Have they done anything CG/AI or whatever to make him look younger..? He looks great and could easily do another Bond on this evidence.
Would solve a lot of problems, many Bond fans and average cinema goers would be happy with him coming back and it could be a way out of the corner they've painted themselves into with Bond's demise in NTTD. Personally I would love for him to return for one last romp of a Bond film and go out on a high rather than the low he left us with. Every man has his price... Just pay the man whatever he wants BB and make it happen!
I agree, they might not have brought back Judi Dench as M if Pierce's James bond died at the end of, err, Die Another Day. I say this because I think a lot of the general audience probably just think she's the same M in Casino Royale and that Craig is apart of the same loose continuity which stretched from Connery to Brosnan.
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It can be solved in many ways, but here are some of my favourites:
I'm very much on the fence about M. Maybe Idris Elba or Hugh Laurie?
M runs MI6, but Moneypenny runs the 00-section. I'd like to see Rose Leslie (Ygritte in GoT) as Moneypenny. Or they could go a bit older and cast Kate Winslet.
I think Toby Jones would be a great Q. If they want to go in a different direction Q can be played by a British-Indian or Arab-British actor.
Brosnan had no Felix Leiter and Craig had a black Leiter. Let's go back to Fleming had have Leiter as a blonde ex-marine from Texas!
I had trouble finding a more relevant thread for this post, but here we go. If Bond is to get a new pistol, maybe the Laugo Alien is the answer? It's unusually accurate (and unusually expensive) because of a special operating mechanism. It's an expert's gun. The Laugo Alien is so acvurate only the best shots can exploit its full potential, such ad top competitive shooters. Sending the message that Bond is one of the few who needs this kind of gun shows how elite he is. It's also distinctive looking pistol, and I feel that's important for Bond's gun. I feel pistols like sedan cars look mostly alike these days. I also think the Alien is elegant. The gun is probably too large for concealed carry, so maybe the solution is having 007 use the Alien as a combat gun. You know, like Brosnan usually carried the PKK, but when combat was likely he used the P99.
Only the sides of the slide moves. The barrel doesn't move at all, making the Alien extremely accurate.
When one cocks a normal pistol the whole slide moves back and the barrel also moves.
I'm not interested in guns so forgive me, but when you say the barrel moves when one cocks a gun, how does it move? I thought it stayed still whilst the slide moves back around it.
Let's first make it clear that I'm under no delusion that I'm a gun expert. But as I understand it, most pistols tilt or rotate when a new round is fed into the chamber.
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Most automatics with a larger calibre have to absorb heavier recoil, so as the slide moves back against a spring, the barrel also moves slightly back and down to disengage from locking into the slide. As the barrel is then tilted back against the magazine, this aids the next round being fed into the chamber. As the slide returns forward, it engages the barrel and locks it into place again, as well as locking the chambered round into a better seated position ready to be fired. This is an oversimplified explanation, but that’s about it. In smaller calibres, this isn’t needed so the barrel can be fixed, like the PPK. But anything over 9mmP, the floating barrel is the most common method. There are fixed barrelled larger calibre guns, but these usually have to rely on different recoil absorbing methods, like the gas blowback HK P7 series. But this has its drawbacks as porting the gas into a chamber creates retained heat and it’s very dirty as the burned powder is channeled back into the mechanism.
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This is certainly a unique firearm, but I’m not sure I see Bond carrying one. It’s a full-sized pistol, which doesn’t really suit Bond’s character. Also, it’s sinfully ugly. Bond should drive beautiful cars, where beautiful clothing, and carry beautiful weapons. That’s why the PPK has endured in Bond’s holster, despite the prevalence of arguably better modern options. For my money, if Bond doesn’t carry a Walther, then he should carry a Beretta.
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Here are my wishes for Bond 26:
Title: Risico or maybe Everything or Nothing.
Director: Taika Watiti or Matthew Vaughn
Bond: Robbie Williams
Titelsong: Lana Del Rey or Adele
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Have they done anything CG/AI or whatever to make him look younger..? He looks great and could easily do another Bond on this evidence.
Would solve a lot of problems, many Bond fans and average cinema goers would be happy with him coming back and it could be a way out of the corner they've painted themselves into with Bond's demise in NTTD. Personally I would love for him to return for one last romp of a Bond film and go out on a high rather than the low he left us with. Every man has his price... Just pay the man whatever he wants BB and make it happen!
(P.S. I do know this will never happen...)
Did you notice how NTTD ended and why do you think Craig insisted on that ending?
Yep (see my P.S.) I don't think this will happen at all.
