Barbara Broccoli says the search for the next James Bond will start next year!!! PART THREE

Richard Madden is 9 toes out of the closet so it can’t be him.

Not Tom Hiddleston, please not that bum fuck

Hiddleston is engaged to a woman.

Madden is bi not gay.

^ Madden is buysexual

^ Hidders is contracted to a woman

Since the Bond franchise is dead and well on its way to decay, they'll no doubt dump the decayed bones in "diversity/inclusion" acid with Dinklage or some other guaranteed-to-be-a-financial-nightmare actor.

No Time to Die grossed almost $800 million during a pandemic. I think they’ll carry on.

R5 And then there's something that passes for reality . . .

As Variety reports: “The movie cost more than $250 million to produce, at least $100 million to promote and tens of millions more to postpone over 16 months. Insiders say ‘No Time to Die’ needs to make closer to $900 million to break even, a feat that would have been realistic had a global health crisis not entirely upended the theater industry. As a result, the film now stands to lose $100 million in its theatrical run, according to sources close to production.

Amazon now owns MGM and thus owns Bond now. Maybe Mr. Bezos will have himself cast as Bond.

At the rate the producers are going in casting, all our picks will have aged-out of the running.

Ben Barnes?

If only Jacob Elordi were older.

Richard Madden looks great - for a 50 year old.

Maybe Hiddleston’s impending marriage to a hot biracial chick will work in his favour among the Henry Goldings and Rege-Jean Pages in the running.

I want the new Bond to be a stud with a big bulge that I can ogle throughout the shitty movies.

R9 A Jew????

R11 Impending marriage to a hot biracial chick? He only announced that because DL dragged him about his beard the night before…

She’s too old to be a Bond girl - and she ain’t no Monica Belucci

Sadly, a non-bulked up Cavill is the embodiment of Bond visually. But he would have to do a lot more work developing his charisma with women and the camera while he's moving.

,,,,,

R13, why not?

Whoever it is has to be able to look gritty and brutal while also cleaning up and carrying himself well in a suit.

Barnes may actually be slightly too delicate looking, but he has the general traits.

R17 is obviously ignorant of two millennia of Euro Jew hatred.

R7 Jeff Bezos would make a great Bond villain.

R18, hey don't blame me. I wanted Idris the last time around.

Dev Patel!

R11 Hot birracial chick?? and I agree with R4 that you can see Hiddleston is under contract to be engaged from the moon!

R15 I know Bond is a fictional character, but that’s a ridiculous fantasy

R18, no but I just don't think the coming generations, for whom this coming Bond will be their Connery, give much of a damn about those old idiotic animosities.

We should be willing to stretch horizons. Barnes is British, sounds British and if he can act the role and looks right, it should not matter.

What is much more important is that they need to channel the franchise more strongly towards spying and intrigue. We are too spoiled for choice on action heroics now. Show us something new, or old, as when spies were portrayed as masters of disguise and Rico Suave' attitude.

[QUOTE] Richard Madden looks great - for a 50 year old.

He's 35.

[QUOTE] and I agree with [R4] that you can see Hiddleston is under contract to be engaged from the moon!

Are you one of those creepy fucks who still believes in 'bearding contracts'? Gullible cunt. Fuck off back to Tumblr.

^ R26 Right Tom! We know Taylor didn’t work out for ya!

Where is the 'Insider'? He told us that Madden was going to be announced not long after the Oscars, so not much time left. Any updates?

R26 You’ve heard of the actresses Nicole Kidman and Katie Homes, right?

I'm surprised (unless I missed it) that nobody brought up a pretty obvious choice; Dan Stevens.

If in doubt watch The Guest (2014) & I'm Your Man (2021).

R30. Good one. I would like to contest OP’s view that Nichols Hoult would not be good. I can see him in a $10,000 Brioni suit drinking a martini.

I am so sick of this franchise. There's comes a time when it loses all relevance to people, and we all know James Bond as Ian Fleming intended him has no place in a progressive world.

Whoever he is I hope the next Bond is written as a character with a playful vibe and a sense of humor I think it was Seinfeld who riffed 'what's the deal with James Bond? You've got all the money you need, any woman you want, you travel the world--can you maybe smile once and awhile?'

R26 Hold your chicken fillets!! Bearding contracts are as old as Hollywood, and if you don't believe they exist, you are, quite frankly, an idiot.

Adam Driver

Ever since Condor, it's got to be Max Irons, CIA spy!!

Edward Holcroft

Oh FFS...they should just cast Irdis Elba already.

He's built, sexy, British....it's not like Bond as a character is so specifically anything. He's a built, sexy Brit. Just cast the black guy already. Its 2022.

Jesus. Like it's such a quest to find the right guy... *eyeroll*

R38 Seriously. So what if he's 49, he'll look the same 10 years from now.

As I said in the other thread. Who ever plays him has to have an air of menace about him. Someone who is cool, but has that "coiled snake" thing. He has to be charismatic. People notice him. And he has to have a lethal charm. You have to look at him and know he's watching everything and the wheels in his brain are always turning, yet he comes off as chill. Apply those standards to the candidates and tell me who could pull that off. WHO?????

R40 Ben Barnes

[quote]He has to be charismatic. People notice him.

Is that what you want in a double agent? I thought it was a blend in kind of job.

He’s not a double agent.

Even if he's just an "agent" why is he so identifiable?

Idris Elba is black, not British.

^ Huh? Idris Elba is British, not English.

Idris was born in England. He's more British than some of the people mentioned here (Adam Driver?!!!)

[QUOTE] You have to look at him and know he's watching everything and the wheels in his brain are always turning, yet he comes off as chill.

Jamie Dornan already pulled that off in The Fall.

Is The Fall any good?

[quote] Idris was born in England.

English/British means white, though.

So people born in Britain can't call themselves British if they aren't 100% white? Okay, then.

Oh come on, you know what I mean. And I didn’t say “100%.” You have to admit, if someone says they’re British, you don’t expect Uncle Ben.

R50 English/British does not mean “white”.

Don’t be ridiculous.

[QUOTE] English/British means white, though.

FUCK OFF KLAN GRANNY.

First time I've see one on the Bond threads. Vile.

I love Idris but he's too old....and he lacks the suave quotient Bond has to have. And the Menace. You know, Bond started it all, but as this genre has evolved I think they rely too much on muscle. Look at the Bourne Franchise. Matt Damon was a dolt. All brawn. I hate to say it, but the thing that comes closest to the old Bond is the Tom Cruise MI series.

Nicholas Hoult is too much of a ladyboy and, yes, he does have a deformed mouth.

^ apart from Tammy is a bat shit crazy aged closet dwarf

Joe Alwyn is also a bit of a ladyboy. Looks like a transitioning young Meg Ryan.

Cillian Murphy is just ugly. Big no.

.......

^the author should DIAGF

[quote]Cillian Murphy is just ugly. Big no.

If ugly means hawt. He's probably too small for Bond though.

R61 maybe Luke Evans at a push. But will the fraus love him?

[quote]James Bond as Ian Fleming intended him has no place in a progressive world.

That's why it would be smart and sexy to take him back to what he was: a cold killer and woman ravisher. It makes sense. Men want it. And women secretly want it.

What if they set the next series in the 1950s?

Nah.

People don't want an emotional bond. They want someone who is a thrilling bastard. Who gets away with things that are impermissable now. It's supposed to be fantasy. All this tosh of 'bringing him into the modern world' needs to be ditched. There can still be the diversity - that was even there with Fleming - but there needs to be a dirty edge to the sex. Why else would 50 Shades Of Grey sell a squillion if women didn't hunger for it?

R68, lol, if they really hungered for dirty sex, they'd just watch porn instead of reading romance novels

What's wrong with James Norton?

Luke Evans is great, and Dan Stevens is great.

But not for Bond. Luke has the devilish air of a villain, and Stevens as a fellow agent. He's too Golden boy for Bond, even though he keeps trying. to rough-tough his image up.

Idris is plenty suave, but just too old and needs to be moving himself back into serious work like what he did for the Wire or Luther. The span of this action heroic shit is small and he is much better than that, even if the paycheck is good.

Hey, I could like James Norton as Bond.

I think Norton is one of the better choices

… that’s my point, r25. He’s aging like milk.

[QUOTE] That's why it would be smart and sexy to take him back to what he was: a cold killer and woman ravisher.

Ravisher? You want to turn Bond into a rapist?

r3 Buysexual??

Not ravish ravish.

Jamie Lee Curtis is rumored to replace Ralph Finnes as M

Jamie would be a dumb choice for that role.

Jamie is more suitable to play the character of Mary Worth.

I like Ralph! I don't want him replaced. Fuck.

Apparently Barbara Brocolli was interested in casting Harry Styles but the rest of the Bond bosses weren't keen. Too young and too famous.

Styles is not butch enough. They made the right call

Styles probably reminds her of a grandchild.

"He's so cute!"

All of female Hollywood from Chloe Zhao to Ellen is in love with Harry. He looked butch in Dunkirk and he has an excellent physique.

His body is only okay by Hollywood standards.

R85, what you said proves my point. Too cute. Too immediately digestible.

He has little raw sex appeal, and one doesn't need a few moments to consider whether he is too dangerous to get involved with.

If you're going to cast someone Idris Elba's age, why not Ewan McGregor?

r88 Love sexy Ewan McGregor and I think he should be viewed as mor of a contender to be the next Bond. I definitely need to include him in my next gay erotica casting pairing thread part two!

