April, 2024: Who should be the next James Bond?

Not Lucy

None of the above. It's worn out having degenerated into bad cartoons late in Connery's term. And for god's sake that was three generations ago.

Lucy wanted to be Bond, but Gary Morton talked her out of it

Why so many votes for AT-J, the guy is so blah.

I can't believe they still haven't announced this, I hate that Broccoli hoe for teasing us so.

Jesse Plemons

Why am I not on the list?

^Because you weren't mentioned in the article, Richard.

peachy boy

Why him, R8?

I think B. Broccoli should just go ahead and play Bond herself.

I voted for Jamie Dornan. I don't think any of the others have the physicality and masculinity of the role while being able to look and act very posh. Some of them are quite milquetoasty, in fact. (ATJ!)

Tom Hardy? no way, not with that voice.

Lizzo

I feel like it's going to be Charles Melton.

Charles Melton? He's an American

R11 Have not taken anything he has done seriously since 50 Shades of Stupid.

Maybe Jonathan Bailey. Needs more physical presence, but he definitely has the acting skills.

R15 If you've not seen him on Netflix's The Tourist series, you should. It's fantastic. Action role! He's great in it.

It's 2024. There should be transmen on this list.

Aidan Turner

There is only one person on earth who could do justice to the legacy of James Bond; someone who is debonair, fashionable, and equipped with just enough swag to make the role come alive. Ladies and gentleman................

If it’s not a trans person of color then what are we as a society?

Nice to know my personal preference is #2. Jamie Dornan is just perfect. For James Bond or anything else

I want it to be Henry Golding. That would be a nice change up. Otherwise, go with Chiwetel Ejiofor. I love him and he is a terrific actor. Madden and Dornan would be acceptable. None of the others.

R20, Barbara Broccoli already told me I got the part!

Just watched Jamie Dornan in Barb and Star Go to Vist Del Mar and he has the exact combination of Looks, masculinity, charm and humor that Bond needs.

I saw him in Belfast and he was wonderful. I also saw him in some series where he was a serial rapist or murderer and he toyed with Gillian Anderson the detective who was trying to catch him. I like him and I would not be upset at all if they cast him as Bond.

Fleming wrote Bond to be ordinary in every respect other than personality characteristics of courage and devotion to duty. Somebody nobody would look at twice. Just another pleasantly homely Brit.

Maybe it's LONG past time to return to basics and dump the underwear models and sculpted body builder Bonds.

r27 that is absolute Baloney. He is supposed to have Dark "cruel" good looks. With a scar down the side of his face. What a weird thing to lie about.

R25, Jamie Dornan was so gorgeous and sexy in that film.

Not sure about him as Bond, but he does bring the sex.

R4, he really isn’t all blah.

r28, there are multiple references by Fleming that Bond looked so much like entertainer Hoagy Carmichael it had drawn unwanted attention as he went on his work. You can compare an artist's interpretation to the real thing as intended by the author and draw your own conclusions.

It's a matter of interpretation but to me "pleasantly homely" works.

Elliot Page would be perfect!

Ill take pleasantly homely, if you mean that in the Humphry Bogart, life roughly lived sense. But he's definitely not supposed to be some shlub on the street. He's constantly bedding beautiful women, athletic, and as seen in Fleming's own drawing of the character, clearly a man of John Hamm-like good looks. Not "ordinary in every respect"

Domhnall Gleeson. But I wouldn't want him to bulk up too much. He's handsome, and a great actor. He'd be a more intellectual Bond, than a beefcake Bond.

Julianne Moore, seriously.

Billy Porter.

"Mr. Bond, would you prefer your martini shaken or stirred?"

"Martini?! To hell with that shit! I want a cosmo, gurl, but with a sugared rim and a cute li'l umbrella!"

What is this fuckery about a blade looking Bond.

We need him to be a menacing, masculine wall of hot fuck.

They neutered him in the abysmal last entry where they killed off the Daniel Craig entity. Sad, because Craig defied expectations to be a great Bond, in his first three films, anyway.

They need to right this listing ship and bring in a scorching hot man who reads as ruthless, cunning, and ready to fuck.

[quote]We need him to be a menacing, masculine wall of hot fuck.

[quote]They need to right this listing ship and bring in a scorching hot man who reads as ruthless, cunning, and ready to fuck.

You rang?

BlasÉ not bladE.

- Fat Fingers at r37.

Johnny Weir!