If you could bring any past villian back for the Craig films....

GordoLeiter

I honestly wouldnt mind seeing a new version Doctor No in a future Craig Bond movie, i think at this point we could use some gimmick villians again.

chrisisall

GordoLeiter wrote:

I honestly wouldnt mind seeing a new version Doctor No in a future Craig Bond movie, i think at this point we could use some gimmick villians again.

I totally agree!

Agent007jamest

Nick Nack the most lethal of all of Bonds villains his only weakness was large suitcases!

Napoleon Plural

Someone for Craig to tower over...

Can't have REd grant, you couldn't tell them apart.

I think Vargos would be good, of course they're all dead. Oh! Irma Bunt. And Bambi and Thumper.

Sir Hillary Bray

Would love to see Kananga stitched back together. With Dario as his henchman, a vicious pile of ground meat, in the shape of Jabba the Hutt perhaps.

Thunderpussy

I'd love to see D Craig square up to Jaws )

minigeff

Drax, the most unused and wasted villian of all the bonds.

"see that some harm comes to him" <---- could it get any more sinister than that?

Thunderpussy

Have Grace Jones return with a steel Hula hoop of Death. :v

minigeff

Thunderpussy wrote:

Have Grace Jones return with a steel Hula hoop of Death. :v

for a finishing touch you could have her wish James Bond a happy centenery

Blackleiter

I'd like to see Scaramanga, the master assassin, again. I think Christopher Lee did a fine job in the role (the only thing I liked about The Man With The Golden Gun), but the character wasn't used very well and his final confrontation with Bond fell flat. I would love to see that villain done right.

Peppermill

Although you could use some of the villains personality quirks I wouldn't re-use the name of the villain. I don't want to see a new Dr No, Goldfinger, Zorin etc. But I would like to see some of Flemings villains return under a different name. That said, I think an updated version of the Hugo Drax from the novel Moonraker would be great! I also would love to see a "villain cheating at cards and Bond figures him" scheme (like in the GF and MR books) in one of the next movies.

Thunderpussy

It would be fun to get Irma Bunt and Rosa Klebb together against Bond
Kind of two girls one Coup. )

minigeff

Can't believe no one has mentioned Red Grant yet....

i really like the idea of having like a sideline story, an assasin on bond's tail, slowly catching up with him throughout the film, with us following bond mostly but a few little updates along the way until a confrontation towards the end of the film.

bit like carrie fisher in bluebrothers ) (sorry its early and thats the only comparison i could think of)

Thunderpussy

NP, did say that if Red and Craig had a fight we couldn' tell them apart.
which is true. )

Number24

The Red Grant of the novel would be absolutely perfect or Daniel Craig` Bond. In the novel Grant is a serial killer who would "normally " murder prositutes in the streets of London, a man driven by a inner need to kill. but was recruited, trained, protected and employed as a hitman for SPECTRE. Give him a new name and a new employer and he would be tailor made for the new Bond movies.

Wint and Kidd far-out

I find it amusing to think of May Day and Xenia Onatopp being used as a female version of Wint and Kidd. )

Number24

You have a dirty mind, Wint and Kidd far-out ........ I like how you think! :v
Seriously, I think lesbian or bi-sexual characters should be used in Bond movies in the future. If done right the characters can be interesting and and sexy, the movie Bound is a good example. If done wrong it will just be sleasy and exploitative.

jamesbondagent007

Brosnan's villains would all work, I think.

Definitely a new rogue 006/terrorist leader would fit into Craig's universe quite well.

Or a power-hungry Murdoch-esque media mogul, which in today's world is a brilliant, timely sort of villain that was kind of both underdeveloped and ahead of its time in TND, imo.

Or an heiress to an oil pipeline...

But as far as the older films are concerned, I honestly think, given the recent developments with SpaceX, a Drax-like private space pioneer could be done in a much less silly, much more believable way in a Craig film. Also a villain that was ahead of his time.

A Mexican drug lord is, of course, always a good bad guy.

Thunderbird 2

I am another one for Drax.

Its irronic, in the books I was a bit disappointed that Drax was so similar to Goldfinger, compared to the film versions.

Michael Lonsdale's cool calm and sardonically dry character is always fun to watch, a solidly believable character in the centre of the Sci Fi ideas surrounding him. - The Bond baddie I'd love to play myself! Only negative point was his wardrobe was so similar to Blofeld!

Out of curiosity (and a lack of knowledge of the other books) are there any literary Bond baddies that Mr Fleming created we haven't seen yet on the screen?

Hardyboy

Thunderbird 2 wrote:

Out of curiosity (and a lack of knowledge of the other books) are there any literary Bond baddies that Mr Fleming created we haven't seen yet on the screen?

Fleming's Mr. Big (in full: Buonaparte Ignace Gallia) was never really brought to the screen: Yaphet Kotto's Kananga pretends to be a gangster called Mr. Big, but nothing at all of the Fleming character was used. OK, someone whose quest is to be the world's first "great negro criminal" is dated; but the character is interesting--physically huge, suffering from a heart condition that turns his skin gray, methodical, and in complete control of his minions. I'd love to see an updated Mr. Big in a future film.