Ewan was sexy. I saw him in an ad recently and he had suddenly aged. His spark was gone, and in its place a somewhat shrunken older man remained.

Plus isn't he too short?

r90 I never realised he was short?

Internet says 5'10", but they all lie.

Shorter than Nicole Kidman in modest heels.

MacGregor's appeal has always leaned boyish, which probably affects my view.

Harry Styles was never on anyone's radar. Complete nonsense.

Of the backup list a name that is getting more talked about and emerging as an alternate is Charlie Hunnam.

He was down the pecking order but Barbara has taken a shine to him when she met him recently. She still is fixed on her choice but she is open to others if circumstance warrants and Charlie is now up there in top two or three

Barbara wants it over and announced by May

r93 do we know who her choice is?

David Gandy

I'm sorry to be dense but who tf is Barbara?

The producer of Bond.

R2 Was OP implying that these actors are gay? Cause most of them aren't.

How are Cillian Murphy and Tom Hardy too old? They are only 44-45. All the other James Bonds were older.

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Ewan McGregor is 50 so your pick is out of the running, Surviving Klan Granny. If they wanted a Bond in his 50s they'd have kept Daniel Craig.

Boomers and the Silent Generation are all dying off and Bond needs to appeal to younger generations now, so a 35 year old bisexual like Richard Madden would be ideal. He's extremely attractive and has that brooding menace too.

[quote] Shorter than Nicole Kidman in modest heels.

Nicole Kidman is 5’9 in Dr Martens.

[quote] so a 35 year old bisexual like Richard Madden would be ideal. He's extremely attractive and has that brooding menace too

He is also has the complexion of a weatherbeaten fisherman and is shorter than Keeley Hawes.

Yet according to our insider R93 and R103 that is apparently who Broccoli wants.

They need a transman black Bond if they want to get with the times.

R93 Charlie Hunnam?! What a strange choice, if true. What has he been in that would give anyone the impression he would make a suitable Bond?

He seems too rough and tumble for the role. He looks like one of those British people who got a lot of their looks from the Saxons.

Can he do suave?

Agree with R106. He would have to shave the goatee and muster some gravitas.

'Hunnam suffers from dyslexia, as well as a fear of germs and dirt in general.' (Wikipedia)

Hunnam reminds me of Heath Ledger-friendly disposition.

My new choice is David Gandy. Visually, he fits. I'll have to watch some interviews to see what the voice is like.

Isn't David Gandy a fashion model? He was in the Blue Water fragrance ads for years.

Connery was a model.

Gandy has already done adwork where he discusses his love of the UK.

David Gandy has never been cast in a TV show or a full length film, so nope. He does have exactly the right look but his six item long acting resume consists of shorts and video games.

The cut off age for the new Bond should be 40 or we'll be dealing with another one in their 50s too soon.

Bond has to be macho and sexy not femme and unsexy.

Don't knock fashion models! They make great Bond's. Even if they only make one film.

Maybe they should give Idris one film, Madden the next film, and then Styles for Gen Z around 2032.

Cillian Murphy has a very womanly face.

I like Gandy. He looks good. He sounds good. Thanks!

Maybe as a young man but not these days.

R111, everyone has to break in somehow.

He's not known for his other work, so preconceptions of the audience won't be an interference.

His adwork already displays all of the qualities associated with the character

And honestly, most Americans did not recognize Craig at all, even with over a couple of decades of acting work on his resume.

R118 I don't know if you're using that photo to illustrate the before or after, but he still has the face of a woman.

R90 Richard Madden isn't tall. Roughly 5'8" or 5'9".

R90 Madden is well under six feet.

Madden looks too sensitive and there is something soft about his face, aside from being short.

Why not just cast Henry Cavill and be done with it?

R124 Really. Why cavil about it Cavill?

*about Cavill

Cavill is a beautiful hunk of meat. He hasn't proven he can act, and has not ever had any sexual chemistry with a woman on film that I can tell.

Plus, his body is a bit overdeveloped now.

Cavill sucks and he sucked in a similar role in The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

Plus, he's too famous to disappear into the role

R118 He almost looks like Marlene Dietrich in that photo.

I said James Norton.

Thread closed.

I would go with James Norton over most of the suggestions. At least he's masculine and not some lady boy.

It’s past time for a Lady Boy James Bond!

Yawn. The "I hate trans" trolls have to invade every thread, don't they?

They just need to get on and announce it. They surely will start shooting it this year, given how delayed No Time To Die was.

What does not wanting a womanly-looking Bond have to do with anti-trans?

Who would be a womanly-looking Bond?

R135, read r105 and r132

I'm onboard with Norton. I like Gandy. But I still want to keep my pick, Joe Alwyn on that list as a long shot.

Tom Hardy and Luke Evans are not bad ideas. Older, yes. But still viable.

Henry Cavill makes me laugh! Not on purpose. I just cannot take him seriously. He cannot act. Not at all, and he clearly is not aging well.

I long for the days of The Tudors, when he played Charles Brandon and he was beautiful.

r138 Raza Jaffrey is worth considering.

Point of reference: Daniel Craig was 37 when cast and is 5'10.25" tall. Connery (6'2") was only 31.

[bold]AGE[/bold] as of this year, [bold]HEIGHT[/bold] (from celebheights dot com)

Tom Bateman - 33, 6'2"

Henry Cavill - 39, 6'0.5"

Jamie Dornan - 40, 5'10.5"

Idris Elba - 50, 6'2.5"

Luke Evans - 43, 6'0"

David Gandy - 42, 6'2"

Henry Golding - 35, 6'0"

Tom Hardy - 45, 5'9"

Sam Heughan - 42, 6'2"

Tom Hiddleston - 41, 6'1.75"

Edward Holcroft - 35, 6'0.25"

Nicholas Hoult - 33, 6'2.5"

Oliver Jackson-Cohen - 36, 6'3"

Richard Madden - 36, 5'9.25"

Cillian Murphy - 47, 5'7.75"

James Norton - 37, 6'1"

Regé-Jean Page - 34, 5'11.5"

Dan Stevens - 40, 6'0"

Aidan Turner - 39, 5'10.5"

James Norton--looks like an artist or intellectual.

Rege'-jean Page actually looks too young and clean cut!

Edward Holcroft-slightly ponderous and brooding.

Tom Bateman works in corporate office or government, but not as a spy.

Oliver Jackson-Cohen works in some angles, not in others. Shoot carefully, I guess.

Nicholas Hoult is a punk, prep school kiddie. Too clean and pretty.

Jamie Dornan is almost always hiding his jawline with facial hair, so what's wrong with it?

Already mentioned Madden being too short and sensitive.

The rest seem either too old or too well known from heavily promoted work elsewhere.

You forgot my Joe!!!!

Joe Alwyn 6' 1" 31 yrs old

R131 James Norton is masculine? Are we talking about the same James Norton?

I'll admit he's not bad to look at though he doesn't do much for me. But I don't feel his looks are particularly masculine and isn't his voice a little lofty?

As for those others mentioned by R141: I could take or leave Page, he doesn't do much for me.

Edward Holcroft is attractive but is almost forgettable - like he belongs as a side character, not the lead.

I don't think Bateman has the proven chops for the role.

OJC might work.

NOT Nicholas Hoult thanks.

I don't think Jamie Dornan has quite the right look for some reason. He's stunning though, I just wonder if he's almost too Irish (if that's possible)?

Meh to Madden.

Will Smith! Will Smith!

The big issue with all the possible choices is that we have no idea in what direction they will be taking the films. It's quite possible that they don't know themselves.

The Craig run really screwed things up. CASINO ROYALE featured a green 007, who then progressed up to the retired (and ultimately expired) Bond in NO TIME TO DIE. So, where do they go from here?

If the producers choose to highlight an "early" Bond, then names like Hoult or Page or Bateman make more sense. If they want a solid, experienced, "mid-period" Bond, then most of the others would be better suited (although anyone in their mid- to late 40s would seem to be out of contention simply due to age at this point).

A lot also depends on the tone they want to hit. Craig was pretty damn glum and a lighter, slicker Bond may be in the cards. (Think Moore after Connery or Brosnan after Dalton.)

I don't know... I still can't see the Bond people picking someone like Madden, with that very transparent glass closet and love of younger men, as something they're going to give the global spotlight too...without making him go so far back into that closet he's in Narnia. And I even wouldn't be surprised to see him pressured to beard, etc. And what does that do to the current relationship? Just seems like Broccoli and company are the type to play it safe so they can sell these films to the widest audience possible, especially in markets where a Bond with just gay rumors isn't going to fly. I would think that would be too much of a liability for them. If Madden really is the front runner, and as serious about his career as he seems, I'd think he would have spent the last few years navigating things very, very differently.

If they don't get this right, I would predict the end of this franchise. Every movie or show that isn't about superheroes is about govt agents going rogue or pulling off operations. Even the Bond films themselves have long ago started to repeat what they did before.

It's going to be tricky.

A lot of people don't really "follow" gay gossip the way dataloungers do, though. How many people out there even know about Madden's twinks?

If he’s named as Bond, everyone will know about the twinks.

No, the media is careful not to "out" people

It's kindof moved on from 'outing' though when there has been open speculation regarding his sexuality in newspapers like the Guardian, New York Times etc and he has been asked outright about it. So all that can easily be brought up again.

