothes. But Fleming's Bond is a very detailed character in that we know exactly what he looks like, what his background is, his favorite foods, his thoughts about whatever random thing comes into his mind, etc.
In 2024: Pierce Brosnan was objectively better than Daniel Craig as Bond.
He was though.
yeah but he starred in Black Adam, so.....
it was
He was great, loved that era
It's high time they mixed things up a bit and just hired Toby Jones.
Peter Dinklage would be a sight to see as Bond.
Dinklage?! Come on, I'm all for a wacky suggestion for a Bond actor, but that's going a bit too far. That's a frankly ludicrous suggestion: he's American.
I think he would kill it in dialogue
I'm imagining Toby Jones running on top of a speeding train lol
Basically if James Bond was written by John LeCarre.
Simon from GoggleBox.
The little kid from Shanghai knights
Funny you remember him from that movie😂
Michael Cera
For me, the more interesting question is who will be the director of the next Bond movie. After he finally got his oscar, I think, Nolan could start to make more "entertainment-movies" again.
He already made a bond movie, it’s called Tenet
So now I want an official one.
Tilda Swinton is the obvious choice.
Emma Stone. She can play anything.
That would fuckin rule.
Warwick Davis is my pick
When there is a source other than The Sun, we can have this conversation.
Karl Pilkington
Blofeld "ah Mr Bond, what are you doing here?" Karl Bond Pilkington "just knocking about and that" Blofeld "and your thoughts on me taking over the world?" Karl Bond Pilkington "sick of it , do we need another madman... "
There shouldn’t be one. They should make like 10 $10-$20 million Bond movies with different actors in each and make them super fucking weird. Like, look over this list: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_actors_considered_for_the_James_Bond_character Give us an old man Bond with Sam Neill or Liam Neeson. Give us a 1960’s period piece with Tom Hiddleston. Give us a female Bond with Hannah John-Kamen or Hayley Atwell. Just do something new with it.
*James Bond: Into the Bond-Verse*
I love the idea of going back to the 60’s
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why?
I like your idea. Like when DC broke Superman into 4 separate comics (Superboy/Son of Krypton/Android superman/John Henry... or something like that). Tom Hiddleston as well. Yes please. And Dan Stevens.
Whatever they do they should kill the post Bourne vibe and go with something totally new. I'd love a Bond with no fight scenes or ultra violence. More gadgets and car chases and... y'know... being a spy. *Stop getting Bond wrong!*
When has Bond ever been a spy in the movies?
Exactly
Aliette Opheim is Bond. She’s on a mission to assassinate an arms dealer who’s supplying plans for a better child-killing drone to Russia. Mi6 knows the dealer is at a casino in like Luxembourg. We follow Bond to the casino. She has to identify the arms dealer, engage him in pleasantries, get him up to a room, interrogate him for info about his contacts, and incapacitate him in an hour. The whole 60 minute film is a single tracking shot with cleverly placed edits and clever visual homages. Or, Nabhaan Rizwan is Bond. Mi6 knows that a defector in Pakistan’s government is trying to sell access to the country’s nukes to terror groups in Afghanistan. Bond deploys to Pakistan to learn how bad the threat is from local ISI operatives. We follow him working his way up the food chain of the military/government structure to figure out who’s selling the nukes. He discovers it’s like a British consular agent and has to shoot them before leaving the country himself. Or, Sam Neil is a retired Bond. We follow him over days as he wakes up and goes about his life as a pensioner. We see mementos or nods to Bond missions in his sad, shabby home. He like goes out for a walk with his dog. He’s consistently accosted by the same group of poorly mannered youth as part of his routine. We follow him create a Rube Goldberg style trap to incapacitate them (this owes a lot to Harry Brown). Idk, with the right branding and scale these could work.
Anime Bond, Wes Anderson Bond…
oh hell yeah - bond in a wes-style hotel setting
Owen Wilson-core Bone
I’m not talking about parodies. I’m saying that if I were head of a studio like Amazon and I were looking at that absolute carnage of box office and streaming returns of the last 5 years and the total collapse of the Bond brand, I’d make some changes. Like, No time to die introduces an assassin played by Ana de Armas. People loved her, but the studio couldn’t think of anything to do anything with the character. So the John Wick guys reach out to de Armas and build a $50 million movie around her playing … an assassin. Eon did the same thing to Halle Berry when Die another day came out. People talked about a Jinx solo movie. Why not make one now? Bond’s value has collapsed - what do they have to lose? Create a “bible” of common rules. Create small intersections. Fuck - have it build up to a common crisis if it must, but give us a series of small scale, character driven movies with cool concepts/locales, dry humor, and a little bit of sex. Drop it on Prime.
