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My God! They’ve replaced Bond!
Even potentially worse:
Look who wants to direct the next Bond film.
As much as I like his films, he should never, ever touch Bond.
I’ve heard they’re thinking of using Clive Owen, who was King Arthur in “King Arthur.” Colin Farrell is too good of an actor - I like the Bond films, but why waste acting talent like that on them. MacGregor isn’t dark enough - a blond Bond is not going to do it for me.
Personally, I’d love to see a Bond film directed by Tarantino.
I don’t think Tarantino’s got the class for a Bond film. I can just see him having Bond running around swearing like a sailor and blowing the bad guys into piles of bleeding flesh. He’d fubar it.
I’ve heard the following for Bond:
Ioan Griffud (from King Arthur, and in the upcoming Fantastic Four movie)
Clive Owen
Colin Farrell
Ewan Macgregor
Jude Law
Dougray Scott (out of MI:2 and Ever After)
The original film of “Casino Royale” (the Bond book Tarantino wants to direct) was a Bond spoof starring David Niven. Maybe Tarantino’s Bond could be along the same lines - not a spoof, exactly, but something different, an “aside”: the producers can continue the official Bond series with a new Bond (Clive Owen, please!), and Tarantino can make a Bond film from an alternate reality, using Brosnan.
Tarantino has too big an ego for that. He’d want his one to be canon.
I stopped watching them when James Bond started driving German cars.
The Bond films have progressively gone downhill. The last couple were so formula-driven and plotless as to be pointless.
ANYONE new is a good thing.
I heard Puff “P. Diddy” Daddy wants a crack at the role.
Wolfie…come on man…Halle was the best bikini clad Bond girl since Ursula Andress. And lying in that bed of diamonds at the end…omg…I need to excuse myself now…
I rate Brosnan as perhaps the best ever Bond. It’s such a pity that his Bond years were spent in some of the least imaginative and most formulaic movies. At times, it seems the producers are mainly interested in advertising the products within the movies. It’s time to get back to basics
I’d almost agree. Brosnan is, for me, the second best Bond. I mean, come on, Sean Connery wins.
Yup, Sean Connery is da man, but Pierce Brosnan did it OK too.
George Lazenby… Handsome, but a bit light… And Bond getting married 
Roger More was a bit funny, but he left me with a creeping sensation that he did not take it seriously.
Timothy Dalton… Never left a good impression on me, handsome, but his first film, “The Living Daylights” was a disaster, and not even a Connery could have saved it.
Too bad that Pierce Brosnan did not get another crack at it, it takes 2-3 attempts, before Bond actors get into the role.
Goldeneye, Brosnan’s first, was by far the best Brosnan Bond. Shame about the BMW, though.
I heard the next Bond is going to be Ben Affleck.
Why not give it to Timothy Leary’s head? :bouncy:
I thought Brosnan’s best film in the spy/thriller genre was The Tailor of Panama where he played a kind of downmarket caricature of Bond. Sean Connery was in that movie, briefly, as the target of an off-hand comment about Saville Row suits. Hmmm…John Boorman?
I think Bond movies are hidebound; maybe Guy Ritchie should get a crack at it? [Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels: one of my very favorite movies…great line: “Never, ever in my life have I met a man as rude as you”]
BTW, Tarantino directing Bond would be like Vin Diesel becoming a tailor on Saville Row: instead of a superb suit you’d probably get a lot of flash and a loud, well-intended, kinetic barrage of over-the-top compliments about what bespoke really means. Of course, just looking at any final product could be pretty entertaining.
What the “real” James Bond should be…
Personal information
The central character of all the James Bond fiction is the son of a Scottish father, Andrew Bond, and a Swiss mother, Monique Delacroix, both of whom are dead from a climbing accident by the time of the books and movies. He went to school briefly at Eton College. In cinematic versions of the character, Bond has a degree in Oriental Languages from Cambridge University, although this contradicts the information in the novels and the scene in Tomorrow Never Dies where Bond is unable to use a computer with a Chinese keyboard. Bond can also speak fluent Russian, which he claims to have studied at Oxford in The World is Not Enough, and can be seen communicating in any number of other languages in the various films. He served in the Royal Navy before joining the Secret Service and holds the rank of Commander. During his tenure writing Bond books, John Gardner promoted the literary Bond to Captain, but he was subsequently demoted without explanation. In both the book and movie versions of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service Bond marries, but his wife is killed on their wedding day by his greatest enemy, Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
In the novels, one of the only constants in Bond’s life is his elderly, Scottish housekeeper, May, who not only appeared in numerous Fleming novels, but proved herself to be as ageless as Bond himself by also appearing in several of John Gardner’s novels. May is one of small number of recurring characters from the literary canon who has yet to appear in the movie series.