At the moment he is more in an Anderson Cooper (pre-coming out) and Queen Latifa situation where it is such an open secret that it may not be seen as 'outing'. Or at least he is heading in that direction.

If he gets the role I think he'll go back into the closet and get a girlfriend ASAP

He may do, but it was speculated he would get a 'girlfriend' for for marvel as well, but the first thing he did was get a new twink. Been linked to one hot young man could be brushed aside, making it a pattern is a bit harder to explain away.

R152, then he should not get it. If such a role forces people to stay closeted, boycott.

And he's too short and too sensitive looking, which are more important to the case.

The public should wise up. Anyone over a certain level of attractiveness is likely to be at least bisexual if not gay. When you look that good, you get offers and sometimes take them.

Harry Styles: 6 ft, 28

Joe Alwyn is too weak looking.

[quote] Nicholas Hoult - deformed mouth

LoL yes they didn't need that much makeup for X-Men and Mad Max fury Road

[quote] A lot of people don't really "follow" gay gossip the way dataloungers do, though. How many people out there even know about Madden's twinks?

It literally comes up in the first couple pages of a google search for either one of them (individually), including header pics of them together.

[quote] If he’s named as Bond, everyone will know about the twinks.

Bingo. The amount of global fame, attention, press, etc. the Bond role would bring anyone is definitely going to put a spotlight on him in a way that someone so 'private', but with a not-so-private/kind-of-obvious situation, is going to have to deal with in a way they didn't have to before, and the glass closet situation isn't going to be so easy to pull off anymore. I just get a feeling Madden is the type to not like that sort of thing. I think he wants big, A-list success, but he doesn't like the attention fame brings (at least for as long as he's closeted).

I don't think the media would 'out' him. The point I was getting at is will it 'in' him more and more, and is he ok with that? This is a major beloved global franchise headed up by one star (not an ensemble like Eternals), used to sell and cross promote, in all global markets (included those that notoriously ban anything gay related, etc.). It's going to bring massive attention to him, that people will google in this day and age, and unless they wipe out all the old evidence (which they could do, to a degree), it's going to be all right there...and people will talk. I don't think Broccoli and company are going to want that. And then what pressures do they put on him to stay in line - bearding, etc.

[quote] the Bond role would bring anyone is definitely going to put a spotlight on him in a way that someone so 'private', but with a not-so-private/kind-of-obvious - situation, is going to have to deal with in a way they didn't have to before

Would Henry Cavill subject himself to more of that for the Bond role? He's done bearding and related publicity very badly. It's not convincing in the least.

R159 I have no clue about Cavill. I was referring specifically to Madden.

Daniel Craig had played a gay role and gone completely nude in a previous movie, and it didn’t seem to hurt his chances

OJC is barely closeted too and seemingly not interested in doing big name films. He's also never been the lead in any feature film. I like him but I think we can count him out.

[quote] OJC is barely closeted too and seemingly not interested in doing big name films. He's also never been the lead in any feature film. I like him but I think we can count him out.

In addition, he's a [looks both ways and whispers]...

Jew.

I like the suggestions at r61! Especially Elliot Page! Can you imagine him in his cute little bond suit? And I’d cast Michael Cera as Mr. Moneypenny. Reunion!!

[quote] Daniel Craig had played a gay role and gone completely nude in a previous movie, and it didn’t seem to hurt his chances

Playing a gay role and actually being gay (with a preference for twinks) are two completely different things in the context of Hollywood (sexual) politics.

[QUOTE] Playing a gay role and actually being gay

Why is there so much biphobia on this forum? Madden has had long relationships with women as well as dating Brandon and Froy. Bridgerton Season 2 just cast an out gay man as their romantic lead and nobody batted an eye.

The Boomers will soon all be dead and if Bond wants to survive it HAS to capture the interest of Gen Z. At the moment they see Bond as 'copaganda' and avoid it.

[quote] Why is there so much biphobia on this forum? Madden has had long relationships with women as well as dating Brandon and Froy. Bridgerton Season 2 just cast an out gay man as their romantic lead and nobody batted an eye.

First, we don't even know if those relationships with women were even genuine relationships, some form of bearding, or him just at that stage still 'working things out' (its been long rumored he knew he was gay/bi, and engaging in the gay life/scene even in his young adult years). Then, there's the fact that plenty of self-identifying gay men have had opposite sex relationships, but still consider themselves to be gay once they figure themselves out. The actual point being made is that, gay or bi, considering the politics of Hollywood, and massive global franchises like Bond, this is going to be a serious issue for them (regardless of if you think it is or not). That's just how Hollywood works. Still.

Bridgerton is not Bond. Two totally different products with two totally different demographics in the context of the entertainment business.

And spare us the "biphobia" line. Here's a shocker, just because someone left out the word 'bi' doesn't mean we're against it. I've written "gay/bi" when referring to Madden (and others) plenty of times.

[quote] The Boomers will soon all be dead and if Bond wants to survive it HAS to capture the interest of Gen Z. At the moment they see Bond as 'copaganda' and avoid it.

While it may be time for the Bond franchise to reinvent itself for a new generation, let's not act like having an openly gay/bi Bond is really going to happen anytime soon. If it hasn't happened with other major franchises yet, I highly doubt Bond is going to be the one to take the first leap. Those "Boomers" are still the ones in charge of this thing.

As for Bond being propaganda for cops, that's just ridiculously stupid. People know what Bond is, including Gen Z. Plenty of entertainment properties center around cops, spies, etc. and are still as popular as ever.

im rooting for hoult and at all costs not that panfried face tom hardy.

betting it will be rene.

Is it tru daniel craig is gay? often seen romping in Puerto Vallarta.

R169 I once when I date with someone who had claimed to have slept with Craig, just being introduced to 'Daniel' the actor and not knowing who he was until after. This would be around the time Casino Royale came out. I can't remember the details of it unfortunately!

No idea if it is true, probably bullshit but I thought I would mention it.

If he is on the queer spectrum it is probably bi like a lot of actors.

As a non famous person working in the industry, I only known gay/bi actors!

Jack Lowden, 32, 6'1"

I like Jack Lowden. Good actor.

The real question is, if Madden right for Bond? He doesn't really seem the type, to me. All the other Bonds had a kind of swagger. I don't find him sexy.

[quote]I don't think the media would 'out' him. The point I was getting at is will it 'in' him more and more, and is he ok with that?

The media came pretty close to outing him - The New York Times? When they start asking you about why you're living with a gay roommate, and all the "rumors"?

Jamie Dornan, James Norton or Tom Ellis.

Tom Ellis cannot act, full stop.

I love Jack Lowden as a suggestion. He'd be perfect.

Lowden looks set to play a plantaganet king, not a spy.

Jack Lowden may do nicely.

Have we seen him naked?

Madden is definitely bisexual but of course the biphobic frau is spazzing on and on about beards.

No to Jack Lowden. Bond isn't a ginger.

Oh, my, that IS a dealbreaker. How sad. If only there was a way to change someone's hair color, perhaps with the application of some sort of chemical to the hair.

Todays film staff are incapable of producing a quality product. Just takimg someone elses idea that they are not of a caliber to.understand, and then burning millions of.dollars to.flop everytine without fail.. Do you really think Ian Fleming would approve or would it even matter?

Rege Jean Page. He on that car commercial sounding very Bond. Might be too young though.

R182, Ian Fleming didn't approve of Connery at first so what's your point?

Rege Jean Page is in his 30s and is handsome and a good actor, but he is too boyish and posh. Henry Golding has the same problem.

Too posh? Bond is supposed to be posh

Connery and Craig never projected "posh." Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan did and IMO they weren't very good Bonds. I know a lot of people liked them, but I preferred Craig most of all. The others seem out of date.

R187 I disagree. There is a bit of an air of 'posh' in Bond, all the way back to Connery (who also had a sense of humor). Brosnan was a fantastic Bond. Craig's version is humorless and dry (but perfect for the current times that need everything 'dark and gritty').

Craig is also my favorite.

Bond is not supposed to be truly posh, per se. Bond is supposed to be a person with working or at best middle class origins who can mingle with the posh because he was raised by a wealthy aunt after his parents died. Before that he traveled a lot with his family. This kind of backstory is what makes him such a good chameleon as a spy, able to fit in anywhere. He is not supposed to be a rich pretty boy who grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth entirely.

There's just no question in my mind it will go to someone who is not all white.

Either Régé-Jean Page or Henry Goulding or Laverne Cox.

Laverne Cox would break a nail and her high heels! Not a butch enough voice either.

R190 = the white victimhood/I hate trans troll.

Because trans people are getting so many lead roles in movies, like...uh.....um....

What about Andrew Garfield?

I wouldn't be upset about Andrew Garfield. Great actor, handsome, capable of action roles - but like Oliver Jackson-Cohen, he is also not a goy, and if they are going to be open-minded enough to cast a Jewish Bond, I'd rather they cast OJC.

[quote] Bond is supposed to be a person with working or at best middle class origins who can mingle with the posh because he was raised by a wealthy aunt after his parents died.

Somebody didn’t see Skyfall.

George MacKay has my vote

As long as they don’t hand it to a black woman in a wheelchair with Asian grandparents to be all inclusive. I’m so sick of the overly woke in every show, commercial , voice over , movie… they now have whites serving fast food and “classy” black families ordering. That’s not reality.

R197, I bet a lot of your fellow conservatives are sick of gays and consider shows with gay characters to be woke.

You know damn well no one is going to cast a woman in this role. You just want to repeat GOP talking points about "woke" stuff.