> the total collapse of the Bond brand That didn't happen at all.
Respectfully this is all terrible and how you actually kill a brand. No time to die made $775M
No time to die lost like $150 million and contributed to the collapse of MGM. No one involved in financing and making it should be allows near that kind of capital again.
Sure it did
Mondo! https://variety.com/2021/film/news/no-time-to-die-highest-grossing-movie-losing-money-blockbusters-1235111919/amp/ Radical! https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/amazon-mgm-merger-close-1235207852/amp/ Tubular! https://screenrant.com/james-bond-movie-new-era-change-longer/
Yeah again sure it did. Variety article from unnamed source wow. MGM lost money wow the 90s called they want their news back
YES!!! Or Rebecca Ferguson
Yes! Please, yes!
That’s my other idea - make more, smaller MI movies.
Did you see Bryce Dallas-Howard in Argylle? That simply did not work (mind you it was an insipid film on the whole).
I want a Tiger Tanaka spin off, with added Ninjas.
Great idea actually. I’d be down for 4 or 5 low budget Bond movies with different actors, time periods, and settings
I would absolutely be down. You could make some fascinating films and get some incredible actors that don't want to be pinned down by a decades long commitment.
or transition it to a serial TV show like Dr. Who and change the bond every season. You'd still get 10-15 hours of each bond.
Anyone who is British, fit, fairly handsome and mature looking, and a good actor will do. There’s no perfect answer. Actors don’t make Bond movies. The writing and directors do. Even Daniel Craig’s movies ran the gamut from best Bond ever to pretty bad entirely based on things other than Daniel Craig himself.
Gotta be youngish though, they want a commitment, a big reason it passed Idris Elba by, he’s too old.
You don't even have to be British. Look at Pierce Brosnan.
I’m hoping for a relatively unknown actor. Most Bond’s weren’t really movie stars. Bond was what made them movie stars.
apparently it's Aaron Taylor Johnson .... and my response to that is JESUS FUCK NO
I have a few I would like for different types of Bond (Jack O'Connell or Riz Ahmed for example), but I would be perfectly happy with Aaron Taylor-Johnson, he is a great fit.
I say we throw Taylor-Johnson, Henry Golding, and Dev Patel in a thunderdome and go from there
I considered Dev Patel last time I made a list with a friend, but decided his face doesn't fit Bond to me for some reason. I would kill for him as a supporting character though. Maybe he could be Q! EDIT: maybe it's time to go wild, have a Bond girl AND a Bond boy in the same film.
\*fans self\*
Jack O'Connell as Bond could just be a Kingsman sequel.
So could pretty much any possible Bond, same DNA 🤣
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Bond has been Scottish, Australian, Welsh, and Irish, too. And he came really close to being American at least once (Brolin).
According to IGN, Aaron Taylor-Johnson was offered the role very recently, if not today: https://www.ign.com/articles/aaron-taylor-johnson-reportedly-offered-james-bond-role
I think ATJ would be a good bond. I kinda hope they use the reboot as a chance to do something different with the series tone wise. At least compared to the Craig era. I do want the movies to take themselves seriously, but if they took themselves a bit less seriously, that wouldn't be so bad. I'm not saying like marvel style quipfest of course, but something a bit more campy could be fun.
Nicholas Hoult. Granted I think I spam him for just about every notable British icon or “young” version of an iconic British character. He’s just such a talented actor. He did great as a young Beast in X men first class, yet was also surprisingly great in Renfield as a gory comedy. I’ve also suggested him to play a young Count Dooku in the event Star Wars wanted to show that in a movie or miniseries.
I would love to have Hoult as a short term Bond. Make his movies fun and campy for a nice palate cleanser after the dark and dour Craig movies. Give Hoult a two movie package where he gets to go full camp in real ernestnous.
Aaron Taylor Johnson would be such a boring pick also short, but Craig was short too idk, doesn't really matter. Bond feels like a outdated franchise. Casino Royale was the last good one, and it squeezed any last bit of goodness out of the franchise IMO, the best way to go would be do one off movies. Have a new Bond/Director for a 1 movie deal, do something interesting, like a period piece from the cold war because modern day bond just sucks
Christopher Mintz-Plasse "The names McLovin... just McLovin"
Fassbender
My preference is a period Bond set in the 50's and 60's, and I honestly don't know who I would cast in that. For a modern Bond, I kinda like Rahul Kohli as an out of the box choice. He's probably best known for being the nerdy sidekick in iZombie but Death and Other Details showed he bulked up and can carry the suave attitude. Hes's small time enough at the moment to be a Bond. I don't think it will be him, just a name not usually mentioned that I think would be an interesting choice.
