Benedict Cumberbatch?
Muston
Huncote, Leicestershire Posts: 228MI6 Agent
Not sure if he's been talked about on here before, but after seeing him in the trailer for the new Star Treck film, I really think Cumberbatch would like great in the tuxedo. When he says the line "I will walk over your cold corpses," he really looks the business. Plus he would be about the right age when DC finally calls it a day.
"Thank you very much. I was just out walking my RAT and seem to have lost my way... "
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Love him in Sherlock, Amazing Grace and he has such a great voice and presence. He would also look very dapper in a tux as well. Im for all for it he's my top pick.
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this great series.
He's an inspired re-Imagined Holmes, but would be a terrible Bond in my view. I hope we move away from 'interesting' casting that stretches/adapts the conception of the character towards a much more classic interpretation in the ' tall, dark'. & Handsome ' mould. I think that it's hard to second guess Eon, they may go in the direction that I hope, but given Bab's predilection for 'craggy Blonds ' ( she also wanted Sean Bean at one point, but mercifully did not get her way) it may be a vain hope...
Don't think that there's any firm dates yet to continue. The international success of both actors may have put the whole thing on indefinite hold ?:)
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-Casino Royale, Ian Fleming
Yes, given the current odd-looking Dr Who actor, Mr Cumberbatch would indeed be a shoe in for the next face of the ever-changing Time Lord. I'm not a Dr Who fan, by the way. Never understood that stuff, at all, I'm afraid.
Interesting - he may well be chosen next as a rising star on TV and film, then.
But someone suggested him as a Villian, which would be a lot more suited.
Never more delighted to be wrong. Thanks.
Seeing Cumberbatch in Atonement, Amazing Grace and War Horse, he can easily evoke the bearing to play a public school British officer, gentleman type, more than any of the other Bonds. He's not necessarily neurotic in his normal demeanor as it's been said here, but then again, that's how Dalton played him and it was okay, esp. if we want some literary Bond vibe who was described as saturnine (though that proved unpopular with the ticket-buying public). He can be naughtily irreverent and sardonic as we've seen in Sherlock, which too is very Bond. He can definitely be a muted alpha male who commands authority without being too brash or overbearing. But again, with his delivery in Sherlock, I think the most important quality he can offer to the role of Bond is that he can easily and quickly develop an attractive persona that the audience can warm to, which was a problem for Dalton IMO.
EDIT: "Vatican Cameos!" After posting, I just saw how much Cumberbatch resembled my avatar of a young Hoagy Carmichael, which is very promising, bring it on!
BC's appeal isn't really that manly though, it's kind of sexually enigmatic. Personally I can't see it, he'd be great as a villain or Julian Assange type.
Of course, with the Russian dissident Boris found dead in his mansion (what a daft place to live if you worry the KGB are after you, I mean what sort of bloke hides out in a place like that and just waits to be attacked, nowhere to run to, in the middle of nowhere.... oh), truth is more Bondian than fiction these days.
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Ha! Another dig at Skyfall Lodge as a concept there, Nap. You never miss a beat!
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Yes, I guess it's a head start over reading a mere quote from one, ain't it, Nap?
And it was only in a cafe in Hollywood, Co. Down in Norn Iron.
He has always struck me as a Ralph Fiennes type of actor, so we will see him in lots of big-hitting Oscar-potential character parts, I just doubt that one of those characters would be 007.
(I hope so much that the new Star Trek won't dent his reputation)
for the next Dr Who. Although I'd say He's now too big
a name for the good Doctor.
Though the chances are against both anyway, as he is about to be the baddie in Trek, and is too high profile to be a newbie as 007.
As a period 007, in a post World War II style BBC drama, yea, that would work!
Yeah, much of what Bond has become on screen would need to be peeled back and to do a Bond in his original setting, you can certainly make it work with an actor like Cumberbatch.
Questions for UK fans: Was reading up on Sherlock to predict when US-based viewers would have the earliest chance of seeing Season 3 (still unknown, I guess). I've only seen these through rented DVDs and am not familiar with broadcasts via BBC America (which I have on Satellite). Can the UK viewers share how these episodes are broadcast there? Because Seasons 1 & 2 each had only three, 1.5 hour episodes, are they spread out through the season and broadcasts as TV movies?
Thanks, Sir Miles, are they broadcast for 3 consecutive weeks? At what part of the year does its season begin there?