And you think no white people work in the fast food industry? Okay

[quote]Somebody didn’t see Skyfall.

Someone didn't read the books.

Face it, we don't know if the next films will be prequels in the Craig universe or, more likely, a completely new reboot, especially if the role is being played by an Asian or black man.

British actor Oliver Stark. Mostly known from playing a firefighter in 911 TV series. I like him, birthmark and all.

It's just a rumor for now, but this article says they're "taking a close look" at Jonathan Bailey for the role now. He'd be great.

Love Jonathan Bailey!

Bond’s background in the novels is given in an obituary written by MI-6 when he was faking his death. How reliable are those details? In any case, he is hardly working class. He attended Eton.

They seem to be seeking out a homosexulist rather than shrinking from one.

I said they'd get a white out gay/bi actor to seem progressive and get social media clout while keeping the same womanizing pusshyhound persona in character months ago and not pissing off their core demographics who don't give a shit about celebrity gossip, and DLers totally dragged me for it. But either way Bailey really is perfect for the role.

James Bond is half Swiss. Hire a slinky panther Swiss mountain man with some menace to him.

I like the way you think R206. No clue who that guy is but he's attractive.

Who is the guy at r206? He's hot

Kilian Izaak Zeugin - swiss/spanish model

you likey?

The point being, at least Craig and Connery brought some menace. They need to hire someone young enough but masculine enough and with some lethal impact

Is Andrew Garfield white?

Of course Andrew Garfield is white.

R206, Would that 'soft Spanish/Swiss model' be strong enough to do the physical side of the Bond character?

Well I'm not suggesting that one in particular but they could get a youngish actor, tall, with good looks, with a Swiss background. Monique Delacroix, of the Canton de Vaud, is James Bond's mother.

Jonathan Bailey took a really great picture at some Bridgerton premiere. Bond, James Bond.

Most models can’t act.

R197 Is that Donnie JR again? Run out of rails again? And who uses the words “whites” and “classy”. “CLASSY?!” Like you’d know!

Will Ferrell just called and he wants his catchphrase back…

Bailey is too fem to play Bond.

The irony....

[QUOTE] Jonathan Bailey took a really great picture at some Bridgerton premiere. Bond, James Bond.

If Madden is too much for them than openly gay Bailey will horrify them.

*then

R219 Oh damn. LOL!!!

I kind of hope Madden does get it as the insider claims, because gay twitter will have a field day, 'the twink that loved me' and 'Octoboypussy' are my opening gambits. Bailey being out probably won't be as memeable

Bailey is not charismatic. He conveys no authority when he enters a room. I want someone who is like a lethal coiled snake, a cobra. He comes into the room, he is watchful, subtle, sees all in one sweeping glance, and he can be charming, sexy, a little aloof, and yet, you sense menace. You sense, "don't fuck with me." Then BOOM. Rege Jean Page could do it.

[quote]I want someone who is like a lethal coiled snake, a cobra.

And I want a pony.

Murphy is gorgeous but too short and weird to play Bond. He's cast as villains for a reason. He has the strangest eyes, like he's actually part cat.

R225, no blacks please!

Will Smith is available.

The detective in Endeavor

Too boyish.

There's no way they'd go with an openly gay, or even closeted, actor. The majority of the James Bond audience are straight males, who probably lean conservative. That audience will not be happy with a gay actor taking over the role, especially since so much of the Bond persona is about him cavorting with beautiful women.

[quote] or even closeted, actor.

Cavill out as Bond then.

[quote]The majority of the James Bond audience are straight males, who probably lean conservative.

This is just blatantly not true.

Amazon owns Bond now and they don’t give a shit about being politically correct, but y’all are going to have to get a new insider if you think Richard Madden still has a horse in this race. They are looking for someone who can toe the line between Bond and Bond villain, with the scope for character development possibly over a limited series format but most likely will stick with theatrical release films first. Watch The Punisher if you want to see why Ben Barnes’ name is already being thrown around a lot behind the scenes

Amazon owns whatever MGM owned. That did not include control. Barbara is still in charge.

[QUOTE] I want someone who is like a lethal coiled snake, a cobra.

Disagree. Bond is supposed to be urbane with a veneer of public school charm. He's more the 'sorry old chap but I'm going to have to kill you' type than a brooding serpent.

[QUOTE] Watch The Punisher if you want to see why Ben Barnes’ name is already being thrown around a lot behind the scenes

You big spaz, as if you have a clue what's being said 'behind the scenes.'

i predict it will be the mulatto from bridgerton, or some other mulatto in the biz.

I'm starting to think it could be Jamie Dornan. Irish is not a prob, so long as Bond is from the UK, and Brosnan had Irish heritage.

Dornan is certainly handsome enough, and is gaining respect as an actor. I think a lot of women and gay men would fantasize about having sex with him.

Is he too pretty? Not tough enough?

I think he’s marvelous

Jamie Dornan is utterly expressionless and dead-eyed in literally every role. He's like a very very handsome shark.

No votes for Jack O'Connell?

Minus: short, identifies as Irish (but can obviously play English and grew up in England)

Plus: Has exactly the right swagger/energy. Can act. Is hot.

Link goes to trailer of one of his early films.

R242 I. Can’t . Even. Speak.

He’d be great - if Angie J ever lets him off the chain

R242 His ears are too big.

R244 Don’t tempt me..know what I’m sayin…😋

R242, he's a bit pasty looking.

I mean, he's British. He's supposed to be pasty.

R243, I'm pretty sure they fucked. The publicity for the film she directed him in was weird, she was super into him, fawning, hanging off him etc. Sort of an incesty mom/lover vibe.

R247 Jack is also short 173cm/5.8ft. He'd have to stand on a box to seduce all the women wearing heels.

WHET Rupert Friend? He was brilliant as Peter Quinn on "Homeland."

I am putting my $ on that mulatto yes from the Bridgerton thing.

R250 ^ They’re not casting Gone with The Wind 🙄

Rege-Jean Page is as strong a candidate as anyone else and maybe stronger than most. Think about this. When was the last time there was anyone like a Black hero like a secret agent? When I was a little kid there was Shaft. remember him? You'd have too be in your 40's or 50's like me to recall John Shaft. Black Panther doesn't count because that's a comic book super hero. And it made a ton of money. So maybe to energize the Bond franchise and expand the audience they chose someone different. It doesn't have to be Page. But c'mon. We sit here wracking our brains coming up with the names of all these white boys, but aside from Idris Elba or Rege-Jean Page, I haven't seen anything resembling a list of men of color. I think of Chiwetel Ejiofor or Daniel Oyelowo, There have to be others.

[quote] You'd have too be in your 40's or 50's like me to recall John Shaft.

Motherfucker.

R253, try Richard Roundtree? Billed as "the first Black action hero"...John Shaft.

Both Jonathan Bailey and Rege-Jean Page are very good candidates. They both have chemistry with anyone they work with, they're both gorgeous, they can both act, and they check all the other Bond boxes. I'm suddenly Team The Bridgerton Thing on this.

Agree with R250 even though I haven't seen him in anything. If they can find a black (or poc) dude who fulfills the brief it's just seizing the cultural moment/good PR for the franchise. Sure some will whine but it'll just be more publicity and then everyone going to see the movie can feel good and anti-racist lol.

Harris Dickinson please.

Bloom godamnit!

How about Theo James?

Too old, too well-known

R255 I feel like Luke Thompson, who plays Benedict Bridgerton should be in the mix too. He has a certain charm that would work well as Bond.

Bond will be white and bright.

Deal with it.

So ignorant, r254.

2019

Luke Thompson is hot

They should go Australian this time around. They’ve had Scottish, Irish, English and Welsh.

[quote] They should go Australian this time around. They’ve had Scottish, Irish, English and Welsh.

They’ve had Australian - George Lazenby aka Mr. Pamela Howard Shriver.

R252 Amazon tried having a black hero in their Tom Clancy Without Remorse film and it sadly received nowhere near the same reception as Jack Ryan even adjusting for film vs series format. Amazon is a data driven company so unless doing soft things like “seizing a cultural moment” by casting a black Bond makes sense on paper we simply don’t behave that way. The fact that RGP was the lead in the most watched Netflix show ever also works against him because that makes him too well known and too many preconceived notions pose a risk to the reception of a new Bond. And whoever upthread said Amazon’s acquisition of MGM won’t impact the creative control of the James Bond franchise LOL that’s cute but that’s not how Amazon or this deal works. But by all means keep chattering away about your top pics, it’s creating more datapoints across the internet to scrape into the algorithms

I love Orlando Bloom's big 'ol cock but he's too dull to play Bond. God, is he dull.

I prefer Bond to be White or Asian. No Black please

MY choice was is and will remain Paul Telfer.. has the accent already, has that dark haired blue eyed look, has the incredible body, is sexy and witty and can do comedy as well and looks great in a suit and is the right age...

Liam Hemsworth at the :40 mark:

"They should go Australian this time around. They’ve had Scottish, Irish, English and Welsh."

Isn't George Lazenby Australian?

R273, see R267.

Who will be the first non-white Bond? James?

Orlando?

Damian Lewis? Raza Jaffrey?

Can Peter Dinklage do a British accent?

I heard about this series called Game of Thrones today as well as this incident in the Ural Mountains where some hikers went missing. Will someone start threads about them? Thanks.

How long is this damn search going to take? We’re into April now.

Jude Law. Seriously.

R281 Too old and bald.

