Who should play 007 Next?

[DefunctTheory]

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For the love of... you sons of...

So damn picky.

Fine, he's too young and he's not the 'right' kind of British. So be it.

I present to you... your next Bond.

Stephen Fry

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That man was BORN to play Bond!

If Bond let himself go and got addicted to cocaine.

Too gay. Have you got someone exactly like Fry, but willing to sleep with every woman on the planet?

Though seriously, I could see Stephen Fry as Q or maybe even M in a less serious Bond movie.

Too fat, too gay, too young, too coked out, not the 'Right' British.

The hell do you bastards want?

Also with all the talk of John Boyega you missed the obvious choice. I present Adam Driver. He is clearly already a master of disguise.

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God damn it I can't stop smiling.

 

[Bobular]

Too fat, too gay, too young, too coked out, not the 'Right' British.

The hell do you bastards want?

I guess deep down I just want someone to say me...

Though I totally fail on the too fat and not the 'Right' British, being from the north.

 

[Lightspeaker]

Jensen Ackles I had to google. He's American, so immediately disqualified on that basis alone. He hasn't got a bad look for it though.

Then what british actor would you suggest for the role of a lighter hearted Bond?

That's actually an incredibly difficult question now I put some thought to it.

However thanks to what someone posted in this thread already...I think I might have an answer. James McAvoy is actually an AMAZING call in my opinion. I think he could do a fantastic job.


On some more spinoff thoughts: keeping with the Doctor Who theme...I don't think Tennant would be a great choice. Though I think he could do it. I think if you wanted to go down the route of a former Doctor then Christopher Eccleston would make a much better choice.

I could maybe go with Ewan McGregor but I don't really see it. Not Gerrard Butler though.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

Too fat, too gay, too young, too coked out, not the 'Right' British.

The hell do you bastards want?

Someone who could make me gay, but isn't, and can hide a Walther PPK in between his left nutsack and his thigh.

 

[Glongpre]

I read a review for the new tv miniseries called the Night Manager with Tom Hiddleston, and it said that he would make a decent Bond.

And the more I think of it, the more I think it could work. He couldn't be a very physical Bond ala Daniel Craig, but he would make a very good intellectual Bond, who relies more on strategy and using the environment to his advantage. A Bond who can take care of himself in a hand to hand fight, but uses that approach as a last resort. A stealthier, more charismatic, more cerebral Bond.

 

[meowchef]

The guy thinks Craig is a good Bond and thinks wanting established characters to be consistent is racist, so hes an idiot whos opinion I care not for. He could recommend me my favorite food and it would then become bad.

James Bond is a British white man. Not saying non-whites or women cant be great super spies, but they cant be Bond. Make a new unique character instead of trying to appropriate already created characters. I'm waiting for them to make a movie about a real person and try to change their race or sex.

Craig IS a good James Bond. Casino Royale is one of the best two or three Bond movies in existence. James Bond is likely a title used over and over for men who have the license to kill anyway, so who cares what color he is?

 

[Saelune]

The guy thinks Craig is a good Bond and thinks wanting established characters to be consistent is racist, so hes an idiot whos opinion I care not for. He could recommend me my favorite food and it would then become bad.

James Bond is a British white man. Not saying non-whites or women cant be great super spies, but they cant be Bond. Make a new unique character instead of trying to appropriate already created characters. I'm waiting for them to make a movie about a real person and try to change their race or sex.

Craig IS a good James Bond. Casino Royale is one of the best two or three Bond movies in existence. James Bond is likely a title used over and over for men who have the license to kill anyway, so who cares what color he is?

Because its not a title, or else everyone would stop being like "Oh James and the way you act" since that would apparently be part of the job hiring process. When people don't care about changing characters race, its cause its making them not-white. I bet if more black characters were turned white though, it wouldn't go over so well. If you want equality, you got to be equal. If Bond was made as a black character, Id want him to stay black, or Asian, or whatever he was made to be. If a character can be changed on such whims, why even care about them to begin with?

 

[DefunctTheory]

Because its not a title, or else everyone would stop being like "Oh James and the way you act" since that would apparently be part of the job hiring process.

I'd like to point out that until Skyfall, as far as the movies were concerned, it was a toss up if Bond was the same person or a title, with casual in movie conversation supporting both positions.

Nothing more to add, besides 'Maybe we do need a new 007, one way or another.' Skyfall really annoyed me, with them constantly talking about Bond like he was meandering through Istanbul with a walker while being played by this fucking guy

Too fat, too gay, too young, too coked out, not the 'Right' British.

The hell do you bastards want?

I guess deep down I just want someone to say me...

Though I totally fail on the too fat and not the 'Right' British, being from the north.

Sorry to hear that.

Someone who could make me gay, but isn't, and can hide a Walther PPK in between his left nutsack and his thigh.

So you want a man who you want to have sex with, but who doesn't want to have sex with you. Weird, but I get it. Kind of.

Regardless, I've run out of British people, unless someone's willing to entertain the idea that it should be Alan Davies.

But I think that might be pushing it a bit too far.

I'd still like to see David Mitchell in some sort of spy role.

Then what british actor would you suggest for the role of a lighter hearted Bond?

That's actually an incredibly difficult question now I put some thought to it.

However thanks to what someone posted in this thread already...I think I might have an answer. James McAvoy is actually an AMAZING call in my opinion. I think he could do a fantastic job.

I'm not sure if I like James McAvoy. I haven't hated him in anything I've seen, but I don't think I've loved him in anything either.

 

[Wintermute_v1legacy]

How about a woman then? Change the name to Jamie Bond, that's it. Replace the Bond girls with Bond boys, too. Easy money right there.

