I see the Savalas comparison, but I don't think it would work. The fact that Diesel is a regular in a competent action movie franchise is only one reason I think he's wrong for the role.
I think an experienced theater actors or a foreign movie star who haven't made it yet intetnationally would work better.
I've never seen the Daredevil show, but I like the idea of a more physical hands-on Blofeld
Telly Savalas was the best cinematic version
whereas the Pleasance and Gray versions were very effete and rather aristocratic, entirely dependent on the competence of their underlings, exactly the traits mocked so successfully by Mike Meyers
if theyre going to differentiate the official new Blofeld from Dr Evil they should be following the Savalas example and get an actor tuff enough to believably take on Craig alone without the help of his minions
(...too bad they already cast Drax the Destroyer as another character, maybe he could play Blofeld the way I want to see him played)
SPECTRE feels like two movies spliced together, the pacing feels a little odd
near the end. It might have been better to have it simply set up the Blofeld
character, as suggested keeping him in the shadows directing the mayhem.
then Visually unveil him in Bond 25.
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
Which Blofeld do you want to recast?
Novel Blofeld in the TB gave me very strong Telly Savalas wibes, although he was a bit small (IF describes Blofeld being 130kg!) OHMSS Blofeld; I for some reason imagine a man looking like Ian McKellen as magneto in civvies... go figure!
Christopher Waltz IMHO was a terrible fit for Blofeld; it felt almost as if the production staff were trying to get a feel for what fans would think about these radical departures in character backgrounds... I'm not saying this has anything to do with who's going to be cast as the next Bond, but we will see where this leads...
Anyways; I would like to see a Blofeld that would have this overtly benign, but covertly sinister character. Someone that is not necessarily a physical fit to the previous Blofelds, but someone who can preside over a board meeting of SPECTRE in a business like manner, like Gymkata said; some one with "... the right blend of intelligence, competence, and menace, and you absolutely believed that he'd be a leader in an organization."
Waltz was a clown, a school yard bully you could absolutely believe harassing "kid Bond" in the boarding school dormitory at night, but not some one you'd believe running a world wide criminal syndicate!
"I mean, she almost kills bond...with her ass."
-Mr Arlington Beech
I saw Mr. D'Onofrio live at Emerald City Comic Con- it was quite the gathering! Although the main draw for me, was an appearance by the lovely Evangelline Lilly
Since no one has suggested it, how about Mike Meyers...?
LOL j/k
Rule Number 1: "Don't change the deal."
Rule Number 2: "No names", and
Rule Number 3: "Never open the package."
Since no one has suggested it, how about Mike Meyers...?
maybe just kidding, but he'd do a better job than Waltz's unfunny Dr Evil impersonation.
...and I would love to see the real Dr Evil vs CraigBond! the two actors should just get together and release a unofficial short film like that online, it'd be so awesome!
Since no one has suggested it, how about Mike Meyers...?
maybe just kidding, but he'd do a better job than Waltz's unfunny Dr Evil impersonation.
...and I would love to see the real Dr Evil vs CraigBond! the two actors should just get together and release a unofficial short film like that online, it'd be so awesome!
Not comedy per se, but Craig had a humourous side on display in Logan Lucky. Pretty convincing as a Southern American too.
On a slightly more serious note, I wonder how Yul Brynner might have done as Blofeld?
Rule Number 1: "Don't change the deal."
Rule Number 2: "No names", and
Rule Number 3: "Never open the package."
Not comedy per se, but Craig had a humourous side on display in Logan Lucky. Pretty convincing as a Southern American too.
oh I agree, I've said before he is the funniest Bond since Roger. Maybe not apparent at first glance since he's so tuff and violent and grim and gritty, but in all four films he's always adding these little touches to demonstrate his bad attitude, often the most entertaining parts of the film. for example, "I think I'll call you 'C'." To his boss's boss while M sits there fidgeting awkwardly! That alone was funnier than any oneliner Brosnan ever cracked, and I don't remember Dalton even trying.
I think it would be awesome to watch him share a stage with Mike Meyers. Universes collide and all that. Craig could do it.
Just happened to come across the Jaguar "Good to be Bad"/"Rendezvous" ad again today (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-_30ZRZAI0) and it reminded me how i'd definitely be 100% on the Mark Strong as Blofeld train. Actually I would just really love to see him as any major villain opposite Craig for 25. They'd probably have great chemistry on screen and I think he'd be able to pull off a great Bond villain.
On that note I think Hiddleston would make a pretty decent modern Bond villain as well...that would sure be a surprising casting twist for 25.
...Also the first time I noticed that the ad features Blofeld's Dauphin helicopter from Spectre flying down the Thames again, so both actors sort of have that Bond villain connection already.