Alan Rickman thought it should be Idris Elba in 2015. 5:25

Alan Rickman

Can't link it but you can youtube Alan rickma Magic radio

Whoever it will be it will be a minority.

[QUOTE] I prefer Bond to be White or Asian. No Black please

Fuck off, Klan Granny.

Shaft in 1971, directed by the illustrious Gordon Parks, starring Richard Roundtree. He made three movies: Shaft, Shaft's Big Score, and Shaft in Africa. They are classics of the genre. and a brief 7 episodes TV series in 1973. I am well aware that Samuel Jackson made the movie in 2019. I saw it, and enjoyed the fact that Richard Roundtree played his father, the original Shaft.

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^ its ALWAYS about the money!!

Exactly, R290. Celebrities have no morals. Even the nice ones.

Look what happened when they rebooted Keifer Sutherland's 24 with a new black lead.

It tanked.

Bond will be whiter than the whitest snow.

R289 ^ His father is Muslim (as is his wife) from Sierra Leone though that fact’s not on his Wikipedia page anymore; but this is: “In January 2016, Elba addressed the UK Parliament in regards to the concern of the lack of diversity on screen. Stating, 'Change is coming but it's taking its sweet time', he spoke about the lack of diversity regarding race, gender and sexuality”.

Except when there’s a lot of Qatari money thrown at you.

That’s The end of Bond, then…and you’re too old anyway.

Idris has been way too old for a while now. As has Tom Hardy.

Maybe Leonardo DiCaprio.

Its going to be Eddie Redmayne.

R296

Oh my sides!

It's going to be Richard Madden. Nobody cares about Froy.

Liam Payne

R292, you people said Bridgerton would bomb because it was too "woke" but it is a big hit

Lots of network "reboots" are bombing because so many of the people who watched live TV 10, 15, 20 years ago don't do so anymore

R291, Republicans have no morals. Even the nice ones.

R301 that is also true and there are many downlow Republicans and right wingers in Hollywood right now. However, my point was that even the professed left wing celebrities are all just fame hungry attention whores who would sell their grandmother for one ounce of attention.

R301 ^ Or just an ounce

[quote] It's going to be Richard Madden. Nobody cares about Froy

R298 Until more people find out, and Broccoli has to deal with it...

Love Jonathan Bailey is getting recognition. Such a nuanced actor. Give Bond to him!!

I'm all for Jonathan Bailey as Bond. He'd be perfect.

Bailey is terrible in Bridgerton. Hammy.

Unlike the rest of Bridgerton, which is subtle and Shakespearean.

R307 Bond is hammy.

Bailey is the best thing on Bridgerton

I’d be happy with Madden, L. Hemsworth or Bailey.

I would like Cillian Murphy or Idris Elba.

Cool, Idris Elba can be the first 68-year-old Bond!

Aidan Turner.

Aiden would be good.

Some of these choices are good. Others....not so much

Is Aiden white? It would be nice to see a non-white Bond.

There will NOT be a non white Bond.

Get over it.

My man is lookin' for work.

We will not be ignored.

#BondSoWhite

At this point, I'm running out of fucks.

Won’t be Idris Elba after the Qatar World Cup disaster

Also the fact that he's 50.

AS I'VE SAID AGAIN AND AGAIN, ONE NAME: Paul Telfer, he checks ALL of the boxes, looks, body, acting ability, looks great in and out of clothes, the right age, the accent, etc....

James Bond is lithe, not a meathead.

Aiden Turner is not a bad choice. If they were willing to have a more athletic look then James Norton would be delicious.

R11 She has a name! I think it's Sawé Extion

LOL it's Zawe Ashton and word on the street is she's currently quite pregnant with a tiny Hiddleston. But he'll never be Bond because, well, look at him.

[quote]At this point, I'm running out of fucks.

To be fair, you didn't have that many to begin with.

R324.. PAUL TELFER is hardly a "meathead".. he has a great muscular body, thankfully HAIRY too! , but he's not some HUGE bodybuilder and he looks good in and out of clothes, and would look incredibly sexy in a tailored james bond suit! whew!...

MEAT HEAD

R330.. what is the definition of a "meat head" to you? someone who weighs more than 175 pounds?? who just happens to have you know power, strength, muscles of a M-A-N?

If you work-out routine is featured in Muscle and Fitness Magazine, you are a meat head.

If you played Hercules in a movie, you are a meat head.

All that muscle and he still has such a weak chin.

R332 and R333.. you must have missed the name of the magazine muscle and FITNESS... and telfer was bigger when he played Hercules (it's called playing the character as a actor!) ,which by the way was years and years ago... next...

Telfer has a male model physique model body nothing more....... you simply have a poor definition of what a "meathead" is.. end of story....

.. maybe james bond, should be a metro 20 year old, who happens to have 1 row of abs at best?!....sorry, i'll take a physique fitness model as a "meathead" anyday...

Never mind, Telfer has all of the other qualities needed to play James Bond...

Will the Tefler Troll please fuck off.

[quote] If you played Hercules in a movie, you are a meat head.

I’s a meat head.

Theo James.

[quote] Theo James.

The first non-white James Bond.

R336.... i'll "fuck off" right after you do! yeah, how DARE I defend my comments!

James bond aya tha kya sapne mein 🤔🤔

OK. I was just thinking. I imagined that They announced Rene Jean Page as the next Bond. I have to say, it would really be huge. Seriously. First he has a modest following because of Bridgeton, but that news would be explosive. It would work. So step back, close you eyes and imagine...

[quote]British actor Oliver Stark. Mostly known from playing a firefighter in 911 TV series. I like him, birthmark and all.

Man, I hope not. He’s what put me off 9-1-1 despite Angela Bassett being the nominal star.

[quote] Can Peter Dinklage do a British accent?

No.

Signed, everyone who saw Avengers: Infinity War

Madden is my first choice, but there are a lot of suggestions in the thread who could do a decent job in the role. Paul Telfer is not one of them, unless the script features Bond infiltrating a troupe of male strippers.

R7 , I have never care about Bond. But will watch JB

R339 ^ and the first non-straight Bond 🙄

R343... why not Telfer? he's already scottish, so he has the accent, has the dark haired look that Broccoli I believe always wrote Bond as, has the body that looks great out of clothes and in clothes, i.e. a tailored suit, certainly has the athleticism required, is the right age, has the acting ability, rogue charm, plus the witty humor... to me, he checks all the boxes..

Ryan Gosling - first American Bond.

Isn't he Canadian?

R345, he wouldn't be the first....

I repeat, Jonathan Bailey.

I like Jack Lowden but he's not strong enough to be Bond. It's like he's Robin to someone else's Batman.

If you've seen the trailer for Joe Alwyn's next project....

I could do it.

Has anybody seen Jack Lowden's new show? He plays a spy, right?

Slow Horses with Gary Oldman - I haven't seen it but I might check it out. He says in this article that he's not the next Bond "as far as he knows" but I still think he would be great. But I still prefer JB.

I saw it. He's good in his role. Sort of like Batman's Robin. I like him, but he's not Bond material.

R356 I can tell you're not a comic book fan because you keep saying "Batman's Robin" like Robin hasn't had his own series, been his own main superhero and lead his own extremely popular superhero teams for decades.

Brenton Thwaites IS Robin. Is he Bond?

Nope

Alywn comes across as weak to me in all the roles he plays. Taylor Swift's little bitch ain't no Bond.

r360, you take that back!

He doesn't look weak to me at all. I think he's hot. This is a recent profile in the WSJ

Trailer for Conversations With Friends. Joe is the only guy in a foursome.

Essentially there were two main choices.

One from The United Kingdom and one from Australia,

If the Australian had said yes, he would have had the job in a heartbeat, but he remains hesitant.

At the moment the actor from The United Kingdom essentially has the job.

If the Australian changed his tune and said yes, then it's game over,

I thought you had said it was a done deal Insider? Does that mean the UK candidate is not Madden? There was never an Australian on the cards before.

Is the Australian an “ac-Thor”?

It's probably a Hemsworth. No mystery there. But honestly, if it were Liam it would be a disaster because he is real pretty but he cannot act and has no charisma. Chris is too well defined. Again. Both of them have been around for a while and have generated no heat. And I like them both. And Heath Ledger remains dead. Now. If the Brit is Tom Hardy I will puke. Again well known. Has been around for a while. No heat. Madden has possibilities. Nicholas Hoult, Rege' Jean Page, and, since I am the Alwyn troll, Joe makes sense. Fact is there are several other Brits who make sense. I'm honestly getting bored with this. Announce it and be done, dammit.

[quote] Now. If the Brit is Tom Hardy I will puke

How about Logan Marshall-Green instead?

Uh, Logan Marshall Green isn't a brit

Can Luke Hemsworth do a passable British accent? If so, he might be acceptable for the job.

Luke is the short one. No. And Logan Marshall Green is a No. Not Bond material. Bond has to stand out. Be distinctive. Or at least be interesting and convey authority.

People keep trying to make the Hemsworth brothers happen and the only one who has come close is Chris and he is not a headline. OK. He's Thor. And even so.

I've got my own private secret favorite, who seems to be such a secret that no one seems to think he's the obvious choice.

His name is James Farrar.

James Farrar is hot

Given that they have to completely start over, and attract the next generation, it makes sense to skew younger in the casting.

The Return of Farrar.

It must be Jack Lowden (wonderful in Terrence Davies Benediction) or Dan Stevens.