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[gorfias]

[if 007 is just a designation it could be anyone]

There is a theory that 007 is a code for different people. But there is a type of person that fits my idea of what he should be. Tom Hardy? Could be the guy. Theory: 007 just a code name. Many videos saying this is wrong. Reviewing.

 

[Dreph]

God damn it I can't stop smiling.

Sorry... I'll do my best to keep my posts down and depressing in order to not inconvenience you.

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[madwarper]

There is a theory that 007 is a code for different people. But there is a type of person that fits my idea of what he should be. Tom Hardy? Could be the guy. Theory: 007 just a code name. Many videos saying this is wrong. Reviewing.

Well, the 00 agent was an entire program.

The 004 designation was reassigned from Frederick Wardner (The Facts of Death) to Scarlett Papava (Devil May Care).
And, it could be argued that the 006 designation went from unnamed Royal Marine commando (On Her Majesty's Secret Service) to Major Jack Giddings (The Moneypenny Diaries: Guardian Angel) to Alec Trevelyan (GoldenEye).

Plus, there's the fact that while Bond was "dead" in You Only Live Twice, he was transferred and given the designation 7777, until he returned as 007 in The Man with the Golden Gun.

 

[springheeljack]

I would say Idris Elba because that man has got the height, poise, and fierceness to play Bond plus he is also the top black man in Hollywood at the moment

 

[Kreett]

If going for the typical action star Bond I would definitely say Idris Elba like many others on here, he excretes class and dominance with his mere presence. If the more unassuming and slick Bond is the one studios want where he is more subterfuge than *bang bang punch punch witty one liner* then I'd say someone like Tom Hiddleston could probably pull the role off, he's charming and looks good in a suit, plus he can go from harmless smile to slitting a man's throat in the blink of an eye.

 

[Kreett]

I read a review for the new tv miniseries called the Night Manager with Tom Hiddleston, and it said that he would make a decent Bond.

And the more I think of it, the more I think it could work. He couldn't be a very physical Bond ala Daniel Craig, but he would make a very good intellectual Bond, who relies more on strategy and using the environment to his advantage. A Bond who can take care of himself in a hand to hand fight, but uses that approach as a last resort. A stealthier, more charismatic, more cerebral Bond.

Seems I was ninjad after all. Curses upon thy bloodline and house, sire.

 

[gorfias]

There is a theory that 007 is a code for different people. But there is a type of person that fits my idea of what he should be. Tom Hardy? Could be the guy. Theory: 007 just a code name. Many videos saying this is wrong. Reviewing.

Well, the 00 agent was an entire program.

The 004 designation was reassigned from Frederick Wardner (The Facts of Death) to Scarlett Papava (Devil May Care).
And, it could be argued that the 006 designation went from unnamed Royal Marine commando (On Her Majesty's Secret Service) to Major Jack Giddings (The Moneypenny Diaries: Guardian Angel) to Alec Trevelyan (GoldenEye).

Plus, there's the fact that while Bond was "dead" in You Only Live Twice, he was transferred and given the designation 7777, until he returned as 007 in The Man with the Golden Gun.

I should have written that James Bond, the name itself, is a designation. I don't doubt when Bond is killed/retires, someone else will get the 007. But what some argue is that Jame Bond in the movies is not a single individual. That individual likely gets killed in untold stories and replaced by another person with a similar personality.

I did watch a good video claiming this is wrong and an example of why is that more than one actor playing Bond grieves for the Dianne Rigg character in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service". Course, they could all have been "conditioned" to think they're all the same guy.

 

[Darth Rosenberg]

Idris Elba would be great - but as has been pointed out, he's a little too old to start three of four films.

Aside from him? Given screen Bond barely ever qualifies as a fixed character, and is more a rather bland icon, there's no reason why there couldn't be a female Bond (so the character could finally achieve something artful and challenging, i.e. an opportunity to explore gender roles and perceptions of masculinity, femininity, maleness and femaleness) - and Rosamund Pike would easily be my top pick. Going from Bond 'girl' to Bond would be an endearingly freaky twist on continuities and casting, and she could absolutely nail the whole 'impossibly English sociopath' aspect to the icon.

...hell, Eva Green would've been amazing, but that would be pushing things a little too far.

As for blokes to continue a boringly blokey role? Tom Hardy and Tom Hiddleston are two popular ones, and whilst I like Hardy in other roles I think he'd be a poor Bond (actually, no, he'd at least be better than Connery, Moore, Brosnan... have I mentioned I really don't like James Bond?). There's an inherent unhinged cruelty to the character/icon, and I think Hiddleston would be far better suited to play off charm/smarm with a dispassionate aptitude for violence and murder.

 

[hermes]

I would be concerned with them changing the character background to make it more diverse and then put a spotlight to it. Probably because the examples when studios has pulled it off has been comedies, so trying to be serious about it would be cringe inducing:

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At that point, he is not James Bond, he is someone else. So, instead of creating a new character they are forcing the change in an established character. Like it or not, Bond is a white, slightly misogynistic, representative of the British imperialism. You can either work it ironically (comedies) or make it so that he, for the most part, is ok with that (Craig)... And remember, Austin Powers was the movie that forced Casino Royale. After that movie, the executives couldn't justify making a traditional Bond movie without people laughing out at the cheesiness factor, and they grew scared of such cheesiness.

 

[MrCalavera_v1legacy]

I could maybe go with Ewan McGregor but I don't really see it.

I do.

OT: Out of all people proposed here, Hiddleston would probably be the most viable pick, if the aim is less rogue-ish Bond.