Who should be the next Bond?

Idris Elba.

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Fine choice R1. I would drink his bathwater. What about Ewan? Is he too old? Too expensive?

They want to pull in a younger audience so they're going for Robert Pattinson.

UGH! No, R3 - I hope not.

Either Pattinson or Harry Styles

Can Prince Harry act?

I nominate Miguel Angel Silvestre, for a Latino-flavored Bond.

Ideally Fassbender. But he'd never do it. Maybe Sam Claflin. He's appropriately roguish but still believable.

I'm buying what R6 is selling.

In fact, I'd like to invest heavily in your company.

How's Gerard Butler looking these days?

For the next one, do something different and just pay Craig for his image/voice and do an animated version.

I could go for Sam, R8. Or Matthew Goode. Or that hairy guy who was in the Agatha Christie thing. Or Tom Lucifer.

We're arguing for Aidan Turner in the Theo James Thread

Sam Claflin is a good choice, R8.

Wow, Claflin is smelling cooking and pursing his lips all over Google images.

Yikes.

Aidan Turner: that's the hairy guy. I've never seen him act. Does he have an accent?

Yes, it's hot, R16. Check out the Youtube vid someone posted at the bottom of the other thread.

He's serving Top Realness in a big way.

Thanks, R17. Just as soon as I find the bottom of the other thread, I'll check out his top realness.

If you don't, R18, turn in your gay card.

Here's the video clip (from And Then There Were None)

Thank you, R19. A still from that scene that first drew my attention Turnerward. This video, though, convinces me he'd make a terrific James Bond.

Damn, great find, R21!

Adrian Turner is now my #1 Bond candidate, R22.

Thanks r21 I'm convinced.

R23 It's Aidan

21, you made us believers.

You should start a cult.

Take my money!

Do we need more convincing 😜 ?

Aidan

Aidan

Aidan

I'll practice it from now until he Bonds things up. I'll use it in a sentence this minute.

Do you think they of Unpreferred Pronouns fame would have had their pronouns preferred if they'd looked like Aidan Turner?

I just read this while looking at the Poldark article. I would prefer "dickular" next season.

[quote]BBC confirm Poldark WILL return for second series and Aidan Turner is to reprise titular role

I love his hairy chest, and that snarl. Yes GAWD hunty!

God, I love a guy that's a prickish asshole from a good school that can lay serious pipe.

I know just where he can lay his serious pipe.

Tell us where r31 ?

Is it appropriate to present hole now, or after he's officially crowned?

r32 Let's just say I'd ride him like Will Horton going up and down on Paul Narita's bat.

Ummmm, can I have sloppy seconds after he comes 'round again, R34?

How could they consider anyone else, Emily?

Does anyone know when the new Bond is supposed to start filming?

I.e., can Aidan bring his Pleasure Pelt to both projects?

How about the guy with the womanly ass? Where does he stand with you?

^Meaning can he do Poldark and Bond, or are we getting our hopes up too much?

I assume you mean Fat Cavill, R38.

He's at the very bottom of my list (no pun intended). He just doesn't bring it.

I just discovered Poldark is available on Amazon Prime.

Henry Cavill did not have to self-destruct the way he did.

You hungry ladies need to investigate the original British Being Human with Aidan Turner as a conflicted and sexy vampire.

His hair is awful throughout his run on the show, but he is pretty spectacular.

Also, watch Bob Fosse's Sweet Charity!

Well I'm a man, but definitely hungry. Is it suitable viewing for me?

Aidan's eyebrows should have supporting credits if he gets it.

r45, it is open to all.

The show is actually pretty good. DL once dedicated plenty of space to werewolf/gay Russell Tovey, but Aidan Turner is the source of sex in the story.

For r46.

Who is Aidan Turner, the man tipped to be the next 007?

I'm so glad Idris didn't get the role.

He's too good for it.

Oh, and completely wrong for it for other reasons - such as temperament.

Daniel Craig has reportedly been offered $150 million to play Bond in two more films.

Let's take a wild guess who's going to play Bond in next two films.

Why has this discussion been going on for such a long time (not just here, but in the world in general)? Pick someone, already, Bond producers.

Daniel still looks great from certain angles. Recent pic from the set of Logan Lucky.

Definitely not Cavill. He's so dull and boring and doesn't have the charisma Bond needs.

Cavill should have settled for being pretty.

[quote]Daniel Craig has reportedly been offered $150 million to play Bond in two more films.

I know that the Bond films are not the most artistically satisfying of movies, but Craig could have quit after Skyfall and been remembered as the best Bond next to Connery (while everyone secretly thought he actually was the best). I just don't want him to turn into Roger Moore.

R56, I'm all for Daniel doing two more Bonds. They have to keep the films tight, though. Spectre was disappointing in many ways, mostly because of the screenplay being all over the place. I have however liked the atmosphere of all Craig Bonds.

Craig is also 48 years old. I don't want Bond to turn into Liam Neeson in Taken. I'm not saying he doesn't make my dick hard, because he does, but Moore was, I think, in his mid-to-late 50s when he finally hung it up, and Craig would be close to that after two more movies. Granted 50-something looks a lot different after 30 years.

But Skyfall is honestly my favorite Bond film, and I just don't want to tarnish my love of it with a guy who doesn't know when to quit, no matter how fat the paycheck.

Granted, Tom Hiddleston is some bullshit.

Roger Moore may have been old when he did A View To A Kill, but it was still a great film.

My tastes may be weird. I'm not a fan of View to a Kill. I always thought he peaked at The Spy Who Loved Me.

I like the Moore films best. I enjoyed the camp

You people have no understanding of Bond whatsoever. He was no millennial underwear model.

When I wrote the first one in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened; I wanted him to be a blunt instrument ... when I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, [James Bond] is the dullest name I ever heard. — Ian Fleming

In Casino Royale, Vesper Lynd remarks, "Bond reminds me rather of Hoagy Carmichael, but there is something cold and ruthless." Likewise, in Moonraker, Special Branch Officer Gala Brand thinks that Bond is "certainly good-looking ... Rather like Hoagy Carmichael in a way. That black hair falling down over the right eyebrow. Much the same bones. But there was something a bit cruel in the mouth, and the eyes were cold."

Tom Hardy.

I'm surprised they haven't done the James Bond origin story, Bond as a university student recruited by MI6. That's the only way they'll get a younger audience into the franchise.

Why is it taking them so damn long to pick someone?

Idris Elba and all the others are 4 years older since this thread was opened (as are we). Fresh meat to the market will be produced. Time for a newbie.

The bookies have James Norton and Richard Madden high on their list. Norton would be my pick.

Zac Effron

James Bond is British & white.

I think Bond needs to be a trans person of color. We will not be silenced. We are here and occupying space. Etc etc.

Joe Jonas

It's all about what Babs Broccoli wants.