Please, God/Goddess, not Dan Stevens. His perpetually pursed mouth is so annoying to look at.

An Aussie? Luke Mitchell?

Jai Courtney?

Troye Sivan?

R380.. Jai Courtney would be nice and would look great in any sex scenes, ..

Does the "NEW" Bond have to have a accent?...

Going into 2022 and beyond will Bond be emasculated and no or very few lovemaking scenes and skin shown?...

Harry Styles auditioned in LA last week.

Can anybody explain how on earth Jai Courtney even has a film career?

Here's your explanation.

R385... what is this from? hot!

I Wouldn't be surprised if they take a look at Theo James. I dismissed him at first but he may be a viable candidate. I don't like Jai Courtney. He seems like a bully.

R386, it's from The Exception (2016), a pretty solid historical thriller about former German Kaiser Wilhelm II (Christopher Plummer) in his last days of exile in The Netherlands during WWII. Courtney plays a German officer tasked with finding a British spy on the Kaiser's staff. Co-starring Lily James, Janet McTeer, Ben Daniels, and Eddie Marsan.

Orland Bloom

Douglas Henshall!!

This Chris Hemsworth!

alas, it will be the bridgerton guy...

YES THEO JAMES

[quote] alas, it will be the bridgerton guy...

Jonathan Bailey?

Is that the "real Chris Hemsworth"? I never saw that pic of Chris.

^ years ago when he was probably on Home and Away.

Andrew Burnap

Can we just get this over with?

It's Chris plus a silicone buddy in the modern remake of [italic]Vacation[/italic], R395.

First possible non-white Bonds?

Idris Elba

Henry Golding

Daniel Kaluuya

Theo James

Orlando Bloom

Rege-Jean Page

Aiden Turner (is he white?)

Does Tom Hardy have some non-white background?

Um, most of those guys are white

In what universe are Theo James, Orlando Bloom, and Aiden Turner "non-white" R400?

And, no, Tom Hardy doesn't have a "non-white" background.

Stop trying to make "Theo James isn't white" happen, Theo James Isn't White Troll. It's never gonna happen.

Theo James? Is it 2015?

Black Bond! Black Bond!

Many of you are stupid silly cunts.

I have never seen an Englishman who looks like him.

Theo is Geek descent...and English. He's also a homophobe.

[quote] Cillian Murphy, Tom Hardy - too old.

Tom Hardy is a year younger than Roger Moore was when he first played Bond, and only two years older than Pierce Brosnan when he did.

[quote] Theo is Geek descent

I am of Nerd descent!

[quote] Theo is Geek descent...and English. He's also a homophobe.

What's the evidence that he's a homophobe?

Poor Mr. Pamuk!

They need to go young: a) the turnaround for Bond movies is longer now, 3 to 5 years between films (compared to 2 years prior to the Craig era), if they want to keep the same actor for, say, six films; b) to get younger generations interested in the franchise - right now, the Bond audience skews older compared to other franchises.

Younger people do go see the Bond films in droves still, but they do statistically have a much larger % of boomer audience membes than any other comparable franchise. They will likely want that ratio to shift by casting someone under 40.

I think they should hire a smart sexy dangerous looking 28-33 year old and make Bond coldly lethal filled the brim with cum and testosterone.

He should be filled to the brim with cum from his boyfriend! We need a gay James Bond

[quote] We need a gay James Bond

Well hullo. Did someone mention James Bond?

I can smolder! I can smolder! And I can wear built ups!

Rene Page was good in Bridgerton but useless in Emily in Paris. He doesn't come across as tough, more as spazzy. He had chemistry with the girl who plays Daphne and that's why he did well in Bridgerton but I don't think he's a good enough actor for Bond.

He's a better actor than Henry Cavill, at least

Henry wasn't bad in The Tudors. And he can do comedy...sort of....I think he's fine in period dramas that aren't too demanding. Like, Henry could never do Shakespeare.

He does a fantastic job of acting straight. No one has ever questioned his sexuality!

She is still saying that it will take some time…

It MUST be Henry after this!

R423.. thank you... yummy!...

Henry looked SO SERIOUS!! Yes, yummy. He looks leaner but still muscular. I love it! I was watching the Jack Reacher series on Amazon and I wish they had given it to Henry instead of the muscle-bound mannequin who has it. Now that asshole cannot act to save his life. Not a bit.

I'm getting tired of he shit. She knew Daniel would eventually leave the role. She had to be thinking about it for a while. All this nonsense about a new direction, etc. Please. She has had 3 years to ruminate about the direction and the candidates and the marketplace. Sheeesh!

The pic at R423 is photoshopped for god knows what reason. The real pic shows Henry as much more muscular.

At some point...very soon, no one will give two shits about who Barbara Broccoli choses to be the next James Bond. IMO she will either go Black or Asian. But definitely British.

R426.. i know right!......

The longer she takes, the more possible candidates age out.

And new ones age in.

....

Ioan Gruffudd

Gruffudd is too old at this point

There is definitely going to be a major MAJOR rethink. The traditional Bond fan base is aging out, and the key age group needs to brought right down into the twenties. That means the new Bond will be far younger than is usual (younger and leaner than Henry Cavill for sure, who is definite no), and the productions themselves will also be leaner and hungrier. No Time To Die was a whale of a movie in terms of costs, and while (as the Mission Impossible movies show) there is room for expensive blockbusters,Babs and Michael would be very conscious that production costs will need to brought down going forward, particularly under the new studio partner.

Cavill is 38 going on 39 -- waaay too old for the new mandate, and as stiff as a board in terms of acting, and hopeless in terms of chemistry with women. They would be looking for someone young and pliable like Harry Styles, but who also appeals to the older fan base. Tricky. Styles doesn't do that due to his antics.

I love how some deluded folk are trying to make Styles happen.

Thanks for the laughs.

I wouldn’t rule Harry out. Let’s see how his new movie does.

I doubt Harry has what it takes to win the role: expertise at knocking a menopausal woman's socks off with his tongue game.

Just to weigh in on the Styles speculation, actors with significant tattoos are/were ruled out. Barbara hates them with a passion. She will tolerate a small 'marker' or two on an arm, but she wont abide by anything larger than a cm or two in diameter. She cringes at actors/people that tattoo there upper torsos. By all means, though, continue on with all these silly suggestions.

Does it sound to anyone else like they might have had a direction in mind but have recently changed it? There's no way this is a brand new search and there's no way it takes years to pick one guy.

Rupert Friend

no. Rupert has issues. I think he has dealt with them, but nevertheless.. More important, Rupert can't carry a movie.

[quote] Gruffudd is too old at this point

He's 48. Roger Moore was 45 when he began playing Bond and 51 in his last Bond film. Connery was 53 in his last Bond film.

Yeah, and in Moore's last few Bond films everyone joked about him looking too old. And if he's 48 now he will be AT LEAST 50 when the next one is finally released

How fucking long does it take to find someone?!

But here's the thing. The Bond movies don't come out as frequently as they did when Sean Connery made them. How many years in between Craig's Bond movies. No one wants to see a 60 yea old James Bond. Accept the fact he will be younger. And honestly, Variety was full of shit. That is old news about Hardy, Cavill, and Elba. They have nothing so they recycle. My own personal opinion is anyone but Daniel Kaluuya.

R444 Okay, but he doesn't actually look that old.

Can't an American actor be cast, who does a good British accent?

The problem with that is that approximately zero Americans can do good British accents

Has Gwilym Lee been suggested yet? I'd still prefer Jonathan Bailey though.

Hadn't heard of Gwilym Lee so I googled him. He's a cutie!

Leo Suter

Still in his 20s - 28

6'2"

Excellent actor - he played a gay character in Victoria (Sir Edward Drummond)

Oxford educated

Athletic - crew at Oxford

Leo Suter undressed in his current show Valhalla.

Gwilym is a cutie and a very good likable actor. He's 38 and a "confirmed bachelor" with no public lovelife, though, so make of that what you will.

Leo Suter is hot as hell, too

They want someone who is in the same position Craig was before they nabbed him. Someone who is not hugely famous, but is well known, and who has mad acting skills. IMO, I'm convinced it will be a person of color. I think Black Panther sent a loud message, that there is definitely a market. Right now there is a gap in spy thrillers.

If they go for a "person of color" (oh how I hate that term), I'd love to see them go against the grain and cast a British South Asian actor. Pasha Bocarie (formerly on Emmerdale) probably lacks a high-enough profile, but he's gorgeous.

Pasha is not unattractive but I find him quite plain. But I'd be all for a British South Asian actor.

I posted the Leo Suter pics above. I never thought of him before even though I have seen him in Sanditon, Beecham and Victoria (though I didn't realize that was him when I first saw Sanditon or Beecham). But now I am firmly in his corner for this.

He is known enough and respected as an actor but not identified or tied to anything specific. He can look suave and sexy. He looks very British MI-6 like. Though he has a good body he still looks svelte yet masculine in a tuxedo. I suppose they may want to take a completely different direction, but he fits the standard James Bond type, and he may add some much-needed mischief to the mix. He also seems like a genuinely nice and down to earth guy despite what looks like a posh background (St. Paul's, Oxford).

Okay I talked myself into it. I am now Team Leo.

R459, I think he'd make a good Bond too. I wonder if the Bond producers have him on their radar

Too generic.

How long before an announcement? Will it be DL fave Richard Madden?

Isn't Madden a midget? I think Madden is sexy but not James Bondish - too rough looking.