But anything can happen in the world of make believe, and every man has his price...
Anyway, it was just a general observation of how good he still looks (in that promo, anyway) and that he could still be Bond.
Yes, he still looks good.
Title: Everything Or Nothing
with Robbie Williams as James Bond 007, Cara Delevigne as Loelia Ponsonby.
Sydney Sweeney as Gala Brand.
With Ben Whishaw as Q, Ralph Fiennes as M.
Willem Dafoe as Colonel Von Hammerstein and as his augmented Henchman Katy M. O' Brien as Horror.
Titlesong interpreted by Lana Del Rey
Directed by Taika Waititi
Some interesting ideas there, but wouldn't it look strange when two of the actors/characters where at James Bond's wake?
They could pull a Hugh Jackman! 😁
You forget the second part of my question.
No, I'm just be facetious. 😊
😁
@Number 24, it could be different Versions of those Characters played by those same Actors.
Roger Moore had different Ms, okay M did not die. I would not mind though.
Could be, but what would be the point? It would just ad confusion.
I agree, they might not have brought back Judi Dench as M if Pierce's James bond died at the end of, err, Die Another Day. I say this because I think a lot of the general audience probably just think she's the same M in Casino Royale and that Craig is apart of the same loose continuity which stretched from Connery to Brosnan.
Absolutely. The Craig Scooby gang did a great job, but bringing them back now would be a big mistake.
It can be solved in many ways, but here are some of my favourites:
Kate Winslet and Toby Jones are both good calls, N24 👍🏻
I had trouble finding a more relevant thread for this post, but here we go. If Bond is to get a new pistol, maybe the Laugo Alien is the answer? It's unusually accurate (and unusually expensive) because of a special operating mechanism. It's an expert's gun. The Laugo Alien is so acvurate only the best shots can exploit its full potential, such ad top competitive shooters. Sending the message that Bond is one of the few who needs this kind of gun shows how elite he is. It's also distinctive looking pistol, and I feel that's important for Bond's gun. I feel pistols like sedan cars look mostly alike these days. I also think the Alien is elegant. The gun is probably too large for concealed carry, so maybe the solution is having 007 use the Alien as a combat gun. You know, like Brosnan usually carried the PKK, but when combat was likely he used the P99.
Only the sides of the slide moves. The barrel doesn't move at all, making the Alien extremely accurate.
When one cocks a normal pistol the whole slide moves back and the barrel also moves.
Ugly looking thing. Quite distinctive though.
In Norwegian we have the word "styggpen" , meaning "uglypretty". I can't think of a better word for it in English.
I'm not interested in guns so forgive me, but when you say the barrel moves when one cocks a gun, how does it move? I thought it stayed still whilst the slide moves back around it.
Let's first make it clear that I'm under no delusion that I'm a gun expert. But as I understand it, most pistols tilt or rotate when a new round is fed into the chamber.
Most automatics with a larger calibre have to absorb heavier recoil, so as the slide moves back against a spring, the barrel also moves slightly back and down to disengage from locking into the slide. As the barrel is then tilted back against the magazine, this aids the next round being fed into the chamber. As the slide returns forward, it engages the barrel and locks it into place again, as well as locking the chambered round into a better seated position ready to be fired. This is an oversimplified explanation, but that’s about it. In smaller calibres, this isn’t needed so the barrel can be fixed, like the PPK. But anything over 9mmP, the floating barrel is the most common method. There are fixed barrelled larger calibre guns, but these usually have to rely on different recoil absorbing methods, like the gas blowback HK P7 series. But this has its drawbacks as porting the gas into a chamber creates retained heat and it’s very dirty as the burned powder is channeled back into the mechanism.
and the difference between fixed and floating barrel….
This is certainly a unique firearm, but I’m not sure I see Bond carrying one. It’s a full-sized pistol, which doesn’t really suit Bond’s character. Also, it’s sinfully ugly. Bond should drive beautiful cars, where beautiful clothing, and carry beautiful weapons. That’s why the PPK has endured in Bond’s holster, despite the prevalence of arguably better modern options. For my money, if Bond doesn’t carry a Walther, then he should carry a Beretta.
Thank you, interesting.
I don't see the Alien as Bond's carry sidearm. As I mentioned it could have the same role as the P99 in the Brosnan movies.
I quite liked it in CR where he used both (didn’t he?). A bit like how they worked out it would be possible for him to own more than one watch 😄
Yeah, he used the PPK in the toilet fight with Fisher. TND being the only other film where he uses both PPK and P99.