Would Bond (and Movie fans) accept a "retro Bond"?
perdogg
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It looks like that Bond 23 will not be around until 2012 or 2013. I don't think the movie will be interested in Daniel Craig and Judi Dench may not even be around heaven forbid.
Why not a retro Bond that takes place in the late 50s and early 60s and have Jude Law play Bond? Since Bond was born around 1920, it would be apropiate that some one about his age play 007.
There is still untapped Fleming/Amis material that has to be used.
Why not a retro Bond that takes place in the late 50s and early 60s and have Jude Law play Bond? Since Bond was born around 1920, it would be apropiate that some one about his age play 007.
There is still untapped Fleming/Amis material that has to be used.
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I could see Jude Law as Harry Palmer - maybe The Ipcress File etc could be remade in such a way, I'd definately pay to see that.
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Harry palmer is a superb suggstion, but Bond please no.
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i'm sure judi is delighted with your comments there dogg
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LOL genius casting occuring here ! A metrosexual playing Bond and now a soccer hooligan playing Palmer.
I don't want to offend anyone when I say that. I just think that the casting choices are the polar opposites of the characters.
I think it could be a good idea. Especially about Jude. -{
A lot of British actors are fey any way.
If being a Metrosexual mean "having relations" Sienna Miller, then what is the bloody downside? I thought he was great in "Gattaca" and "Breaking and Entering".
I would love to do a remake of "Live and Let Die" closer to the orginial Fleming novel with the following cast:
Jude Law - James Bond
Michelle Ryan - Simone Latrelle aka Solitaire
Charles S. Dutton - Buonaparte Ignace Gallia
Guy Pearce - Felix Leiter
Too fey, too bald(ing), not tough enough...just generally too lightwieght in every sense. There is just nothing 'Bondian' about him
As zpahod said, the guy is TOO fey. He isn't James Bond, he too much of a leightweight and carries himself that way. I could not believe for a minute he could this hard-as-nails, heavy drinking, heavy smoking agent deadly secret agent if he was choosen for an adaptation of a Fleming novel. "Getting some" certaintly does not making anymore of a man either, the guy is too much of a dandy. Manly men should play Bond like Hugh Jackman or Gerard Butler; They could play men who feel the weight of the world yet carry themselves as if nothing happened as well as show great vuneralibilty.
Hugh Jackman was considered to play Bond after Pierce Brosnan by EON rejected him saying he was "too fey". Source: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/article-20638955-how-craig-beat-his-rivals.do
Gerard Butler, eventhough was in 300 and in Tomorrow Never Dies, was also in PS I Love You. I would not be opposed to GB.
I am sorry but I would like a reliable source. If someone actually had the guall to dismiss Hugh Jackman as too fey at Eon, someone should be fired and then killed afterwards.
IDK. I think the producers decided to go with a more un-conventional choice.
Bond himself is a character of danger, sex and the high life in the present. Each film reflects the style and look of the time period in which they were made. Anything post the fifites would be a solid retread of the existing, classic films. Even CR is there already, with its Post push button slab but pre IPhone mob / cell phones and the news online webpage. (Pre the Youtube and Iplayer / Replay interfaces we have now). The new skyfleet airliner though fictional, locks down the then media buzz of the Airbus A380 too. I miss Concorde!
Sorry SilentSpy, I am glad CR was done in the "present" timeframe. I am 35 now, I consider CR to be my version of From Russia, or Goldfinger. Those classics are films of my Grandad's generation. Brilliant films as they are, they are the Bond films that inspired my Grandparents. CR as it is, inspired me in the same way.
As to Mr Craig? He wants to continue to play Bond. I hope he gets the chance to, because he is brilliant in the role when the character is written well. I can see him doing two more films, if things get sorted out sooner, rather than later. In the meantime, he is getting the most critical thing any and all actors need - the promise of regular work!
Also enough with the Dirty Harry "screw the man" antics. M is suppose to be the closest thing Bond has to a parent in his life; Enough with the disrespect. I want Bond to fear M like she is the bloody head of MI6 !
Simply put, keep 'em in the present timeline but don't forget the characters.
EON are known to be notoriously cheap. I do not buy the fey thing with him at all. I don't think EON would have considered him because of cost and profile (too famous) rather than anything else. I feel that his Bond may have been closer to that of Pierce than anything else. That said I have always felt that Pierce's Bond suffered more from lazy film making and poor scripts rather than anything else. In my view both he and Jackman could have delivered a hard-edged Bond under the right circumstances. Jackman certainly looked the part, and as showed as Wolverine that he can more than handle the derring -do/fisti-cuffs
Pierce suffered from the lazy film making but I could never take him as a hard-edged agent. Sorry, but he looked too much like a Esquire or GQ model. I am not saying Hugh Jackman wouldn't easily grace the covers of those magazines either but to me comes off as more of a manly man in the vein of Kirk Douglas or Robert Mitchum; Handsome but someone who would scratch his balls and drink a beer.
Now Dalton is someone I felt really was cheated because he was a shakespearean trained actor working with a B-level action director like John Glen. As a matter of fact Dalton hated working with Glen so much that he sued to get out of that awful Christopher Columbus film in 1991 when he found out John took over as director, among other reasons.
EON has changed it's penny-pinching ways slightly by signing on directors who actually made a critical splash in the movie industry. However we'll probably never see a director with as much clout as Ridley Scott or Steven Speilberg directing anytime soon. It has to do with money but it also has to do with who they could control. Directors such as Scott or Speilberg are not easily pushed around, even by studios heads; They would definetly walk off a film if they were annoyed too much and knowing that they could get another job at another studio.
I wouldn't put Casino Royale in with any of the great Connery films. I didn't grow up with Connery as Bond either but I think of him as Bond. He is still the guy to beat. Daniel Craig has Bond moments throughout Casino Royale but doesn't fully become Bond until the end. Which is why Quantum is such a major disappointment to me. As the film is pretty much a standard action film. Connery is Bond from the moment we meet him in Dr. No.
Maybe retro is the wrong word to use. Probably "period" Bond would be better. People were saying flat out that they couldn't do a period Bond film. I think because they didn't want to or were scared at how difficult it might be. However, now that Mad Men (TV show) is a success, people think differently.
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100% agree; and there's a chunk of unused Fleming material that would fit the bill, too.