Madden is about the same size as Daniel Craig

r458, which British South Asian actor would you recommend? I'll preemptively nix Riz Ahmed -- too famous, too short, too racist. He probably doesn't want it, either.

My advice would be to pick a dude who'll be 30 at the time of the next release.

Midgets all of them!

Both Madden & Craig say 5'10". But men always lie about their digits.

Chiwetel Ejiofor. Mad acting chops, Black, British, well known but not famous. Plus he probably wouldn't cost as much as Idris Elba. If they go Asian, they have to consider Henry Golding.

I love the idea of Henry Golding.

Ejiofor is too old

Chiwetel Ejiofor will be 45 in July.

Right. They need to go with somebody between 30 - 35.

And he looks 55

Jamie Dornan as a possible Bond makes me cringe. He's a terrible actor.

[quote]They need to go with somebody between 30 - 35.

But then he'll be 35-40 at the next release. That's too old.

Who's 25 today and could pass as Bond?

Harris Dickinson

Harris Dickinson looks like Fievel the Mouse.

John Stones.

Edward Holcroft

Nicholas Hoult or Joe Alwyn. Perfect age. Otherwise it's a non- white person. Or Tom Hardy. Or Richard Madden. Or Rege Jean Page. By the way. How old is Matthew Goode? Because he would be better than Hardy or Madden. I've been watching a couple of his movies and he is hot and a really fine actor.

[quote]Joe Alwyn

Please no. We don't need another Taylor Swift cuck. You just know she'd insist on providing the next Bond song.

Goode is 44, so same age issue as many other suggestions. He's a talented actor, but he was laughably bad in the one action film I recall him being a part of. Madden at least can convince me he's able to fight. (As can Elba and Hardy, though I only consider the former a talented actor.)

[quote]How old is Matthew Goode? Because he would be better than Hardy or Madden.

I like Matthew Goode, but he's 44, so would seem to be out of contention.

Since Barbara Broccoli has known for 3 years now that Craig would not be doing another Bond, if she's really "still looking" then something is up. Half of the contenders are aging out of the part, so I think she may have her eyes on some young pups who may still be a bit too green and/or haven't quite broken through yet. That also indicates that some of the Flavors of the Month (i.e. Rege-Jean Page) are not seriously in contention, otherwise wouldn't she just snatch them up and be done with it?

They just rebooted Bond and then killed him off. How the series continues is up in the air. They have to decide how the story continues before they decide who continues it.

Well Babs has been so caught up with Daniel, producing plays and whatnot, she hasn't had time to think about Bond. She's been cavorting with Bill Shakespeare.

[QUOTE] Half of the contenders are aging out of the part, so I think she may have her eyes on some young pups who may still be a bit too green and/or haven't quite broken through yet

Harry Styles

[QUOTE] Who's 25 today and could pass as Bond?

Paul Mescal - 26

Harry Styles - 28

I recently read somewhere that Henry Cavill is a frontrunner.

He looks like a bond here:

Cavill is too beefy for this role. And I thought he couldn't act. Pretty but useless.

I nominate Michael Fassbender.

ding ding ding winner!

^ who is that?

Leo Suter.

He should deflate the cartoon pecs, though.

Put a tux on him. Was Bond naked all that much?

Some Bonds showed their torsos in every film, hunny, Have you seen them? Connery was so athletic and svelte at the start.

later he looked like many dadd in my suburban neighborhood.

What's with the whole "Bond requires a 'real' actor with major chops" sort of thing? When has the role ever been that? The role isn't Shakespeare or Chekhov.

R488/R489 = Henry’s delusional PR

If C, Hemsworth wants it, he's got it.

If he still holds out, it goes to Madden.

End of story.

A black guy has just been chosen for an equally iconic English character: Dr Who.

It will be interesting to see if the show's ratings, which have been on a long slide, and are now on life support, continue to cough up blood.

[quote]What's with the whole "Bond requires a 'real' actor with major chops" sort of thing?

Babs has made it very plain in interviews her admiration for how Craig's acting ability brought *in her opinion* new depth to the character. So she would definitely be focusing on that aspect as much as their physicality.

Is that you insider R501?

[quote] Bond requires a 'real' actor with major chops" sort of thing? When has the role ever been that?

Maybe that's what they mean by going in a different direction - did they ever say that or did I just make that up?

If they need an actor with major acting chops that knocks out some of those earlier pretty boy guesses.

Given the budget is likely to be pulled in, particularly in the first film given the risks of a new face, AND the new studio who EON have to deal with, good acting and plotting are cheaper than massive sets, which they could afford in No Time To Die with the certainty of Craig's popularity. I'm still amazed that the vast algae tank set, that took up the entire 007 stage, and would have cost the budget of some small movies, only got about 2 or 3 minutes of screen time in the final edit. That's an extravagance we won't be seeing again for a while.

R502 sounds really racist. How dare they cast a black guy as a fictional person in a fantasy show!

Idris Elba

R507, it isn't racist to discuss the attributes, including physical attributes, of a new actor playing an iconic role. The same discussions were had when they cast Jodie Comer.

It's also a discussion to be had if fans view this as just being "woke" and not a good fit. I know nothing of this actor but he is on a popular show in the UK, Bad Education. At least I think it's popular. Is he gay? I just saw a video of him as himself in a promo vid and he seems adorable. He could be a fun Doctor.

It should be Richard Madden.

Madden is sexy. But not svelte.

Leave Richard alooooonnnneee

As as been pointed repeatedly, offscreen she's too wet and luvvie by half.

The English tabloids would eat her alive.

The choice for Bond will not improve or worsen our lives in any tangible way but we are so brainwashed by these amazing marketers. Honestly, kudos to them.

[quote] Leave Richard alooooonnnneee —Froy

R512 Careful Froy, if Madden gets the Bond gig, what do you think happens to you...

I'm thinking Fassbender. Don't know why. It just came to me this morning while I was reading this thread. Yeah. Michael Fassbender. Hardy won't take it. UNLESS: They really want someone younger, to save money and refresh the franchise. Then it will be someone in their late 20's. Early 30's. Maybe Henry Golding.

hey u all da world is woke ! it will be a person of color chosen, but not dark.

Fassbender - too old

Fassbender is also a serious race car driver. Currently part of a Le Mans team and enjoying it. He's 45. If they decide to make him Bond, He will get ten good years at it. He has that air of menace and humor. I think he'd be good. Hardy has no discernable sense of humor. He has carb face.

Fassbender has a bad reputation. He's beaten several exes, cheated on a few more (once with a teenager) and is said to be "difficult" to work with. He also looks like a reptile and is in his mid 40s. Too old, too much baggage. It'll be Shawn Mendes before it's him.

Unfortunately they're considerimg Harry Styles.

If it’s a Hemsworth, it should be Liam. He can do charming, Chris can’t and looks special.

I do think Robb Stark could pull it off.

Neither of them can do charming. That's why neither can carry a movie that isn't a comic book franchise

I don’t know, he seems charming here and nice looking:

Chris Hemsworth can be hilarious. And Charming. And Fassbender is a married man with a child and has settled down very much since he stopped drinking many years ago.

Hunny, no one was worse with women than Sean Connery. Long after his Bond days were over, he was still getting busted for beating women and drunkenness. He was a pig.

[quote]Hardy has no discernable sense of humor.

Check him out in Guy Ritchie's belly-laughing gangster caper, ROCKnROLLA," R519 (co-starring Gerard Butler, Idris Elba and Mark Strong). Stay tuned through the end credits for even more surprise hilarity.

That Liam guy looks cute but he looks kinda baby faced. Is that what they're going for?

Young James Bond is almost certainly what they'll go for.

I hope whoever it isn’t past 30. I don’t want it to be someone late 30’s/40 who will only be able to do a one or two movies before aging out and they have to go through this long ass search again.

Gen Z demanding Bond be some 20 something from the likes of the CW network by the sounds of it.

Someone from Teen Woolf?

Sorry Gen Z but it aint all about you.

R531 I’m not Gen Z - I’m 40 years old and even I want someone younger. There’s no point in having someone around my age who will age out fast and then we’re back at square one. Someone younger will be able to stick around for several movies.

R532 probably wants someone like Timothy Chalamet. LOL.

If they have to go younger, may I suggest R531 someone called Froy Gutierrez, I heard he is very good, especially with the ladies .

Bond is a man's man if you will. He has to be in his 30's to convey that hyper masculinity.

Getting someone just out of twinkdom is absurd.

Agreed. I don't necessarily mind someone in their 40s if they seem sufficiently vigorous, but 20s is too young. No twentysomething can convey the requisite world weariness and savvy except maybe Dakota Fanning, and the world sure isn't ready for *her* as James Bond.

Bond will be a youngish woman and the whole first movie will be about her F to M transition.

R536, that would be stunning and brave!

R537 is the troll who makes everything about trans people

If someone is in their late 20s now it seems old enough because they aren't even filming yet - do they even have a script?

But I agree it has to seem like a man's man.

[R534] LOL That was a good one Richard!

How can people be so blind to the hot sexiness of Joe?????

Who the fuck is she looking for? Cary Carrot?

We are bored by now.

It's taken so long, it's as other people have said - we can only conclude they had someone picked out already and it didn't work out at the 11th hour and they had to start from square one.

We don't want an Australian surfer playing Bond, so no to the Hemsworths.

Joe Alwyn is getting savage reviews for Conversations with Friends. He's just not charismatic and dynamic enough to play Bond.