Is Mark Strong old enough? Would Blofeld be played by an American again? I think whether or not Waltz is coming back, I think EON's choice of Waltz gives us an idea of who they think should play Blofeld.
I think that means Blofeld is European, which I would include Brits in that. Charles Gray, Donald Pleasance and Anthony Dawson were all British. They had all done a mix of TV and film before their respective Bond films. Hence, the choice of Waltz.
Waltz was born in 1956, and Bond has usually been many years older than Bond. Waltz is 12 years older than DC. Telly Savalas was 47 in 1969 and Lazenby was 17 years younger. Connery was in his thirties and Pleasance was in his fifties. Admittedly, Charles Gray was only 2 years older than Connery, but he looked a lot older with his grey hair. So, we know Bond25 Blofeld is likely to be several years older. Mark Strong is only five years older than DC. And a well known face. I'm guessing 10-15 years old is a good age range for Blofeld.
With all that in mind and a search using the handy IMDB advanced search engine a lot of candidates come up, but I'm not sure how many are convincing. In descending order of fame, basically, after about 200 people you get into the Z list actors.
People IMDB brings up that I think are too well known, or can't act, for Blofeld are, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Gary Oldman, Sean Bean, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant. Kevin Spacey makes an appearance, but I think his career is over.
Kenneth Branagh is in there and he has said he'd like to be a Bond villain, but I can't see him as Blofeld and again, I think he is too well known. Other British actors are, Daniel Day Lewis, Tim Spall, Peter Capaldi, Mark Rylance and Ray Winstone. I can't imagine Lewis would want to do it, but I think Rylance would be great.
Other European actors in the list are, Antonio Banderas, Christopher Lambert, Brendan Gleeson, Zeljko Ivanek (a Slovenian actor who is in 3 Billboards), and I would add Czech actor Vladimir Kulich, only because I think he looks the part and he's 6ft 5", and Fleming's Blofeld was massive. Of those five actors, my choices would be Ivanek and Kulich.
For Americans, I think J K Simmons could be a good Blofeld, if he can do a European accent.
If Blofeld is even in the next film (likely) I've got a feeling its going to be Gary Oldman, fresh off his Oscar win - after all he has a track record of screen villainy...
Personally I'd rather someone else do it, especially a few of those suggested in this thread but if Danny Boyle is going to direct I can see Oldman making it an all British affair.
Japanese proverb say, "Bird never make nest in bare tree".
Since EON usually chose's the most obvious actors to play villains (Mikkelsen, Bardem, Waltz) I would like to see Cumberbatch as one, just not Blofeld.
If Blofeld is even in the next film (likely) I've got a feeling its going to be Gary Oldman, fresh off his Oscar win - after all he has a track record of screen villainy...
Personally I'd rather someone else do it, especially a few of those suggested in this thread but if Danny Boyle is going to direct I can see Oldman making it an all British affair.
Gary Oldman would be a good choice, Smithers500.
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I see Blofeld as someone whom should be big in the shoulders and taller than Bond.
james362001Lancaster, California USAPosts: 338MI6 Agent
Since EON usually chose's the most obvious actors to play villains (Mikkelsen, Bardem, Waltz) I would like to see Cumberbatch as one, just not Blofeld.
Another good choice, waltherp99. I can see Cumberbatch as a villain.
I think the next Blofeld should be played by a theatre actor or someone who is a star in their native country, but isn't well known internatioanally. Mikael Persbrandt (54 years old, 189 cm tall) is a star in Sweden and would make a great Blofeld.
I think the next Blofeld should be played by a theatre actor or someone who is a star in their native country, but isn't well known internatioanally. Mikael Persbrandt (54 years old, 189 cm tall) is a star in Sweden and would make a great Blofeld.
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I think an experienced theater actors or a foreign movie star who haven't made it yet intetnationally would work better.
Vincent D'Onofrio, here playing Kingpin in Netflix's Daredevil
Vincent D'onforio as Wilson Fiske in Netfix Daredevil.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4X4SpcM79M
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingpin_(character)
I've never seen the Daredevil show, but I like the idea of a more physical hands-on Blofeld
Telly Savalas was the best cinematic version
whereas the Pleasance and Gray versions were very effete and rather aristocratic, entirely dependent on the competence of their underlings, exactly the traits mocked so successfully by Mike Meyers
if theyre going to differentiate the official new Blofeld from Dr Evil they should be following the Savalas example and get an actor tuff enough to believably take on Craig alone without the help of his minions
(...too bad they already cast Drax the Destroyer as another character, maybe he could play Blofeld the way I want to see him played)
near the end. It might have been better to have it simply set up the Blofeld
character, as suggested keeping him in the shadows directing the mayhem.
then Visually unveil him in Bond 25.