Fleming’s Bond was born in 1924, lied about his age to enter the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve in 1941, and had gained the rank of Commander by the end of the war.
The Bond family motto is Orbis non sufficit (Latin for “The world is not enough”).
Bond bits
* Bond introduces himself with the words: "My name is Bond. James Bond." This introduction is so well known that it has entered Western popular culture.
* In the films he prefers his Vodka Martinis "shaken, not stirred", although in the books it was first specified the other way around.
* Bond drives numerous cars but the most commonly associated with 007 is the Aston Martin DB5.
* Bond originally used a Walther PPK handgun, even after the weapon fell out of favor with the British in the 1970s. In Tomorrow Never Dies he used a Walther P99. In John Gardner's novels, Bond's weapon of choice was the ASP 9mm.
* Every official United Artists/MGM James Bond film with the exception of Dr. No ends with the line "James Bond will return" somewhere in the credits (usually at the end of them, with the exception of Die Another Day, in which it precedes them). Until A View to a Kill, it included the name of the next film, usually rendered "James Bond will return in (title)". This was occasionally later superceded: for example, the end of The Spy Who Loved Me stated that James Bond would return in For Your Eyes Only, but it was later decided that the post-Star Wars space craze had to be cashed in on, and the novel Moonraker was duly adapted into a space plot (which was then followed by For Your Eyes Only). Early prints of Thunderball announced the next film would be On Her Majesty's Secret Service but the producers changed their minds and decided to make You Only Live Twice instead (and Thunderball's credits were adjusted accordingy).
* All official Bond films start with the famous "gun barrel" scene, which starting with From Russia with Love is followed by a pre-title film introduction or "teaser". The significance of the "gun barrel" scene is looking down a gun barrel at a walking Bond from an assassin's point-of-view. Bond then quickly turns, fires at the camera, the scene goes red, the barrel turns to a white circle and the intro movie starts. Stuntman Bob Simmons played Bond in the original version of the opening as first seen in Dr. No, which was created by Maurice Binder using a pin hole camera shooting through an actual gun barrel. This footage was reused for the second and third Bond films. Sean Connery first did the "walk and shoot" for Thunderball. Only Connery and Lazenby wore hats in the opening (virtually the only time their characters were seen wearing them). In the later Roger Moore films, it was evident that Bond's gun does not actually fire (in most other cases, a puff of smoke is visible). Beginning with GoldenEye, the gunbarrel was produced with CGI. Die Another Day introduced a new element - for the first time, audiences actually saw a bullet come out of Bond's gun.Tarantino is a sadistic degenerate with a wild sense of humor, extrordinary taste in music, an ear for great dialogue and an astounding visual style. He should be put on a leash and fed hallucinagenic chemicals until his attitude improves.
James bond is an arrogant, elitist, degenerate womanizer. He should be put on a leash and fed hallucinagenic chemicals untill his attitude improves.
Wow TC…impressive summation.
My fav trivia about JB is the family motto one…but you nailed it hard. Well done.
What do you think of the complete omission of the references to Japanese suicide parks in the Roald Dahl scripted You Only Live Twice? Given the time I guess, too difficult a subject for the audiences???
I’d like to see stricter attention to Fleming’s work and remake the whole lot using guest directors and actors in each. Fleming’s Bond bled when you pricked him. Hollywood’s doesn’t.
I love the idea of Guy Ritchie doing one (UOL2X?).
At the risk of going off topic, HBO looks like they are showing Ritchie’s remake of the Burt Reynolds classic The Longest Yard today at 1845. If you have seen The Longest Yard, Mean Machine is a must.
OK>>>Back on topic…if you were given the budget to remake 1 Bond film…Which would it be and how would you cast it? Extra credit for plot points…
I want to work on my "pitch’ a little before posting it. Have at it, Bond’s men-at-arms…consider what you woulds’t produce upon…