I think a younger Bond makes total sense, and I think that's the way they will go. As well as a fresh take on the concept. If they want the franchise to survive as an ever viable, relevant property, then they have to make the franchise work for the next generation. So some evolution of the whole Bond concept will need to happen, eventually. Considering they ended the Craig series with a quite a real 'end' to the character, hitting the full reboot button would make sense now.

I still highly doubt someone like Harry Styles would get it. He's def not the Bond persona. But someone like Madden seems too late now too. Plus he may be 35, but he already looks 45. And, at least to me, he seems like he would be 'more of the same', rather than real fresh take. But who knows, maybe they just want 'more of the same'...

a non binary Bond, a transgender boss, and an ensemble of POC cast!

It will be both younger and lighter. There's been criticism that the Craig era was too dour, and dug itself into a hole: there's a desire to bring back -- particularly with the world getting darker -- the piss-take cheekiness that English humour excels at. So the actor selected will have to deliver that well. Methinks it will be someone in the Harry Styles mode: he's inherently cheeky, and doesn't take himself too seriously. Audiences respond to that. That's why I'm certain Henry Cavill doesn't have a hope. It's just not his persona. He's too leaden. The humour will also distinguish the films from the Mission Impossible franchise, which has been edging in on their territory, and which they'd be very conscious of. The only thing currently separating them is the stylistic elegance of Bond. So they need to widen the gap between the brands.

Henry Golding is NOT "English" or "Swiss" looking. Which is what James Bond the character is.

Lordy please not a woke choice ok?

Bill Skarsgard....he is hung as fuk too.

R551 is he hung? Pics!!!! And despite being "Gautier Runway Freak" handsome and perhaps able to look menacing, he doesn't look like a Swiss-British secret agent.

Alwyn comes across OK in Conversations with Friends. It is the story itself that has been described as disappointing and thin, and not worth 10 episodes, and not up to the standards of Normal People. I mean, he doesn't stand out as being awful. So he hasn't hut himself. One review described him as "a dashing romantic lead." The story itself is crap. No one will remember or care. I've seen him in 4 movies and he was fine. In fact in a couple he was very good. Operation Finale, Billy Lynn's Long Half time Walk, The Favourite, and May Queen of Scots.

The right-wing troll at r547 is the loser who whines about trans or non-binary people in every thread

R549, he's half white. And most of the guys who've been cast in the role are quite different from what Ian Fleming intended

Fleming gave Bond a Scottish ancestry after being impressed with Connery in Dr. No.

Dan Stevens gets my vote. He looks cunning.

R556, there are no do-overs.

Would a Scot have ever risen in the ranks of the intelligence services outside of the necessities of war? British government could be pretty snobby, to put it mildly.

Austin Butler would have got it ages ago had he been English. Harry Styles would have got it had he been less successful and famous as a singer. Both have exactly the right look and Styles is an athlete who could do a lot of his own stunts. He just got fired out of a circus cannon and walked on a tightrope for his most recent video.

But the tats . . .

R533 Nope. Can’t stand him.

[quote]If someone is in their late 20s now it seems old enough because they aren't even filming yet - do they even have a script?

Exactly. With the way they take so fucking long choosing someone and if they still need to write a script, it will be another 2 years before they even start filming (if not longer).

I’m glad they might want to lighten the mood with the next Bond. The world has plenty of room and gloom right now.

I agree. Fun and buoyant doesn't mean superficial and thinly written.

Harry Styles is promoting another music video that has him at least half naked and cuddling a baby. Theo James is premiering the Time Traveler's Wife with Rose Leslie for HBO. I don't think either one is a contender for Bond. But out of those two I'd lean towards James. Henry Golding seems very much a possibility. So does Rege Jean Page.

A black or asian Bond ain't gonna happen, so Page and Golding can put their resumes back in their pockets.

Eon (the Bond production house) had enough trouble trying to roll back the "this movie is gonna be woke" scare with No Time To Die, after Phoebe Waller-Bridge was announced as one of the writers, and then the first trailer cut to showcase a black woman belittling Bond. They couldn't have made a bigger mistake if she was trans and Craig sucked her cock, and they soon knew it. I'm sure Barbara and Michael, and the studio and distributors were alarmed by the scale of the pushback, which was magnified by lazy journos looking for angle. It cost the franchise major goodwill with the existing older male fan base, which is their core constituency. Yes, they urgently need to expand the fan base now to younger viewers, which they're full cognizant of, but there's no way they can now afford to risk pissing it off the core fans with stunt casting that could be tagged, rightly or wrongly, as wokery. They've just crawled out of that nightmare: they wouldn't want to go back in. They're also conscious that with the uniqueness of the franchise being nibbled away at by competitors, it's the very Englishness of the brand which adds distinction and appeal.

I guess r566 is the kind of person who thinks giving a black actor a supporting role in a movie is "woke"

I didn't hear many complaints about the actual movie, just the stupid pre-release buzz that made it seem like Lashana Lynch was the new James Bond when she was just taking over "007"

I think Naomi Harris is terrific. And Lashana Lynch has great screen presence. But shoot the messager R567 to flag your marvellous and flawless virtue. To repeat: the key market badly responded to the 1st trailer cut of a woman belittling Bond. That she was also black, didn't help. The key market pushed back with the message that you can update Bond without neutering him. When the movie came out it wasn't particularly woke, except Bond had been turned into mushy husband material. But social media damage had been done.

Yes, because if one woman yells at him one time that means he's neutered!

The whining about virtue signaling just makes you sound like the leader of the Matt Gaetz fan club.

It's James fucking Bond. Not a purse holder. If you want to please your stakeholders, and ensure you make money, you don't pussy whip James Bond. And it wasn't just a 'buzz'. The endless social rants on the perception of wokism (pick any: this one at the link scored half a million views) profoundly damaged the marketing campaign, as did the endless Bond goes woke articles. It would have spooked them. They made $750 mil in pandemic, which was an incredible achievement against all the naysaying, but that first trailer and the storm it provoked likely cost them millions more in lost ticket sales from their core male market. That's what a few seconds of a scene without context in a trailer can do. That's why they will surely be steering a different safe course this time.

Adam Driver would make the perfect James Bond.

R570 loves the intellectual discourse of YouTube videos whining about "woke" shit.

Adam Driver?

People are just grasping at straws now

[ quote] I’m glad they might want to lighten the mood with the next Bond. The world has plenty of room and gloom right now.

In that case, just get Graham Norton, but they'll end up with Corden.

You want lightness and comedy? They ought to do a sequel to Spy, with Jude Law, Melissa Mc Carthy. I love that movie.

Bond needs to be 6ft, muscled, dark hair, light eyes, under 35. No dodgy characters like Theo James who started out in kids' franchises or milksops like Alwyn who've never carried off a leading role with aplomb. Danielle Craig had been the lead in cool films like Layer Cake and Sylvia.

Pierce Brosnan did bad TV, George Lazenby was a male model with no acting experience, Connery hadn't been in too many memorable films.

[quote] Pierce Brosnan did bad TV, George Lazenby was a male model with no acting experience, Connery hadn't been in too many memorable films.

And I was, um, a saint.

In addition to not being British, Adam Driver is one of the ugliest most awkward-looking men working in Hollywood right now. Please no.

Anyone remember Timothy Dalton as Bond? Hot.

Hell, I'd watch if they offered him the role as Bond NOW.

[quote]You want lightness and comedy? They ought to do a sequel to Spy, with Jude Law, Melissa Mc Carthy. I love that movie.

The problem is, it's a comedy that McCarthy's talentless husband had nothing to do with, and she apparently doesn't make that sort of movie anymore.

Timothy Dalton still looks amazing for his age on Doom Patrol.

He also did amazing work in Penny Dreadful.

Dalton is a hot daddy

Just watching Alwyn in Conversations with Friends and he's way too passive and softly spoken to be Bond. He's like that in all his roles too.

When I saw him in Operation Finale as a young Neo Nazi, and in Harriet as the Plantation owner, he wasn't soft spoken or passive. I think he would rise to the occasion to be Bond, but I don't think he'll be the one.

If Alwyn lost 20 lbs, muscled up and was always clean shaven, he could pull it off. His beard is wispy and pale and demasculizes him.

Taylor Swift's Next Single:

Forget Harry Styles, Calvin Harris and Earl

You made me your very own Bond girl.

alwyn mus be gay, he is taylor swift's beard....

No matter how cleanshaven he gets, Joe Alwyn always looks hungover from a 3-day binge where he hasn't slept at all.

That would not hurt him as Bond.

Jack Lowden just won a "rising star" award at Cannes. I really think he would be a good Bond.

The rumour in London is that the next Bond will be Tom Hardy.

That would be disappointing, R582.

I've been on the Jack Lowden as Bond train for a while now. He'd be great and is just at the point of his career where it would really raise his profile.

I've only been aware of Jack Lowden since I saw Benediction late last year and he is my top pick for Bond.

Too boyish. Barbara Broccoli wants a MAN. Someone I knew who worked in PR and marketing for movies said they dreaded Bond movies because Barbara Broccoli was hell to deal with. A real pain in the ass.

Jack Lowden is plenty manly.

Agree with r597 👍

R592 I think Hardy would have made a terrific Bond -- several years ago. I fear he's aged out of the role. Even if they were filming [italic]right this very minute[/italic], he'd still be 6 years older than Craig was in CASINO ROYALE.

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