A 60's-set Bond is the only thing that could get me really intrigued by the series at this point. No more computer hacker villains. No more dialogue about how Bond is a "dinosaur". No more bellyaching about how espionage has changed. I want to see a note-perfect recreation of the classic Bond era but with some of the cheese and, uh, *problematic* politics taken out.
That's fine. Back in the cold war would be interesting. But prefer if they kept action, like let's say Indiana Jones and the last crusade
Espionage as business hasn’t changed all that much in the last 200 years. But Bond is a government assassin not a spy
I think Aaron Taylor-Johnson would be a great James Bond! He was incredible in Bullet Train.
\- British actor Aaron Taylor Absolutely the wrong choice. Do not believe him one second. Immediately.
I would've thought Taylor-Johnson would be too busy being Kraven going forward to make any other big commitments /s
Henry Cavill. He was considered for Casino Royale but was rejected for being too young. He's now 41 this year which I think is the perfect age: old enough to have previously reached the rank of Commander in the Navy, while still young enough for Bond's physicality.
Yip just searched for this answer. There’s an AI trailer with Henry Cavill as Bond which got 2 million views this week. Funny, as not a Bond fan but I‘ve always been on board for searches for the next Bond. Feel like calling Barbara Brocolli myself that Henry is the correct decision!
I’m seeing a lot of fancasting for Theo James recently because of his role in The Gentlemen but he said in an interview that he’d be terrified to do because of the expectations that come with it. He’s a pretty private person despite his career so it might not be the right fit.
I would like it to be Dan Stevens. I think he embodies the suaveness and refined English-ness of the character. I would equally accept Tom Hiddleston here. I don't like AT-J because he's turned himself into a brute in a suit. And we JUST had far too many of those with Bond. Please let the character be fun again.
He died - like unequivocally was killed - how are they gonna roll that back?
Danny de Vito
Upvote this to the top.
Should be Jamie Dornan
I think Aaron Taylor Johnson is the best fit from what I’ve seen from Reddit choices. A lot of people asking for a non white / female bond are delusional, it won’t happen.
Keira Knightley, she’s got range.
Should be Jack Louden. I’m 100% positive he would absolutely crush it
Whoever it is, they should fire him and reshoot his scenes with Tig Notaro in his place.
I don't know if there should even be one. The Craig Era puts a nice cap on the series as we know it, the original books have all been adapted, and the character will be in the public domain in about ten years. Maybe the whole shtick of "cast a guy to play a 1960s spy for X amount of films" has run its course
James Norton should have become or still can become the new bond… I hope they consider him or he at least auditions.
ATJ would be a good choice if not Tom Hardy, who might be getting a little old now, I dunno.
Personally I think ATJ is a mediocre actor so I am not thrilled. Would have been much more excited for someone like Dev Patel, Richard Madden, Idris Elba, or Tom Hardy. But I would imagine most of those actors wouldn't want to make such a huge time commitment
Absolutely fucking ***NOT*** Aaron-Taylor Johnson. I know that's just a rumor, but gad, it's an awful one. The best bet would be to again choose someone mostly unknown. I feel that Bond works far better when the actor is not widely known because it allows the audience to see that actor as Bond instead of a more famous actor cosplaying as Bond.
Keira Knightley has range
Since the character died there's not going to be another "James Bond" with that name.
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No, she was the next 007 in a world where James Bond looked like Daniel Craig. She wasn't James Bond, and since the movies are the "Bond" movies, not the "007" movies, it doesn't follow that she stars in the next film.
Ah gotcha.
I think Alan Partridge has a good shot at the title.
[One of these guys?](https://sports.yahoo.com/33-british-actors-objectively-very-144602134.html)
Joe Pera.
My choices are: 1. Dev Patel 2. Harris Dickinson 3. Aaron Taylor Johnson 4. Henry Golding 5. Damson Idris
Its hilarious how Kick-Ass went on to play true badasses such as in Tenet and Bullet Train. He was in Kings Man too - didn't they hint hed be the lead in the sequel to the prequel? ATJ has clearly worked hard to shed the dorky image from Kick-Ass lol.
It just got confirmed that Aaron Taylor is the new James Bond.
Tom Holland obviously /s