Novel Blofeld in the TB gave me very strong Telly Savalas wibes, although he was a bit small (IF describes Blofeld being 130kg!) OHMSS Blofeld; I for some reason imagine a man looking like Ian McKellen as magneto in civvies... go figure!
Christopher Waltz IMHO was a terrible fit for Blofeld; it felt almost as if the production staff were trying to get a feel for what fans would think about these radical departures in character backgrounds... I'm not saying this has anything to do with who's going to be cast as the next Bond, but we will see where this leads...
Anyways; I would like to see a Blofeld that would have this overtly benign, but covertly sinister character. Someone that is not necessarily a physical fit to the previous Blofelds, but someone who can preside over a board meeting of SPECTRE in a business like manner, like Gymkata said; some one with "... the right blend of intelligence, competence, and menace, and you absolutely believed that he'd be a leader in an organization."
Waltz was a clown, a school yard bully you could absolutely believe harassing "kid Bond" in the boarding school dormitory at night, but not some one you'd believe running a world wide criminal syndicate!
-Mr Arlington Beech
I saw Mr. D'Onofrio live at Emerald City Comic Con- it was quite the gathering! Although the main draw for me, was an appearance by the lovely Evangelline Lilly
Since no one has suggested it, how about Mike Meyers...?
LOL j/k
Rule Number 2: "No names", and
Rule Number 3: "Never open the package."
...and I would love to see the real Dr Evil vs CraigBond! the two actors should just get together and release a unofficial short film like that online, it'd be so awesome!
Not comedy per se, but Craig had a humourous side on display in Logan Lucky. Pretty convincing as a Southern American too.
On a slightly more serious note, I wonder how Yul Brynner might have done as Blofeld?
Rule Number 2: "No names", and
Rule Number 3: "Never open the package."
I think it would be awesome to watch him share a stage with Mike Meyers. Universes collide and all that. Craig could do it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkmi_UTsjtE
A shame Herve Villachaize isn't around any more. That would have been some Nick Nack patty whack crossover :P
Rule Number 2: "No names", and
Rule Number 3: "Never open the package."
For Blofeld.
( ;% )
On that note I think Hiddleston would make a pretty decent modern Bond villain as well...that would sure be a surprising casting twist for 25.
...Also the first time I noticed that the ad features Blofeld's Dauphin helicopter from Spectre flying down the Thames again, so both actors sort of have that Bond villain connection already.
I think that means Blofeld is European, which I would include Brits in that. Charles Gray, Donald Pleasance and Anthony Dawson were all British. They had all done a mix of TV and film before their respective Bond films. Hence, the choice of Waltz.
Waltz was born in 1956, and Bond has usually been many years older than Bond. Waltz is 12 years older than DC. Telly Savalas was 47 in 1969 and Lazenby was 17 years younger. Connery was in his thirties and Pleasance was in his fifties. Admittedly, Charles Gray was only 2 years older than Connery, but he looked a lot older with his grey hair. So, we know Bond25 Blofeld is likely to be several years older. Mark Strong is only five years older than DC. And a well known face. I'm guessing 10-15 years old is a good age range for Blofeld.
With all that in mind and a search using the handy IMDB advanced search engine a lot of candidates come up, but I'm not sure how many are convincing. In descending order of fame, basically, after about 200 people you get into the Z list actors.
People IMDB brings up that I think are too well known, or can't act, for Blofeld are, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Gary Oldman, Sean Bean, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant. Kevin Spacey makes an appearance, but I think his career is over.
Kenneth Branagh is in there and he has said he'd like to be a Bond villain, but I can't see him as Blofeld and again, I think he is too well known. Other British actors are, Daniel Day Lewis, Tim Spall, Peter Capaldi, Mark Rylance and Ray Winstone. I can't imagine Lewis would want to do it, but I think Rylance would be great.
Other European actors in the list are, Antonio Banderas, Christopher Lambert, Brendan Gleeson, Zeljko Ivanek (a Slovenian actor who is in 3 Billboards), and I would add Czech actor Vladimir Kulich, only because I think he looks the part and he's 6ft 5", and Fleming's Blofeld was massive. Of those five actors, my choices would be Ivanek and Kulich.
For Americans, I think J K Simmons could be a good Blofeld, if he can do a European accent.
Personally I'd rather someone else do it, especially a few of those suggested in this thread but if Danny Boyle is going to direct I can see Oldman making it an all British affair.
Oooooh ... Sideshow Bob as a Bond Villain !!!
https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/948274/James-Bond-25-villain-Benedict-Cumberbatch-Daniel-Craig-Danny-Boyle-Avengers-Infinity-War
Gary Oldman would be a good choice, Smithers500.
Agreed, this guy certainly looks bad ass!